G Ampah Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 107118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Ampah Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Ampah |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4728-3744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Community-Centred Public Health Responses: How Can We Do it Better, Together
This study focuses on the lessons and challenges related to achieving an inclusive, equitable and effective risk communication and community engagement response to a pandemic, such as COVID-19. Challenges and lessons are examined in the context of an innovative model of partnership, collaboration, and coordination, which was piloted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), United Nations International Childr…
Caring on the Frontline during Covid-19: Contributions from Rapid Qualitative Research
Rapid, Responsive, and Relevant: A Systematic Review of Rapid Evaluations in Health Care
Changing health-care climates mean evaluators need to provide findings within shorter time frames, but challenges remain in the creation of rapid research designs capable of delivering quality data to inform decision-making processes. We conducted a review of articles to grapple with these challenges and explore the ways in which rapid evaluations have been used in health care. We found different labels being used to define rapid evaluations and …
Examining What We Know in Relation to How We Know It: A Team-Based Reflexivity Model for Rapid Qualitative Health Research
Reflexivity constitutes a core component of qualitative research and has been actively integrated into long-term and "lone ranger" approaches to qualitative research. However, its application to team-based approaches and particularly to rapid qualitative team-based approaches continues to lag behind. In this article, we introduce a reflexivity model we developed for teams undertaking rapid qualitative studies. Utilizing our most recent applicatio…
Rapid Techniques in Qualitative Research: A Critical Review of the Literature
Qualitative researchers are under increasing time demands to rapidly collect, analyze, and disseminate the results of their findings. Adaptations to qualitative methods may be required to enable the use of timely and relevant qualitative data across multiple disciplinary settings. The aim of this review is to briefly explore the ways in which data collection and analysis methods have been adapted in qualitative research to deal with short study t…
Carrying Out Rapid Qualitative Research During a Pandemic: Emerging Lessons From Covid-19
Social scientists have a robust history of contributing to better understandings of and responses to disease outbreaks. The implementation of qualitative research in the context of infectious epidemics, however, continues to lag behind in the delivery, credibility, and timeliness of findings when compared with other research designs. The purpose of this article is to reflect on our experience of carrying out three research studies (a rapid apprai…
The role of anthropology in improving services for children and families: An introduction
The fluid and changing nature of "family" the wide diversity of family arrangements, and families' movement across space (e.g., migration) and time (e.g., life-course) demand constant reconfiguration of services. As the articles presented in this special issue demonstrate, the skills of anthropologists have resulted in reflection upon, and often restructuring of, family services. Anthropology is also involved in the design, implementation, and ev…
Together, We Can Show You: Using Participant-Generated Visual Data in Collaborative Research
Participant-Generated Visual Data • 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants.Ginger A. Johnson's research in Cairo, Egypt, with Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology for participatory analysis of their photos.Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared images created by child participants undergoing cancer treatment f…
The Narrated, Nonnarrated, and the Disnarrated: Conceptual Tools for Analyzing Narratives in Health Services Research
While analyzing the narratives of children receiving pediatric oncology treatment and their parents, we encountered three ways to look at their narratives: what was narrated, nonnarrated, and disnarrated. The narrated refers to the actors (characters) and events (scenes) individuals decided to include in the narration of their experiences, the nonnarrated are everything not included in narration, and the disnarrated are elements that are narrated…
Characters or Less: How Is the Twitter Mediascape Influencing the Egyptian Revolution
The globalization of media allows for the images and stories of marginalized and excluded groups to be seen and heard by more people than ever before, creating ‘mediascapes’ in which such populations compete for visibility on an imagined global stage. We liken 140-character Twitter messages, sent and received regarding North African social protests, as one such mediascape providing a slice of reality into the political ideology of Egyptian youth.…
It's for the best’: Child movement in search of health in Njabini, Kenya
