Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
345 publications · 27,704 citations · ORCID 0000-0003-4232-4292
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Ellis Owusu‐Dabo is a public health researcher and epidemiologist focused on non-communicable and infectious diseases in African populations. Owusu‐Dabo investigates the epidemiology of cardiometabolic conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes, with a specific emphasis on the health transitions of Ghanaian migrants and non-migrants. Additionally, Owusu‐Dabo contributes to research on infectious disease surveillance, including typhoid fever and COVID-19, and tobacco control policy in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Why this gap exists: While a 2023 network meta-analysis [6] synthesizes general efficacy and adherence data for LTBI regimens, the retrieved evidence lacks direct comparative studies specifically focused on high-burden, low-resource settings, leaving the specific constraints of these environments unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While the retrieved papers confirm that anti-nutritional factors like phytates and trypsin inhibitors reduce mineral bioavailability [0, 2], they focus on general adult health or crop improvement [1, 6] and do not provide direct evidence on the specific growth outcomes in children relying on these proteins as primary staples.
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Why this gap exists: While the retrieved literature confirms associations between socioeconomic disadvantage, maternal stress, and infant neurodevelopment, it does not resolve the specific question of how longitudinal trajectories of maternal stress and resilience mediate these associations, as the studies focus on broad correlations or static measures rather than dynamic mediation pathways.
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Why this gap exists: While the retrieved literature establishes links between female education, political power, and health outcomes (e.g., [3], [6], [9]), no study directly addresses how specific labor or education policy interventions accelerate the 'maternal mortality transition' in high-mortality regions, leaving the mechanism and impact of such specific policies unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While abstracts [4], [7], [8], and [9] discuss digital tools and maternity care in low- and middle-income countries, none provide a direct comparative effectiveness analysis of telemedicine versus in-person care regarding maternal mortality during health system shocks, leaving the specific question unresolved.
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Tobacco Induced Diseases · 2026 · 1 citations
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026 · 1 citations
Journal of Hypertension · 2026
INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing · 2026
Environmental Pollution · 2026
Diabetologia · 2026
Risk Factors for Typhoid Fever: Systematic Review
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance · 2025 · 11 citations
EBioMedicine · 2025 · 9 citations
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2025 · 5 citations
BMJ Open · 2025 · 5 citations
Gut microbiota shift in Ghanaian individuals along the migration axis: the RODAM-Pros cohort
Gut Microbes · 2025 · 5 citations
BMJ Global Health · 2025 · 5 citations
PLoS ONE · 2025 · corresponding author · 4 citations
JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology · 2025 · 3 citations
2025 · 3 citations
medRxiv · 2025 · 2 citations
HemaSphere · 2025 · 2 citations
Electronic Personal Health Records for Mobile Populations: A Rapid Systematic Literature Review
Preprints.org · 2025 · 1 citations
Spatial distribution of <i>Anopheles</i> species across 3 different ecological zones in Ghana
Journal of Medical Entomology · 2025 · 1 citations
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2025
Research Square · 2025
JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology · 2025
240 Electronic personal health records for mobile populations: a rapid systematic literature review
European Journal of Public Health · 2025
European Journal of Public Health · 2025
27 Exploring the liver kidney axis in the Ghanaian population: the RODAM-Prospective study
European Journal of Public Health · 2025
BMC Pediatrics · 2025
Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana · 2025
African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines · 2025
The trade of illicit cigarettes in Ghana: Insights from a policy synthesis and qualitative study
Tobacco Prevention & Cessation · 2025
Reproductive Health · 2025
BMC Public Health · 2025
Current Developments in Nutrition · 2025
Electronic Personal Health Records for Mobile Populations: A Rapid Systematic Literature Review
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2025
The Lancet Global Health · 2024 · 62 citations
Vaccine value profile for invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella disease
Vaccine · 2024 · 18 citations
The Scientific World JOURNAL · 2024 · 14 citations
Mapping the incidence rate of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024 · corresponding author · 12 citations
Haematological Profile and ACE2 Levels of COVID-19 Patients in a Metropolis in Ghana
