Azra C. Ghani

40.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
240 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Azra C. Ghani is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Azra C. Ghani has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 55 papers in Infectious Diseases and 45 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Azra C. Ghani's work include Malaria Research and Control (103 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (87 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (45 papers). Azra C. Ghani is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (103 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (87 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (45 papers). Azra C. Ghani collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Azra C. Ghani's co-authors include Neil M. Ferguson, Jamie T. Griffin, Christl A. Donnelly, Chris Drakeley, Roy M. Anderson, Lucy Okell, Christophe Fraser, Teun Bousema, Michael White and Peter Winskill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Azra C. Ghani

231 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study

2022 882 citations Oliver J. Watson, Gregory Barnsley et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →
Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions

2003 810 citations Christl A. Donnelly, Azra C. Ghani et al. profile →
Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

2003 682 citations Christl A. Donnelly, Azra C. Ghani et al. The Lancet profile →
Global technical strategy for malaria 2016–2030

2015 579 citations Azra C. Ghani et al. profile →
Factors determining the occurrence of submicroscopic malaria infections and their relevance for control

2012 443 citations Lucy Okell, Teun Bousema et al. Nature Communications profile →
Hitting Hotspots: Spatial Targeting of Malaria for Control and Elimination

2012 416 citations Teun Bousema, Jamie T. Griffin et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
Reducing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission in Africa: A Model-Based Evaluation of Intervention Strategies

2010 413 citations Jamie T. Griffin, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Azra C. Ghani United Kingdom	66	7.5k	4.6k	3.2k	2.9k	1.9k	240	15.9k
David L. Smith United States	76	12.8k 1.7×	3.9k 0.9×	3.4k 1.1×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	291	20.6k
Christl A. Donnelly United Kingdom	74	5.1k 0.7×	6.7k 1.5×	4.5k 1.4×	3.9k 1.4×	2.8k 1.5×	354	20.1k
Ziad A. Memish Saudi Arabia	84	7.1k 0.9×	14.4k 3.1×	4.2k 1.3×	7.2k 2.5×	1.6k 0.9×	608	30.5k
Mark Woolhouse United Kingdom	68	5.9k 0.8×	6.1k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	330	20.6k
Donald S. Burke United States	76	8.1k 1.1×	10.9k 2.4×	4.7k 1.5×	6.4k 2.2×	2.0k 1.1×	293	25.4k
Peter W. Gething United Kingdom	67	17.6k 2.3×	7.3k 1.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	177	23.6k
Alison P. Galvani United States	58	2.9k 0.4×	5.4k 1.2×	4.9k 1.5×	4.4k 1.5×	599 0.3×	284	14.0k
Alfonso J. Rodríguez‐Morales Colombia	50	3.2k 0.4×	5.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	663	11.5k
David M. Morens United States	58	4.4k 0.6×	6.9k 1.5×	2.0k 0.6×	6.7k 2.3×	2.2k 1.2×	170	17.2k
Christopher Dye Switzerland	84	7.2k 1.0×	18.3k 4.0×	3.2k 1.0×	14.8k 5.2×	2.4k 1.3×	238	32.7k

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Geng, Lin, Lilith K. Whittles, Borame Sue Lee Dickens, et al.. (2025). Potential public health impacts of gonorrhea vaccination programmes under declining incidences: A modeling study. PLoS Medicine. 22(2). e1004521–e1004521.

Watson, Oliver J., Thu Nguyen-Anh Tran, Tasmin L. Symons, et al.. (2025). Global risk of selection and spread of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 gene deletions. Nature Medicine. 31(10). 3372–3379.