Previous studies produced on the movement of individuals with HIV/AIDS for the obtainment of medical services have rarely been conducted in the Global South and have neglected the experiences of child patients. This article presents a new type of travel for medical care, where HIV+ children in Kenya are being placed or choose to be placed in orphanages in order to obtain constant access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, proper nutrition, and educa…
Drawings, Photos, and Performances: Using Visual Methods with Children
Children have largely been overlooked as research participants in anthropological work. The anthropology of childhood has played an instrumental role in bringing attention to this fact, and it has highlighted important contributions children's viewpoints can make to our discipline. In this article, we present three case studies that involved children as active participants through the use of visual methodology: V indrola‐ P adros's research in A …
Set up to Fail: Inadequate Educational Support for Orphans in Central Kenya
In response to Kenya's goal of free and universal primary education for every child by 2015, this paper describes a few of the obstacles that one of the most visible periphery populations in Kenya, orphaned children, face in attempting to reach this objective. The most frequently cited barriers of children and their caretakers to consistent school attendance included: inability to pay school fees, lack of a school uniform, difficulty in providing…
A Child's Right to Participation: Photovoice as Methodology for Documenting the Experiences of Children Living in K enyan Orphanages
Through ethnographic research, including participatory photography or “photovoice,” this research project explored the changing landscape of childhood faced by children living in orphanages in K enya amidst ongoing political violence and disease epidemics. In particular, the research focused on documenting children's perceptions and experiences in two orphanages: the urban K ayole R ehabilitation C entre, a governmental agency in N airobi; and F …
The Displaced: Photoethnography in a Site of Refuge
Determinants of Attendance and Patient Satisfaction At Eye Clinics in South-Western Uganda
PURPOSE: To identify the reasons for subjects deciding to attend or not attend local and referral ophthalmology clinics in south-west Uganda, and to establish the levels of satisfaction of clinic attenders with the services they received. METHODS: A population survey identified subjects with ocular conditions who were referred to the local clinic or the district hospital. All non-attenders and a group of attenders were interviewed at home. RESULT…
The African Experience with Higher Education
The African Experience with Higher Education
Antecedents - before 1900 colonialism and higher education decolonization and higher education 1945-60 the politics of independence and higher education 1960-70 the association of African universities higher education and African development 1970s and 1980s issues and problems of the 1990s towards the 21st century the mission of the university reviewed new expectations and reorientations the outreach
The African Experience with Higher Education
Carrying Out Rapid Qualitative Research During a Pandemic: Emerging Lessons From Covid-19
Social scientists have a robust history of contributing to better understandings of and responses to disease outbreaks. The implementation of qualitative research in the context of infectious epidemics, however, continues to lag behind in the delivery, credibility, and timeliness of findings when compared with other research designs. The purpose of this article is to reflect on our experience of carrying out three research studies (a rapid apprai…
Drawings, Photos, and Performances: Using Visual Methods with Children
Children have largely been overlooked as research participants in anthropological work. The anthropology of childhood has played an instrumental role in bringing attention to this fact, and it has highlighted important contributions children's viewpoints can make to our discipline. In this article, we present three case studies that involved children as active participants through the use of visual methodology: V indrola‐ P adros's research in A …
A Child's Right to Participation: Photovoice as Methodology for Documenting the Experiences of Children Living in K enyan Orphanages
Through ethnographic research, including participatory photography or “photovoice,” this research project explored the changing landscape of childhood faced by children living in orphanages in K enya amidst ongoing political violence and disease epidemics. In particular, the research focused on documenting children's perceptions and experiences in two orphanages: the urban K ayole R ehabilitation C entre, a governmental agency in N airobi; and F …
Together, We Can Show You: Using Participant-Generated Visual Data in Collaborative Research
Participant-Generated Visual Data • 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants.Ginger A. Johnson's research in Cairo, Egypt, with Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology for participatory analysis of their photos.Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared images created by child participants undergoing cancer treatment f…
