OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Public Health is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	166
US Government Health Agencies’ Efforts to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma	130
Large-Scale Implementation of a Daily Rapid Antigen Testing Program in California for Detecting SARS-CoV-2	119
Designing Surveillance at a Population Level	116
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	97
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	84
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	77
What Is Public Health? An Interview With Former Governor John Kasich	76
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	76
Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	74
Mastheads	73
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	68
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	68
Violence and Depression Among Adolescent Boys in Soweto, South Africa, 2020‒2023	67
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	65
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	63
Training the Next Generation of Public Health Professionals	63
Subscription Form	61
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	56
A Community-Based Participatory Intervention in the United States Using Data to Shift the Community Narrative From Deficits to Strengths	54
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population Health	52
Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States	52
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	48
Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022	48
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Visibility and Data Equity: Insights From NIH RADx-UP	48

Disaggregating Office of Management and Budget Race/Ethnicity Data to Examine Racial Disparities in Late-Stage HIV Diagnosis, Hawaii, 2010–2022	47
Beyond Prevention: How Gender-Affirming Care Can Transform HIV Outcomes for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Populations	45
Changes in Abortion Access, Travel, and Costs Since the Implementation of State Abortion Bans, 2022–2024	44
State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020	44
Coining Intersectional Stigma: Historical Erasures and The Future	44
Association Between the New York SAFE Act and Firearm Suicide and Homicide: An Analysis of Synthetic Controls, New York State, 1999‒2019	43
Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions	43
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	42
Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide	42
Occupational Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Indigenous Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2020–2022	41
“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”: Affirming the Call to Critically Engage Public Health	41
Evaluation of Public Health Contact Tracing for Mpox Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men—10 US Jurisdictions, May 17–July 31, 2022	41
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	40
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	38
Partnering With Churches to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Trustworthy Contexts	38
Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson	38
Wastewater Surveillance: A Rare Bipartisan Opportunity to Strengthen Public Health	38
Table of Contents	38
A Prologue to the AJPH Supplement: Using Evidence to Expand Contraceptive Access	37
Identification of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals in the All of Us Research Program, 2017–2022	37
Self-Reported Health Indicators in the US Army: Longitudinal Analysis From a Population Surveillance System, 2014‒2018	37
Tackling Wicked Problems: The Power of Community Among the Unhoused	37
Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023	37
Workplace Leave and Breastfeeding Duration Among Postpartum Women, 2016–2018	36
Structural Interventions That Reduce HIV Vulnerability: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2022	35
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	34
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations in Young Infants After the Introduction of Paid Family Leave in New York State, 2015‒2019	34
Continuing Education	32
Drug Overdose Epidemic Colliding With COVID-19: What the United States Can Learn From France	32
The Challenges of Public Health Leadership	31
Statement of Ownership	31
Prior Authorization Requirements and Medicaid Enrollees’ Use of Tobacco Cessation Medications, Colorado, 2023	31
The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health	31
The Peace Exchange: Physical and Psychological Sacrifices of Military Personnel From Historically Marginalized Backgrounds	30
AJPH Peer Reviewers: Thank You for Your Services	30
Suicide and the Solitary Life: Differential Risks of Living Alone Across Sociodemographic Groups	30
Public Health Common Ground: The Proof by COVID-19	30
Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023	29
Wilner and Holton Respond	29
To End Youth Vaping as an On-Ramp to Addiction, Close Legal Loopholes and Rigorously Enforce the Law	29
Table of Contents	29
Table of Contents	28