COVID · 2024 · 4 citations
medRxiv · 2024 · 1 citations
Frontiers in Medicine · 2024 · 1 citations
Risk factors for typhoid fever: A desk review
medRxiv · 2024 · 1 citations
Nursing Open · 2024
Research Square · 2024
Examining the risk factors for overweight and obesity among women in Ghana: A multilevel perspective
Heliyon · 2023 · 15 citations
Subgroups of adult-onset diabetes: a data-driven cluster analysis in a Ghanaian population
Scientific Reports · 2023 · 15 citations
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · 2023 · 14 citations
Open Forum Infectious Diseases · 2023 · 12 citations
Scientific Reports · 2023 · 10 citations
BMJ Global Health · 2023 · 9 citations
BMJ Open · 2023 · 8 citations
Scientific African · 2023 · 7 citations
Global Health Research and Policy · 2023 · 4 citations
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2023 · 3 citations
Tropical Medicine & International Health · 2023 · 2 citations
Hypertension incidence among Ghanaian migrants and non-migrants: the RODAM-Pros cohort
European Journal of Public Health · 2023 · 2 citations
Public Health in Practice · 2023 · 1 citations
2023 · 1 citations
Blood · 2023 · 1 citations
Occupational Injuries Among Road Construction Workers In Ghana: Burden, Mechanism And Severity
Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana · 2023 · 1 citations
PubMed · 2023 · 1 citations
Mapping the Incidence Rate of Typhoid Fever in Sub-Saharan Africa
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023 · 1 citations
Journal of Hypertension · 2023
PA-500 Prevalence and genomic characterization of typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonellae in Ghana
2023
Dataset and R script: a longitudinal hospital study of febrile children in Ghana
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023
Dataset and R script: a longitudinal hospital study of febrile children in Ghana
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023
The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2022 · 245 citations
Landscape of tobacco control in sub-Saharan Africa
Tobacco Control · 2022 · 64 citations
Estimating typhoid incidence from community-based serosurveys: a multicohort study
The Lancet Microbe · 2022 · 58 citations
The Burden of Typhoid Fever in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Perspective.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2022 · 37 citations
PLoS ONE · 2022 · 25 citations
Scientific Reports · 2022 · 17 citations
BioMed Research International · 2022 · 15 citations
BMJ Open · 2022 · 14 citations
PLoS ONE · 2022 · corresponding author · 10 citations
BMC Infectious Diseases · 2022 · 8 citations
PLOS Global Public Health · 2022 · 7 citations
Systematic Reviews · 2022 · 6 citations
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022 · 5 citations
Ghana Journal of Science · 2022 · 3 citations
Seatbelt use among bus passengers in Ghana: observed versus self-reported measures
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion · 2022 · 2 citations
BMC Women s Health · 2022 · 2 citations
ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2022 · 1 citations
Health Promotion International · 2022
Incidence of non-typhoidal Salmonella invasive disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal of Infection · 2021 · 92 citations
BMJ Global Health · 2021 · 42 citations
The burden of drug resistance tuberculosis in Ghana; results of the First National Survey
PLoS ONE · 2021 · 26 citations
PLoS ONE · 2021 · 24 citations
A hepatitis B virus causes chronic infections in equids worldwide
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 24 citations
BMJ Open · 2021 · 23 citations
Genomic and epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 in Africa
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021 · 23 citations
Parasite Epidemiology and Control · 2021 · 18 citations
Journal of Community Health · 2021 · 17 citations
PLoS ONE · 2021 · 16 citations
Low risk of SARS-CoV-2 in blood transfusion
PLoS ONE · 2021 · 15 citations
Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 2021 · 14 citations
Vaccines · 2021 · 13 citations
African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology · 2021 · 13 citations
Epigenomics · 2021 · 13 citations
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice · 2021 · 12 citations
Genomics · 2021 · 11 citations
PubMed · 2021 · 11 citations
PLoS ONE · 2021 · 8 citations
BioMed Research International · 2021 · 6 citations
Tobacco Prevention & Cessation · 2021 · 5 citations
African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology · 2021 · 5 citations
BMC Public Health · 2021 · 5 citations
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in northern Ghana: insights from whole-genome sequencing
Archives of Virology · 2021 · 3 citations
Advancing tobacco control research in Ghana: findings from a meeting with key stakeholders
Journal of Global Health Reports · 2021 · 2 citations
medRxiv · 2021 · 2 citations
Tobacco use and COVID-19 in Ghana: generating evidence to support policy and practice
Journal of Global Health Reports · 2021 · 1 citations
Immunogenicity of Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine in Adolescent Ghanaian Girls 36 Months After Vaccination
Research Square · 2021
