Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum

Ministry of Health

Also at Ghana Health Servicefrom their recent papers

Publishing since 2009, latest 2025

Infectious Diseases
Parasitology
Ecology
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Publications: 412009–2025
Citations: 1,821to those papers
h-index: 24i10-index 33
Field-weighted impact: 2.621.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 39%16 of 41 scored papers
Open access: 88%36 papers free to read

3 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

Career

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Publications

41 in all

Neglected tropical diseases elimination in Africa: lessons from regional control programmes
2025Tropical Medicine and HealthJournalOpen access0 citations10.1186/s41182-025-00865-8
‘We cannot just keep it in our palm’: A policy analysis of the integration of the case management of neglected tropical diseases into the health system of Liberia
2025

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases3073%
Parasitology3073%
Ecology1434%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis1434%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health922%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health717%
Insect Science37%
Oncology37%
Health Information Management25%
Nutrition and Dietetics25%

Health Sciences
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Topics most written on

Parasites and Host Interactions30
Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment30
Insects and Parasite Interactions14
Parasite Biology and Host Interactions14
Global Maternal and Child Health9
Lymphatic System and Diseases3
Zoonotic diseases and public health3
Child Nutrition and Water Access2
Dermatological diseases and infestations2
Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences2
Malaria Research and Control2
Mosquito-borne diseases and control2

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

93% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2345678Home

Most frequent partner countries

United Kingdom23
United States21
Germany8
Switzerland5
Netherlands4
Liberia4
Kenya3
Uganda3

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Health ServiceGH36 papers
University of GhanaGH18 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH17 papers
Liverpool School of Tropical MedicineGB15 papers
Imperial College LondonGB9 papers
Council for Scientific and Industrial ResearchGH7 papers
Tufts UniversityUS6 papers
Gates FoundationUS6 papers
London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineGB5 papers
SightsaversGB5 papers

Where they publish

PLoS neglected tropical diseases17
Acta Tropica2
Clinical Infectious Diseases2
Parasites & Vectors2
The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences2
Tropical Medicine & International Health

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being13
6Clean water and sanitation4
17Partnerships for the goals3
1No poverty2
13Climate action2
12Responsible consumption and production1
15Life on land1

Most cited

Does Increasing Treatment Frequency Address Suboptimal Responses to Ivermectin for the Control and Elimination of River Blindness?
Clinical Infectious Diseases3
2016200 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
The Cost of Annual versus Biannual Community-Directed Treatment of Onchocerciasis with Ivermectin: Ghana as a Case Study
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
2013187 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

PLOS Global Public Health

Onchocerciasis control in Ghana (1974–2016)

2021Parasites & VectorsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding41 citations10.1186/s13071-020-04507-2

Ghana: Accelerating neglected tropical disease control in a setting of economic development

2019PLoS neglected tropical diseasesJournalOpen accessCorresponding30 citations10.1371/journal.pntd.0007005

Improving drug delivery strategies for lymphatic filariasis elimination in urban areas in Ghana

2017PLoS neglected tropical diseasesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding35 citations10.1371/journal.pntd.0005619

Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Ghana: Providing evidence through a pre-validation survey

2017PLoS neglected tropical diseasesJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding19 citations10.1371/journal.pntd.0006099

COMBINING REMOTELY SENSED ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS WITH SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT SURFACE WATER USE IN SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN GHANA

2016The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciencesJournalOpen access1 citation10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b8-203-2016

LINKING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING BASED ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTORS TO DISEASE: AN APPLICATION TO THE SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN GHANA

Persistent ‘hotspots’ of lymphatic filariasis microfilaraemia despite 14 years of mass drug administration in Ghana

2016Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournalOpen accessFirst author48 citations10.1093/trstmh/trx007