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Amidu Alhassan

University of Cape Coast

60 publications · 98 citations · ORCID 0000-0002-4102-4995

Global Maternal and Child HealthMalaria Research and ControlMosquito-borne diseases and controlChild Nutrition and Water AccessAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

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Amidu Alhassan is a public health researcher specializing in epidemiology, health equity, and infectious disease control across Africa. Alhassan's work utilizes large-scale demographic surveys and systematic reviews to analyze trends in maternal and child health, malaria prevention, and reproductive health, with a strong emphasis on identifying and addressing social inequalities. Recent research has expanded to include the impacts of climate change on maternal health and health system challenges in conflict-affected regions.

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How do specific policy frameworks regarding social protection and food systems in low-income countries moderate the projected increase in child wasting and maternal undernutrition caused by economic shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic?

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.

Sources

  1. Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study — The Lancet Global Health, 2020
  2. Biofortification as a sustainable strategy to address micronutrient malnutrition in South Asia. — Journal of health, population, and nutrition, 2025
  3. Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks — Food Security, 2020
  4. Resilience and Recovery in the Informal Economy: Social Networks, Social Protection, and Adaptive Strategies Among Post-COVID Workers in Bangladesh. — Public health challenges, 2026
  5. Malnutrition at a Crossroads: The Impact of Pandemic, Climate Change, and War on Tigray’s Children Malnutrition — 2026
  6. Economic Shocks, Inequality and Poverty: The Need for Safety Nets — 1998
  7. Lessons from low-to middle-income countries on the development of child protection systems — The Development of Child Protection Systems and Practice in Low- to Middle-Income Countries, 2025
  8. Drivers of Stunting Reduction in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A Case Study. — International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022
  9. Inequality, mobility and the financial accumulation process: A computational economic analysis — Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (2020), online, 2019
  10. The Role of Agriculture in Ensuring Food Security in Developing Countries: Considerations in the Context of the Problem of Sustainable Food Production — Sustainability, 2020

To what extent does maternal access to improved water and sanitation facilities mediate the relationship between maternal undernutrition and child developmental outcomes during the first 1,000 days?

Why this gap exists: While the retrieved papers confirm the individual importance of WASH access for child nutrition [0], maternal undernutrition for child development [5, 8], and the critical nature of the first 1,000 days [5], none of the provided abstracts directly analyze the specific mediating role of water and sanitation facilities in the relationship between maternal undernutrition and child developmental outcomes.

Sources

  1. Household water, sanitation, and hygiene access and its impact on nutritional outcomes in children under five: evidence from Pakistan. — BMC public health, 2026
  2. Early childhood development and stunting: Findings from the MAL‐ED birth cohort study in Bangladesh — Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2019
  3. Policy and Structural Drivers of Malnutrition in Afghan Women: Evidence and Interventions. — International journal of women's health, 2026
  4. COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation strategies: implications for maternal and child health and nutrition — American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020
  5. Maternal and child undernutrition 3: what works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival — Child: Care, Health and Development, 2008
  6. Nutrition as the Foundation of Human Capital: Pathways to Holistic Development. — Maternal & child nutrition, 2026
  7. The impacts of maternal iron deficiency and being overweight during pregnancy on neurodevelopment of the offspring. — The British journal of nutrition, 2017
  8. Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study — The Lancet Global Health, 2020
  9. Prevalence of undernutrition and its associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care service in public hospitals in Mogadishu, Somalia. — PloS one, 2026
  10. Concurrent wasting and stunting among under‐five children in Niakhar, Senegal — Maternal & Child Nutrition, 2018

How do specific maternal microbiota profiles (gut, oral, or vaginal) during gestation correlate with the development of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and subsequent long-term metabolic health in offspring?

Why this gap exists: While recent reviews [8] confirm GDM alters maternal gut microbiota and neonatal health, and older studies [0] note dysbiosis across maternal sites, the retrieved evidence lacks direct, longitudinal studies correlating specific gestational maternal microbiota profiles with the *long-term* metabolic health of offspring, leaving the core question unresolved.

Sources

  1. Dysbiosis of maternal and neonatal microbiota associated with gestational diabetes mellitus — Gut, 2018
  2. Dysbiosis of the gut microbiota in disease — Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 2015
  3. Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study — Nature, 2018
  4. Microbiota in health and diseases — Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022
  5. Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Congenital Heart Disease in Offspring: A Meta-Analysis — Hormone and Metabolic Research, 2024
  6. Perinatal phlorizin alleviates maternal high-fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome in female mouse offspring and is associated with modulation of the gut microbiota. — Frontiers in nutrition, 2026
  7. Offspring long-term infectious morbidity following pregnancies with cervical cerclage. — Archives of gynecology and obstetrics, 2026
  8. Interaction between microbiota and immunity in health and disease — Cell Research, 2020
  9. Gestational diabetes mellitus and maternal-infant microbiome axis: mechanistic insights and therapeutic interventions. — Journal of translational medicine, 2026
  10. Microbes in the Moonlight: How the Gut Microbiota Influences Sleep — arXiv preprint, 2025

To what extent do changes in the maternal microbiota (gut, oral, or vaginal) during pregnancy mediate the relationship between maternal perinatal anxiety/depression and the neurodevelopmental outcomes of the offspring?