Characteristics Associated With a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis, Vaccine Uptake, and Intention to Be Vaccinated Among Essential Workers in the US Household Pulse Survey	28
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two Sides of the Coin	28
Mastheads	28
Evaluation of a Photovoice Exhibit About Immigrant Health Priorities in Southeast Minnesota	27
The Influence of a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Vaccination Rates in a University Setting	27
Mastheads	27
Table of Contents	27
Advancing Equity in Local Health Departments: An Inside-Out Approach	27

Bold Action Needed for Equitable Access to Nutrition Assistance by All	26
Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural and Underserved Arizona: Experiences From Three County Health Departments	26
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership	26
Common Data Element (CDE) Success from Community-Engagement Not Mandates: If You Build It [Data Warehouse], Will They [Participants] Come?	26
AJPH Peer Reviewers 2023–2024: Thank You for Your Services	26
Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program	26
Hardship and Hope: The Relationship Between Unconditional Prenatal and Infant Cash Transfers, Economic Stability, and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being	26
Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024	25
Sexually Transmitted Infection Disparities and Social Determinants of Health in California, 2013‒2021	25
Understanding Barriers to COVID-19 Testing Among Rural and Urban Populations in Kansas	25
Public Health Across the Political Spectrum for All	25
Reaching Vulnerable and Underserved Communities in the US Southwest Through a Successful COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership	25
From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window	25
Measurement Matters for Transgender Veterans’ Visibility in the Electronic Health Record	25
Seroprevalence Studies Are Critical Early Pandemic Tools, and They Were Underappreciated During COVID-19	24
Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction	24
Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area	24
Advancing Pediatric Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection	24
Competencies, Training Needs, and Turnover Among Rural Compared With Urban Local Public Health Practitioners: 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey	23
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives: A Critical Perspective	23
Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Moving From Evidence to Action	23
Regulation of Cannabis Retailers: Facilitating Responsible Adult Use and Promoting Health Equity While Preventing Access to Minors	23
Persistent Criminalization and Structural Racism in US Drug Policy: The Case of Overdose Good Samaritan Laws	22
Massachusetts Initiative to Improve Contraception Services: A Tale of Two Programs	22
Knowledge Translation and the Opioid Crisis	21
Evaluating Algorithmic Approaches to Uncover Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Scientific Authorship	21
Reshaping Contraceptive Access Efforts by Centering Equity, Justice, and Autonomy	21
Rethinking “Herd” Mentalities and Rethinking the Value of the History of Public Health	21
Embracing Advanced Methodology to Improve Population Health	21
Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years	21
Registered Nurses’ Well-Being, Michigan, 2022	21
The Short and the Long Arm of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Direct and Indirect Effects of the US Economic Lockdown	21
Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach	21
The Need for Comprehensive and Timely City-Level Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injury Surveillance	21
Gurbaxani et al. Respond	20
Is the Probation Population’s Health and Health Care Utilization Gendered?	20
Disparities in Health and Economic Burdens of Cancer Attributable to Suboptimal Diet in the United States, 2015‒2018	20
Data Democratization for Health Equity: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2023	20
Career Opportunities	20
Documenting Our History, Protecting Our Futures: Queer Communities	20
Erratum In: “Impact of a Permitless Concealed Firearm Carry Law in West Virginia, 1999–2015 and 2016–2020”	20
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs	20
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean	20
Subscription Form	20
Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers	20
Social Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Depression Screening of US Adolescents, 2016 to 2021	20
Democratizing Research With Data Dashboards: Data Visualization and Support to Promote Community Partner Engagement	20
Adolescent Dating Violence and Suicide Planning Among Girls in US High Schools: An Intracategorical Intersectional Analysis by Race and Ethnicity	20
Health Remedies as a Source of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic Exposure, New York City, 2010–2019	19
Untangling Concepts of Financial Circumstances for Public Health Professionals and Scholars: A Glossary and Concept Map	19
Improving Data Surveillance Resilience Beyond COVID-19: Experiences of Primary heAlth Care quAlity Cohort In ChinA (ACACIA) Using Unannounced Standardized Patients	19
