Anthony Ofosu

University of Health and Allied Sciences

Publishing since 1998, latest 2026

Anthony Ofosu is a public health physician from Ghana with an interest in health system strengthening and delivering health care to remote rural communities, as well as using information communication technology to address service bottlenecks. He attended the University of Ghana Medical School and the University of Ghana School of Public Health, where he obtained his medical degree and Masters in Public Health degree respectively. He was a Population and Leadership… More on ORCID

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
General Health Professions
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Finance
Infectious Diseases
Sociology and Political Science

Publications: 581998–2026
Citations: 1,473to those papers
h-index: 21i10-index 36
Field-weighted impact: 3.591.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 43%25 of 58 scored papers
Open access: 88%51 papers free to read

10 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

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PUBLIC HEALTH, SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES2025
DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERALGhana Health Service2018–2025

Education

FELLOW, PUBLIC HEALTHGhana College of Physicians and Surgeons2012–2013
Msc. Epidemiology, London School of Tropical Medicine and HygieneUniversity of London2009–2014
MPH, School of Public Health

Publications

58 in all

Legislative, policy, and governance issues to data science for health research in Africa
2026Communications HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1038/s44528-026-00026-1
The role of mortality surveillance in pandemic preparedness and response
2025Bulletin of the World Health Organization

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health3052%
General Health Professions1831%
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1729%
Finance814%
Infectious Diseases814%
Sociology and Political Science59%
Economics and Econometrics47%
Emergency Medicine47%
Health47%
Modeling and Simulation47%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Global Maternal and Child Health29
Global Health and Surgery10
Healthcare Systems and Reforms8
Primary Care and Health Outcomes5
COVID-19 epidemiological studies4
Global Health Care Issues4
Maternal and fetal healthcare4
Parasites and Host Interactions4
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy4
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health3
Child Nutrition and Water Access3
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions3

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

84% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written2345678Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States27
United Kingdom9
South Africa6
Nigeria6
Kenya5
Australia4
Germany4
Switzerland4

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ghana Health ServiceGH52 papers
University of GhanaGH10 papers
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGH7 papers
University of WashingtonUS6 papers
University of SouthamptonGB5 papers
University of MichiganUS5 papers
Ministry of HealthGH5 papers
Johannes Gutenberg University MainzDE4 papers
Federal Ministry of HealthNG4 papers
University of Cape CoastGH4 papers

Where they publish

BMJ Open4
BMC Health Services Research3
BMC Public Health3
African vision and eye health2
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth2
Bulletin of the World Health Organization2
Frontiers in Public Health

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being17
1No poverty7
17Partnerships for the goals4
13Climate action3
2Zero hunger2
5Gender equality2
4Quality education1
6

Most cited

The flight of physicians from West Africa: Views of African physicians and implications for policy
Social Science & Medicine10
2005195 citationsWorld top 10%
Healthcare utilization and maternal and child mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 18 low- and middle-income countries: An interrupted time-series analysis with mathematical modeling of administrative data
PLoS Medicine3
2022154 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold

MBChB, Medical SchoolUniversity of Ghana1986–1992

Improving access to eye care services in Ghana using community health structures

2024African vision and eye healthJournalOpen accessFirst author4 citations10.4102/aveh.v83i1.893

Poisson-Gamma Mixture Spatially Varying Coefficient Modeling of Small-Area Intestinal Parasites Infection

2019International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author7 citations10.3390/ijerph16030339

Eye health knowledge and health-seeking behaviours in Ghana

2018African vision and eye healthJournalOpen accessFirst author15 citations10.4102/aveh.v77i1.426

LINKING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING BASED ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTORS TO DISEASE: AN APPLICATION TO THE 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 access0 citations10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b8-215-2016

Community-based surveillance of maternal deaths in rural Ghana

2015Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationJournalOpen access17 citations10.2471/blt.15.154849

How it can be read

88% free to read

Diamond 7 · 12%Free to read and to publish
Gold 35 · 60%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 3 · 5%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 2 · 3%Free to read, no open licence
Green 4 · 7%A copy in a repository
Closed 7 · 12%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

39 of 58 papers name a funder

World Health Organization7
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation5
United States Agency for International Development5
Economic and Social Research Council4
International Development Research Centre4
University of Ghana4
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst3
UNICEF3

Clean water and sanitation

9Industry, innovation and infrastructure1

10Reduced inequalities1

11Sustainable cities and communities1

16Peace, justice and strong institutions1

2013140 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold