Majid Ezzati

University of Ghana

572 publications · 173,342 citations · ORCID 0000-0002-2109-8081

Air Quality and Health ImpactsEnergy and Environment ImpactsGlobal Public Health Policies and EpidemiologyChild Nutrition and Water AccessClimate Change and Health Impacts

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Majid Ezzati is a researcher focused on global environmental health, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and urban health inequalities. Ezzati's work utilizes advanced statistical modeling, geospatial analysis, and deep learning to characterize environmental exposures—such as air and noise pollution—and their impacts on cardiometabolic health across diverse populations in Africa, China, and high-income nations.

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How do specific policy interventions aimed at improving female education and labor force participation accelerate the 'maternal mortality transition' in regions currently experiencing high maternal mortality?

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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Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 — The Lancet, 2024
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 — The Lancet, 2024
Determinants of female labor force participation: implications for policy in Qatar — Cogent Social Sciences, 2022
Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Power — Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023
The labor force participation of Indian women before and after widowhood — Demographic Research, 2020
The public health effects of interventions similar to basic income: a scoping review — The Lancet Public Health, 2020
Differential impact of maternal education on under-five mortality in rural and urban India — Health & Place, 2023
Public Health Expenditure and Under-five Mortality in Nigeria: An Overview for Policy Intervention — Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020
Efficacy of companion-integrated childbirth preparation for childbirth fear, self-efficacy, and maternal support in primigravid women in Malawi — BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
The contribution of female health to economic development — The Economic Journal, 2020

What is the comparative effectiveness of telemedicine versus traditional in-person care in maintaining essential antenatal coverage and reducing maternal mortality in low-income and middle-income countries during future health system shocks?

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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COVID-19 and resilience of healthcare systems in ten countries — Nature Medicine, 2022
Community Health Workers Can Provide Psychosocial Support to the People During COVID-19 and Beyond in Low- and Middle- Income Countries — Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Social Impacts and Responses Related to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-income Countries — OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies), 2020
Seizing the moment to rethink health systems — The Lancet Global Health, 2021
Use of mHealth in promoting maternal and child health in “BIMARU” states of India “A health system strengthening strategy”: Systematic literature review — PLOS Digital Health, 2024
Investments for effective functionality of health systems towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa: A scoping review — PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Infant and young child feeding — OECD eBooks, 2023
Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a Mobile Health Wallet for pregnancy-related health care: A qualitative study of stakeholders’ perceptions in Madagascar — PLoS ONE, 2020
The impact of digital interventions on health insurance coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services utilization in Kakamega, Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial — Health Policy and Planning, 2024
Seeking digital maternity healthcare during the pandemic health system shock: a systematic review of women's experiences in low- and middle-income countries — Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2026

How does the consumption of plant-based proteins, specifically those high in anti-nutritional factors like phytates and trypsin inhibitors, affect mineral bioavailability and growth outcomes in children relying on these proteins as primary staples?

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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Plant food anti-nutritional factors and their reduction strategies: an overview — Food Production Processing and Nutrition, 2020
Sustaining Protein Nutrition Through Plant-Based Foods — Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Is There Such a Thing as “Anti-Nutrients”? A Narrative Review of Perceived Problematic Plant Compounds — Nutrients, 2020
Faba Bean: An Untapped Source of Quality Plant Proteins and Bioactives — Nutrients, 2022
Nutritional properties and health aspects of pulses and their use in plant‐based yogurt alternatives — Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2021
Grains – a major source of sustainable protein for health — Nutrition Reviews, 2021
Healthy and Resilient Cereals and Pseudo-Cereals for Marginal Agriculture: Molecular Advances for Improving Nutrient Bioavailability — Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
Protein Quality in Perspective: A Review of Protein Quality Metrics and Their Applications — Nutrients, 2022
Health Benefits of Plant-Based Nutrition: Focus on Beans in Cardiometabolic Diseases — Nutrients, 2021
Bioavailability of Micronutrients From Nutrient-Dense Whole Foods: Zooming in on Dairy, Vegetables, and Fruits — Frontiers in Nutrition, 2020

Publications

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health: tracking progress on health and nutrition

The Lancet · 2025 · 48 citations

Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 2025 · 22 citations

Benchmarking progress in non-communicable diseases: a global analysis of cause-specific mortality from 2001 to 2019

