Prof. Delali Badasu

Professor Delali Margaret Badasu is a Senior Research Fellow, Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Resource Development, an M.A in Population Studies, and a B.A. in Economics/Geography from the University of Ghana. She also holds an M.A. in Geography from the University of Alberta, Canada. She specializes in demography, geography, and medical geography. She has researched and published a number of works on population and development and health-related issues. Her current research focuses on socio-cultural dimensions of health, using mainly qualitative research methods. Her major works in this regard are on Ghana’s health policy and tertiary health care for children. She has just completed a study on care for children with chronic diseases at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. She has published on population and health-related issues in the African Studies Research Review, Bulletin of the Ghana Geographical Association, Health Transition Review, and African Population Studies. She is a member of the Union for African Population Studies and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Dr. Delali Badasu is a former  Director of the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of Ghana. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana. Her research areas are as follows:

• Migration and Development
• Population and Development
• Population and Socio-cultural Dynamics
• Migration and Social change

Below are some selected publications

1. Badasu, DM and Akosua Darkwah. Migration Research.  In M. Awumbila, D.M. Badasu and J. Teye (Eds.) Migration In A Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers. 2018.
2. Darkwah, A. and DM. Badasu. Migration and Social Change in Ghana. In M. Awumbila, D.M. Badasu and J. Teye (Eds.) Migration In A Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers. 2018.
3. Teye, J., DM Badasu and C. Yeboah.  Assessment of Remittance-Related Services and Practices of Financial Institutions in Ghana. International Organization for Migration (IOM) Development Fund /IOM, Ghana. 2017.
4. Badasu, D.M and S. Michel. On a Collision Course: Millennium Development and Mother’s Migration. In Z. Meghani (Ed.) Women Migrant workers: Ethical, Political and Legal Problems. New York: Routledge. 2016.
5. Badasu, D.M. “Child Care Among Ewe Migrants in Accra: Cases of Crisis”.  Institute of African Studies Research Review, Supplement No. 16: 17-37, 2004.
6. Badasu, D.M. Maternal Education, Child Care and Wellbeing Among Migrants in Accra. In C. Oppong, D. Badasu and K. Waerness Child Care in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. Bergen: BRIC. 2012.
7. Badasu, D.M, S.N.A. Codjoe and F. Frimpong Ainguah. “Child Care Strategies Among Young Migrants At Destination Areas”. In J.K. Anarfi and S.O. Kwankye (eds.) Independent Child Migration in Ghana. Accra: Sundel Services. 2009.
8. Frimpong Ainguah, F. Delali M. Badasu, M, S.N.A. Codjoe. North-South Independent Child Migration in Ghana: The Push and Pull Factors. In J.K. Anarfi and S.O. Kwankye (eds.) Independent Child Migration in Ghana. Accra: Sundel Services. 2009.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Technical Volume/Monograph

1. Awumbila, M., O. Alhassan, D.M. Badasu, T. Bosiako Antwi and E. Tetteh.   Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Migration in Ghana, with Technical Papers, No. 3, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana. 2011.
2. Delali M. Deh. Population Distribution in Ghana. Population Change in Africa: Selected Essays. African Population Dynamics. RIPS Monograph Series #3, pp. 24- 52, 1989.

Technical Reports

1. Delali M. Badasu, S.N.A. Codjoe, F. Dodoo, P. Nyarko, S. Kwankye, and C. Mba, F. Frimpong “Vendors With No Fixed Location In Ghana: Sexual And Reproductive Health Implications, A Qualitative Research Report”, submitted to the Appui Integres le Renforcement des Equipes Scientifique (AIRE-SUD), France 2010.
2. Yeboah, I., F. Dodoo, S.O. Kwankye, P. Nyarko, D.M. Badasu, and C. Biavashi “Development on the Move: Measuring and Assessing the Economic and Social Impacts of Migration on Ghana”. Report submitted to Global Development Network (GDN) and Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), as part of a research project in six countries, including Ghana 2009.

 Edited Book

1. Awumbila, M., D.M. Badasu and J. Teye (Eds.) Migration in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers. 2018.

Click on the link below to download her abridged CV.

CV-DELALI-BADASU