Kumah, Augustine

Augustine is an early career researcher, a nurse, a public health practitioner and a healthcare quality improvement professional committed to improving patients’ safety, health outcomes, and community and population health and well-being. With several years of combined experience, He has worked in various healthcare settings, spanning public, private, academic, and not-for-profit sectors and in clinical and management roles.

Augustine has vast experience in research methodology and data analysis. His research interest seeks to evaluate and analyse public health policy and program implementation gaps, understand the diverse community and key population’s unique health challenges and design community and facility-based health initiatives to address health disparities, strengthen community and health systems to improve the quality of life and health outcomes of patients, communities and key populations.

Augustine has contributed to multiple research studies, demonstrating proficiency in designing research protocols, collecting and analyzing data, and interpreting results. He has actively engaged and led several healthcare quality improvement projects, community- and facility-based research and public health surveys at district, regional and national levels. He has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed publications.