The Lancet · 2025 · corresponding author · 15 citations

Diabetic Medicine · 2025 · 10 citations

Trends and predictions to 2030 in demographic structures and metabolic health for children and adolescents in China: analysis of national school health surveys from 2000 to 2019

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · 2025 · 9 citations

Advancing knowledge, maps and tools to address obesity and related socio-economic disparities in Europe: the OBCT project

Global Health Action · 2025 · 5 citations

Moving beyond the noise: geospatial modelling of urban sound environments in a sub-Saharan African city

Scientific Reports · 2025 · 4 citations

Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Science of The Total Environment · 2025 · corresponding author · 2 citations

Characterizing air and noise pollution and their determinants in elementary schools in Accra, Ghana

Environmental Research Health · 2025 · corresponding author · 1 citations

The Accra School Health and Environment Study (ASHES): A study of the urban environment and child health and development in Accra

medRxiv · 2025 · 1 citations

Clinical Heterogeneity and Transitions of Obesity in Mexico

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2025 · 1 citations

Author response for "City-wide space-time patterns of environmental noise pollution in Kigali, Rwanda"

2025

City-wide space-time patterns of environmental noise pollution in Kigali, Rwanda

Environmental Research Letters · 2025

Author response for "City-wide space-time patterns of environmental noise pollution in Kigali, Rwanda"

2025

Urban Ambient Air Pollution and Blood Pressure in Schoolchildren in Accra, Ghana

Scientific Reports · 2025

Author response for "City-wide space-time patterns of environmental noise pollution in Kigali, Rwanda"

2025

Trends and inequalities in thinness and obesity among Chinese children and adolescents: evidence from seven national school surveys between 1985 and 2019

The Lancet Public Health · 2024 · 37 citations

Inequalities in urban air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa: an empirical modeling of ambient NO and NO2 concentrations in Accra, Ghana

Environmental Research Letters · 2024 · 11 citations

Short-term air pollution and greenness exposures on oxidative stress in urban and peri-urban residents in Beijing: A part of AIRLESS study

The Science of The Total Environment · 2024 · 8 citations

Significant human health co-benefits of mitigating African emissions

Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 2024 · 6 citations

Chronic household air pollution and exposure patterns among Himalayan nomads

Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology · 2024 · 3 citations

Dynamic Patterns and Inequalities in Nutritional Transition in Chinese Children and Adolescents: Evidence from Seven National School Surveys between 1985 and 2019

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024

Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital

UNC Libraries · 2024

An integrated approach for generating rich city-wide air pollution data in growing Sub-Saharan African cities: Implementing transferable protocol in Kigali, Rwanda

2024

High-resolution spatiotemporal measurement and city-scale modelling of air and noise pollution in Accra Ghana: sensors, deep learning, and street-view imagery

2024

Author Correction: Cardiometabolic and renal phenotypes and transitions in the United States population

Nature Cardiovascular Research · 2024 · corresponding author

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China, 2004-18: findings from six rounds of a national survey

BMJ · 2023 · 286 citations

Mortality from leading cancers in districts of England from 2002 to 2019: a population-based, spatiotemporal study

The Lancet Oncology · 2023 · corresponding author · 35 citations

Short-term excess mortality following tropical cyclones in the United States

Science Advances · 2023 · 28 citations

High-resolution patterns and inequalities in ambient fine particle mass (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC) in the Greater Accra Metropolis, Ghana

The Science of The Total Environment · 2023 · 24 citations

Beyond here and now: Evaluating pollution estimation across space and time from street view images with deep learning

The Science of The Total Environment · 2023 · 21 citations

Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data

World Development · 2023 · 18 citations

Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning

The Science of The Total Environment · 2023 · corresponding author · 17 citations

Cardiometabolic and renal phenotypes and transitions in the United States population

Nature Cardiovascular Research · 2023 · corresponding author · 14 citations

Using deep transfer learning and satellite imagery to estimate urban air quality in data-poor regions

Environmental Pollution · 2023 · 14 citations

Ultra-high-resolution mapping of ambient fine particulate matter to estimate human exposure in Beijing

