Valentine Golden Ghanem reviewing epidemiological trends and a Ghana disease map during a public-health policy workshop

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Valentine Golden Ghanem's academic record covers health equity, infectious-disease epidemiology, spatial analysis and machine learning. Each entry states its publication status, methods, limitations and associated analytical outputs.

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Peer-reviewed Cureus / 2026
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Spatial and Machine Learning Analysis of District-Level Health Insurance Inequities in Ghana

Examines NHIS non-enrolment across Ghana's 261 districts using bivariate LISA and an interpretable classification tree. The study identifies 42 high-risk districts and shows how illiteracy, poverty and access barriers intersect.

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Ghanem, V. G. (2026). Spatial and Machine Learning Analysis of District-Level Health Insurance Inequities in Ghana. Cureus, 18(1), e101984.

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Peer-reviewed / 2026

Spatial and Machine Learning Analysis of District-Level Health Insurance Inequities in Ghana

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Bivariate LISA, CART, 261 districts
2 connected artifacts
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Preprint / 2026

Spatial Machine Learning and Longitudinal Analysis of Skilled Antenatal Care Access and Fertility-Related Inequities in Ghana (1988-2022)

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Longitudinal analysis, Spatial ML, 1988-2022
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Peer-reviewed / 2025

Socio-Behavioral and Spatial Determinants of HIV/AIDS Incidence in Ghana: An Ecological Cross-Sectional Study with Explainable Machine Learning

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Spatial clustering, XGBoost, SHAP
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Preprint - in peer review / 2025

Forecasting HIV/AIDS Incidence in Ghana: A Retrospective Observational Study Using Ensemble Machine Learning Models

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Ensemble ML, Time series, SHAP
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Data and software record / 2025

Analysis and Prediction of Infectious Disease Trends in Ghana: A Machine Learning Approach, with Emphasis on HIV/AIDS

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Reproducible code, Model files, Dashboard
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03 - Academic service

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International Journal of Medical Science (ICMERD-IJMS)

International Council for Medical Education Research and Development (ICMERD)

04 - Researcher identifiers

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