Amos Laar
PROFESSOR
CollegeCOLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF POPULATION, FAMILY AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
BioethicsPublic Health Nutrition
Publication activity
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Publications
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| Publication | Year | Journal | Thematic area | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Committing to transform food systems: Responsiveness of food systems transformation pledges by African governments to the WHO priority food systems policies and food-related … S Nanema, GS Amevinya, A Laar |
2023 | AKADEMIYA2063, 2023 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Reducing dietary sodium intake among young adults in Ghana: A call to action E Peprah, P Amegbor, A Laar, B Akasoe, Y Commodore-Mensah |
2023 | Nutrients 15 (16), 3562, 2023 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Access to Life-Saving Public Health Goods by Persons Infected with or Affected by HIV A Laar |
2022 | Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV: A Social …, 2022 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Nutrition and health-related information disclosure on pre-packaged food products from local retail shops in Accra GA Asalu, WK Axame, A Manu, A Laar, R Aryeetey |
2022 | African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development 22 (2 …, 2022 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Providing measurement, evaluation, accountability, and leadership support for NCDs prevention in Ghana: adapting the INFORMAS approach A Laar, M Holdsworth, W Quarpong, R Aryeetey, B Kelly |
2021 | Research Square, 2021 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Representing health: an afrocentric Perspective from Ghana A Laar, J Ganle, A Owusu, E Tenkorang, YA Tuakli-Wosornu, I Soyiri, ... |
2021 | Practicing Health Geography: The African Context, 93-104, 2021 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Priority Interventions to Reach the UN Sustainable Development Goal for Neonatal Mortality in Ghana: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Study P Owusu, K Sakyi, C Ohrt, L Ademuwagun, K Watkoske, B Sheriff, ... |
2019 | InAPHA’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo (Nov. 2-Nov. 6), 2019 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Predictors of Health Care Service Quality among Women Insured Under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme MA Ayanore, R Ofori-Asenso, A Laar |
2018 | Annals of Global Health 84 (4), 640-649, 2018 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Utilization of HIV testing and counseling services by Men in the Bolgatanga Municipality E Apasera, A Laar |
2015 | Int J Trop Dis Health 5 (3), 209-20, 2015 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Does infant feeding modality have an impact on the health of mothers infected with human immunodeficiency virus in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic literature review AK Laar, ME, Laar |
2012 | Journal of AIDS and HIV Research 4 (1), 1-7, 2012 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Access DK Smith |
1978 | Animal Science 26, 1978 | Health Sciences | 2 |
| Impact of an interactive smartphone application on glycaemic and blood pressure control among diabetes and hypertension patients in Ghana: A quasi-experimental study P Aovare, FP Chilunga, CF Hayfron-Benjamin, A Laar, N Moens, ... |
2026 | Heliyon 12 (10), 2026 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| What, when, and how food and beverage are advertised on Ghanian television M Boncyk, KK Rampalli, MN Winters, MK Makkar, S Nanema, ... |
2025 | Plos one 20 (6), e0325730, 2025 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Funding modalities of Ethics Review Committees: Perspectives of representatives of selected ERCs in Ghana AK Awua, J Akazili, A Laar, K Ferguson, S Ayettey |
2024 | Health Sciences Investigations Journal 6 (2), 943-950, 2024 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Synthesis of Evidence on the Impacts of Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions on Maternal and Children’s Nutrition Outcomes T de Hoop, A Molotsky, A Laar, A Chakrabarti, G Siwach, R Walcott, ... |
2024 | Arlington, VA: American Institutes for Research, 2024 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Public procurement for school meal programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa: nutritional outcomes, implementation challenges and programme enablers J Liguori, HA Osei-Kwasi, M Savy, S Nanema, A Laar, M Holdsworth |
2023 | Proceedings 91 (1), 51, 2023 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Monitoring food environments and systems for sustainable diets in Africa: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa A Laar, HA Osei-Kwasi, ME Laar, WK Bosu, S Nanema, G Asiki, M Spires, ... |
2022 | Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets, 673-691, 2022 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals (vol 104, 100784, 2021) J Fanzo, L Haddad, KR Schneider, C Bene, NM Covic, A Guarin, ... |
2022 | Food Policy 107, 2022 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Newborn feeding preferences and experiences of HIV positive mothers from two Ghanaian districts AK Laar, W Ampofo, JM Tuakli |
2017 | African Journal of AIDS and HIV Research 5 (1), 52-62, 2017 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Effectiveness of Mobile Health Interventions (mHealth) in Diabetes and Hypertension Management in Africa-a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis P Aovare, K Abdulai, A Laar, E L van der Linden, N Moens, R Edo, ... |
1900 | Eva and Moens, Nicolas and Edo, Richard and Moll van Charante, Eric P. and …, 0 | Health Sciences | 1 |
| Predatory marketing of unhealthy foods to children is unethical, should be made illegal in Ghana A Laar |
1900 | — | Social Sciences | 1 |
| Food systems performance evaluated against targets and benchmarks reveals urgent gaps and a path to 2050 B Carducci, K Schneider Lecy, S Nordhagen, T Beal, C Béné, ... |
2026 | Nature Food, 1-11, 2026 | Health Sciences | 0 |
| Food vendor characteristics in and around junior high schools and the relationship with adolescent diet quality in Ghana EC Reynolds, C Nsiah-Asamoah, H Okronipa, CD Arnold, A Laar, ... |
2026 | Public Health Nutrition 29 (1), e4, 2026 | Health Sciences | 0 |
| mHealth for chronic disease management: effects on adherence in Ghanaian patients with diabetes and hypertension P Aovare, FP Chilunga, A Laar, N Moens, EPM van Charante, ... |
2026 | Journal of global health 16, 04203, 2026 | Health Sciences | 0 |
| Prioritising Indicators for Large-scale Monitoring and Assessment of Food Environments for Public Health L Vanderlee, K Garton, M Ahmed, K Backholer, C Batis, MA Bragg, ... |
2026 | Current obesity reports 15 (1), 37, 2026 | Health Sciences | 0 |