Naasegnibe Kuunibe is an Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Health Systems Research in the Department of Economics. He was a former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Arts. He holds a PhD in Public Health (Health Economics and Financing) from the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany, an MPhil in Economics, and a BA (Hons) in Economics, both from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
Prof Kuunibe’s areas of expertise include program evaluation, health systems, Quality of life, population health and youth violence. With over 12 years of teaching and research experience, he has over 34 academic publications in internal and local outlets. In addition to graduate and undergraduate supervision, Naasegnibe teaches Econometrics, Mathematical Economics and Mathematics for Economists at the undergraduate level. He teaches Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Statistics for Monitoring and Evaluation Data, Health Statistics and Information Management, and Health Insurance Systems at the graduate level. Prof Kuunibe has served on several committees at the University, Faculty and Departmental levels.
Prof Kuunibe has consulted for many international and local organisations, including but not limited to the World Bank Group, GIZ, and the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG). He has also presented at many international conferences, including the International Health Economics Association (IHEA), the German Society for Tropical Paediatrics (GTP), the German Society for Health Economics (DGGO) and the UBIDS. Prof Kuunibe currently serves as a Global Assessor for Early Career Grants at the prestigious Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) in the UK and a Senior Fellow at a multidisciplinary, international research institute, the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa (IRPIA) in Siera Leonne and the USA.
For more on his research activities please visit
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wV88eVcAAAAJ
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1975-3718
E-mail: nkuunibe@ubids.edu.gh
Contact Number: +233(0) 209 006 165