Researcher biography
Dr. Edmund W. Kanmiki is a mixed-methods researcher with expertise in epidemiology, population health, health systems, and health economics. His research focuses on social determinants of health, reproductive, maternal, and child health (RMCH), equity in health outcomes, community-based healthcare interventions and cost analysis of health programs. Recently, he has expanded his work to include Indigenous health and non-communicable diseases. Dr. Kanmiki holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with economics from the University for Development Studies and a master's degree in public health from the American University of Beirut. His doctoral thesis at the University of Queensland investigated how community-based primary healthcare strategies can improve equity in RMCH services for rural deprived communities.
Prior to joining the University of Queensland, Dr. Kanmiki held research roles at the University of Ghana and the Navrongo Health Research Centre. His expertise extends beyond academia, as he has provided consultancy services to prestigious national and multinational institutions including the Copenhagen Consensus, and the Palladium Group. Dr. Kanmiki is a recipient of the Mastercard Scholarship Award, the Elsevier Atlas Award, and an early-career research grant Award from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). Dr. Kanmiki has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and research reports. He has presented his research at esteemed conferences, including the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Annual Conference (CUGH), the Population Association of America Conference (PAA), and the Health Systems Global Conference (HSG). His research has garnered media attention in prominent outlets like the Conversation in Australia, Health and Medicine in Canada, and Health and Wellness in the United Kingdom. His research and publications have informed health policies and programs at both national and sub-national levels.
Publications
Journal Articles
GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators, Kanmiki, Edmund and Maravilla, Joemer (2024). Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00367-2
GBD 2021 Fertility and Forecasting Collaborators, Anderlini, D., Begum, T., Chung, E., Huda, M., Kanmiki, E., Maravilla, J. C., Khan, A., Moni, M., Lalloo, R. and McGrath, J. J. (2024). Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950-2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00550-6
GBD 2021 Demographics Collaborators, Kanmiki, E., Maravilla, J. C., Khan, A., Moni, M., Lalloo, R., McGrath, J. J., Veerman, L. J. and Mamun, A. A. (2024). Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950-2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00476-8
Mamun, Abdullah A., Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Leske, Stuart, Stajic, Janet and Ward, James (2024). Research needed on urban Indigenous health inequalities. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 102 (2), 146-148. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290868
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Mamun, Abdullah A., Phillips, James F. and O’Flaherty, Martin (2023). Impact of a community-based primary healthcare programme on childhood diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DPT3) immunisation coverage in rural northern Ghana. Research in Health Services & Regions, 2 (1) 18. doi: 10.1007/s43999-023-00032-8
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Mamun, Abdullah A., Phillips, James F. and O'Flaherty, Martin J. (2023). Effect of a community-based primary healthcare programme on adverse pregnancy outcomes in Northern Ghana. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 39 (2), 1-14. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3730
Kushitor, Mawuli, Wright, Kalifa, Biney, Adriana, Kanmiki, Edmund W., Kyei, Pearl, Phillips, James F., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku and Bawah, Ayaga A. (2023). “The trip actually opened our eyes to things that we were supposed to do and we were not doing”: developing primary health care system leadership in a low-income country with peer exchanges. Research in Health Services and Regions, 2 (1) 15, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s43999-023-00030-w
Alatinga, Kennedy A., Abiiro, Gilbert Abotisem and Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam (2023). Premium exemptions and active health insurance membership among teenage migrant head porters in Ghana: a cross-sectional study. Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 20 (1), 117-135. doi: 10.4314/gjds.v20i1.7
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Mamun, Abdullah A., Phillips, James F. and O’Flaherty, Martin J. (2023). Equity in maternal healthcare utilization in Ghana: do community‐based primary health care programmes matter?. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 28 (5), 409-418. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13873
Adageba, Stephen Kantum, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Asoala, Victor, Oduro, Abraham Rexford and Baidoo, Philip Kweku (2022). Bio-efficacy, physical integrity, use and attrition of long-lasting insecticidal nets under operational conditions for malaria prevention in Ghana. PLoS One, 17 (10) e0275825, 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275825
Asuming, Patrick Opoku, Bawah, Ayaga Agula, Kanmiki, Edmund W. and Phillips, James F. (2022). The impact of a health systems strengthening initiative on child morbidity: the case of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program in rural northern Ghana. PLoS One, 17 (6) e0269199, 1-17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269199
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Fatima, Yaqoot and Mamun, Abdullah A. (2022). Multigenerational transmission of obesity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Obesity Reviews, 23 (3) e13405, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/obr.13405
Alatinga, K. A., Kanmiki, E. W. and Abiiro, G. A. (2022). Out-of-pocket healthcare payments and impoverishment among migrant adolescent female head porters in Ghana: a cross sectional study. UDS International Journal of Development, 8 (2), 656-673. doi: 10.47740/603.udsijd6i
Agula, Caesar, Henry, Elizabeth G., Asuming, Patrick O., Agyei-Asabere, Charles, Kushitor, Mawuli, Kanmiki, Edmund W., Shah, Iqbal and Bawah, Ayaga A. (2021). Contraception before and after induced abortion: trajectories of women in selected urban-poor settlements of Accra, Ghana. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 25 (6), 20-31.
