Wonder Agbemavi

Position: PhD Candidate
School and/or Centres: School of Demography

Visit date: 21 Mar 2023

Qualification:

BA and MPhil (Population and Health)

Thesis title: TBC

Biography
Research interests
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Awards
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Teaching

Mr. Wonder Agbemavi is a PhD student at the Australian National University studying demography. He is passionate about the reproductive health of young people and how to equip them with information on ASRH&R issues to make informed decisions. He has the requisite skills and training in qualitative and quantitative research. His areas of interest are social demography, maternal and child health, reproductive health, African indigenous knowledge and STIs, and refugee and migrant health. He has about sixteen published peer-reviewed journal articles and is currently a reviewer for seven reputable peer-reviewed journals.

Mortality, Fertility, Reproductive Health, Migrants' Health, Maternal and Child Health, Indigenous Knowledge

✓ Safer sex negotiation among Ghanaian women in sexual unions: Does women’s household decision making capacity matter? Archives of Sexual Behaviour. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02546-1

✓ Skilled antenatal care services utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: a pooled analysis of demographic and health surveys from 32 countries. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2022 Dec;22(1):1-0.

✓ Factors influencing the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis. Arch Public Health 79, 182 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-

✓ Women’s autonomy in household decision-making and safer sex negotiation in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of data from 27 Demographic and Health Surveys. SSM-Population Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100773

✓ Child Marriage and Sexual Autonomy among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from 31 Demographic and Health Surveys. Int. Journal. Environ. Res. Public Health 18(7), 3754; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073754

✓ Loneliness and associated risk factors among in-school adolescents in Tanzania: Cross-sectional analyses of the Global School-Based Health Survey data. Psychological Studies (2020)

✓ Psychosocial distress among in- school adolescents in Mozambique: a cross-sectional study using the Global School-Based Health Survey data. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 14 (1), 1-9 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-020-00344-4

✓ What has women’s reproductive health decision-making capacity and other factors got to do with pregnancy termination in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from 27 cross-sectional surveys. PLoS ONE. 15(7):e0235329. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235329

✓ Not just numbers: beyond counting cesarean deliveries to understanding their determinants in Ghana using a population-based cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 20 (1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-2792-7

✓ Reproductive health decision-making capacity and pregnancy termination among Ghanaian women: Analysis of the 2014 Ghana demographic and health survey. Journal of Public Health, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-019-01105-0

1. Global Health Social Sciences, The Global Health Network.
2. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Membership No: 46141.
3. Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)

Professional membership:
1. Global Health Social Sciences, The Global Health Network
2. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Membership No: 46141.
3. Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)

1. Graduate Assistant (2018-2022), University of Cape Coast
Courses: Population, Development and the African Environment, Introduction to HIV/AIDS Studies, Environmental Education, Instructional Material Development, Indigenous Knowledge in Population and Health
2. Teaching Assistant (2017-2018), University of Cape Coast
Courses: Population, Development and the African Environment, Introduction to HIV/AIDS Studies, Environmental Education, Instructional Material Development