Ulla Griffiths

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
89 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ulla Griffiths is a scholar working on Health, Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulla Griffiths has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Health, 43 papers in Epidemiology and 21 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Ulla Griffiths's work include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (46 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (22 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (21 papers). Ulla Griffiths is often cited by papers focused on Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (46 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (22 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (21 papers). Ulla Griffiths collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Ulla Griffiths's co-authors include Andrew Clark, Karen Edmond, Colin Sanderson, Viola Korczak, Adrian Gheorghe, Igor Rudan, Sandra Mounier‐Jack, Helen Burchett, Anna Vassall and Adrianna Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Ulla Griffiths

87 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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 and regional risk of disabling sequelae from bacterial meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2010 416 citations Andrew Clark, Colin Sanderson et al. profile →
The economic burden of cardiovascular disease and hypertension in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

2018 334 citations Adrian Gheorghe, Ulla Griffiths et al. BMC Public Health profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ulla Griffiths United Kingdom	31	1.4k	946	656	550	491	89	3.4k
Raymond Hutubessy Switzerland	36	1.9k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	1.0k 1.6×	130 0.2×	582 1.2×	138	5.3k
Kathy Baisley United Kingdom	37	1.3k 0.9×	249 0.3×	1.6k 2.5×	416 0.8×	425 0.9×	145	4.1k
Cynthia Boschi-Pinto Switzerland	19	1.8k 1.3×	461 0.5×	2.0k 3.1×	179 0.3×	1.3k 2.5×	26	7.0k
Shally Awasthi India	36	1.0k 0.7×	439 0.5×	420 0.6×	116 0.2×	1.7k 3.5×	215	4.6k
Karen Edmond United Kingdom	32	2.6k 1.8×	379 0.4×	363 0.6×	627 1.1×	1.9k 3.9×	120	5.0k
Shefali Oza United States	16	1.9k 1.4×	532 0.6×	591 0.9×	222 0.4×	3.5k 7.2×	26	7.0k
Alemayehu Worku Ethiopia	45	1.2k 0.9×	295 0.3×	1.0k 1.6×	126 0.2×	1.8k 3.7×	229	6.0k
Gabriela B. Gomez United Kingdom	27	1.2k 0.9×	109 0.1×	1.6k 2.4×	377 0.7×	399 0.8×	109	3.1k
Vincenzo Baldo Italy	39	2.5k 1.8×	551 0.6×	671 1.0×	185 0.3×	101 0.2×	319	5.3k
Stephen Resch United States	32	804 0.6×	371 0.4×	837 1.3×	62 0.1×	519 1.1×	97	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ulla Griffiths

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ulla Griffiths

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Griffiths, Ulla, et al.. (2025). COVID-19 vaccination integration, innovations and key populations: Results from a global survey. Vaccine. 52. 126863–126863. 1 indexed citations

Collins, David, et al.. (2023). Calculating the Costs of Implementing Integrated Packages of Community Health Services: Methods, Experiences, and Results From 6 sub-Saharan African Countries. Global Health Science and Practice. 11(5). e2200472–e2200472.

Yeung, Karene Hoi Ting, et al.. (2023). Estimating the delivery costs of COVID-19 vaccination using the COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing (CVIC) tool: the Lao People’s Democratic Republic experience. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 248–248. 1 indexed citations

d’Elbée, Marc, Fern Terris‐Prestholt, Andrew Briggs, et al.. (2023). Estimating health care costs at scale in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Mathematical notations and frameworks for the application of cost functions. Health Economics. 32(10). 2216–2233. 3 indexed citations

Griffiths, Ulla, et al.. (2023). Insights to COVID-19 vaccine delivery: Results from a survey of 27 countries. Vaccine. 41(43). 6406–6410. 4 indexed citations

Nonvignon, Justice, Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Alyssa Sharkey, et al.. (2023). The political economy of financing traditional vaccines and vitamin A supplements in six African countries. Health Policy and Planning. 38(10). 1154–1165. 3 indexed citations

Levin, Ann, Logan Brenzel, Ulla Griffiths, et al.. (2022). WHO-led consensus statement on vaccine delivery costing: process, methods, and findings. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 88–88. 14 indexed citations

Saxenian, Helen, et al.. (2022). Sustainable financing for Immunization Agenda 2030. Vaccine. 42. S73–S81. 16 indexed citations

Vaughan, Kelsey, et al.. (2020). Reporting gaps in immunization costing studies: Recommendations for improving the practice. Vaccine X. 5. 100069–100069. 5 indexed citations

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Laing, Sarah, et al.. (2020). An investment case for maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination. Vaccine. 38(9). 2241–2249. 2 indexed citations

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Ojal, John, Ulla Griffiths, Laura L. Hammitt, et al.. (2019). Sustaining pneumococcal vaccination after transitioning from Gavi support: a modelling and cost-effectiveness study in Kenya. The Lancet Global Health. 7(5). e644–e654. 11 indexed citations

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Jan, Stephen, Tracey‐Lea Laba, Beverley M. Essue, et al.. (2018). Action to address the household economic burden of non-communicable diseases. The Lancet. 391(10134). 2047–2058. 163 indexed citations

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Laurence, Yoko V., Ulla Griffiths, & Anna Vassall. (2015). Costs to Health Services and the Patient of Treating Tuberculosis: A Systematic Literature Review. PharmacoEconomics. 33(9). 939–955. 113 indexed citations

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Burchett, Helen, Sandra Mounier‐Jack, Sergio Torres‐Rueda, et al.. (2014). The impact of introducing new vaccines on the health system: Case studies from six low- and middle-income countries. Vaccine. 32(48). 6505–6512. 26 indexed citations

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Mounier‐Jack, Sandra, et al.. (2014). Meningococcal vaccine introduction in Mali through mass campaigns and its impact on the health system. Global Health Science and Practice. 2(1). 117–129. 15 indexed citations

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Mounier‐Jack, Sandra, Ulla Griffiths, Svea Closser, Helen Burchett, & Bruno Marchal. (2014). Measuring the health systems impact of disease control programmes: a critical reflection on the WHO building blocks framework. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 278–278. 106 indexed citations

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Ayieko, Philip, Ulla Griffiths, Moses Ndiritu, et al.. (2013). Assessment of Health Benefits and Cost-Effectiveness of 10-Valent and 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination in Kenyan Children. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67324–e67324. 42 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Ulla, Andrew Clark, Bradford D. Gessner, et al.. (2012). Dose-specific efficacy ofHaemophilus influenzaetype b conjugate vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials. Epidemiology and Infection. 140(8). 1343–1355. 34 indexed citations

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Temple, Beth, et al.. (2011). The cost of outpatient pneumonia in children <5 years of age in Fiji. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 17(2). 197–203. 8 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Ulla, et al.. (2005). The cost-effectiveness of introducing hepatitis B vaccine into infant immunization services in Mozambique. Health Policy and Planning. 20(1). 50–59. 33 indexed citations

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