Gilda Opoku

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, since 2025per ORCID

Publishing since 2019, latest 2024

Dr. Gilda Opoku is a physician–scientist and PhD candidate in Integrated Physiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus with a research focus on respiratory physiology and muco-obstructive lung diseases. Her work centers on understanding the mechanisms of airway mucus dysfunction in asthma, particularly the biosynthesis and polymerization of the gel-forming mucin MUC5AC/Muc5ac, with the goal of identifying novel mucin-targeted therapeutic strategies. Dr.… More on ORCID

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Nutrition and Dietetics
Epidemiology
Modeling and Simulation
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Publications: 92019–2024
Citations: 55to those papers
h-index: 3i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 0.831.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 22%2 of 9 scored papers
Open access: 100%9 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is 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

Citations received each year

Peerford

To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

PhD Candidate, Department of MedicineUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campussince 2025
PhD Student, Department of MedicineUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus2023–2025
Medical Officer, Physciatric UnitKomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital2022–2023
Senior House Officer, Surgery and Child HealthUniversity Hospital- KNUST2020–2021
Medical Doctor, internal Mediicne and Ostertrics and GynaecologyKomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Publications

9 in all

Addressing the challenges in laboratory confirmation of paediatric tuberculosis: the role of induced sputum specimen
2024African Journal of Current Medical ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.31191/afrijcmr.v7i1.119
Burden of hypertension in Ghana – Analysis of awareness and screening campaign in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

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Subfields

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine333%
Infectious Diseases333%
Nutrition and Dietetics333%
Epidemiology222%
Modeling and Simulation222%
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management222%
Economics and Econometrics111%
Emergency Medicine111%
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism111%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis111%

Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies3
COVID-19 epidemiological studies2
Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology2
Sodium Intake and Health2
Child Nutrition and Water Access1
Climate Change and Health Impacts1
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts1
Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins1
Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis1
Global Maternal and Child Health1
Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis1
Influenza Virus Research Studies1

Who they write with

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

Where their co-authors are

33% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111222Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States2
United Kingdom1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Komfo Anokye Teaching HospitalGH6 papers
Arizona State UniversityUS1 paper
Imperial College LondonGB1 paper
University of Colorado AnschutzUS1 paper
University of Colorado DenverUS1 paper
University of PittsburghUS1 paper
Kwame Nkrumah UniversityZM1 paper
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical ResearchGH1 paper
University of GhanaGH1 paper

Where they publish

African Journal of Current Medical Research5
Clinical Medicine Insights Cardiology1
European Heart Journal Supplements1
JRSM Cardiovascular Disease1
Microbiology & Infectious Diseases1

How it can be read

100% free to read

Diamond 6 · 67%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 11%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 22%Open in a subscription journal

Who funds it

1 of 9 papers name a funder

International Society of Hypertension1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

3Good health and well-being8

Most cited

Burden of hypertension in Ghana – Analysis of awareness and screening campaign in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
JRSM Cardiovascular Disease3
202225 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Prevalence of Hypertension in Ghana: Analysis of an Awareness and Screening Campaign in 2019
Clinical Medicine Insights Cardiology
202222 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
May Measurement Month 2019: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from Ghana-Sub-Saharan Africa
European Heart Journal Supplements3
20216 citationsOpen access · Hybrid
How to Stop the Next Pandemic; Approach that Aims to Prevent the Emergence and Spread of Novel Pathogens
Microbiology & Infectious Diseases3
20211 citationOpen access · Diamond
Preparedness of Africa for the Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19)
African Journal of Current Medical Research3
20201 citationOpen access · Diamond

Education

Doctorate, School of Medicine -Office of Research EducationUniversity of Colorado Denversince 2023
Mphil Physiology, Physiology DepartementKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology2020–2023
Medicine and Surgery, School of medical sciencesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences2016–2019
Bsc. Human Biology, School of medical sciencesKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology College of Health Sciences2013–2016

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

JRSM Cardiovascular Disease

A broken bone no longer a burden to carry: a destination in sight

2021African Journal of Current Medical ResearchJournalOpen access0 citations10.31191/afrijcmr.v4i2.70

Preparedness of Africa for the Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19)

2020African Journal of Current Medical ResearchJournalOpen access1 citation10.31191/afrijcmr.v4i1.55

Insights into an H1N1 outbreak in a developing country

2020African Journal of Current Medical ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.31191/afrijcmr.v4i1.40