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I believe we had this discussion here awhile ago. Cant find the original thread hence this.
Columbia Professor accused of research misconduct/fraud
Navrongo (UE), July 21, GNA - A Principal Research Investigator, Professor James Philip of the Columbia University, USA, currently working on a research project at the Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC) in the Upper East Region, has been accused of research misconduct and fraud.
The two research programmes under Prof. Philip are; the Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH), which is ongoing and the Navrongo Experiment that was done between 1993 and 2005 in the Kassena Nankana area.
Ms Mame Yaa Busumtwi, a public health specialist, who is making the accusations, spoke to the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga on Tuesday and said that until March 2010, she was the Programme Manager, Communication Director and Editor of the MOTECH Research Newsletter.
She said Prof. Philip asked her to commit fraud by omitting information that would give credit to the sponsors of the Research Programme and rather create the impression that the programme was under the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
"I was persistently ordered to omit information about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the main sponsors of the Research and also other contributors including the Columbia University and the Grameen Foundation from the Research Newsletter", she said.
Ms Busumtwi said she refused because it was unethical to conceal sponsors and significant participants in a research document and so her employment was terminated two days later.
She said studying the Navrongo Experiment, a research carried out under Professor Philip she found out that it was carried out without an Informed Consent Form that should have explained to the women involved exactly what they were involved in, including knowledge of all possible side effects of the family planning methods used.
She said among the various methods used in the research, only Depo Provera was mentioned, and wondered why the others were not written down.
Ms Busumtwi said she had received a lot of information from Health Personnel, who worked with Prof. Philip, claiming that he fabricates research statistics and obtains research data by circumventing conventional ethical protocols and methods.
"Ghana should be seen as a venue of quality verifiable and valid research and not a victim of powerful unscrupulous foreign doctors, who use funding as a bait to skew and fabricate research for their desired outcome", she said.
A statement signed by Dr Abraham Hodgson, Director of the NHRC, refuted allegations levelled against the Centre by Ms Busumtwi that it carried out research where over 1,500 women were used as human subjects in birth control without full disclosure of and informed consent about adverse effects of the vials and oral drugs used.
It stated, "the attention of the Navrongo Health Research Centre and the Upper East Regional Health Directorate has been drawn to out-rightly false, unsubstantiated and libellous comments being made by one Ms. Busumtwi, known to us as a former employee of the Columbia University and one Mr Sedem Amedeke, President and Coordinator of the National Violent Movements of Integrity.
The statement explained that the Navrongo Experiment, officially known as the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project was one of the major studies conducted by the NRHC.
It noted that the study sought to restructure the existing health systems to be able to provide accessible, affordable, efficient and effective services to people, particularly those in rural areas.
It noted that the study adopted an integrated approach to providing health services by relocating Community Health Nurses (CHNs) from the traditional facilities to live and work with rural communities.
The statement indicated that CHNs used registered medications and products approved by the Ghana Health Service for the routine use in the facilities such as injectable contraceptives, other family planning devices and other medication to treat patients, who reported to them, seeking various services including family planning services.
The statement explained that the Navrongo Experiment did not at any time during the period of the study, test any product or drug. It said the import of the study was to determine feasible means of improving access to health services for rural people and to find out if improved access to health care delivery led to an improvement in health status of the people.
It noted that the study was structured in a manner that there was no reason to seek individual informed consent because patients or clients who required health services would normally report at health facilities to be attended to by the health personnel.
The statement stated that there were several publications in peer-reviewed journals arising out of the Navrongo Experiment, which were available on the Internet and that if anybody was in doubt they could cross check that, adding that other sources are freely available at the NHRC.
It said the NHRC had continued to work under difficult circumstances to improve public health in Ghana and beyond and said whilst it welcomes public scrutiny to improve upon health delivery, it would strongly object to misrepresentations and distortions that would undermine the efforts and hard-won reputation and trust the Centre had gained over the years.