Communications Earth & Environment · 2023 · 13 citations

Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Wellcome Open Research · 2023 · 11 citations

Changes in life expectancy and house prices in London from 2002 to 2019: hyper-resolution spatiotemporal analysis of death registration and real estate data

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe · 2023 · corresponding author · 10 citations

Do poverty and wealth look the same the world over? A comparative study of 12 cities from five high-income countries using street images

EPJ Data Science · 2023 · 9 citations

Strangers in a strange land: Mapping household and neighbourhood associations with improved wellbeing outcomes in Accra, Ghana

Cities · 2023 · 5 citations

Uncovering Urban Heat: Measuring high temperature exposure and its determinants in homes and neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2023 · 2 citations

Comment on egusphere-2023-2037

2023 · corresponding author

Significant human health co-benefits of African emissions mitigation

2023 · corresponding author

Supplementary material to "Significant human health co-benefits of African emissions mitigation"

2023

Geospatial modelling and socioeconomic inequalities of transportation, human, and nature-based sounds in Accra, Ghana

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2023

Excess mortality after tropical cyclones in the United States

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2023

Global burden of NCDs

2023

Beyond Here and Now: Evaluating Pollution Estimation Across Space and Time from Street View Images with Deep Learning

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023

National, regional, and global estimates of anaemia by severity in women and children for 2000–19: a pooled analysis of population-representative data

The Lancet Global Health · 2022 · 478 citations

Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital

The Lancet · 2022 · 109 citations

Association of Tropical Cyclones With County-Level Mortality in the US

JAMA · 2022 · 86 citations

Comparing human exposure to fine particulate matter in low and high-income countries: A systematic review of studies measuring personal PM2.5 exposure

The Science of The Total Environment · 2022 · 74 citations

Spatial modelling and inequalities of environmental noise in Accra, Ghana

Environmental Research · 2022 · 33 citations

Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana

Population and Environment · 2022 · 29 citations

Lessons learned and lessons missed: impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on all-cause mortality in 40 industrialised countries and US states prior to mass vaccination

Wellcome Open Research · 2022 · corresponding author · 23 citations

Contributions of event rates, pre-hospital deaths, and deaths following hospitalisation to variations in myocardial infarction mortality in 326 districts in England: a spatial analysis of linked hospitalisation and mortality data

The Lancet Public Health · 2022 · corresponding author · 22 citations

Sachet water in Ghana: A spatiotemporal analysis of the recent upward trend in consumption and its relationship with changing household characteristics, 2010–2017

PLoS ONE · 2022 · 20 citations

Towards standardised and valid anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in middle childhood and adolescence

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · 2022 · 18 citations

What You See Is What You Breathe? Estimating Air Pollution Spatial Variation Using Street-Level Imagery

Remote Sensing · 2022 · 18 citations

Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: a Bayesian spatial analysis

BMJ Open · 2022 · 17 citations

Household air pollution from solid fuel use as a dose-dependent risk factor for cognitive impairment in northern China

Scientific Reports · 2022 · 17 citations

Trends and Disparities in Adult Body Mass Index Across the 47 Prefectures of Japan, 1975–2018: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis of National Household Surveys

Frontiers in Public Health · 2022 · 16 citations

A Deep Learning Approach for Meter-Scale Air Quality Estimation in Urban Environments Using Very High-Spatial-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Atmosphere · 2022 · 13 citations

Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra

Scientific Reports · 2022 · corresponding author · 12 citations

Association of socioeconomic position and childhood obesity in Finland: a registry-based study

BMJ Open · 2022 · 9 citations

Cross-sectional study of household solid fuel use and renal function in older adults in China

Environmental Research · 2022 · 5 citations

Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Wellcome Open Research · 2022 · 5 citations

City-Wide Perceptions of Neighbourhood Quality using Street View Images

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022 · 4 citations

Deep Transfer Learning on Satellite Imagery Improves Air Quality Estimates in Developing Nations

arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022 · 1 citations

Characterization of urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2022

Geospatial modelling of road-traffic noise levels and frequency and the attributable burden of annoyance and sleep disturbance in Accra, Ghana

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2022

Exposure to household and outdoor air pollution and fasting plasma glucose as a marker of diabetes risk in Chinese adults

