John Amuasi
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Also at Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine and Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicinefrom their recent papers
- W2 Professor, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, since 2022per ORCID
- Head of Department & Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2020per ORCID
Publishing since 1985, latest 2026
Dr. Amuasi is head of the Global Health Department of the School of Public Health at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana and holds a W2 Professorship at the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine (BNITM), University of Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Amuasi is also Leader of the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR). He is an… More on ORCID
- Infectious Diseases
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Epidemiology
- General Health Professions
- Modeling and Simulation
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
In their own words
- Global Health
- Research Capacity Building
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- One Health
- Field Epidemioloy
- Clinical Trials
- Publications
- 2081985–2026
- Citations
- 27,889to those papers
- h-index
- 35i10-index 83
- Field-weighted impact
- 4.621.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 32%50 of 157 scored papers
- Open access
- 91%146 of the 160 whose access is recorded
48 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 28,760 citations, h-index 37 and i10-index 90 (27,910 citations and h-index 35 since 2021), as of October 10, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.
By year
Papers, and the citations to them
Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress
Positions
- W2 ProfessorUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorfsince 2022
- Head of Department & Senior Lecturer, Department of Global HealthKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2020
- Research Group Leader, Global Health and Infectious DiseasesKumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicinesince 2018
- Research Group Lead, Implementation ResearchBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicinesince 2018
- Executive Director, Secretariat
Publications
208 in all
- The Prevotella copri Complex Comprises Four Distinct Clades Underrepresented in Westernized Populations
2019Cell Host & MicrobeJournalOpen access523 citations10.1016/j.chom.2019.08.018
- Ethics preparedness: facilitating ethics review during outbreaks - recommendations from an expert panel
2019BMC Medical Ethics