I admire this woman for standing up to these thieves!!!
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 04:36 PM
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One woman's agitations halts work on research project
Bolgatanga, July 29, GNA - Research that the Mobile Technology for Community Health Project (MOTECH) was undertaking at the Navrongo Health Research Centre has come to a halt.
The project was aimed at addressing the high maternal and neonatal mortalities in the region.
It was seeking ways of using mobile phones to make the work of community health officers more effective and transmitting health information via mobile phones to people in rural communities.
It was being done on pilot basis in the two Kassena Nankana districts.
Dr John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Regional Director of Health Services, who read a statement he signed on behalf of Dr Elias Sory, Director General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), said the MOTECH project had come to a standstill because Columbia University in the USA had recalled its personnel working on the project.
This is because Ms Mame Yaa Busumtwi, a Public Health Specialist who worked on the project as the Communication Director and Editor of its Newsletter, started an advocacy against the Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. James Philips.
She accused Dr Philips of research misconduct, pay fraud and putting undue pressure on her to publish false information in the newsletter.
He said the campaign unduly touched the MOTECH project as a whole and made the Columbia University to recall its personnel for security reasons as Dr. Philips was threatened with arrest.
"All research staff and students from the Columbia University have been recalled to the USA for security reasons despite all the reassurances of the Ghana Health Service."
"Technically, all projects of the University including MOTECH have grounded to a halt. Mothers and children are thus denied the very critical health interventions they are benefiting under the MOTECH project", the statement said.
The project was planned to spread to other districts, had equipment, infrastructure renovation and upgrading of health provider buildings.
The GEHIP project worth over a million dollars billed for the Builsa, Bongo and Garu-Tempane districts had similarly been stalled.
The statement explained that the accusations levelled against Dr Philips had been widely circulated to financiers and potential financiers of health projects in the region and damaged the reputation of the GHS and the NHRC in the eyes of the international community.
The statement appealed to Ms. Busumtwi to stop threatening Dr Philips and other research staff and students from the Columbia University on MOTECH and other research projects in the region and also desist from sending threats and defamatory messages to the Regional Director of Health Services.
Ms Busumtwi, who was present at the press conference, said she did not intend to harm the GHS and NHRC but wanted to expose wrong doings of Dr Philips so that other foreigners who come to the country to do research would follow the right procedure.
She said her employment with MOTECH was terminated after she had worked for only eight months under her two-year contract with the Columbia University because she had refused to publish false information that the principal investigator of the project persistently asked her to publish.
Ms Busumtwi is also accusing Dr Philips of Research misconduct, carrying out research without the informed consent form which is supposed to tell the people used for the research exactly what they were involved in and the possible health effects.
She complained of wide salary disparities between Ghanaian workers and those from the USA despite having the same qualification and doing the same work.
Bolgatanga, July 29, GNA - Research that the Mobile Technology for Community Health Project (MOTECH) was undertaking at the Navrongo Health Research Centre has come to a halt.
The project was aimed at addressing the high maternal and neonatal mortalities in the region.
It was seeking ways of using mobile phones to make the work of community health officers more effective and transmitting health information via mobile phones to people in rural communities.
It was being done on pilot basis in the two Kassena Nankana districts.
Dr John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Regional Director of Health Services, who read a statement he signed on behalf of Dr Elias Sory, Director General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), said the MOTECH project had come to a standstill because Columbia University in the USA had recalled its personnel working on the project.
This is because Ms Mame Yaa Busumtwi, a Public Health Specialist who worked on the project as the Communication Director and Editor of its Newsletter, started an advocacy against the Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. James Philips.
She accused Dr Philips of research misconduct, pay fraud and putting undue pressure on her to publish false information in the newsletter.
He said the campaign unduly touched the MOTECH project as a whole and made the Columbia University to recall its personnel for security reasons as Dr. Philips was threatened with arrest.
"All research staff and students from the Columbia University have been recalled to the USA for security reasons despite all the reassurances of the Ghana Health Service."
"Technically, all projects of the University including MOTECH have grounded to a halt. Mothers and children are thus denied the very critical health interventions they are benefiting under the MOTECH project", the statement said.
The project was planned to spread to other districts, had equipment, infrastructure renovation and upgrading of health provider buildings.
The GEHIP project worth over a million dollars billed for the Builsa, Bongo and Garu-Tempane districts had similarly been stalled.
The statement explained that the accusations levelled against Dr Philips had been widely circulated to financiers and potential financiers of health projects in the region and damaged the reputation of the GHS and the NHRC in the eyes of the international community.
The statement appealed to Ms. Busumtwi to stop threatening Dr Philips and other research staff and students from the Columbia University on MOTECH and other research projects in the region and also desist from sending threats and defamatory messages to the Regional Director of Health Services.
Ms Busumtwi, who was present at the press conference, said she did not intend to harm the GHS and NHRC but wanted to expose wrong doings of Dr Philips so that other foreigners who come to the country to do research would follow the right procedure.
She said her employment with MOTECH was terminated after she had worked for only eight months under her two-year contract with the Columbia University because she had refused to publish false information that the principal investigator of the project persistently asked her to publish.
Ms Busumtwi is also accusing Dr Philips of Research misconduct, carrying out research without the informed consent form which is supposed to tell the people used for the research exactly what they were involved in and the possible health effects.
She complained of wide salary disparities between Ghanaian workers and those from the USA despite having the same qualification and doing the same work.
http://www.ghanaweb....l.php?ID=187112
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 09:11 PM
Bula Matali, on 29 July 2010 - 04:36 PM, said:
RESULT !!!! YES !
http://www.ghanaweb....l.php?ID=187112
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One woman's agitations halts work on research project
Bolgatanga, July 29, GNA - Research that the Mobile Technology for Community Health Project (MOTECH) was undertaking at the Navrongo Health Research Centre has come to a halt.
The project was aimed at addressing the high maternal and neonatal mortalities in the region.
It was seeking ways of using mobile phones to make the work of community health officers more effective and transmitting health information via mobile phones to people in rural communities.
It was being done on pilot basis in the two Kassena Nankana districts.
Dr John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Regional Director of Health Services, who read a statement he signed on behalf of Dr Elias Sory, Director General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), said the MOTECH project had come to a standstill because Columbia University in the USA had recalled its personnel working on the project.
This is because Ms Mame Yaa Busumtwi, a Public Health Specialist who worked on the project as the Communication Director and Editor of its Newsletter, started an advocacy against the Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. James Philips.
She accused Dr Philips of research misconduct, pay fraud and putting undue pressure on her to publish false information in the newsletter.
He said the campaign unduly touched the MOTECH project as a whole and made the Columbia University to recall its personnel for security reasons as Dr. Philips was threatened with arrest.
"All research staff and students from the Columbia University have been recalled to the USA for security reasons despite all the reassurances of the Ghana Health Service."
"Technically, all projects of the University including MOTECH have grounded to a halt. Mothers and children are thus denied the very critical health interventions they are benefiting under the MOTECH project", the statement said.
The project was planned to spread to other districts, had equipment, infrastructure renovation and upgrading of health provider buildings.
The GEHIP project worth over a million dollars billed for the Builsa, Bongo and Garu-Tempane districts had similarly been stalled.
The statement explained that the accusations levelled against Dr Philips had been widely circulated to financiers and potential financiers of health projects in the region and damaged the reputation of the GHS and the NHRC in the eyes of the international community.
The statement appealed to Ms. Busumtwi to stop threatening Dr Philips and other research staff and students from the Columbia University on MOTECH and other research projects in the region and also desist from sending threats and defamatory messages to the Regional Director of Health Services.
