EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

1999 – 2005                University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow
                                  PhD Economics (Health Care Financing). The title of my                                          thesis is “Finding sustainable means of financing health care delivery i                                    in Ghana: Are the people willing topay?”                

1998 – 1999                The University of Hull, England
                                  Masters of Business Administration (General)

1993 – 1997                The University of Cape Coast, Ghana
                                  Diploma in Education; taken concurrently with the                                   degree programme.

1992 – 1997                The University of Cape Coast, Ghana
                                  Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Economics

1989 – 1991                St. Peters Secondary School, Nkwatia-Kwahu, Ghana
                                  General Certificate of Education awarded by the WAEC

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

June – August 2007       African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), JFE, Kenya

Visiting Lecturer

I taught Health Economics to Masters level Economics students from a group of students from Economics Departments in African countries that form part of the AERC
2005 – 2007                   University of Cape Coast, Department of Economics

Lecturer
I introduced two new courses, namely, Health Economics and Economics of HIV/AIDS, which started in the academic year 2005/2006 in August. In addition to these, I taught mainstream Economics courses such as Elements of Macroeconomics at level 200 (second year), Advanced Economic Theory at level 400 (final year).

2003 – 2005                Bristol University, Department of Social Medicine

Research Assistant
I was responsible for conducting literature reviews to provide economics inputs into various research works. The main areas that I reviewed include health care time preference rates (discounting), stated preference methods and discrete choice methods (conjoint analysis). I have also analysed data using STATA, to develop the meta-regression method for use in studies of discounting.  More generally, I was engaged in data collection, developing research proposals, preparing teaching materials and teaching health economics to medical students.

1997 – 1998                The University of Cape Coast, National Service, Ghana, Africa

Teaching Assistant
I was responsible for helping with the teaching of Intermediate Micro-
Economics and Introduction to Mathematical Economics in the Economics Department of the University. I independently taught a course in Introduction to Mathematical Economics to a large class of undergraduate students. This involved researching, preparing and presenting lecture material in accordance with the course syllabus, preparing handouts, marking and grading examinations and assisting students. My role in teaching Intermediate Micro-Economics was to assist the course lecturer in all aspects of teaching the course including delivering lectures, assisting students, preparing lecture material, and grading exams and essays.

1998   Demography Unit, University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Research Assistant
I supervised a group of field assistants who were administering
questionnaires to collect primary data for projects titled “Diffusion of Fertility Behaviour” and “Interrelationship between Fertility and Children’s Education in Ghana”.

PUBLICATIONS

• Asenso-Boadi, FM, and Coast, J. (2007) “Using national health insurance schemes to finance health care in Ghana: Are the people willing to pay?” Ghana Policy Journal 1: 23-.44
• Asenso-Boadi, FM, Coast, J and Peters, T. (2008) “Exploring differences in empirical time preference rates for health: An application of meta-regression” Health Economics 17: 235-248

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Asenso-Boadi, FM “Sustainable financing of health care through government budget in Ghana” paper presented at the Governance and Sustainable Development Workshop organised by CDS, University of Cape Coast, at Manna Height Hotel- Mankesim, 5th – 9th March 2007.
• Asenso-Boadi, FM, Coast, J and Peters, T (2004) “Exploring differences in empirical time preference rates: An application of meta-regression” Paper presented at Health Economists’ Study Group Conference, Oxford, January 2005.
• Asenso-Boadi, FM, and Coast, J. “Using social/national health insurance schemes to finance health care in Ghana: Are the people willing to pay?” Paper presented at the 7th IAABD conference held at GIMPA, Accra Ghana, May 23 – 27, 2006

ON-GOING RESEARCH WORK

• Awusabo-Asare, K, Aglobitse, PB, Asenso-Boadi, FM and Annim, SK “Developing exemption criteria and pre-payment modes under the National Health Insurance Scheme” Project being funded by HRU of Ministry of Health from Ghana-Dutch Collaborative programme
• Asenso-Boadi, FM and Carsamer, Emmanuel “Public-Private Partnership in the provision of water in urban Ghana: Are the people willing to pay”

Committee Membership
Review Team for the year 2007’s activities of Ministry of Health, Ghana

Development of G-DRG-based Tariffs for the National Health Insurance Authority, Ghana in 2007

RESEARCH INTEREST

My main research interests are: health care financing in developing countries, stated preference methods, application of contingent valuation methods in estimating willingness to pay in various sectors of developing countries, market surveys and health care time preference (discounting).

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

I have attended the following courses organised at the University of Bristol: Introduction to STATA, Systematic Review – meta-analysis in context, Analysis of longitudinal data, and Teaching and Learning.

COMPUTER LITERACY

• Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
• Power Point - Basic
• SPSS – Intermediate
• PCGIVE – Basic
• STATA – Basic