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Ayaga A. Bawah

Ayaga A. Bawah

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
30
Citations
3930
World Ranking
7714
National Ranking
3

Ayaga A. Bawah publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ayaga A. Bawah sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 113 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Ayaga A. Bawah D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ayaga A. Bawah sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 30 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Women's fears and men's anxieties: The impact of family planning on gender relations in northern Ghana

    Ayaga Agula Bawah;Patricia Akweongo;Ruth Simmons;James F. Phillips

  • NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4

    James E Bennett;Vasilis Kontis;Colin D Mathers;Michel Guillot

  • Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

    Paul Kowal;Kathleen Kahn;Nawi Ng;Nirmala Naidoo

  • Profile of the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System

    Abraham Rexford Oduro;George Wak;Daniel Azongo;Cornelius Debpuur

  • Spousal communication and family planning behavior in Navrongo: a longitudinal assessment.

    Ayaga A. Bawah

  • The Ghana essential health interventions program: a plausibility trial of the impact of health systems strengthening on maternal & child survival.

    John Koku Awoonor-Williams;Ayaga A Bawah;Frank K Nyonator;Rofina Asuru

  • Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana

    Edmund Wedam Kanmiki;Ayaga A Bawah;Isaiah Agorinya;Fabian S Achana

  • Is Ghana¿s pro-poor health insurance scheme really for the poor? Evidence from Northern Ghana

    James Akazili;Paul Welaga;Ayaga Bawah;Fabian S Achana

  • Spatial and socio-demographic determinants of contraceptive use in the Upper East region of Ghana

    Fabian Sebastian Achana;Ayaga A Bawah;Elizabeth F Jackson;Paul Welaga

  • Rapid achievement of the child survival millennium development goal: evidence from the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana.

    Fred N. Binka;Ayaga A. Bawah;James F. Phillips;Abraham Hodgson

  • Health inequalities among older men and women in Africa and Asia : evidence from eight health and demographic surveillance system sites in the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE study

    Nawi Ng;Paul Kowal;Kathleen Kahn;Nirmala Naidoo

  • The long-term fertility impact of the Navrongo project in northern Ghana.

    James F. Phillips;Elizabeth F. Jackson;Ayaga A. Bawah;Bruce MacLeod

  • Research capacity building integrated into PHIT projects: leveraging research and research funding to build national capacity.

    Bethany L. Hedt-Gauthier;Roma Chilengi;Elizabeth Jackson;Cathy Michel

  • The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana.

    Ayaga A. Bawah;James F. Phillips;Martin Adjuik;Maya Vaughan-Smith

  • Socio-economic and demographic disparities in ownership and use of insecticide-treated bed nets for preventing malaria among rural reproductive-aged women in northern Ghana

    Edmund Wedam Kanmiki;John Koku Awoonor-Williams;James F. Phillips;Stephen Patrick Kachur

  • Community-Based Health Planning and Services Plus programme in Ghana: A qualitative study with stakeholders in two Systems Learning Districts on improving the implementation of primary health care

    Margaret Kweku;Hubert Amu;Adam Awolu;Martin Adjuik

  • Approaches to ensuring and improving quality in the context of health system strengthening: a cross-site analysis of the five African Health Initiative Partnership programs

    Lisa R Hirschhorn;Lisa R Hirschhorn;Colin Baynes;Kenneth Sherr;Namwinga Chintu

  • Catalyzing the scale‐up of community‐based primary healthcare in a rural impoverished region of northern Ghana

    John Koku Awoonor-Williams;John Koku Awoonor-Williams;James F. Phillips;Ayaga A. Bawah

  • The Evolving Demographic and Health Transition in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Four Sites in the INDEPTH Network of Longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems

    Ayaga A Bawah;Brian Houle;Nurul Alam;Abdur Razzaque

  • How Many Years of Life Could Be Saved If Malaria Were Eliminated from a Hyperendemic Area of Northern Ghana

    Ayaga A. Bawah;Fred N. Binka

Frequent Co-Authors

James F. Phillips
James F. Phillips Columbia University
Osman Sankoh
Osman Sankoh University of the Witwatersrand
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
David Canning
David Canning Harvard University
Somnath Chatterji
Somnath Chatterji World Health Organization
Peter Byass
Peter Byass Umeå University
Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Lisa R. Hirschhorn
Lisa R. Hirschhorn Northwestern University
Jill Baumgartner
Jill Baumgartner McGill University

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