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Nelson K. Sewankambo

Nelson K. Sewankambo

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
93
Citations
40843
World Ranking
10725
National Ranking
2

Nelson K. Sewankambo publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nelson K. Sewankambo sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 415 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Nelson K. Sewankambo D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nelson K. Sewankambo sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 93 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Nelson K. Sewankambo is affiliated with the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda. Their research predominantly focuses on the field of Medicine, with specific contributions in General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Economics and Econometrics.

The prominent topics in Sewankambo's work include:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses

The scientist has authored or co-authored papers published in a range of venues including Research Square, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), PLoS ONE, BMC Medical Ethics, and African Health Sciences. The following recent papers highlight their research areas and publication outlets:

  • Quantifying HIV transmission flow between high-prevalence hotspots and surrounding communities: a population-based study in Rakai, Uganda, 2020, The Lancet HIV
  • Contact Tracing and the COVID-19 Response in Africa: Best Practices, Key Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, 2021, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control and predicted 10-year CVD risk: a cross-sectional study of seven communities in East and West Africa (SevenCEWA), 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Assessment of Clinical Outcomes Among Children and Adolescents Hospitalized With COVID-19 in 6 Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2022, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Integrated management of HIV, diabetes, and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa (INTE-AFRICA): a pragmatic cluster-randomised, controlled trial, 2023, The Lancet

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Allen Nsangi
  • Simon Lewin
  • Andrew D Oxman
  • Sarah Rosenbaum
  • Margaret Kaseje

Nelson K. Sewankambo is recognized by their peers as a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2012 and has been a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences since the same year.

Best Publications

  • Viral Load and Heterosexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Thomas C. Quinn;Maria J. Wawer;Nelson Sewankambo;David Serwadda

  • Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial

    Ronald H Gray;Godfrey Kigozi;David Serwadda;Frederick Makumbi

  • Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis

    Lincoln Chen;Timothy Evans;Sudhir Anand;Jo Ivey Boufford

  • Towards a common definition of global health

    Jeffrey P Koplan;T Christopher Bond;Michael H Merson;K Srinath Reddy

  • Rates of HIV-1 Transmission per Coital Act, by Stage of HIV-1 Infection, in Rakai, Uganda

    Maria J. Wawer;Ronald H. Gray;Nelson K. Sewankambo;David Serwadda

  • Probability of HIV-1 transmission per coital act in monogamous, heterosexual, HIV-1-discordant couples in Rakai, Uganda

    Ronald H Gray;Maria J Wawer;Ron Brookmeyer;Nelson K Sewankambo

  • Control of sexually transmitted diseases for AIDS prevention in Uganda: a randomised community trial

    Maria J Wawer;Nelson K Sewankambo;David Serwadda;Thomas C Quinn

  • HIV-1 INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH ABNORMAL VAGINAL FLORA MORPHOLOGY AND BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS

    Nelson Sewankambo;Ronald H Gray;Maria J Wawer;Lynn Paxton

  • Slim disease: a new disease in Uganda and its association with HTLV-III infection.

    D. Serwadda;N.K. Sewankambo;J.W. Carswell;A.C. Bayley

  • Assessing country-level efforts to link research to action

    John N Lavis;Jonathan Lomas;Maimunah Hamid;Nelson K Sewankambo

  • Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: from clinical care to health policy

    Rifat Atun;Justine I Davies;Justine I Davies;Edwin A M Gale;Till Bärnighausen;Till Bärnighausen

  • Increased risk of incident HIV during pregnancy in Rakai, Uganda: a prospective study

    Ronald H Gray;Xianbin Li;Godfrey Kigozi;David Serwadda

  • Population-based study of fertility in women with HIV-1 infection in Uganda.

    Ronald H Gray;Maria J Wawer;David Serwadda;Nelson Sewankambo

  • Medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa

    Fitzhugh Mullan;Seble Frehywot;Francis Omaswa;Eric Buch

  • Responding to the global human resources crisis.

    Vasant Narasimhan;Hilary Brown;Ariel Pablos-Mendez;Orvill Adams

  • Circumcision in HIV-infected men and its effect on HIV transmission to female partners in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised controlled trial

    Maria J Wawer;Frederick Makumbi;Godfrey Kigozi;David Serwadda

  • Effect of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Subtype on Disease Progression in Persons from Rakai, Uganda, with Incident HIV-1 Infection

    Noah Kiwanuka;Oliver Laeyendecker;Oliver Laeyendecker;Merlin Robb;Godfrey Kigozi

  • Age differences in sexual partners and risk of HIV-1 infection in rural Uganda.

    Robert J. Kelly;Ronald H. Gray;Nelson K. Sewankambo;David Serwadda

  • Male circumcision and HIV acquisition and transmission: Cohort studies in Rakai, Uganda

    Ronald H. Gray;Noah Kiwanuka;Thomas C. Quinn;Nelson K. Sewankambo

  • HIV incidence and sexually transmitted disease prevalence associated with condom use: a population study in Rakai, Uganda.

    Saifuddin Ahmed;Tom Lutalo;Maria Wawer;David Serwadda

Frequent Co-Authors

David Serwadda
David Serwadda Makerere University
Maria J. Wawer
Maria J. Wawer Johns Hopkins University
Ronald H. Gray
Ronald H. Gray Johns Hopkins University
Thomas C. Quinn
Thomas C. Quinn Johns Hopkins University
Oliver Laeyendecker
Oliver Laeyendecker Johns Hopkins University
Steven J. Reynolds
Steven J. Reynolds Johns Hopkins University
John N. Lavis
John N. Lavis McMaster University
Merlin L. Robb
Merlin L. Robb Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Atle Fretheim
Atle Fretheim Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Simon Lewin
Simon Lewin South African Medical Research Council

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