Why this gap exists: While recent studies confirm associations between maternal mental health and microbiota composition (Abstract 5, 8) and suggest the microbiome-gut-brain axis influences neurodevelopment (Abstract 0, 2), the retrieved evidence does not contain studies that directly test the mediating role of maternal microbiota changes between perinatal anxiety/depression and offspring neurodevelopmental outcomes.

Sources

  1. Parental microbiome programming of early-life neurodevelopment: multi-niche contributions through the microbiome-gut-brain axis. — Gut microbes, 2026
  2. Dysbiosis of the gut microbiota in disease — Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 2015
  3. Stress during pregnancy alters temporal and spatial dynamics of the maternal and offspring microbiome in a sex-specific manner — Scientific Reports, 2017
  4. The Role of Short-Chain Fatty Acids From Gut Microbiota in Gut-Brain Communication — Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020
  5. Ultra-processed food consumption across early life: implications for pediatric health and disease risk. — Frontiers in nutrition, 2026
  6. Mental health in early pregnancy: Interplay of objectively measured lifestyles, gut microbiota, and metabolomics. — iScience, 2026
  7. The impact of maternal high-fat diet on offspring neurodevelopment — Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
  8. Maternal education and offspring birthweight for gestational age: the mediating effect of smoking during pregnancy — arXiv preprint, 2020
  9. Is Gut Microbiota Altered in Depression and Anxiety? — 2025
  10. Vaginal Microbiota: A Critical Component of Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Outcomes — Vaginal Microbiota: A Critical Component of Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Outcomes, 2025

What are the long-term developmental and health outcomes in children born to mothers who experienced COVID-19-related mental health stressors compared to those who did not, controlling for socioeconomic status?

Why this gap exists: While recent studies [0, 5, 6] link pandemic-related maternal distress to child neurodevelopmental issues, the retrieved evidence focuses on general pandemic exposure rather than specifically isolating COVID-19 mental health stressors while controlling for socioeconomic status, leaving the specific comparison unresolved.

Sources

  1. Disrupted beginnings: Neurodevelopmental outcomes of COVID-19 lockdowns in early childhood (Review). — Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2026
  2. Association of Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic With Neurodevelopmental Status at 6 Months in Infants With and Without In Utero Exposure to Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection — JAMA Pediatrics, 2022
  3. Moms Are Not OK: COVID-19 and Maternal Mental Health — Frontiers in Global Women s Health, 2020
  4. Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: a narrative review to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality — Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2020
  5. Parenting stress and risk of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A family stress theory-informed perspective — Developmental Child Welfare, 2020
  6. Maternal internalizing symptoms as a mechanism linking pre- and postnatal COVID-19 pandemic exposure with preschool-aged children's neurodevelopment. — Archives of women's mental health, 2026
  7. Maternal Distress Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Young Children's Behavior. — Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP, 2026
  8. Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning — Family Process, 2021
  9. Exploring factors influencing mother-infant interaction trajectories post-NICU discharge in low-birth-weight infants during COVID-19 in China: a longitudinal qualitative study. — BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2026
  10. An Efficient Mixture of Deep and Machine Learning Models for COVID-19 and Tuberculosis Detection Using X-Ray Images in Resource Limited Settings — Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 358. 2021, Springer, Cham, 2020

What is the comparative efficacy of household water treatment interventions versus improved water source infrastructure in reducing stunting among children under five in low- and middle-income countries?

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.

Sources

  1. Determinants of stunting in Indonesian children: evidence from a cross-sectional survey indicate a prominent role for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in stunting reduction — BMC Public Health, 2016
  2. Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study — The Lancet Global Health, 2020
  3. Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial — The Lancet Global Health, 2018
  4. Effects of Water Pollution on Human Health and Disease Heterogeneity: A Review — Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
  5. Associated factors with malnutrition among children under-5 years old in Somaliland: evidence from Somaliland health and demographic survey of 2020. — BMC public health, 2026
  6. Safe Drinking Water and Its Impact on Children's Growth and Development: A Systematic Review. — International journal of environmental research and public health, 2026
  7. Modelling the impact of dietary diversity on child nutrition in Pakistan: a machine learning analysis with Shapley Additive exPlanations and Boruta interpretability. — Journal of global health, 2026
  8. Effectiveness of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation, and handwashing with soap on risk of diarrhoeal disease in children in low-income and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis — The Lancet, 2022
  9. Effect of Household Source of Drinking Water on Malnutrition among under Five Children in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis — 2026
  10. Water Bridging Dynamics of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Gauge Theory Paradigm of Quantum Fields — Water 2017, 9, 339, 2018