Ms Busumtwi, who was present at the press conference, said she did not intend to harm the GHS and NHRC but wanted to expose wrong doings of Dr Philips so that other foreigners who come to the country to do research would follow the right procedure.
She said her employment with MOTECH was terminated after she had worked for only eight months under her two-year contract with the Columbia University because she had refused to publish false information that the principal investigator of the project persistently asked her to publish.
Ms Busumtwi is also accusing Dr Philips of Research misconduct, carrying out research without the informed consent form which is supposed to tell the people used for the research exactly what they were involved in and the possible health effects.
She complained of wide salary disparities between Ghanaian workers and those from the USA despite having the same qualification and doing the same work.
Bolgatanga, July 29, GNA - Research that the Mobile Technology for Community Health Project (MOTECH) was undertaking at the Navrongo Health Research Centre has come to a halt.
The project was aimed at addressing the high maternal and neonatal mortalities in the region.
It was seeking ways of using mobile phones to make the work of community health officers more effective and transmitting health information via mobile phones to people in rural communities.
It was being done on pilot basis in the two Kassena Nankana districts.
Dr John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Regional Director of Health Services, who read a statement he signed on behalf of Dr Elias Sory, Director General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), said the MOTECH project had come to a standstill because Columbia University in the USA had recalled its personnel working on the project.
This is because Ms Mame Yaa Busumtwi, a Public Health Specialist who worked on the project as the Communication Director and Editor of its Newsletter, started an advocacy against the Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. James Philips.
She accused Dr Philips of research misconduct, pay fraud and putting undue pressure on her to publish false information in the newsletter.
He said the campaign unduly touched the MOTECH project as a whole and made the Columbia University to recall its personnel for security reasons as Dr. Philips was threatened with arrest.
"All research staff and students from the Columbia University have been recalled to the USA for security reasons despite all the reassurances of the Ghana Health Service."
"Technically, all projects of the University including MOTECH have grounded to a halt. Mothers and children are thus denied the very critical health interventions they are benefiting under the MOTECH project", the statement said.
The project was planned to spread to other districts, had equipment, infrastructure renovation and upgrading of health provider buildings.
The GEHIP project worth over a million dollars billed for the Builsa, Bongo and Garu-Tempane districts had similarly been stalled.
The statement explained that the accusations levelled against Dr Philips had been widely circulated to financiers and potential financiers of health projects in the region and damaged the reputation of the GHS and the NHRC in the eyes of the international community.
The statement appealed to Ms. Busumtwi to stop threatening Dr Philips and other research staff and students from the Columbia University on MOTECH and other research projects in the region and also desist from sending threats and defamatory messages to the Regional Director of Health Services.
Ms Busumtwi, who was present at the press conference, said she did not intend to harm the GHS and NHRC but wanted to expose wrong doings of Dr Philips so that other foreigners who come to the country to do research would follow the right procedure.
She said her employment with MOTECH was terminated after she had worked for only eight months under her two-year contract with the Columbia University because she had refused to publish false information that the principal investigator of the project persistently asked her to publish.
Ms Busumtwi is also accusing Dr Philips of Research misconduct, carrying out research without the informed consent form which is supposed to tell the people used for the research exactly what they were involved in and the possible health effects.
She complained of wide salary disparities between Ghanaian workers and those from the USA despite having the same qualification and doing the same work.
http://www.ghanaweb....l.php?ID=187112
Is it me or the report seems to be suggesting that the project and its benefits has halted because a Ghanaian woman opened her big mouth and brought attention to some of the fraud been perpetrated by the sponsors?
Columbia University pulling their staff out of there for security reasons is an attempt to cast a dark cloud on the continent for obvious reasons. It has been their MO concerning the continent when they are called out on their bs.....re: South Africa hosting the just ended World Cup.
Bula help me out here. What's the report trying to say?
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Posted 30 July 2010 - 08:26 AM
U have got the point precisely Tropicana.
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