Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
52 publications · 651 citations · ORCID 0000-0002-0486-9921
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Edmund I. Yamba is a climate and health researcher specializing in the impacts of climate change on vector-borne diseases, extreme heat, and hydrological hazards in West Africa. Yamba's work integrates climate modeling, remote sensing, and machine learning to assess malaria transmission dynamics, heat-related mortality, and flood risks. Recent research has expanded to include the development of low-cost environmental sensors and the evaluation of digital health surveillance systems.
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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 literature confirms the projected increase in child wasting and maternal undernutrition due to COVID-19 disruptions [0] and explores general concepts of food system resilience [2] and social protection [3], no study directly quantifies how specific policy frameworks moderate these projected outcomes, leaving the core interaction unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While the retrieved literature confirms associations between water quality and child growth (e.g., Abstracts 2, 5, 8), no study directly compares the efficacy of household water treatment interventions against improved water source infrastructure for reducing stunting, leaving the specific comparative question unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While abstracts [6] and [8] compare digital and in-person delivery during the pandemic, they are set in high-income contexts (Spain, unspecified high-income), and abstract [7] focuses on LMICs but lacks a comparative digital vs. in-person design, leaving the specific question of comparative efficacy in LMICs unresolved.
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Why this gap exists: While the retrieved papers discuss general breastfeeding barriers in South Africa [8] and cultural influences in other regions like Ethiopia [6] and Malaysia [9], none specifically address the mediation of 'insufficient milk' beliefs on the relationship between maternal dietary diversity and prelacteal feeds in rural South African communities.
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Why this gap exists: While Abstract [3] confirms the general effectiveness of digital health interventions on breastfeeding practices and Abstract [0] notes the cancellation of face-to-face peer support during the pandemic, the retrieved evidence does not contain a direct comparative study between digital/telehealth lactation support and traditional face-to-face peer support specifically regarding exclusivity rates during social restrictions.
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SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026
Rapidly Increasing Hazardous Humid-Heat Exposure Across Africa’s Great Green Wall
2026 · corresponding author
2026 · corresponding author
Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality
Nature Climate Change · 2025 · 13 citations
Environmental Challenges · 2025 · 6 citations
Computers in Biology and Medicine · 2025 · 3 citations
Spatiotemporal Assessment of PM2.5 in Senior High Schools in Kumasi, Ghana using Low-Cost Sensors
Aerosol and Air Quality Research · 2025 · 2 citations
Assessing heat-related health risk in Ghana using bioclimatic indices
Scientific African · 2025 · corresponding author · 1 citations
Flood Early Warning Systems in the White Volta Basin, Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities
Journal of Flood Risk Management · 2025 · 1 citations
Tropical deforestation causes considerable heat-related mortality
Research Square · 2025 · 1 citations
Impacts of tropical deforestation on local climate and human health
2025 · corresponding author
Assessing Heat-Related Health Risk in Ghana Using Bioclimatic Indices
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
Warming Temperatures Reduce Lifespan and Vectorial Capacity of Anopheles Mosquitoes in Ghana
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
Historical Analysis of Heatwaves Prevalence, Frequency, Duration and Intensity in Ghana
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025 · corresponding author
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
Warming temperatures reduce lifespan and vectorial capacity of Anopheles mosquitoes in Ghana
Infectious Disease Modelling · 2025
Research Square · 2025
Evidence of Heatwaves: Characteristics and Trends in Selected Ghanaian Cities
International Journal of Climatology · 2025
Royal Society Open Science · 2024 · 60 citations
Meteorological Applications · 2024 · 17 citations
The effect of explicit convection on simulated malaria transmission across Africa
PLoS ONE · 2024 · corresponding author · 5 citations
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024 · 1 citations
2024 · 1 citations
Scientific African · 2024 · 1 citations
Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health · 2024
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024
PLOS Climate · 2023 · corresponding author · 66 citations
GeoHealth · 2023 · corresponding author · 46 citations
Bias-corrected NASA data for aridity index estimation over tropical climates in Ghana, West Africa
Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies · 2023 · 6 citations
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023 · 6 citations
PLoS ONE · 2023 · corresponding author · 5 citations
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2023
Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2023 · corresponding author
Journal of Tropical Medicine · 2022 · 8 citations
2022 · 4 citations
The Leeds Africa Climate Hackathon – experiences of running a hackathon and highlights of results
Weather · 2022 · 4 citations
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2022 · 3 citations
Climate drivers of malaria seasonality and their relative importance in Sub-Saharan Africa
2022 · corresponding author
Heliyon · 2021 · 37 citations
Journal of Climate · 2021 · 22 citations
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2021 · 7 citations
Endemicity of COVID-19 to Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Past, Present and Future Risk
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021
Assessment of urban heat island warming in the greater accra region
Scientific African · 2020 · 81 citations
Data · 2020 · corresponding author · 12 citations
2020 · 1 citations
Malaria Journal · 2019 · 31 citations
Monthly entomological inoculation rates for studying malaria transmission seasonality in Africa
Figshare · 2018 · 6 citations
Improvement and validation of dynamical malaria models in Africa
Kölner Universitäts PublikationsServer (Universität zu Köln) · 2016 · corresponding author · 4 citations
Climate · 2015 · 190 citations