Social Justice and Public Health: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2024	19
US Right-Wing, Pro-Family Movements in East Africa: Furthering Legislation That Fuels Health Inequities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Persons Assigned Female Sex at Birth in Western Kenya	19
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in the Active Component US Military	19
Why Was COVID-19 Not the First Leading Cause of Death in the United States in 2020? Rethinking the Ranking List	19
Tobacco Company Efforts to Persuade Consumers to Fight the Proposed Federal Menthol Cigarette and Flavored Cigar Bans in the United States	19
Adapting Survey Data Collection to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From a Local Health Department	19
Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in the LGBTQIA Community	19
Data Related to Social Determinants of Health Captured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	18
Evaluation of ShootSafe, an Interactive, Sequential Website to Teach Youths Firearms Safety: A Randomized Clinical Trial	18
Structural Inequities, HIV Community-Based Organizations, and the End of the HIV Epidemic	18
Adherence to Social-Distancing and Personal Hygiene Behavior Guidelines and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis: Evidence From the Understanding America Study	18
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police	18
Helm-Murtagh and Erwin Respond	17
On Race and Place in Substance Use Research	17
Equitable COVID-19 Testing Access for Underserved Communities: The Success of Vending Machines	17
Adult Day Services, Health Equity for Older Adults With Complex Needs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Health Equity Research: A Clarion Call to Focus on Racism, Not Race	17
COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Among New York City Parents of Children Aged 5–11 Years	17
Operationalizing Meaningful Community Engagement to Reduce the Burden of Multiple Chronic Conditions	17
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005–2021	17
Benefits of Frequent HIV Testing in the THRIVE Demonstration Project: United States, 2015–2020	17
Beyond Stigma: The Case Against the Criminalization of Sex Work for HIV Prevention and Health Equity	17
Medication Abortion “Reversal” Laws: How Unsound Science Paved the Way for Dangerous Abortion Policy	17
Social and Environmental Stressors of Urban Oil and Gas Facilities in Los Angeles County, California, 2020	17
Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind	16
Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions	16
Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)	16
Black Race Matters in the Latino Population	16
Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022	16

Nurturing Innovation at the Roots: The Success of COVID-19 Vaccination in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities	16
Portion Sizes of Ultra-Processed Foods in the United States, 2002 to 2021	16
The USDA’s Actions to Promote and Elevate Nutrition Security During the First 1000 Days	16
Association of Local Cannabis Policy and Retail Availability With Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Northern California	16
Defining Climate Justice in Nursing for Public and Planetary Health	16
Revisiting the Protective Value of Barrier Face Coverings After the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Addressing Misinformation: A More Nuanced Understanding for Public Health Professionals	15
Mastheads	15
Mastheads	15
Yes, Food Portion Sizes and People Have Become Bigger and Bigger. What Is to Be Done?	15
Promoting Evidence-Based Policy Solutions to the US Gun Violence Epidemic	15
The Untapped Potential of Precision Health to Improve Heat Resilience for Those Who Need It Most	15
Erratum In: “Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives”	15
Keeping Public Health Advocacy Strong	15
Narratives Are Useful Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Risk Communication	15
The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill	15
Table of Contents	15
Table of Contents	15
Balfour et al. Respond	15
Unseen and Unheard: Increasing the Visibility of Limited English Proficiency Individuals Through a Language Justice Framework	15
Subscription Form	15
Connecting the Dots: Public Health, Clinical, and Community Connections to Improve Contraception Access	15
Table of Contents	15
Diversity of End-of-Life Care in the Boom of Deaths at Old Age	15
Mastheads	15
Subscription Form	14
Gendered Racism: “A Different Interpretation of the Same Facts” About the HIV Epidemic Among Black Women in the United States	14
Benefits of Masks as a School-Based Prevention Intervention Outweigh the Risks	14
Implementation of Doxy-PEP in a Diverse Sexual Health Program in Northern Manhattan: The Doxy-Care Study	14
Investing in Public Health and Community Partnerships Reduced COVID-19–Related Disparities	14
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals?	14
Making Vaccines Equitably Available to All Persons in Pima County, Arizona, 2020–2021	14
A Community-Based Youth Diversion Program as an Alternative to Incarceration, Illinois, 2017–2019	14
Table of Contents	14
The Escalating War on Immigrants Is a Public Health Crisis	14
Structural Racism and Racial Trauma Among African Americans at Elevated Risk for HIV Infection	14
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Removal and Birth Intendedness: Moving Beyond the Binary	14
Black Women With HIV: Ongoing Challenges and New Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes	14
Erratum In: “Erratum In: ‘Living Alone and Suicide Risk in the United States, 2008–2019’”	14
The Evolving Overdose Crisis: United States Needs Robust Policy Change to Address the Fourth Wave	14
Changing Licensing and Credentialing Applications to Promote Health Workers’ Mental Health, Virginia, December 2022–September 2023	14
Mortality Inequities: Power, Theory, and Data Considerations	14
Short- and Long-Term Potential Impacts of Ongoing and Escalating Legal and Political Attacks on LGBTQ Health and Health Equity	13
COVID-19–Related Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Other Marginalized Communities in the United States	13
SNAP: The Most Important Component of Our Efforts to End Food Insecurity in the United States	13
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Case for Disaggregated HIV Data and Tailored Interventions for African Immigrants	13
Trends in US Life Expectancy: Falling Behind and Failing to Act	13
Paleofire Data for Public Health Nursing Wildfire Planning: A Planetary Perspective	13
The Environmental Injustice of Beauty Products: Toward Clean and Equitable Beauty	13
Subscription Form	13
Vaccine Coverage Across the Life Course in Michigan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: January‒September 2020	13
Food Insecurity and Delayed or Forgone Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Championing the 2021 New York State Law: A Step Toward Data Disaggregation on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders	13
New Abortion Bans Will Increase Existing Health and Economic Disparities	13
Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”	13
AJPH Global News	13
Automated Opt-Out Hepatitis C Testing to Reduce Missed Screening Opportunities in the Emergency Department	13
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository	13
Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States	13
Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications	13
Subscription Form	12
Conflicts of Interest	12
Oral Health of and Dental Workforce Among the Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States	12
Is Omicron Showing Us the Path Ahead?	12
A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle That Underlies Healthy Communities	12
Knowledge and Practice of Pinworm Infection in Preschool Children, Jiangsu Province, China, 2019–2020	12
Subscription Form	12
Table of Contents	12
Looking Back: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care in Louisiana	12
Erratum In: “Control of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates at a Spanish University With In-Person Class Attendance”	12
A Medicaid-Funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020‒2022	12
The Future of Pharmacist-Delivered Status-Neutral HIV Prevention and Care	12
Use of a Learning Community to Expand Access to Contraception	12
Vaccine Resistance and History in the Land of Liberty	12
Mastheads	12
School Mandate and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Prekindergartners in New York City, 2012–2019	12
Strategies to Increase the Population-Level Impact of Naloxone Distribution in Communities Highly Affected by the Overdose Crisis	12
Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study	11
The Plight of Marginalized Populations in 2025: The Assault on Health Equity Through a Systems Lens	11
Evaluation of the Ontario Mandatory Working-at-Heights Training Requirement in Construction, 2012‒2019	11
“Whiteness” and the Opioid Epidemic: A Construct in Need of Elaboration	11
Are State-Level Policies Supporting Community Health Worker Employment? The Jury Is Still Out	11
Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement	11
Closing Gaps Between Cannabis Policy and Scientific Understanding	11
Lessons From COVID-19 Testing Research: The Power of Rapid Response	11
Fleeting Fixes, Fractured Systems: Confronting the Continuing Crisis of the Public Health Workforce	11
A Social Vulnerability Framework to Identify and Assist With Environmental Injustice	11
Cancer Care Access in Chile’s Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Longitudinal Impact of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Abortion Service Delivery in Ohio, 2022‒2023	11
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	11
Shooting at the CDC: Tragedy, Turmoil, and Resilience	11
Vaccine Solidarity Requires Social Justice: A Public Health of Consequence, February 2022	11
Bringing an Equity Lens to Address the Evolving Overdose Crisis: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2023	11
The War on Drugs, Racialized Capitalism, and Health Care Utilization Among White People Who Use Drugs in 22 Rural Appalachian Counties	11
Adolescents’ Mental Health: Disparities, Prevention Strategies, and Future Directions	11