Publications

Trends and inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding among 0–5 month olds in Ghana from 1993 to 2022

Frontiers in Public Health · 2026 · corresponding author · 2 citations

A scoping review of socio-cultural factors affecting tuberculosis control: evidence from global studies

Frontiers in Public Health · 2026 · corresponding author · 2 citations

Factors influencing preconception care awareness and knowledge among women in Africa: a systematic review

Frontiers in Reproductive Health · 2026 · corresponding author · 2 citations

Balancing work and motherhood: nurse-mothers’ exclusive breastfeeding experiences in rural northern Ghana

Frontiers in Global Women s Health · 2026 · 1 citations

Stress-induced effects on the quality of life among hypertensive adults in the Ashanti Mampong municipality, Ghana

Discover Public Health · 2026 · 1 citations

Household characteristics, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and malaria prevalence among children aged 6–59 months in Ghana: an analysis of the 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey

Malaria Journal · 2026 · 1 citations

Choice of place of delivery among women in Ghana: A systematic review of prevalence, associated risk and protective factors

Open Science Framework · 2026

Prevalence and risk of self -medication with antibiotic and determinants factors in patients admitted to the emergency department in a resource-limited setting: a cross-sectional study

Discover Public Health · 2026

Uneven progress: trends and social inequalities in women’s empowerment domains in Ghana from 2003–2022

Frontiers in Sociology · 2026

Couple-based preconception care as a gender-responsive strategy for improving health and well-being: a systematic review

Reproductive Health · 2026

Implementation and impact of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine on infants and implications for pregnancy in Rwanda: Operational and programmatic insights

Vaccine X · 2026

Sexual autonomy among married young women in Ghana: a multivariable modified Poisson and multivariate Poisson decomposition analysis of a large population-based survey

Critical Public Health · 2026

Determinants of modern contraceptive use among reproductive-aged women attending private sexual and reproductive health clinics in Greater Accra, Ghana: a cross-sectional survey

Discover Public Health · 2026

Antimicrobial resistance in Burundi: a silent crisis

Annals of Medicine and Surgery · 2026

Factors Associated With Induced Abortion Among Childbearing‐Aged Women in Nepal: Evidence From the 2022 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey

Health Science Reports · 2026

Understanding the syndemic interaction of malaria and malnutrition in the Mano River Union

Discover Public Health · 2026

Time to Act; Let Us Unite to Eliminate Malaria Among Pregnant Women in War Zone From Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Review

Health Science Reports · 2026

Exploring the socioeconomic and education-based inequalities in modern and traditional contraceptive use among women in Africa

Contraception and Reproductive Medicine · 2026 · corresponding author

Delay in malaria care-seeking for children under five in Africa: a systematic review

Malaria Journal · 2026

Sociodemographic predictors of health-related quality of life dimensions in hypertensive patients: A cross-sectional study in a Ghanaian Municipal Hospital

PLOS Global Public Health · 2026

Household water, sanitation, and hygiene practices in Ghana from 1993–2022: a non-linear multivariate Poisson decomposition and traditional predictive modelling approach

Frontiers in Public Health · 2026

Student nurses’ perception of academic and clinical learning environment in developing countries: a scoping review

OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2026

Sex Differences in the Factors Associated With Lifetime Alcohol, Tobacco and Cannabis Use Among Ghanaian University Students: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Public Health Challenges · 2026

Trends and inequalities in HIV testing uptake among pregnant women during antenatal care in Ghana: a decomposition analysis from 2008 to 2022

Tropical Medicine and Health · 2026 · corresponding author

Non-linear multivariate decomposition modelling of the predictors of menstrual product use among reproductive-aged women: evidence from the 2022 Ghanaian demographic and health survey

Frontiers in Reproductive Health · 2026

Trends and inequalities in health facility deliveries among women of reproductive age in Ghana, 1993–2022

Frontiers in Reproductive Health · 2026

A scoping review of barriers and facilitators of antiretroviral therapy adherence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–2024

Discover Public Health · 2026 · corresponding author

Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes Toward HPV, Cervical Cancer, and Vaccination Barriers among Undergraduates in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study

medRxiv · 2026

Student nurses’ perception of academic and clinical learning environment in developing countries: a scoping review