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2022

Household Solid Fuel Use and Renal Decline: Results from the INTERMAP China Prospective Study

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022

Excess deaths after tropical cyclones in the United States

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2022

Global epidemiology, health burden and effective interventions for elevated blood pressure and hypertension

Nature Reviews Cardiology · 2021 · 1498 citations

Body-mass index and obesity in urban and rural China: findings from consecutive nationally representative surveys during 2004–18

The Lancet · 2021 · 579 citations

Trends in predominant causes of death in individuals with and without diabetes in England from 2001 to 2018: an epidemiological analysis of linked primary care records

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · 2021 · 333 citations

Multimodal deep learning from satellite and street-level imagery for measuring income, overcrowding, and environmental deprivation in urban areas

Remote Sensing of Environment · 2021 · 94 citations

Burden of disease among the world’s poorest billion people: An expert-informed secondary analysis of Global Burden of Disease estimates

PLoS ONE · 2021 · 88 citations

Life expectancy and risk of death in 6791 communities in England from 2002 to 2019: high-resolution spatiotemporal analysis of civil registration data

The Lancet Public Health · 2021 · corresponding author · 77 citations

Community factors and excess mortality in first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in England

Nature Communications · 2021 · 69 citations

Understanding longevity in Hong Kong: a comparative study with long-living, high-income countries

The Lancet Public Health · 2021 · 53 citations

Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Mortality Risk Among US Cancer Patients and Survivors

JNCI Cancer Spectrum · 2021 · 52 citations

Nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) pollution in the Accra metropolis: Spatiotemporal patterns and the role of meteorology

The Science of The Total Environment · 2021 · 46 citations

Spatial-temporal patterns of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC) pollution in Accra

Environmental Research Letters · 2021 · 42 citations

Nowhere to Play: Available Open and Green Space in Greater London Schools

Journal of Urban Health · 2021 · 32 citations

Chemical Investigation of Household Solid Fuel Use and Outdoor Air Pollution Contributions to Personal PM2.5 Exposures

Environmental Science & Technology · 2021 · 31 citations

Neighbourhood, built environment and children’s outdoor play spaces in urban Ghana: Review of policies and challenges

Landscape and Urban Planning · 2021 · 29 citations

Space-time characterization of community noise and sound sources in Accra, Ghana

Scientific Reports · 2021 · 29 citations

Household Air Pollution and Blood Pressure, Vascular Damage, and Subclinical Indicators of Cardiovascular Disease in Older Chinese Adults

American Journal of Hypertension · 2021 · 23 citations

Lessons learned and lessons missed: impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on all-cause mortality in 40 industrialised countries prior to mass vaccination

Wellcome Open Research · 2021 · corresponding author · 20 citations

Trends and Inequalities in the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction among Beijing Townships, 2007–2018

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2021 · 19 citations

A spatiotemporal analysis of inequalities in life expectancy and 20 causes of mortality in sub-neighbourhoods of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1990–2016

Health & Place · 2021 · 11 citations

Impact of common cardio-metabolic risk factors on fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease in Latin America and the Caribbean: an individual-level pooled analysis of 31 cohort studies

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas · 2021 · 10 citations

Author Correction: Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries

Nature Medicine · 2021 · corresponding author · 9 citations

Small area variations and factors associated with blood pressure and body-mass index in adult women in Accra, Ghana: Bayesian spatial analysis of a representative population survey and census data

PLoS Medicine · 2021 · corresponding author · 5 citations

Lessons learned and lessons missed: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 40 industrialised countries prior to mass vaccination

medRxiv · 2021 · corresponding author · 3 citations

Response to “Re: Long-term exposure to air-pollution and COVID-19 mortality in England: A hierarchical spatial analysis”

Environment International · 2021 · 2 citations

Identifying vulnerable urban neighbourhoods and their environmental, density, and housing characteristics in Accra, Ghana using census and remote sensing data

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2021 · 1 citations

Land use regression modelling of ambient PM2.5 air pollution in Accra, Ghana

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2021 · 1 citations

A Deep Learning Approach for Meter-Scale Air Quality Estimation in Urban Environments Using Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2021 · 1 citations

Spatial modelling and inequalities in community noise in Accra, Ghana