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Overview

Agbessi Amouzou is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in Medicine and Health Professions. Their work extensively covers the subfields of Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; General Health Professions; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Nutrition and Dietetics; and Finance.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction

Frequent co-authors with whom Amouzou has collaborated include Abdoulaye Maïga, Safia S Jiwani, Emily Wilson, Cheikh Fayé, and Elizabeth Hazel.

The scientist has published numerous papers in notable venues. The most frequent publication sites for their work are:

  • Journal of Global Health
  • BMJ Global Health
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Urban Health

Selected recent publications illustrating the scope of their research are:

  • A call for standardised age-disaggregated health data, 2021, The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Assessment of the validity of the measurement of newborn and maternal health-care coverage in hospitals (EN-BIRTH): an observational study, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Health service utilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020: a multicountry empirical assessment with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health services, 2022, BMJ Global Health
  • Kangaroo mother care: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study, 2021, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Maternal mortality, stillbirths, and neonatal mortality: a transition model based on analyses of 151 countries, 2023, The Lancet Global Health

Best Publications

  • Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030

    Joy E Lawn;Joy E Lawn;Hannah Blencowe;Hannah Blencowe;Peter Waiswa;Agbessi Amouzou

  • SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND POPULATION

    Davidson R. Gwatkin;Shea Rutstein;Kiersten Johnson;Eldaw Suliman

  • Socio-economic differences in health nutrition and population within developing countries. An overview.

    Davidson R. Gwatkin;Shea Rutstein;Kiersten Johnson;Eldaw Suliman

  • Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

    Ties Boerma;Jennifer Requejo;Cesar G Victora;Agbessi Amouzou

  • Count every newborn; a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data

    Sarah G. Moxon;Sarah G. Moxon;Harriet Ruysen;Kate J. Kerber;Agbessi Amouzou

  • Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness in Ethiopia: Implementation Strength and Quality of Care

    Nathan P. Miller;Agbessi Amouzou;Mengistu Tafesse;Elizabeth Hazel

  • UNICEF Report: enormous progress in child survival but greater focus on newborns urgently needed

    Tessa Wardlaw;Danzhen You;Lucia Hug;Agbessi Amouzou

  • Reduction in child mortality in Niger: a Countdown to 2015 country case study.

    Agbessi Amouzou;Oumarou Habi;Khaled Bensaïd

  • Patterns and determinants of antenatal care utilization: analysis of national survey data in seven countdown countries.

    Ghada Saad-Haddad;Jocelyn DeJong;Nancy Terreri;María Clara Restrepo-Méndez

  • Malawi and Millennium Development Goal 4: a Countdown to 2015 country case study

    Mercy Kanyuka;Jameson Ndawala;Tiope Mleme;Lusungu Chisesa

  • Advances in the measurement of coverage for RMNCH and nutrition: from contact to effective coverage

    Agbessi Amouzou;Hannah Hogan Leslie;Malathi Ram;Monica Fox

  • Socioeconomic factors contributing to under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: a decomposition analysis

    Carine Van Malderen;Agbessi Amouzou;Aluisio J. D. Barros;Bruno Masquelier;Bruno Masquelier

  • Diarrhea management in children under five in sub-Saharan Africa: does the source of care matter? A Countdown analysis

    Liliana Carvajal-Vélez;Agbessi Amouzou;Jamie Perin;Abdoulaye Maïga

  • HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND POPULATION

    Davidson R. Gwatkin;Shea Rutstein;Kiersten Johnson;Eldaw Suliman

  • A call for standardised age-disaggregated health data

    Theresa Diaz;Kathleen L Strong;Bochen Cao;Regina Guthold

  • Inequalities in maternal health care utilization in Benin: a population based cross-sectional study.

    Sanni Yaya;Olalekan A. Uthman;Agbessi Amouzou;Michael Ekholuenetale

  • Disparities in caesarean section prevalence and determinants across sub-Saharan Africa countries

    Sanni Yaya;Olalekan A. Uthman;Agbessi Amouzou;Ghose Bishwajit

  • Quality of sick child care delivered by Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi

    Kate E Gilroy;Jennifer A Callaghan-Koru;Cristina V Cardemil;Humphreys Nsona

  • Generating statistics from health facility data: the state of routine health information systems in Eastern and Southern Africa.

    Abdoulaye Maïga;Safia S Jiwani;Martin Kavao Mutua;Tyler Andrew Porth

  • Effects of the integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness Strategy on Child Mortality in Ethiopia: A Cluster Randomized Trial

    Agbessi Amouzou;Elizabeth Hazel;Bryan Shaw;Nathan P. Miller

  • Patterns and trends of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Nigeria: evidence from cross-sectional studies

    Sennen Hounton;Aluisio J. D. Barros;Agbessi Amouzou;Solomon Shiferaw

  • “Every Newborn-BIRTH” protocol: observational study validating indicators for coverage and quality of maternal and newborn health care in Bangladesh, Nepal and Tanzania

    Louise T Day;Harriet Ruysen;Vladimir S Gordeev;Georgia R Gore-Langton

  • Turkey - Socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population

    Eldaw Suliman;Kiersten Johnson;Davidson R. Gwatkin;Adam Wagstaff

Frequent Co-Authors

Aluísio J. D. Barros
Aluísio J. D. Barros Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Joy E Lawn
Joy E Lawn London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Kenneth Hill
Kenneth Hill Stanford University
Sanni Yaya
Sanni Yaya University of Ottawa
Ghose Bishwajit
Ghose Bishwajit University of Ottawa
Howard S. Friedman
Howard S. Friedman University of California, Riverside
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor World Health Organization
Pamela J. Surkan
Pamela J. Surkan Johns Hopkins University
Herman Van Oyen
Herman Van Oyen Ghent University
Mickey Chopra
Mickey Chopra World Bank

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