Ama de-Graft Aikins

Ama de-Graft Aikins

University College London

H-index: 45

Europe-United Kingdom

About Ama de-Graft Aikins

Ama de-Graft Aikins, With an exceptional h-index of 45 and a recent h-index of 37 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University College London, specializes in the field of Chronic illness experiences, Families Communities and Health Systems, Arts and Health, Critical.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

What accounts for quality of life among older adults? Examining chronic physical health, mental health, and social support among ethnically diverse populations in Ghana

The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) diabetes project: study design for a quantitative survey of diabetes prevalence and non-communicable disease risk in Ga …

Obesity in Africa: A Silent Public Health Crisis

‘What’s Up, Fellow Deadly Diseases?’Creative Arts and Communicating COVID-19 in Ghana

Assessing community readiness for overweight and obesity prevention among Ghanaian immigrants living in Greater Manchester, England

How chronic conditions are understood, experienced and managed within African communities in Europe, North America and Australia: A synthesis of qualitative studies

Dietary patterns among adults in three low-income urban communities in Accra, Ghana

Breaking the glass ceiling: perspectives and strategies on gender and research leadership in the health sciences at African higher education institutions

Ama de-Graft Aikins Information

University

Position

British Academy Global Professor

Citations(all)

6786

Citations(since 2020)

4047

Cited By

4441

hIndex(all)

45

hIndex(since 2020)

37

i10Index(all)

96

i10Index(since 2020)

87

Email

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University College London

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Ama de-Graft Aikins Skills & Research Interests

Chronic illness experiences

Families Communities and Health Systems

Arts and Health

Critical

Top articles of Ama de-Graft Aikins

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

What accounts for quality of life among older adults? Examining chronic physical health, mental health, and social support among ethnically diverse populations in Ghana

Cogent Gerontology

Adote Anum

Charity S Akotia

Ama de-Graft Aikins

2024/12/31

The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) diabetes project: study design for a quantitative survey of diabetes prevalence and non-communicable disease risk in Ga …

Global Health Action

Swaib Abubaker Lule

Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor

Carlos S Grijalva-Eternod

Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo

Olutobi Adekunle Sanuade

...

2024/12/31

Obesity in Africa: A Silent Public Health Crisis

Charles Agyemang

Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor

Grace Frempong Afrifa-Anane

Ama de-Graft Aikins

2024/1/31

‘What’s Up, Fellow Deadly Diseases?’Creative Arts and Communicating COVID-19 in Ghana

Ama de-Graft Aikins

2024/1/4

Assessing community readiness for overweight and obesity prevention among Ghanaian immigrants living in Greater Manchester, England

BMC Public Health

Joanna May Kesten

Noel Cameron

Paula Louise Griffiths

2013/12

How chronic conditions are understood, experienced and managed within African communities in Europe, North America and Australia: A synthesis of qualitative studies

Ama de-Graft Aikins

Olutobi Sanuade

Leonard Baatiema

Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo

Juliet Addo

...

2023/2/15

Dietary patterns among adults in three low-income urban communities in Accra, Ghana

Plos one

Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor

Deda Ogum Alangea

Richmond Aryeetey

Ama de-Graft Aikins

2023/11/9

Breaking the glass ceiling: perspectives and strategies on gender and research leadership in the health sciences at African higher education institutions

International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology

Jose Jackson

Ama de-Graft Aikins

Linda Mtwisha

Linda Mitchel

Harriet Kebirungi

...

2023/7/25

Correction to: African Control of Hypertension through Innovative Epidemiology and a Vibrant Ecosystem (ACHIEVE): novel strategies for accelerating hypertension control in Africa

Journal of human hypertension

Mayowa Owolabi

Paul Olowoyo

Ana Mocumbi

Okechukwu S Ogah

Augustine Odili

...

2023/4/28

Participatory action research

Action research involving “all the players” in evaluation and change

Craig McGarvey

2007

African Control of Hypertension through Innovative Epidemiology and a Vibrant Ecosystem (ACHIEVE): novel strategies for accelerating hypertension control in Africa

Mayowa Owolabi

Paul Olowoyo

Ana Mocumbi

Okechukwu S Ogah

Augustine Odili

...

2023/4/19

Psychosocial stressors among Ghanaians in rural and urban Ghana and Ghanaian migrants in Europe

Journal of health psychology

Raphael Baffour Awuah

Ama de-Graft Aikins

F Nii-Amoo Dodoo

Karlijn AC Meeks

Eric JAJ Beune

...

2022/3

Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana

Irene A Kretchy

Lydia O Okoibhole

Olutobi Adekunle Sanuade

Hannah Jennings

Daniel Ll Strachan

...

2022/12/31

‘If you sell your sickness, you will get its medicine’: Care and intrafamilial communication for chronic diseases in southern Ghana

Scientific African

Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo

Ama de-Graft Aikins

Megan Vaughan

2022/11/1

Pathways to research leadership for early career researchers in Africa: a potential role for African and Global Funders

South African Journal of Higher Education

J Jackson

A Neba

C Viney

L Mtwisha

A de-Graft Aikins

...

2022/4/1

The Lancet Breast Cancer Commission: tackling a global health, gender, and equity challenge

Charlotte Elizabeth Coles

Benjamin O Anderson

David Cameron

Fatima Cardoso

Richard Horton

...

2022/3/19

Validation of the multidimensional WHOQOL‐OLD in Ghana: a study among population‐based healthy adults in three ethnically different districts

Adote Anum

Samuel Adjorlolo

Charity S Akotia

Ama de‐Graft Aikins

2021/8

Anthropometric indices and their cut-off points in relation to type 2 diabetes among Ghanaian migrants and non-migrants: The RODAM study

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Samuel N Darko

Karlijn AC Meeks

William KBA Owiredu

Edwin F Laing

Daniel Boateng

...

2021/3/1

Ama de-Graft Aikins: unravelling the complexities of chronic illness experiences in African communities

The Lancet Psychiatry

Priya Venkatesan

2021/12/1

Early-and mid-career transition to research leadership in Africa [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]

Linda Mtwisha

Jose Jackson

Alison Mitchel

Ama de-Graft Aikins

Harriet Kebirungi

...

2021/7/23

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