Delia Akosua Bandoh

Scientific Writer, GHANA FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LABORATORY TRAINING PROGRAMME, since 2016per ORCID

Publishing since 2014, latest 2026

Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Epidemiology
General Health Professions
Nutrition and Dietetics

Publications: 1192014–2026
Citations: 725to those papers
h-index: 14i10-index 21
Field-weighted impact: 1.281.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 22%19 of 87 scored papers
Open access: 99%86 of the 87 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 975 citations, h-index 16 and i10-index 32 (903 citations and h-index 16 since 2021), as of October 12, 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

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Scientific Writer, UGSPH Epidemiology and Disease Control, Ghana FELTPGHANA FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LABORATORY TRAINING PROGRAMMEsince 2016
Field Supervisor, PFRH - COMBAT Health Promotion StudyUniversity of Ghana School of Public Health2016
Senior Research Assistant, Nutrition and Food Science - TRIUMF ProjectUniversity of Ghana School of Public Health2012–2014
Field Assistant, Nutrition and Food Science - Childhood Obesity in Urban Cities ProjectUniversity of Ghana School of Public Health2010–2011

Education

PhD, Epidemiology and Disease Control

Publications

119 in all

Building the required skillsets for a resilient public health workforce: A decade of field epidemiology training in Ghana
2020Ghana Medical JournalJournalOpen access5 citations10.4314/gmj.v54i2s.1
Evaluation of timeliness of treatment initiation among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana, 2015
2020

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Infectious Diseases3731%
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health2521%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2420%
Epidemiology1916%
General Health Professions1412%
Nutrition and Dietetics98%
Modeling and Simulation87%
Health Information Management76%
Health65%
Emergency Medicine54%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health23
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research17
Data-Driven Disease Surveillance13
Child Nutrition and Water Access9
COVID-19 epidemiological studies8
Malaria Research and Control8
Mosquito-borne diseases and control7
Global Health and Epidemiology6
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy6
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions5
Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions5
Reproductive Health and Contraception5

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

34% of their 87 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States17
India11
Argentina10
Uganda6
Jordan6
Switzerland4
Sierra Leone3
Nigeria3

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Health ServiceGH41 papers
Harvard UniversityUS12 papers
Population CouncilIN11 papers
Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y SanitariaAR10 papers
Universidad Nacional de La MatanzaAR9 papers
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUS9 papers
University of JordanJO6 papers
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH6 papers
African Field Epidemiology NetworkUG6 papers
Korle Bu Teaching HospitalGH5 papers

Where they publish

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health43
Ghana Medical Journal15
PLoS ONE15
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth3
BMC Infectious Diseases2
BMC Nutrition2

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being40
1No poverty8
17Partnerships for the goals4
5Gender equality3
2Zero hunger2
11Sustainable cities and communities1
14Life below water1
16

Most cited

Emergency response time and pre-hospital trauma survival rate of the national ambulance service, Greater Accra (January – December 2014)
BMC Emergency Medicine3
201869 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Dietary diversity and nutritional adequacy of under-fives in a fishing community in the central region of Ghana
BMC Nutrition2
201763 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

How it can be read

99% free to read, of the 87 recorded

Diamond 41 · 34%Free to read and to publish
Gold 42 · 35%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 2%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 1%Free to read, no open licence
Closed 1 · 1%Behind a paywall
Unknown 32 · 27%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

29 of 119 papers name a funder

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation12
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention6
Korea International Cooperation Agency4
World Health Organization4
University of Ghana3
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria2
A.T. Still University1
Center for International Health1