Open Science Framework · 2026

Climate change in Africa: A systematic review of maternal health and birth outcomes

Open MIND · 2026 · corresponding author

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Forecasting of Severe Malaria Incidence Among Pregnant Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2020-2024): A Retrospective Observational Study

Research Square · 2026

Practices and challenges of supervision and delegation in nursing in Africa: a scoping review

BMC Nursing · 2025 · 6 citations

Driving and sustaining trauma-informed organizational change: The role of healthcare leadership

Health Sciences Review · 2025 · corresponding author · 5 citations

Acute respiratory infections and its associated risk factors among children aged 6–59 months in Ghana: a multinomial regression analysis of the 2022 demographic and health survey

Frontiers in Public Health · 2025 · 5 citations

Evidence of neglect of the elderly in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol

BMJ Open · 2025 · 2 citations

A scoping review of acceptance and utilization of electronic health records among healthcare professionals in Ghana

Discover Public Health · 2025 · corresponding author · 2 citations

Prevalence and risk of antibiotic self-medication and unexpected determinants among patients admitted to the emergency department in a resource-limited setting: a cross-sectional study

Research Square · 2025 · 1 citations

River blindness: a devastating yet neglected tropical disease in Africa

Annals of Medicine and Surgery · 2025 · 1 citations

Malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: how support programs consolidate elimination gains and protect at-risk populations from recrudescence

Annals of Medicine and Surgery · 2025 · 1 citations

Monkeypox and measles: two scourges among children displaced by wars in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Annals of Medicine and Surgery · 2025 · 1 citations

Fighting typhoid fever in Tanzania: the importance of evidence for effective prevention and control amid urgency to act

Annals of Medicine and Surgery · 2025 · 1 citations

Trends and inequalities in insecticide-treated net use among children under five in Ghana, 2003–2022: analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys using the WHO Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT)

Tropical Medicine and Health · 2025 · corresponding author

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB): an evolving threat to the Nigerian health system – a review

Annals of Medicine and Surgery · 2025

Community-acquired Acinetobacter pneumonia associated with Evans syndrome: a case report

Annals of Medicine and Surgery · 2025 · corresponding author

National strategies and challenges in the fight against typhoid fever and other invasive salmonellosis in Kenya: the urgency to act

International Journal of Surgery Global Health · 2025

Prevalence and factors associated with newborn care practices among caregivers: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis in sub-Saharan Africa

Discover Public Health · 2025

Community-Acquired Acinetobacter Pneumonia Associated with Evans Syndrome: A Case Report

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025

Intersecting burdens of malaria and malnutrition in displaced children under five in the democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Surgery Global Health · 2025

Ownership and usage of insecticide-treated nets in Ghana: a scoping review of facilitators and barriers

Malaria Journal · 2024 · 20 citations

Healthcare Professionals’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in the Assessment, and Management of Sickle-Cell Disease: A Meta-Aggregative Review

Diseases · 2024 · 15 citations

Uptake and Effectiveness of Intermittent Preventive Treatment with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine during Pregnancy in Africa: A Scoping Review

Diseases · 2024 · 14 citations

Call for elimination program of Malaria among children under 5 years old living in refugee camps in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

New Microbes and New Infections · 2024 · 6 citations

Adherence patterns, risk factors and complications among patients with tuberculosis: a cross-sectional study at Nsawam Government Hospital

BMJ Public Health · 2024 · 4 citations

Self-management needs, strategies and support for individuals with sickle cell disease in developing countries: a scoping review

BMJ Open · 2024 · 3 citations

Fighting the Monkeypox in Rwanda, An overview of current state and future recommendations

New Microbes and New Infections · 2024 · corresponding author · 1 citations

Accessing antiretroviral therapy: qualitative study of patients experiences, compliance and barriers in the Ho Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Journal of Global Health Science · 2024 · 1 citations

Risk of endothelial dysfunction in streptozotocin-induced diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats: Nitric oxide in focus

Sokoto Journal of Medical Laboratory Science · 2023

Detoxification enzymes activities in deltamethrin and bendiocarb resistant and susceptible malarial vectors (<i>Anopheles gambiae</i>) breeding in Bichi agricultural and residential sites, Kano state, Nigeria

Bayero Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences · 2016 · 1 citations

Hypolipidemic Activity of Solvents Extracts of Khaya senegalensis Stem Bark in Diet Induced Hyperlipidemic Rats

Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform) · 2016

Potency of Aqueous White Grubs Extract Against CCl4 Induced Liver Diseases in Rats

DergiPark (Istanbul University) · 2016

Phytochemical Screening and Toxicological Studies of Aqueous Stem Bark Extract of Boswellia papyrifera (DEL) in Albino Rats

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Chemical and Molecular Engineering · 2015