Hancock, Penelope A., Ace North, Adrian W. Leach, et al.. (2024). The potential of gene drives in malaria vector species to control malaria in African environments. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8976–8976. 7 indexed citations

Hogan, Alexandra B., Patrick Doohan, Sean L. Wu, et al.. (2023). Estimating long-term vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 variants: a model-based approach. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4325–4325. 15 indexed citations

Whittaker, Charles, Arran Hamlet, Ellie Sherrard-Smith, et al.. (2023). Seasonal dynamics of Anopheles stephensi and its implications for mosquito detection and emergent malaria control in the Horn of Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(8). e2216142120–e2216142120. 22 indexed citations

Fornace, Kimberly, Hillary M. Topazian, Isobel Routledge, et al.. (2023). No evidence of sustained nonzoonotic Plasmodium knowlesi transmission in Malaysia from modelling malaria case data. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2945–2945. 11 indexed citations

Watson, Oliver J., Gregory Barnsley, Jaspreet Toor, et al.. (2022). Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 22(9). 1293–1302. 882 indexed citations breakdown →

Whittaker, Charles, Hannah Slater, Rebecca K. Nash, et al.. (2021). Global patterns of submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection: insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis of population surveys. The Lancet Microbe. 2(8). e366–e374. 37 indexed citations

Walker, Patrick, Matt Cairns, Hannah Slater, et al.. (2020). Modelling the incremental benefit of introducing malaria screening strategies to antenatal care in Africa. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3799–3799. 17 indexed citations

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Georgiadou, Athina, Hyun Jae Lee, Michael Walther, et al.. (2019). Modelling pathogen load dynamics to elucidate mechanistic determinants of host–Plasmodium falciparum interactions. Nature Microbiology. 4(9). 1592–1602. 16 indexed citations

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Hellewell, Joel, Patrick Walker, Azra C. Ghani, Bhargavi Rao, & Thomas S. Churcher. (2018). Using ante-natal clinic prevalence data to monitor temporal changes in malaria incidence in a humanitarian setting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Malaria Journal. 17(1). 312–312. 9 indexed citations

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Sherrard-Smith, Ellie, Katarzyna Sala, Michael Betancourt, et al.. (2018). Synergy in anti-malarial pre-erythrocytic and transmission-blocking antibodies is achieved by reducing parasite density. eLife. 7. 46 indexed citations

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Marshall, John M., Mahamoudou Touré, André Lin Ouédraogo, et al.. (2016). Key traveller groups of relevance to spatial malaria transmission: a survey of movement patterns in four sub-Saharan African countries. Malaria Journal. 15(1). 200–200. 40 indexed citations

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Ghani, Azra C., et al.. (2012). Job Satisfaction among the Nurse Educators in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. International journal of nursing. 2(4). 29–33. 6 indexed citations

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Walker, Patrick, Simon Cauchemez, Nienke Hartemink, Thanawat Tiensin, & Azra C. Ghani. (2012). Outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry in Thailand: the relative role of poultry production types in sustaining transmission and the impact of active surveillance in control. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 9(73). 1836–1845. 26 indexed citations

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Walker, Patrick, Simon Cauchemez, Raphaëlle Métras, et al.. (2010). A Bayesian Approach to Quantifying the Effects of Mass Poultry Vaccination upon the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of H5N1 in Northern Vietnam. PLoS Computational Biology. 6(2). e1000683–e1000683. 29 indexed citations

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Hussain, Khalid, Kiran Nawaz, Abdul Majeed, et al.. (2010). Molecular and biochemical characterization of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri pathotypes. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. 9(54). 9092–9095. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Mark & Azra C. Ghani. (2010). Populations and partnerships: insights from metapopulation and pair models into the epidemiology of gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted infections. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 86(6). 433–439. 12 indexed citations

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Ghani, Azra C., Christl A. Donnelly, Neil M. Ferguson, & Roy M. Anderson. (2002). The transmission dynamics of BSE and vCJD. Comptes Rendus Biologies. 325(1). 37–47. 25 indexed citations

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Ward, Helen, C A Ison, Sophie Day, et al.. (2000). A prospective social and molecular investigation of gonococcal transmission. The Lancet. 356(9244). 1812–1817. 39 indexed citations

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