Alatinga, Kennedy A., Allou, Leander A. and Kanmiki, Edmund W. (2021). Contraceptive use among migrant adolescent girl head porters in Southern Ghana: policy implications for sexual and reproductive health education and promotion. Children and Youth Services Review, 120 105651, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105651
Akazili, James, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Anaseba, Dominic, Govender, Veloshnee, Danhoundo, Georges and Koduah, Augustina (2020). Challenges and facilitators to the provision of sexual, reproductive health and rights services in Ghana. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 28 (2) 1846247, 128-142. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2020.1846247
Asuming, Patrick O., Bawah, Ayaga A., Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam and Phillips, James F. (2020). Does expanding community-based primary health care coverage also address unmet need for family planning and improve program impact? Findings from a plausibility trial in northern Ghana. Journal of Global Health Science, 2 (1). doi: 10.35500/jghs.2020.2.e18
Nonterah, Engelbert A., Agorinya, Isaiah A., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Kagura, Juliana, Tamimu, Mariatu, Ayamba, Emmanuel Y., Nonterah, Esmond W., Kaburise, Michael B., Al-Hassan, Majeedallahi, Ofosu, Winfred, Oduro, Abraham R. and Awonoor-Williams, John K. (2020). Trends and risk factors associated with stillbirths: A case study of the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital in Northern Ghana. PLoS One, 15 (2) e0229013, e0229013. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229013
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bawah, Ayaga A., Akazili, James, Agorinyah, Isaiah, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Phillips, James F. and Kassak, Kassem M. (2019). Unawareness of health insurance expiration status among women of reproductive age in Northern Ghana: implications for achieving universal health coverage. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, 38 (1) 34, 34. doi: 10.1186/s41043-019-0190-4
Nonterah, Engelbert A., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Agorinya, Isaiah A., Sakeah, Evelyn, Tamimu, Mariatu, Kagura, Juliana, Kaburise, Michael B., Ayamba, Emmanuel Y., Nonterah, Esmond W., Awuni, Denis A., Al-Hassan, Majeedallahi, Ofosu, Winfred, Awoonor-Williams, John K. and Oduro, Abraham R. (2019). Prevalence and adverse obstetric outcomes of female genital mutilation among women in rural Northern Ghana. European Journal of Public Health, 30 (3), 561-567. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz195
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bawah, Ayaga A., Phillips, James F., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Kachur, S. Patrick, Asuming, Patrick O., Agula, Caesar and Akazili, James (2019). Out-of-pocket payment for primary healthcare in the era of national health insurance: evidence from northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (8) e0221146, e0221146. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221146
Bawah, Ayaga A., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Asuming, Patrick O., Jackson, Elizabeth F., Boyer, Christopher B., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Achana, Sebastian F., Akazili, James and Phillips, James F. (2019). The child survival impact of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program: a health systems strengthening plausibility trial in Northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (6) e0218025, e0218025. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218025
Bawah, Ayaga A., Phillips, James F., Asuming, Patrick O., Jackson, Elizabeth F., Walega, Paul, Kanmiki, Edmund W., Sheff, Mallory C. and Oduro, Abraham (2019). Does the provision of community health services offset the effects of poverty and low maternal educational attainment on childhood mortality? An analysis of the equity effect of the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana. SSM-Population Health, 7 100335. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.100335
Bawah, Ayaga A., Asuming, Patrick, Achana, Sebastian F., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku and Phillips, James F. (2019). Contraceptive use intentions and unmet need for family planning among reproductive-aged women in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Reproductive Health, 16 (1) 26. doi: 10.1186/s12978-019-0693-x
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Akazili, James, Bawah, Ayaga A., Phillips, James F., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Asuming, Patrick O., Oduro, Abraham R. and Aikins, Moses (2019). Cost of implementing a community-based primary health care strengthening program: The case of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program in northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (2) e0211956, e0211956. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211956
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Phillips, James F., Kachur, Stephen Patrick, Achana, Sabastian F., Akazili, James and Bawah, Ayaga A. (2019). Socio-economic and demographic disparities in ownership and use of insecticide-treated bed nets for preventing malaria among rural reproductive-aged women in northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (1) e0211365, e0211365. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211365