The Narrated, Nonnarrated, and the Disnarrated: Conceptual Tools for Analyzing Narratives in Health Services Research
While analyzing the narratives of children receiving pediatric oncology treatment and their parents, we encountered three ways to look at their narratives: what was narrated, nonnarrated, and disnarrated. The narrated refers to the actors (characters) and events (scenes) individuals decided to include in the narration of their experiences, the nonnarrated are everything not included in narration, and the disnarrated are elements that are narrated…
Examining What We Know in Relation to How We Know It: A Team-Based Reflexivity Model for Rapid Qualitative Health Research
Reflexivity constitutes a core component of qualitative research and has been actively integrated into long-term and "lone ranger" approaches to qualitative research. However, its application to team-based approaches and particularly to rapid qualitative team-based approaches continues to lag behind. In this article, we introduce a reflexivity model we developed for teams undertaking rapid qualitative studies. Utilizing our most recent applicatio…
The role of anthropology in improving services for children and families: An introduction
The fluid and changing nature of "family" the wide diversity of family arrangements, and families' movement across space (e.g., migration) and time (e.g., life-course) demand constant reconfiguration of services. As the articles presented in this special issue demonstrate, the skills of anthropologists have resulted in reflection upon, and often restructuring of, family services. Anthropology is also involved in the design, implementation, and ev…
It's for the best’: Child movement in search of health in Njabini, Kenya
Previous studies produced on the movement of individuals with HIV/AIDS for the obtainment of medical services have rarely been conducted in the Global South and have neglected the experiences of child patients. This article presents a new type of travel for medical care, where HIV+ children in Kenya are being placed or choose to be placed in orphanages in order to obtain constant access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, proper nutrition, and educa…
The African Experience with Higher Education
Antecedents - before 1900 colonialism and higher education decolonization and higher education 1945-60 the politics of independence and higher education 1960-70 the association of African universities higher education and African development 1970s and 1980s issues and problems of the 1990s towards the 21st century the mission of the university reviewed new expectations and reorientations the outreach
The African Experience with Higher Education
The African Experience with Higher Education
Determinants of Attendance and Patient Satisfaction At Eye Clinics in South-Western Uganda
PURPOSE: To identify the reasons for subjects deciding to attend or not attend local and referral ophthalmology clinics in south-west Uganda, and to establish the levels of satisfaction of clinic attenders with the services they received. METHODS: A population survey identified subjects with ocular conditions who were referred to the local clinic or the district hospital. All non-attenders and a group of attenders were interviewed at home. RESULT…
The Displaced: Photoethnography in a Site of Refuge
Set up to Fail: Inadequate Educational Support for Orphans in Central Kenya
In response to Kenya's goal of free and universal primary education for every child by 2015, this paper describes a few of the obstacles that one of the most visible periphery populations in Kenya, orphaned children, face in attempting to reach this objective. The most frequently cited barriers of children and their caretakers to consistent school attendance included: inability to pay school fees, lack of a school uniform, difficulty in providing…
A Child's Right to Participation: Photovoice as Methodology for Documenting the Experiences of Children Living in K enyan Orphanages
Through ethnographic research, including participatory photography or “photovoice,” this research project explored the changing landscape of childhood faced by children living in orphanages in K enya amidst ongoing political violence and disease epidemics. In particular, the research focused on documenting children's perceptions and experiences in two orphanages: the urban K ayole R ehabilitation C entre, a governmental agency in N airobi; and F …
Drawings, Photos, and Performances: Using Visual Methods with Children
Children have largely been overlooked as research participants in anthropological work. The anthropology of childhood has played an instrumental role in bringing attention to this fact, and it has highlighted important contributions children's viewpoints can make to our discipline. In this article, we present three case studies that involved children as active participants through the use of visual methodology: V indrola‐ P adros's research in A …
Characters or Less: How Is the Twitter Mediascape Influencing the Egyptian Revolution
