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Gershim Asiki · Sankore

Gershim Asiki

ORCID, self-asserted

ORCID 0000-0002-9966-1153

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Publications

90

Citations

1,304

h-index

23

Computed over the works the graph holds, so it is a floor rather than a career figure.

i10-index

35

Affiliations

Every institution this scholar has appeared with on a work, by how many.

African Population and Health Research Center36 works
Wits University Donald Gordon Medical Centre1 works
University of the Witwatersrand1 works
Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit1 works

Publications

32 works in the graph, newest first.

A Stratification Method for Identifying Subgroups at High-Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa
2026Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen access1 citations10.1038/s41467-026-73226-6
Advertising ultra-processed foods around urban and rural schools in Kenya
2025PLOS Global Public HealthJournalOpen access5 citations10.1371/journal.pgph.0003774
Obesity phenotypes and dyslipidemia in adults from four African countries: An H3Africa AWI-Gen study
2025PLoS ONEJournalOpen access3 citations10.1371/journal.pone.0316527
Leveraging data science to understand and address multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: the MADIVA protocol
2025BMJ Health & Care InformaticsJournalOpen access2 citations10.1136/bmjhci-2024-101294
Marketing of ultra-processed foods on popular radio channels in Kenya

2025BMC NutritionJournalOpen access0 citations10.1186/s40795-025-01164-5

The nature and frequency of food and beverage marketing on Kenyan national television: a mixed-method analysis of food advertisements, parent and children’s perspectives

2025BMC MedicineJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citations10.1186/s12916-025-04327-0

64 Multi-component-intervention to combat unhealthy diets and physical inactivity among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: the Generation H study protocol

2025European Journal of Public HealthJournalOpen access0 citations10.1093/eurpub/ckaf180.389

Mentorship in health research institutions in Africa: A systematic review of approaches, benefits, successes, gaps and challenges

2024PLOS Global Public HealthJournalOpen access23 citations10.1371/journal.pgph.0003314

Prevalence of all epilepsies in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: a two-stage population-based study

2024The Lancet Global HealthJournalOpen access10 citations10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00217-1

Utilizing a multi-stage transition model for analysing child stunting in two urban slum settlements of Nairobi: A longitudinal analysis, 2011-2014

2024PLoS ONEJournalOpen access9 citations10.1371/journal.pone.0272684

The promotion of ultra-processed foods in modern retail food outlets in rural and urban areas in Kenya

2024Public Health NutritionJournalOpen accessSenior author6 citations10.1017/s1368980024002155

Determinants of under-five mortality in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya from 2002 to 2018

2024BMC Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author2 citations10.1186/s12889-024-20073-z

Genetic association and transferability for urinary albumin-creatinine ratio as a marker of kidney disease in four Sub-Saharan African populations and non-continental individuals of African ancestry

2024Frontiers in GeneticsJournalOpen access4 citations10.3389/fgene.2024.1372042

Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity Associated with Moderate and Severe Disabilities: Results from the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) Wave 2 in Ghana and South Africa

2023Global HeartJournalOpen access36 citations10.5334/gh.1188

Identifying the prevalence and correlates of multimorbidity in middle-aged men and women: a cross-sectional population-based study in four African countries

2023BMJ OpenJournalOpen access27 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067788

Diabetes care cascade and associated factors in 10 700 middle-aged adults in four sub-Saharan African countries: a cross-sectional study

2023BMJ OpenJournalOpen access25 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069193

Development and validation of a diagnostic aid for convulsive epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective case-control study

2023The Lancet Digital HealthJournalOpen access20 citations10.1016/s2589-7500(22)00255-2

Cardiometabolic disease risk factors in pre- and postmenopausal women from four sub-Saharan African countries: A cross-sectional study

2023MaturitasJournalOpen access16 citations10.1016/j.maturitas.2023.04.005

Mobility limitations and emotional dysfunction in old age: The moderating effects of physical activity and social ties

2023International Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryJournalOpen access10 citations10.1002/gps.5969

Availability of healthy and unhealthy foods in modern retail outlets located in selected districts of Greater Accra region, Ghana. Abstract of the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition, Tokyo (Japan), December 6-11, 2022

2023HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)Publication0 citations

Measurement of kidney function in Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda: a multicentre cohort study

2022The Lancet Global HealthJournalOpen access94 citations10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00239-x

Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa

2022Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen access93 citations10.1038/s41467-021-27917-x

Meta-analysis of sub-Saharan African studies provides insights into genetic architecture of lipid traits

2022Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen access55 citations10.1038/s41467-022-30098-w

Perspective: Food Environment Research Priorities for Africa—Lessons from the Africa Food Environment Research Network

2022Advances in NutritionJournalOpen access46 citations10.1093/advances/nmac019

Community perceptions on the factors in the social food environment that influence dietary behaviour in cities of Kenya and Ghana: a Photovoice study

2022Public Health NutritionJournalOpen access31 citations10.1017/s1368980022002270

Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Classical Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Common Carotid Intima‐Media Thickness: An Individual Participant Data Meta‐Analysis

2022Journal of the American Heart AssociationJournalOpen access30 citations10.1161/jaha.121.023704

Genetic associations with carotid intima-media thickness link to atherosclerosis with sex-specific effects in sub-Saharan Africans

2022Nature CommunicationsJournalOpen access29 citations10.1038/s41467-022-28276-x

Availability of healthy and unhealthy foods in modern retail outlets located in selected districts of Greater Accra Region, Ghana

2022Frontiers in Public HealthJournalOpen access25 citations10.3389/fpubh.2022.922447

Advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages around primary and junior high schools in Ghana's most urbanized and populous region

2022Frontiers in Public HealthJournalOpen access25 citations10.3389/fpubh.2022.917456

Perspectives on returning individual and aggregate genomic research results to study participants and communities in Kenya: a qualitative study

2022BMC Medical EthicsJournalOpen accessSenior author17 citations10.1186/s12910-022-00767-y

Associations of financial inclusion with physical activity participation in later life

2022HeliyonJournalOpen access7 citations10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09901

The Africa Food Environment Research Network (FERN): from concept to practice

2022Global Health PromotionJournalOpen access4 citations10.1177/17579759221126155