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bempah, Ben Owusu Smith, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Bawah, Ayaga A., d'Almeida, Selassi Amah and Kassak, Kassem M. (2018). An assessment of a performance-based management agreement initiative in Ghana's health service. Bmc Health Services Research, 18 (1) 995, 995. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3810-6
Agorinya, Isaiah Awintuen, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Nonterah, Engelbert Adamwaba, Tediosi, Fabrizio, Akazili, James, Welaga, Paul, Azongo, Daniel and Oduro, Abraham Rexford (2018). Socio-demographic determinants of low birth weight: evidence from the Kassena-Nankana districts of the Upper East Region of Ghana. PLoS One, 13 (11) e0206207, e0206207. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206207
Akazili, James, Chatio, Samuel, Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo, Agorinya, Isaiah, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Sankoh, Osman and Oduro, Abraham (2018). Informal workers' access to health care services: findings from a qualitative study in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Northern Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 18 (1) 20. doi: 10.1186/s12914-018-0159-1
Akazili, James, Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Gyapong, John, Sankoh, Osman, Oduro, Abraham and McIntyre, Di (2017). Assessing the impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments prior to the uptake of the national health insurance scheme in Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 17 (1) 13. doi: 10.1186/s12914-017-0121-7
Akazili, James, McIntyre, Diane, Kanmiki, Edmund W., Gyapong, John, Oduro, Abraham, Sankoh, Osman and Ataguba, John E. (2017). Assessing the catastrophic effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments prior to the uptake of a nationwide health insurance scheme in Ghana. Global Health Action, 10 (1) 1289735. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1289735
Akazili, James, Chatio, Samuel, Achana, Fabian Sebastian, Oduro, Abraham, Kanmiki, Edmund W. and Baiden, Frank (2016). Factors influencing willingness to participate in new drug trial studies: A study among parents whose children were recruited into these trials in northern Ghana. BMC Research Notes, 9 (1) 139. doi: 10.1186/s13104-016-1951-4
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bawah, Ayaga A., Agorinya, Isaiah, Achana, Fabian S., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Oduro, Abraham R., Phillips, James F. and Akazili, James (2014). Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana. Bmc International Health and Human Rights, 14 (1) 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-698x-14-24
Conference Papers
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Alatinga, Kennedy A., Abiiro, Gilbert A., Gyan, Emmanuel Kofi and Moyer, Cheryl A. (2024). Out-of-pocket payment for maternal healthcare and its catastrophic effects in the era of free maternal and child health policy in Ghana. 15th Annual Conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), Los Angeles, CA United States, 7-10 March 2024.
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Abiiro, Gilbert A. and Alatinga, Kennedy A. (2021). Migrant adolescent female head porter’s experience of out-of-pocket healthcare payments and impoverishment in Ghana. Population Association of America Annual Meeting , Online , 5-8 May 2021.
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Henry, Elizabeth, Bawah, Ayaga and Asuming, Patrick (2021). Understanding contraceptive use, method failure and discontinuation among adolescent and young women in poor urban settlements of Accra, Ghana. Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Online , 5-8 May 2021.
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Bawah, Ayaga A., Akazili, James, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku and Kassak, Kassem (2018). Moving towards universal health coverage: an assessment of unawareness of health insurance coverage status among reproductive-age women in rural northern Ghana. CUGH 9th Annual Conference, New York. NY, United States, 15 - 18 March, 2018. London, United Kingdom: The Lancet Publishing Group. doi: 10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30161-x
Thesis
Kanmiki, Edmund (2024). The Effect of a Community-Based Primary Healthcare Program on Equity in Health and Access to Maternal and Child Health Services in Ghana. PhD Thesis, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/e7e3cd9
Newspaper Article
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Mamun, Abdullah and Fatima, Yaqoot (2022, 01 21). Kids whose grandparents are overweight are almost twice as likely to struggle with obesity The Conversation
Working Papers
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Mamun, Abdullah, Phillips, James F. and O'Flaherty, Martin (2023). Effect of a community-based primary healthcare program on childhood morbidity: a decomposition analysis. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-09. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b734754
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Mamun, Abdullah A., Phillips, James F. and O’Flaherty, Martin (2023). Effect of a community-based primary healthcare program on childhood morbidity: a decomposition analysis. Life Course Centre Working Paper Series. 2023-09. nstitute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia.