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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebuilding a US Federal Data Strategy After the End of the “Community Health Status Indicators”	208
Society’s Role in Addressing Mental Health, Grief Crisis: A Call for Public Support	186
To EHB 1638 or Not to EHB 1638? For Immunization Policymakers, That Is the Question	176
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	152
A Prologue to the AJPH Supplement: Using Evidence to Expand Contraceptive Access	128
Mastheads	127
US Government Health Agencies’ Efforts to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma	122
Health Coaching Across the Stages of Vaccine Readiness and Action: A Practical Guide for Public Health Nurses	115
Conflicts of Interest	102
Veteran Truckers, the Supply Chain, and the Metabolic Syndrome: A Convergence of Crises	88
Essential Strategies to Curb COVID-19 Transmission in Prisons and Jails	77
Mental Health Consequences of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Policing Among Adolescents in the United States and the United Kingdom	76
Large-Scale Implementation of a Daily Rapid Antigen Testing Program in California for Detecting SARS-CoV-2	73
Riley and Roy Respond	73
Piloting Public Health	72
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	72
Post–COVID-19 Public–Private Public Health Partnerships: A Student’s Perspective	72
COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Representation in Public Health Data	69
COVID-19 Policies and Sexually Transmitted Infections in 22 US States, January 2020–December 2021	67
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population Health	65
Katrina to Corona: Surges Urge United States to Learn	64
A Pathway to Equitable Health Care in America	60
Worker Health Inequities in Central America	60
Are Health Departments Outdated?	58
To Work With Marginalized Populations, Empathy Is Key	56

Sounding the Alarm for White America—and Maybe the Rest of Us	55
How Accountable to the Public Is Funding for Graduate Medical Education? The Case for State Medicaid GME Payments	54
AJPH Global News	53
Erratum In: People-Centered Innovations in Data Collection: The Oregon Experience	53
AJPH Global News	53
Vaccines: Containing COVID-19 and Building Long-Term Confidence	50
To Save Lives, We Need to Improve the Measurement of Death	47
The Importance of Reporting Lag in Assessing Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic	47
AJPH Global News	46
Career Opportunities	46
The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service’s Sickness Surveys	45
AJPH Global News	45
Department Chairs Weigh In: Environmental Health Education Is More Essential Than Ever	44
Public Health Insight From Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic	43
Conflicts of Interest	42
Marketplace	42
What Is Public Health? An Interview With Former Governor John Kasich	42
Psychotic Disorders and Structural Racism: On Considering Complexity	39
Mastheads	38
Residential Segregation and Cities’ Responses in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preexisting Structural Factors and Health Care Access	38
Subscription Form	38
Successful Strategies to Increase Cessation Rates Among Low-Income Maternal Smokers	37
Career Opportunities	36
Public Health Students to Fight COVID-19 Worldwide, Not Just at Home	35
Subscription Form	34
Deconstructing “Normal” for a More Equitable Post–COVID-19 World	34
Conflicts of Interest	34
Contact Tracing Could Exacerbate COVID-19 Health Disparities: The Role of Economic Precarity and Stigma	33
Youth Violence Prevention: Building Local Power and Empowering Youths	33
Screening for Individuals at Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: A Statewide Initiative, Georgia, 2012–2020	33
Has Public Health Become Illiberal?	32
Determinants of Staff Intent to Leave Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	32
Kids No Longer Smoke Cigarettes. Why Aren’t We Celebrating?	32
Reach and Engagement With Population Health Management Interventions to Address COVID-19 Among Safety-Net Health Care Systems	31
Long COVID Among People With Preexisting Disabilities	31
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	31
Occupational Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Indigenous Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2020–2022	31
Self-Reported Treatment Need and Barriers to Care for Adults With Opioid Use Disorder: The US National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2015 to 2019	30
SARS-CoV-2 Mitigation Strategies, Testing, and Cases at 254 Jails in the US Southeast, October 2020 to May 2021	30
Structural Racism and Pedestrian Safety: Measuring the Association Between Historical Redlining and Contemporary Pedestrian Fatalities Across the United States, 2010‒2019	30
New Insights on Trends in Overdose Deaths by Intent and Drug Involvement From Improved Public Health Monitoring	29
What Should the Public Health Policy Response Be to Harmful Exposure to Oil and Gas Development?	29
The Need for COVID-19 LGBTQ-Specific Data	28
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	28
Strategies to Improve COVID-19 Vaccination in a Pregnant, Marginalized Population: Quality Improvement Project	28
Observing an Anniversary: The 400 Years of Inequality Project	27
The Colorado Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy: Contraceptive Access and Impact on Reproductive Health	27
Why Is AJPH Publishing More Than Other Major Journals About Race and Racism?	27
Structural Racism, Poverty, and Sexism Shape the History of and Response to Childhood Maltreatment Among Incarcerated Individuals	27
Leading the World Again: Creating a 21st-Century Public Health Agency	27

Telemedicine Provision of Medication Abortion	27
Evaluating the Impact of Policies, Disasters, and Racism on Abortion Access: A Call for Mandated and Standardized Public Health Abortion Surveillance	27
Table of Contents	27
Effect of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic on Illinois Children Tested for Blood Lead Level and Exposure	27
The Languages of Public Health: Student Perspectives on Terms, Communities, and Language	27
Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being: A Public Health of Consequence, February 2024	26
Evaluating e-Connect: Mitigating Race by Gender Disparities in Behavioral Health Referral Among Youths on Probation, Northeast United States, 2019	26
When Public Health Terms Become Vernacular	26
State Medicaid Initiatives Targeting Substance Use Disorder in Criminal Legal Settings, 2021	26
One Afternoon at a Vaccination Clinic	26
US Communities Need More Accessible Data to Improve Health, Not Less	25
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	25
Unanticipated Pandemic Outcomes: The Assault on Public Health	25
Engaging the Poultry Industry to Vaccinate Vulnerable Populations, Arkansas, 2021–2022	25
COVID-19 Infections, Pandemic-Related Social and Economic Impacts, and Changes to Mental and Self-Rated Health Among Latinx Immigrant Housecleaners in New York City: The Safe and Just Cleaners Study	25
Pandemics and History: Context, Context, Context	25
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	25
Mastheads	24
Integrating Social Care and Medical Care: From the Why to the How and Back Again	24
2020 in AJPH: A Review and Thank You to Our Authors	24
Disparities in Overdose Deaths: Looking Back at Larochelle and Colleagues’ 2021 Paper	24
First Decade of Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program and Homelessness, 2012–2022	24
Structural Interventions That Reduce HIV Vulnerability: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2022	24
Malignant Neglect: Accounting for Public Disinterest in Deteriorating Health Outcomes in the United States	24
A New Model for Engagement and Action Mitigating COVID-19 Harm in Vulnerable Communities: The Work of Collaborative Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Initiatives in Three Southern States	23
Beyond #StopAAPIHate: Expanding the Definition of Violence Against Asian Americans	23
Addressing Racism in Research Can Transform Public Health	23
Slow Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Brazil Over a 6-Month Period: Report on 8 Sequential Statewide Serological Surveys Including 35 611 Participants	23
Changing the Narrative and Accelerating Action to Reduce Racial Inequities in Maternal Mortality	23
Monkeypox, After HIV/AIDS and COVID-19: Suggestions for Collective Action and a Public Health of Consequence, November 2022	23
Ensuring Progress Toward Ending the HIV Epidemic While Confronting the Dual Pandemics of COVID-19 and Systemic Racism	23
Toward a Socioecological Model of Training and Mentoring to Reduce Disparities in Mental Health Service Use Among Black Youths	23
COVID-19 Outcomes Among the Hispanic Population of 27 Large US Cities, 2020–2021	23
Prevention of Unwanted Sexual Contact Among Cadets at the United States Air Force Academy: A Brief Small-Group Intervention	23
COVID-19 Evaluation and Testing Strategies in a Federally Qualified Health Center	22
Examining Excess Mortality Among Critical Workers in Minnesota During 2020–2021: An Occupational Analysis	22
Subscription Form	22
Advancing Sexual and Gender Minority Population Health Using Electronic Health Record Data	22
Mobilizing Support for the Future of Advanced Public Health Nursing Education	22
Subscription Form	22
Strategies for Successful Vaccination Among Two Medically Underserved Populations: Lessons Learned From Hepatitis A Outbreaks	22
Police Drug Seizures Cannot Solve the Problem of Toxic Drug Supply in North America	22
Timely Overdose Death Reporting Is Challenging but We Must Do Better	22
Lifeguard Training Program and Drowning Death Rates in Ecuador, 2000–2019	22
The CDC’s Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among High-Risk and Underserved Populations	21
Interventions to Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 Among People Experiencing Sheltered Homelessness: Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2020–May 11, 2023	21
Table of Contents	21
Evaluating County Health Department Infrastructure Changes Intended to Improve Access to Federal Funding for Community-Based Organizations, Maricopa County, Arizona	21
Looking Back: Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Populations	21
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	21
Healthy Moms Clinic: Challenges and Opportunities of Integrating Postpartum Care Into Primary Care and Residency Education	21
Integrating Public Health and Clinical Training to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes	20
Providing Support for the Mental Health of Health Care Workers	20
Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Clinicians, and Public Health: An AJPH Supplement	20
Research Opportunities That Maximize Public Health Impact on the Opioid Overdose Epidemic	20
Lessons Learned in Building a Primary Care Training Program in Advanced Surgical Obstetrics: Implementation of STRETCH-OB	20
Effectiveness of CBT-Informed Behavioral Health Interventions for Health Care Workers in a Specialized Clinical Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Lessons Ignored: Children and Pandemics	19
Best Practices for Conducting Clinical Trials With Indigenous Children in the United States	19
Overcoming Barriers to Training the Next Generation of Public Health Professionals	19
State Mandates for Hearing Aid Coverage: An Opportunity for Improving Access to Hearing Health	19
Looking Back: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Provided Opportunity to Equitably Improve Meal Provision	19
Tracking Incarcerated Individual Mortality in Local Jails	19
Table of Contents	19
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	19
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	18
Setting the Stage for the Next Phase of Social Determinants of Health Research	18
Behavioral and Social Sciences Research: Addressing the US Opioid and Pain Crises	18
Breastfeeding by Disability Status in the United States: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2018–2020	18
The Role of Advance Purchasing Commitments in Government Drug Price Negotiations: Lessons From the COVID-19 Response	18
Mastheads	18
Caution Is Necessary When Estimating Treatment Need for Opioid Use Disorder Using National Surveys	18
Tackling the Lead Gremlins: A Response to Take-Home Lead Exposure in a Minnesota Industrial Facility, 2019	17
Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities	17
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	17
Quality and (Un)Certainty of Information: A Critical Concern for Building Common Ground	17
Mastheads	17
A Rights-Based Approach to Youth Inclusion in Public Health Policy	17
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	17
Subscription Form	17

Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	17
Rapid Antigen Screening of Students and Staff for SARS-CoV-2 in Rural School Districts, Pierce County, WA, 2020	17
I Hear You: Seeking Population Health Common Ground	17
South Pole 2020: The Year Without COVID-19	16
Contributions of the New Framework for Essential Public Health Functions to Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Improving the US and Global Pandemic Response: Lessons From Cuba	16
Achieving Healthiest Nation Status Is Both Attainable and Desirable	16
Mastheads	16
Table of Contents	16
Subscription Form	16
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	16
Countering the Antiscience of Abortion Regulation	16
New Frameworks for Engaging Communities to Confront HIV, COVID-19, and Climate Change Health Inequities	16
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Nutritional Benefits and Barriers Hindering Participation by Home-Based Childcare Providers	16
Erratum In: “SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death in Vaccinated and Infected Individuals by Age Groups in Indiana, 2021–2022”	16
Table of Contents	16
Subscription Form	16
Mastheads	16
A Measure of Hope: New Questions for Postpandemic Rebuilding	15
Countering Misinformation About Abortion: The Role of Health Sciences Librarians	15
Probability Samples Provide a Means of Benchmarking and Adjusting for Data Collected From Nonprobability Samples	15
Overcoming Public Health “Surveillance”: When Words Matter	15
The Food and Drug Administration’s Safety Surveillance of Adverse Event Cases Involving Cannabinoid Hemp Products, 2019–2023	15
Table of Contents	15
Subscription Form	15
A Social-Ecological Model for Understanding Cannabis Risks and Promoting Harm Reduction	15
Trends in Medical Encounters Involving Cannabis-Related Disorders Among US Medicare Beneficiaries, 2017–2022	15
Judicial Trends in the Era of COVID-19: Public Health in Peril	15
Mastheads	15
Public Health Nurses: The Most Essential Single Factor	14
All Infrastructure Is Health Infrastructure	14
Variation in Reporting of the Race and Ethnicity of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Across US States: April 12, 2020, and November 9, 2020	14
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations in Young Infants After the Introduction of Paid Family Leave in New York State, 2015‒2019	14
Impact of School Shootings on Adolescent School Safety, 2009–2019	14
The Federal Agencies’ Hidden Efforts to Produce Equitable Data	14
