Alexander Yaw Debrah
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Also at Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicinefrom their recent papers
- Immediate Past Dean, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, since 2007per ORCID
Publishing since 2003, latest 2026
Prof. Alexander Yaw Debrah is a Professor of Parasitology and Global Health. He holds PhD in Medical Parasitology from Bonn University/KNUST. He joined KNUST as a lecturer since 2007, and has held a number of positions at KNUST including Examinations Officer, Head of Department, Dean of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences and Acting Provost of the College of Health Sciences. He is the Chairman of the Graduate Committee of the College of Health Sciences, a member of the School… More on ORCID
- Infectious Diseases
- Parasitology
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Insect Science
- Oncology
- Ecology
In their own words
- Parasitology and Global Health
- Publications
- 1592003–2026
- Citations
- 3,732to those papers
- h-index
- 33i10-index 66
- Field-weighted impact
- 1.931.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 23%27 of 116 scored papers
- Open access
- 88%102 of the 116 whose access is recorded
16 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 4,435 citations, h-index 35 and i10-index 69 (1,796 citations and h-index 24 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
- Immediate Past Dean, Medical DiagnosticsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologysince 2007
Education
- Medical DiagnosticsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciencessince 2007
Honours, memberships and service
- Scientific reviewerEuropean and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnershipsince 2018
- Immediate Past Dean, Medical DiagnosticsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciencessince 2007
- Co-Chair of Category P
Publications
159 in all
- Doxycycline for the treatment of onchocerciasis: a daily dose of 100 mg for 6 weeks shows reduction of fertile female Onchocerca volvulus equivalent to 200 mg/d
2017AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENEJournal2 citations
- The addition of albendazole to ivermectin does not reduce female worm fertility in onchocerciasis
2017AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENEJournal1 citation