Pearl Kyei is a Lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana. She is a social demographer whose research interests lie primarily in studying human capital investments in sub-Saharan Africa and understanding social inequality. She is also interested in strengthening research capacity, improving the statistical literacy of data users, promoting the uptake of research for policy and planning, and enhancing decision-making through data-driven insights.
Prior to joining the University of Ghana, she was a Fred H. Bixby fellow at the Population Council New York office in the Poverty Gender, and Youth Program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Davidson College, a Master of Arts degree in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Demography also from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Population Association of America (PAA), and the International Sociological Association’s Research Committees on the Sociology of Education (RC04) and Social Stratification (RC28).
PKyei@ug.edu.gh
Data use for decision-making
Education quality
Family demography
Health systems strengthening
Social stratification and mobility
Bawah, A.A., Kyei, P. and Agyei-Asabere, C. (2024). Contraceptive use and method mix dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: time trends and the influence of the HIV pandemic. Contraception and Reproductive Medicine. DOI: 10.1186/s40834-024-00273-z
Kyei, P. & Nyarko, N.Y. (2024). Care-Giver Child Interactions and Early Cognitive Development in West and Central Africa. Early Child Development and Care 149 (3)
Agula, C., Bawah, A. A., Asuming, P. O., Kyei, P., & Biney, A. (2024). Impact of health system strengthening interventions on child survival in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 13(1), 15.
Kushitor, M., Wright, K., Biney, A., Kanmiki, E. W., Kyei, P., Phillips, J. F., ... & Bawah, A. A. (2023). “The trip actually opened our eyes to things that we were supposed to do and we were not doing”: developing primary health care system leadership in a low-income country with peer exchanges. Research in Health Services & Regions, 2(1), 15.
Kyei, P. (2022). When Boys Read better than Girls: The Correlation between Gender Disparities in Schooling Participation and Reading Performance in sub-Saharan Africa. African Education Review.
Bawah A.A., Biney A.E. Biney, and Kyei, P. (2022). "You Can’t Look at an Orange and Draw a Banana”: Using Research Evidence to Develop Relevant Health Policy in Ghana. Global Health: Science and Practice 10 (Supplement 1) e2100693
Kyei, P. (2022). Patterns of Interethnic Marriage in Ghana: 2000 – 2010 Ghana Journal of Geography. Ghana Journal of Geography 14 (1), 125-140
Tangcharoensathien, V., Sudhakar, M., Birhanu, Z., Abraham, G., Bawah, A., Kyei, P., ... and Panichkriangkrai, W. (2022). Health Policy and Systems Research Capacities in Ethiopia and Ghana: Findings from a Self-Assessment. Global Health: Science and Practice, 10 (Supplement 1).
Sustaining the African Health Initiative Community of Practice
Data Collection Innovations to Study the Health of African Immigrants in the United States: A Pilot Study
POPS 603: Population and Development Theories and Policies
POPS 626: Population, Education, and Development
POPS 705: Population Theories and Policies