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Center & Institute Affiliations
Agbessi Amouzou, PhD '06, MHS'03, is a demographer who specializes in the measurement, monitoring, and evaluation of research in maternal, newborn, and child health and mortality in low-income settings.
Research Interests
Demography; child health and mortality; causes of death; coverage of maternal, newborn and child health interventions; health equity; large scale program evaluation; household surveys; mortality surveillance
Experiences & Accomplishments
My research interests include measuring and monitoring coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) interventions, mortality, and causes of death, assessing socio-economic inequalities in MNCH as well as social and behavioral determinants of fertility and family planning. I am particularly interested in the implementation of mortality and causes of death surveillance systems and the effectiveness evaluation of large-scale MNCH programs in low-income countries.
Honors & Awards
2010 Global Health Faculty Award
2004 Delta Omega Honorary Society, Public Health Alpha Chapter
2001-2006 Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health’s doctoral scholarship
1995-1997 United Nations Population Fund’s Scholarship for Master in demography
1990-1994 Government of Togo's undergraduate college scholarship
Select Publications
Selected publications since 2015
Amouzou A, Maiga A, Faye CM, Chakwera S, Melesse DY, Mutua MK et al. Health service utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020: a multicounty empirical assessment with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health services. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008069. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-008069
Amouzou A, Jiwani S, da Silva I, Carvajal-Aguirre L, Maiga A, Vaz L. Closing the inequality gaps in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health coverage: slow and fast progressors. BMJ Global Health. 2020; 5:e002230. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2019-002230
Amouzou A, Leslie, HH, Ram M, Fox M, Jiwani S, Requejo J, Marchant T, Munos MK, Vaz LME, Weiss W, Hayashi C, Boerma Ties. Advances in the measurement of coverage for RMNCH and nutrition: from contact to effective coverage. BMJ Global Health. 2019; 0:e001297. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001297.
Amouzou A, Hazel E, Shaw B, Miller N, Tafesse M, Mekonnen Y, Moulton L, Bryce J, Black R. 2016. Effects of the integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness strategy on child mortality in Ethiopia: A cluster randomized trial. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 94(3):596-604. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0586.
Bryce J, Amouzou A, Victora C, Jones G, Silva S, Hill K, Black RE and the RMM Working Group. 2016. Real time monitoring of under-five mortality: Lessons for strengthened vital statistics systems. PLoS Med 13(1): e1001904. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001904