A. Kofi Amegah
- Head of Department, University of Cape Coast, since 2024per ORCID
- Vice-Dean, University of Cape Coast, since 2024per ORCID
Publishing since 2010, latest 2026
I am an Associate Professor of Environmental and Nutritional Epidemiology with a strong research portfolio in nutrition and environmental health. I lead a public health research group (AmegahLab) at the Department of Biomedical Sciences with our work focused on the interface of nutritional and air pollution exposure effects on maternal, perinatal and cardiovascular health outcomes using modern and robust epidemiological and statistical methods, and also leveraging emerging… More on ORCID
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Pollution
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Environmental Engineering
In their own words
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Nutritional Epidemiology
- Health Data Science
- Air Pollution
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Data Science
- Environmental Health
- Nutrition
- Publications
- 952010–2026
- Citations
- 59,191to those papers
- h-index
- 36i10-index 55
- Field-weighted impact
- 23.731.00 is the world average
- World top 10%
- 32%22 of 68 scored papers
- Open access
- 72%49 of the 68 whose access is recorded
25 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.
Google Scholar shows 57,518 citations, h-index 39 and i10-index 63 (39,219 citations and h-index 37 since 2021), as of October 14, 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
- Head of Department, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2024
- Vice-Dean, School of Public HealthUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2024
- Associate Professor, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2022
- Senior Lecturer, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of Cape Coast2017–2022
- Lecturer, Biomedical Sciences
Publications
95 in all
- Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017
2020Nature MedicineJournalOpen access96 citations10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6
- Improving handwashing habits and household air quality in Africa after COVID-19
2020The Lancet Global Health