Joshua Billy

Ghana Health Service

Publishing since 2020, latest 2026

General Health Professions
Health
Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Economics and Econometrics

Publications: 62020–2026
Citations: 35to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 1.621.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 17%1 of 6 scored papers
Open access: 100%6 papers free to read

2 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Citations received each year

Peerford

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Education

PhD, Epidemiology and BiostatisticsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2025–2028
Master of Public Health (M&E), School of Public HealthCatholic University of Ghana2023–2025

Publications

6 in all

Nutritional status of children under five years of age in the Western North Region, Ghana, 2023
2026Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public HealthJournalOpen access0 citations10.37432/jieph-d-24-02053
Factors associated with the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the Western North Region, Ghana
2025Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health

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General Health Professions

Infectious Diseases233%

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health233%

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health233%

Economics and Econometrics117%

Information Systems117%

Nutrition and Dietetics117%

Obstetrics and Gynecology117%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health2
Global Maternal and Child Health2
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy2
Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues1
Child Nutrition and Water Access1
COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing1
COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction1
HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses1
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions1
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications1
Nutrition and Health in Aging1
Reproductive Health and Contraception1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

17% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

Switzerland1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Tamale Teaching HospitalGH2 papers
World Health OrganizationCH1 paper
Ghana Education ServiceGH1 paper
Catholic University College of GhanaGH1 paper
African Field Epidemiology NetworkNG1 paper
University of GhanaGH1 paper
Indepth NetworkGH1 paper

Where they publish

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health5
Vaccine1

How it can be read

100% free to read

Diamond 5 · 83%Free to read and to publish
Hybrid 1 · 17%Open in a subscription journal

Who funds it

1 of 6 papers name a funder

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office1
Korea International Cooperation Agency1
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana1
President's Malaria Initiative1
UNICEF1
United States Agency for International Development1
World Health Organization1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

2Zero hunger1
3Good health and well-being1

Most cited

An impact assessment of the use of aerial logistics to improve access to vaccines in the Western-North Region of Ghana
Vaccine
202323 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Awareness of HIV Status and Barriers to Accessing Testing Services among the Youth in Asutifi North District, Ghana, 2020
Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
20247 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Against the clock: Effect of late detection of a mumps outbreak in the Western North Region of Ghana, 2022
Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
20253 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Factors associated with the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the Western North Region, Ghana
Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
20252 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Nutritional status of children under five years of age in the Western North Region, Ghana, 2023
Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health2
20260 citationsOpen access · Diamond

Against the clock: Effect of late detection of a mumps outbreak in the Western North Region of Ghana, 2022

2025Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public HealthJournalOpen access3 citations10.37432/jieph-d-24-02036

Family planning utilisation and related factors among reproductive-age women in the Western North Region, Ghana

2020Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public HealthJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.37432/jieph-d-25-00337