Cosmos Yarfi is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences (SAHS), University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, Ghana. He has been teaching at UHAS since October 2016 and was Acting Head of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences from October 2017 to July 2019. He is among the first batch of recipients of the first UHAS Institute of Health Research seed grant in March 2019. He has been a member of very important committees and boards of SAHS and UHAS since his appointment to the University.

Education

He had his BSc Physiotherapy degree at the School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon and later obtained an MSc in Disability, Rehabilitation and Development degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Physiotherapy at University of the Western Cape, South Africa specialising in stroke rehabilitation.

Work Experience

Prior to his appointment at UHAS, he was a principal physiotherapist and Head of Physiotherapy Services in the Atwima Nwabiagya Health Directorate, stationed at the Nkawie Government hospital with 10 years’ clinical experience as a Physiotherapist.

Science/Research Output

Mr. Yarfi’s research interests are stroke rehabilitation and community reintegration, palliative care, disability accessibility and pain management. His teaching areas are Neuro-rehabilitation; Community physiotherapy/community-based rehabilitation, Clinical measurement and instrumentation; and Physiotherapy in pain management. He is a member of the Ghana Physiotherapy Association and African Palliative Care Association. 

His key publications include: An audit of MRI machines and services in Ghana; Assessing the use of standardized outcome measures for stroke rehabilitation among physiotherapists in Ghana; A narrative review on pressure ulcer (PU) studies relevant to medical imaging; Prevalence and predisposing factors of brachial plexus birth palsy in a regional hospital in Ghana: A five-year retrospective study; Wheelchair accessibility to public buildings in the Kumasi metropolis, Ghana; and Utilisation and satisfaction with health services among persons with disabilities in Accra, Ghana. 

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