Evans Sakyi Boadu is a recent UWC graduate and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Public Health (SoPH), linked to the NRF/DST SARChI Chair in Health Systems Governance and a grant from the Belgian Development Cooperation (via the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp).
He will serve as a junior researcher in a research study investigating Health Science Systems in Southern Africa with emphasis on; (a) Bottom-up health systems strengthening, with a focus on governance and leadership and (b) Whole of society approaches, collaborative governance and placed-based intersectoral collaboration for health.
As a passionate and intellectually curious young African scholar, he has devoted his research study to public policy, monitoring and evaluation, community-based development as well as open governance and their overarching implications on socio-economic issues in Africa. He has worked with credible development research institutions in Ghana and South Africa.
Using indigenously responsive evaluation approaches, his doctoral thesis unpacked cultural philosophies with embedded evaluative instincts in Ghana and juxtaposed them with contemporary evaluation theories, methods and practice to develop an indigenously driven evaluation framework in social policies. He has several internationally peer-reviewed publications from his research studies.
Evans is very much interested in governance issues, monitoring and evaluation, public policy research and social policies that are crucial for delivering structural transformation and development in West and Southern Africa.
Qualifications
- PhD