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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
69
Citations
25037
World Ranking
799
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Günther Fink is affiliated with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Switzerland and primarily works in the field of Medicine. Their research includes substantial contributions to Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main research topics covered by Günther Fink comprise Child Nutrition and Water Access, Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Early Childhood Education and Development, and Healthcare Policy and Management.

The scientist has coauthored frequently with Alexandra Brentani, Peter C. Rockers, Fabrizio Tediosi, Dana Charles McCoy, and Doug Parkerson, showing consistent collaboration across different areas within public health and medicine.

Frequent publication venues where Günther Fink's work appears include PLoS ONE, BMC Public Health, SSRN Electronic Journal, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, and BMJ Global Health.

Selected recent publications featuring Günther Fink's involvement include the following:

  • Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries, 2021, Science Advances
  • Inactivated trivalent influenza vaccination is associated with lower mortality among patients with COVID-19 in Brazil, 2020, BMJ evidence-based medicine
  • Inequalities in early childhood care and development in low/middle-income countries: 2010-2018, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Association Between Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Antibiotic Use Globally, 2023, JAMA Network Open
  • Global estimates of the implications of COVID-19-related preprimary school closures for children's instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing, 2021, Child Development

Günther Fink also has a book publication through Oxford University Press titled Quality of Clinical Assessment and Child Mortality: A Three-Country Cross-Sectional Study, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

    Maureen M Black;Maureen M Black;Susan P Walker;Lia C H Fernald;Christopher T Andersen

  • Implications of population ageing for economic growth

    David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink

  • Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

    David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink;Jocelyn E. Finlay

  • Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations

    David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink

  • Risk Factors for Childhood Stunting in 137 Developing Countries: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis at Global, Regional, and Country Levels.

    Goodarz Danaei;Kathryn G. Andrews;Christopher R. Sudfeld;Günther Fink

  • Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modeling.

    Dana Charles McCoy;Evan D. Peet;Majid Ezzati;Goodarz Danaei

  • The effect of water and sanitation on child health: evidence from the demographic and health surveys 1986–2007

    Günther Fink;Isabel Günther;Kenneth Hill

  • Linear Growth and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis

    Christopher R. Sudfeld;Dana Charles McCoy;Goodarz Danaei;Günther Fink

  • Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries.

    Dennis Egger;Dennis Egger;Edward Miguel;Shana S. Warren;Ashish Shenoy

  • The effect of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme on health care utilisation.

    NJ Blanchet;G Fink;I Osei-Akoto

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • DISEASE AND DEVELOPMENT REVISITED

    David E. Bloom;David Canning;Guenther Fink

  • Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth

    David E. Bloom;David Canning;Günther Fink

  • Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition

    Donald A P Bundy;Nilanthi de Silva;Susan Horton;George C Patton

  • Returns to Education in Developing Countries: Evidence from the Living Standards and Measurement Study Surveys

    Evan D. Peet;Evan D. Peet;Günther Fink;Wafaie Fawzi

  • Childhood growth, schooling, and cognitive development: further evidence from the Young Lives study

    Günther Fink;Peter C Rockers

  • Girl child marriage as a risk factor for early childhood development and stunting

    Yvette Efevbera;Jacqueline Bhabha;Paul E. Farmer;Günther Fink

  • Malnutrition and Its Determinants Are Associated with Suboptimal Cognitive, Communication, and Motor Development in Tanzanian Children

    Christopher R Sudfeld;Dana Charles McCoy;Günther Fink;Alfa Muhihi

  • Paternal Stimulation and Early Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

    Joshua Jeong;Dana Charles McCoy;Aisha K Yousafzai;Carmel Salhi

  • Sachet drinking water in Ghana's Accra-Tema metropolitan area: past, present, and future.

    Justin Stoler;John R. Weeks;Günther Fink

Frequent Co-Authors

Dana Charles McCoy
Dana Charles McCoy Harvard University
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng Peking University
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Kenneth Hill
Kenneth Hill Stanford University
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Sebastian Vollmer
Sebastian Vollmer University of Göttingen

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