Play, Read, and Vote for Health	14
Extreme Heat Governance: A Critical Analysis of Heat Action Plans in California	14
Beyond Vaccination Mandates: Solidarity and Freedom During COVID-19	14
United States Federal Policies Contributing to Health and Health Care Inequities in Puerto Rico	14
Learning From COVID-19 to Improve Surveillance for Emerging Threats	14
Psychosocial Syndemic Burden, Sexual Behaviors, and Engagement in HIV Prevention Care Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youths: United States, 2022	14
Population Group Abortion Rates and Lifetime Incidence of Abortion: United States, 2008–2014	14
Addressing Vaccine Concerns: A Hopeful Path Forward for Vaccine Confidence	14
COVID-19 in Marginalized Communities: Shifting From Descriptive to Interventional Research	14
Subscription Form	14
HIV Is a Story First Written on the Bodies of Gay and Bisexual Men	14
Levels and Changes in Defensive Firearm Use by US Crime Victims, 1987‒2021	14
Dollar Stores and Food Access for Rural Households in the United States, 2008‒2020	14
The Economy as a Determinant of Pandemic Deaths	14
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	14
Connolly and Golden Respond	14
A Novel Bayesian Spatial–Temporal Approach to Quantify SARS-CoV-2 Testing Disparities for Small Area Estimation	14
A Novel Imputation Approach for Sharing Protected Public Health Data	14
Vaccine Hesitancy, Pharmaceutical Marketing, and Mistrusted Messengers	13
Safeguarding Infant Lives: The Unappreciated Effects of Voting Rights Enforcement	13
Impact of Gender Identity Field in the Veterans Health Administration Electronic Health Record, 2016‒2023	13
Table of Contents	13
Exposure to Inclusive Language and Well-Being at Work Among Transgender Employees in Australia, 2020	13
Impact of COVID-19 on People Experiencing Homelessness: A Call for Critical Accountability	13
Direct Estimation of Alcohol-Attributable Fractions for Suicide in the United States, 2021	13
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	13
Subscription Form	13
The Interplay of Workplace Redesign and Public Policy in the 21st Century	13
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	13
Latine Reproductive Health and Data Inequities Across the Life Course: A Call to Action	13
Building a Representative Local Public Health Workforce: Progress, Promise, and Looming Challenges	13
Geographic and Sociodemographic Variations in Prevalence of Mental Health Symptoms Among US Youths, 2022	13
Common Patterns of Cisgender Use in Public Health Articles and Their Implications for Gender Inclusivity Efforts, 2013‒2020	13
Mastheads	13
Speaking Truth to Power: Making Optimal Health a Top National Priority	13
Increasing Access Through Integration: Behavioral Health Services and Beyond	13
Who Counts and Who Gets Counted? Health Equity in Infectious Disease Surveillance	13
Mental Disorders, Gun Ownership, and Gun Carrying Among Soldiers After Leaving the Army, 2016–2019	12
Dead Labor: Mortality Inequities by Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States, 1986–2019	12
Homelessness Is a Form of Structural Violence That Leads to Adverse Obstetrical Outcomes	12
Bills to Restrict Access to and Harm From Indoor Tanning Facilities in US State Legislatures, 1992‒2023	12
Two Decades of Progress in Undergraduate Public Health: Where Do We Go From Here?	12
Enumeration 2024: What We Know and What We Wish We Knew About the Governmental Public Health Workforce in a COVID-19 Recovery Landscape	12
State Public Health Emergency Powers in Response to COVID-19	12
Incorporating Structural Racism, Employment Discrimination, and Economic Inequities in the Social Determinants of Health Framework to Understand Agricultural Worker Health Inequities	12
Wastewater-Informed Digital Advertising as a COVID-19 Geotargeted Neighborhood Intervention: Jefferson County, Kentucky, 2021–2022	12
Workplace Leave and Breastfeeding Duration Among Postpartum Women, 2016–2018	12
A School Nurse Perspective of Menstrual Health Equity	12
Street Trees and Public Health	12
Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid	12
Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide	12
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons From the 2008 Great Recession	12
Menstrual Health: Taking Action Against Period Poverty	12
The Pent-Up Demand for Breastfeeding Among US Women: Trends After COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place	12
The Public Health Implications of a Leaking Fire Backflow Preventer	12
Excess Mortality From Non–COVID-19 Causes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2020–2021	12
Hepatitis C in the United States: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	12
School District Prevention Policies and Risk of COVID-19 Among In-Person K–12 Educators, Wisconsin, 2021	12
Erratum In: “Retention of Community Health Workers in the Public Health Workforce: Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey, 2017 and 2021”	12
Examining the Impact of Minimum Handgun Purchase Age and Background Check Legislation on Young Adult Suicide in the United States, 1991–2020	12