John Kwasi Anarfi has a PhD in Population Studies from the Regional
Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon. He
spent one year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Australian National
University (ANU), Canberra, in 1993 under a Population Council
Fellowship. He worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of
Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana,
Legon from November 1989 till his retirement in July 2009. Between 2001
and 2007, he was the Deputy Director of ISSER. He is now Associate
Professor of Population Studies (post-retirement contract) at RIPS. His
areas of specialization include migration studies, women in migration,
sexuality and AIDS, adolescent reproductive health and street children.