Nurudeen-Alhassan
Nurudeen Alhassan Areas of Study: Department of Sociology Interests:

Gender and power dynamics, sexual and reproductive health and rights including family planning (particularly of marginalised and vulnerable populations), harnessing the demographic dividend in Africa and measurement and programmatic approaches for contraceptive use. 
CISSR-AFIDEP 2023-24 Scholar

I joined AFIDEP as a Research and Policy Analyst, having graduated with a PhD in Population Studies from the Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana in 2018. My research interests are in the areas of gender, fertility, family planning and urban development. Over the last three years, I have been involved in managing and leading three important family planning projects at AFIDEP. These are; (a) The project on re-examining traditional contraceptive use in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and DRC (b) the Exemplars in Family Planning Country Study in Malawi and (c) the IUSSP fellowship project on leveraging urbanisation for sustainable in Malawi. The projects have generated data and evidence that is critical for family planning research and policy in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

 

Recent Research / Recent Publications

Re-Examining Traditional Method Use: Desperation or Innovation? New Evidence on Traditional Methods in DRC, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana

This is a mixed methods study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and aimed at testing new measurement approaches to better capture and estimate the use of traditional methods of contraception in four sub-Saharan African countries (2020-2023)