Research Square · 2021
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2020 · 59 citations
Hemopexin deficiency promotes acute kidney injury in sickle cell disease
Blood · 2020 · 43 citations
National population-based tuberculosis prevalence survey in Ghana, 2013
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2020 · 33 citations
PLoS ONE · 2020 · 30 citations
PLoS ONE · 2020 · 30 citations
Frontiers in Microbiology · 2020 · 26 citations
Journal of Tropical Medicine · 2020 · 24 citations
A situational analysis of tobacco control in Ghana: progress, opportunities and challenges
Journal of Global Health Reports · 2020 · 24 citations
Waterpipe use among the youth in Ghana: Lessons from theGlobal Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2017
Tobacco Induced Diseases · 2020 · corresponding author · 18 citations
Ghana Medical Journal · 2020 · 15 citations
Research Square (Research Square) · 2020 · 14 citations
Barriers to the enforcement of mandatory seat belt laws in Ghana: an exploratory study
Health Promotion International · 2020 · 12 citations
Healthcare services utilisation among patients with hypertension and diabetes in rural Ghana
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine · 2020 · 11 citations
BMC Infectious Diseases · 2020 · 11 citations
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2020 · 9 citations
Tobacco Induced Diseases · 2020 · 8 citations
Scientific Reports · 2020 · 4 citations
CLOK (University of Central Lancashire) · 2020 · 3 citations
Scientific Reports · 2020 · 2 citations
medRxiv · 2020 · 1 citations
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Northern Ghana; Insights from Whole Genome Sequencing
Preprints.org · 2020 · 1 citations
Research Square · 2020
Research Square · 2020
Research Square · 2020
Water Quality and Handling Behaviour of Households in Peri-Urban Area of Kumasi, Ghana
Nigerian Research Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences · 2020
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020
Detection and Characterization of ESBL-Producing Escherichia coli From Humans and Poultry in Ghana
Frontiers in Microbiology · 2019 · 170 citations
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease · 2019 · 52 citations
Scientific Reports · 2019 · 46 citations
Journal of Global Health · 2019 · 43 citations
Injury rate and risk factors among small-scale gold miners in Ghana
BMC Public Health · 2019 · 43 citations
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 41 citations
BMC Infectious Diseases · 2019 · corresponding author · 41 citations
BMC Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 34 citations
Mobile phone short message service (SMS) as a malaria control tool: a quasi-experimental study
BMC Public Health · 2019 · 28 citations
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 27 citations
Occupational injury burden among gold miners in Ghana
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion · 2019 · 25 citations
European Journal of Public Health · 2019 · 22 citations
PLoS ONE · 2019 · 20 citations
Acculturation and Food Intake Among Ghanaian Migrants in Europe: Findings From the RODAM Study
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior · 2019 · 20 citations
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · 2019 · 17 citations
Ralstonia mannitolilytica sepsis: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports · 2019 · corresponding author · 16 citations
Internal and Emergency Medicine · 2019 · 15 citations
Journal of Global Health Reports · 2019 · 14 citations
BMJ Open · 2019 · 14 citations
Frontiers in Immunology · 2019 · 13 citations
Atherosclerosis · 2019 · 12 citations
The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 11 citations
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 10 citations
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 9 citations
Burden of respiratory viral infections among inmates of a Ghanaian prison
Research Square · 2019 · 7 citations
Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2019 · 6 citations
BMJ Open · 2019 · 5 citations
AAS Open Research · 2019 · 4 citations
AAS Open Research · 2019 · 3 citations
Journal of Global Health Reports · 2019 · 2 citations
Health Informatics Journal · 2019 · 2 citations
The Open Diabetes Journal · 2019 · corresponding author · 1 citations
2019 · 1 citations
International Journal of Mycobacteriology · 2019 · 1 citations
Research Square · 2019
Research Square · 2019
Research Square · 2019
The phylogeography and incidence of multi-drug resistant typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa
Nature Communications · 2018 · 140 citations
International Journal of Epidemiology · 2018 · 119 citations
Melioidosis in Africa: Time to Uncover the True Disease Load
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease · 2018 · 39 citations
PLoS ONE · 2018 · 30 citations
BMC Infectious Diseases · 2018 · 20 citations
Acta Tropica · 2018 · 18 citations
Aetiology of viral hepatitis among jaundiced patients presenting to a tertiary hospital in Ghana
PLoS ONE · 2018 · 18 citations
BMJ Open · 2018 · 18 citations
Acta Tropica · 2018 · 11 citations
Genes and Immunity · 2018 · 7 citations
Pharmacy Practice · 2018 · 7 citations
Scientific Reports · 2018 · 4 citations