Name: Bakablibo S. Seeba Email:seeba.amengaetego@ghana-khrc.org Telephone Number: +233 61 37304   Ext:130

Qualification: MSc. Business Computing

Seeba was born on 11 November 1962 in Navrongo. He was awarded Diploma in the Management and Analysis of Longitudinal Demographic Data in 1993 from the University of Southern Maine.

He again obtained in 1999, a Diploma in Statistics from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Legon and a certificate in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) from the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, LSHTM, London.

In September, 2004 he enrolled in the University of Westminster, London, where he successfully pursued an MSc degree programme in Business Computing.

Seeba has extensive experience, having worked as a fieldworker in the Ghana VAST Projects from March 1989 to May 1990 and also computing having also worked as a Data Assistant (1990 – 1994) and as the main Data Manager since he moved to the Kintampo Health Research Centre in January 1995. He is currently a Principal Data Manager, head of the computer lab in KHRC and head of the GIS team.

His main future interests include looking at inequities in health outcomes: the effect of socio-economic status and access to health services using GIS data.

Publications:

• Edmond KM, Kirkwood BR, Amenga-Etego S, Owusu-Agyei S, Hurt LS
  Effect of early infant feeding practices on infection-specific neonatal mortality: an investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural Ghana. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Oct;86(4):1126-31
• Edmond KM, Zandoh C, Quigley MA, Amenga-Etego S, Owusu-Agyei S, Kirkwood BR.
  Delayed breastfeeding initiation increases risk of neonatal mortality. Pediatrics. 2006 Mar;117(3):e380-6.