Dr. Stephen Manortey is a full-time Senior Lecturer at Ensign College of Public Health where he currently serves as the Head of Academic Program.

Dr. Manortey’s research and scholarly works focus on community engagement and evaluating the health needs of residents in rural settings. His works include using spatial analysis to assess factors that influence complete household enrollment into the National Health Insurance Scheme and also using standard verbal autopsy procedures to generate infant mortality data in selected rural communities in Ghana.

Dr. Manortey currently serves as a Principal Investigator on a project dubbed “Health2Go” with the aim of establishing a fully operation model to understand the project’s impacts on the health of residents in selected “hard-to-reach” communities in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Nartey-Laweh V, Manortey, S. (2021). Assessment of Knowledge and Practices of Prostate
Cancer Screening Among Men in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern
Region of Ghana. Cancer Research Journal. 9(1): 41-52. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.crj.20210901.16

S. Manortey, and R. Rashid (2020): Knowledge and Perception of Cervical Cancer and Its Prevention among Female Nurses in the Ga South Municipality, Ghana. American Journal of Nursing Research, 8(2), 254-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.12691/ajnr-8-2-14

S. Manortey and S. Kugbega. (2020): Exploring the Relationship between Advertisement of Alcohol on Consumption and the Perceived Health Implications among Youth in the Ashaiman Municipality, Ghana. Global Journal of Medical Research, 20 (2). 11-20.  https://medicalresearchjournal.org/index.php/GJMR/article/view/1989

O.O. Odukoya, S. Manortey, M. Takemoto, S. Alder, K Okuyemi, (2020): Body, Soul and Spirit, an adaptation of two evidence-based interventions to promote physical activity and healthy eating among adults in churches in Lagos Nigeria: a three-arm cluster randomized controlled pilot trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6:59 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00600-6

M. Obasi, S. Manortey, K.A. Kyei, M.K. Addo, S.Talboys, L. Gay, F. Baiden. (2019) Sexual and reproductive health of adolescents in schools for people with disabilities. Pan African Medical Journal. 33:299.  https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.299.18546