The globalization of media allows for the images and stories of marginalized and excluded groups to be seen and heard by more people than ever before, creating ‘mediascapes’ in which such populations compete for visibility on an imagined global stage. We liken 140-character Twitter messages, sent and received regarding North African social protests, as one such mediascape providing a slice of reality into the political ideology of Egyptian youth.…
It's for the best’: Child movement in search of health in Njabini, Kenya
Previous studies produced on the movement of individuals with HIV/AIDS for the obtainment of medical services have rarely been conducted in the Global South and have neglected the experiences of child patients. This article presents a new type of travel for medical care, where HIV+ children in Kenya are being placed or choose to be placed in orphanages in order to obtain constant access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, proper nutrition, and educa…
Together, We Can Show You: Using Participant-Generated Visual Data in Collaborative Research
Participant-Generated Visual Data • 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants.Ginger A. Johnson's research in Cairo, Egypt, with Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology for participatory analysis of their photos.Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared images created by child participants undergoing cancer treatment f…
The Narrated, Nonnarrated, and the Disnarrated: Conceptual Tools for Analyzing Narratives in Health Services Research
While analyzing the narratives of children receiving pediatric oncology treatment and their parents, we encountered three ways to look at their narratives: what was narrated, nonnarrated, and disnarrated. The narrated refers to the actors (characters) and events (scenes) individuals decided to include in the narration of their experiences, the nonnarrated are everything not included in narration, and the disnarrated are elements that are narrated…
The role of anthropology in improving services for children and families: An introduction
The fluid and changing nature of "family" the wide diversity of family arrangements, and families' movement across space (e.g., migration) and time (e.g., life-course) demand constant reconfiguration of services. As the articles presented in this special issue demonstrate, the skills of anthropologists have resulted in reflection upon, and often restructuring of, family services. Anthropology is also involved in the design, implementation, and ev…
Rapid Techniques in Qualitative Research: A Critical Review of the Literature
Qualitative researchers are under increasing time demands to rapidly collect, analyze, and disseminate the results of their findings. Adaptations to qualitative methods may be required to enable the use of timely and relevant qualitative data across multiple disciplinary settings. The aim of this review is to briefly explore the ways in which data collection and analysis methods have been adapted in qualitative research to deal with short study t…
Carrying Out Rapid Qualitative Research During a Pandemic: Emerging Lessons From Covid-19
Social scientists have a robust history of contributing to better understandings of and responses to disease outbreaks. The implementation of qualitative research in the context of infectious epidemics, however, continues to lag behind in the delivery, credibility, and timeliness of findings when compared with other research designs. The purpose of this article is to reflect on our experience of carrying out three research studies (a rapid apprai…
Rapid, Responsive, and Relevant: A Systematic Review of Rapid Evaluations in Health Care
Changing health-care climates mean evaluators need to provide findings within shorter time frames, but challenges remain in the creation of rapid research designs capable of delivering quality data to inform decision-making processes. We conducted a review of articles to grapple with these challenges and explore the ways in which rapid evaluations have been used in health care. We found different labels being used to define rapid evaluations and …
Examining What We Know in Relation to How We Know It: A Team-Based Reflexivity Model for Rapid Qualitative Health Research
Reflexivity constitutes a core component of qualitative research and has been actively integrated into long-term and "lone ranger" approaches to qualitative research. However, its application to team-based approaches and particularly to rapid qualitative team-based approaches continues to lag behind. In this article, we introduce a reflexivity model we developed for teams undertaking rapid qualitative studies. Utilizing our most recent applicatio…
Caring on the Frontline during Covid-19: Contributions from Rapid Qualitative Research
Community-Centred Public Health Responses: How Can We Do it Better, Together
This study focuses on the lessons and challenges related to achieving an inclusive, equitable and effective risk communication and community engagement response to a pandemic, such as COVID-19. Challenges and lessons are examined in the context of an innovative model of partnership, collaboration, and coordination, which was piloted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), United Nations International Childr…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Social science (4 works)