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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	225
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	216
A Prologue to the AJPH Supplement: Using Evidence to Expand Contraceptive Access	187
Mastheads	142
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	131
Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	127
What Is Public Health? An Interview With Former Governor John Kasich	119
Designing Surveillance at a Population Level	107
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	89
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	88
US Government Health Agencies’ Efforts to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma	81
Table of Contents	73
Large-Scale Implementation of a Daily Rapid Antigen Testing Program in California for Detecting SARS-CoV-2	72
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	72
Structural Interventions That Reduce HIV Vulnerability: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2022	69
Self-Reported Health Indicators in the US Army: Longitudinal Analysis From a Population Surveillance System, 2014‒2018	66
Subscription Form	65
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	64
A Community-Based Participatory Intervention in the United States Using Data to Shift the Community Narrative From Deficits to Strengths	63
Drug Overdose Epidemic Colliding With COVID-19: What the United States Can Learn From France	63
Structural Racism, Poverty, and Sexism Shape the History of and Response to Childhood Maltreatment Among Incarcerated Individuals	61
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	60
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	60
Partnering With Churches to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Trustworthy Contexts	54
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	53

“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”: Affirming the Call to Critically Engage Public Health	52
Occupational Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Indigenous Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2020–2022	50
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population Health	49
Association Between the New York SAFE Act and Firearm Suicide and Homicide: An Analysis of Synthetic Controls, New York State, 1999‒2019	47
Tobacco Control Leaders Call for a Balanced Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Nicotine Vaping	46
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	46
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	45
Table of Contents	44
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	44
Tackling Wicked Problems: The Power of Community Among the Unhoused	43
Identification of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals in the All of Us Research Program, 2017–2022	42
Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023	41
Wastewater Surveillance: A Rare Bipartisan Opportunity to Strengthen Public Health	40
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	40
Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022	39
Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide	39
Changes in Abortion Access, Travel, and Costs Since the Implementation of State Abortion Bans, 2022–2024	38
State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020	37
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations in Young Infants After the Introduction of Paid Family Leave in New York State, 2015‒2019	36
Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States	36
Coining Intersectional Stigma: Historical Erasures and The Future	35
Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions	35
Training the Next Generation of Public Health Professionals	35
Workplace Leave and Breastfeeding Duration Among Postpartum Women, 2016–2018	34
Violence and Depression Among Adolescent Boys in Soweto, South Africa, 2020‒2023	34
Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson	34
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Visibility and Data Equity: Insights From NIH RADx-UP	34
Disaggregating Office of Management and Budget Race/Ethnicity Data to Examine Racial Disparities in Late-Stage HIV Diagnosis, Hawaii, 2010–2022	34
Regulation of Cannabis Retailers: Facilitating Responsible Adult Use and Promoting Health Equity While Preventing Access to Minors	33
Prior Authorization Requirements and Medicaid Enrollees’ Use of Tobacco Cessation Medications, Colorado, 2023	33
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	33
AJPH Peer Reviewers: Thank You for Your Services	33
The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health	32
Continuing Education	31
Statement of Ownership	31
The Challenges of Public Health Leadership	30
Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023	29
The Peace Exchange: Physical and Psychological Sacrifices of Military Personnel From Historically Marginalized Backgrounds	29
Wilner and Holton Respond	29
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two Sides of the Coin	29
Table of Contents	29
Public Health Common Ground: The Proof by COVID-19	29
Suicide and the Solitary Life: Differential Risks of Living Alone Across Sociodemographic Groups	28
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives: A Critical Perspective	28
To End Youth Vaping as an On-Ramp to Addiction, Close Legal Loopholes and Rigorously Enforce the Law	28
Public Health Across the Political Spectrum for All	28
Seroprevalence Studies Are Critical Early Pandemic Tools, and They Were Underappreciated During COVID-19	28
Understanding Barriers to COVID-19 Testing Among Rural and Urban Populations in Kansas	27
Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024	27
Sexually Transmitted Infection Disparities and Social Determinants of Health in California, 2013‒2021	27

Table of Contents	26
Advancing Pediatric Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection	26
Measurement Matters for Transgender Veterans’ Visibility in the Electronic Health Record	26
Table of Contents	26
Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Moving From Evidence to Action	26
Mastheads	26
Mastheads	26
Vulnerability and Resilience: Use and Misuse of These Terms in the Public Health Discourse	26
Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction	25
Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program	25
Competencies, Training Needs, and Turnover Among Rural Compared With Urban Local Public Health Practitioners: 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey	25
Characteristics Associated With a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis, Vaccine Uptake, and Intention to Be Vaccinated Among Essential Workers in the US Household Pulse Survey	25
Reaching Vulnerable and Underserved Communities in the US Southwest Through a Successful COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership	25
Bold Action Needed for Equitable Access to Nutrition Assistance by All	25
Advancing Equity in Local Health Departments: An Inside-Out Approach	24
The Influence of a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Vaccination Rates in a University Setting	24
AJPH Peer Reviewers 2023–2024: Thank You for Your Services	24
Common Data Element (CDE) Success from Community-Engagement Not Mandates: If You Build It [Data Warehouse], Will They [Participants] Come?	23
Evaluation of a Photovoice Exhibit About Immigrant Health Priorities in Southeast Minnesota	23
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership	22
Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural and Underserved Arizona: Experiences From Three County Health Departments	22
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
From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window	22
Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area	22
Knowledge Translation and the Opioid Crisis	21
Documenting Our History, Protecting Our Futures: Queer Communities	21
The Short and the Long Arm of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Direct and Indirect Effects of the US Economic Lockdown	21
Embracing Advanced Methodology to Improve Population Health	21
Rethinking “Herd” Mentalities and Rethinking the Value of the History of Public Health	21
Registered Nurses’ Well-Being, Michigan, 2022	20
Evaluating Algorithmic Approaches to Uncover Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Scientific Authorship	20
Reshaping Contraceptive Access Efforts by Centering Equity, Justice, and Autonomy	20
Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years	20
Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)	20
Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach	20
The Need for Comprehensive and Timely City-Level Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injury Surveillance	20
Erratum In: “Impact of a Permitless Concealed Firearm Carry Law in West Virginia, 1999–2015 and 2016–2020”	19
Gurbaxani et al. Respond	19
Why Was COVID-19 Not the First Leading Cause of Death in the United States in 2020? Rethinking the Ranking List	19
Career Opportunities	19
Is the Probation Population’s Health and Health Care Utilization Gendered?	19
Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers	19
Social Justice and Public Health: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2024	19
Disparities in Health and Economic Burdens of Cancer Attributable to Suboptimal Diet in the United States, 2015‒2018	19
Subscription Form	19
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean	19
Adult Day Services, Health Equity for Older Adults With Complex Needs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Benefits of Frequent HIV Testing in the THRIVE Demonstration Project: United States, 2015–2020	18
Portion Sizes of Ultra-Processed Foods in the United States, 2002 to 2021	18
Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in the LGBTQIA Community	18
Tobacco Company Efforts to Persuade Consumers to Fight the Proposed Federal Menthol Cigarette and Flavored Cigar Bans in the United States	18
The USDA’s Actions to Promote and Elevate Nutrition Security During the First 1000 Days	18
Health Equity Research: A Clarion Call to Focus on Racism, Not Race	18
Operationalizing Meaningful Community Engagement to Reduce the Burden of Multiple Chronic Conditions	18
COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Among New York City Parents of Children Aged 5–11 Years	18
Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022	18
Untangling Concepts of Financial Circumstances for Public Health Professionals and Scholars: A Glossary and Concept Map	18
Health Remedies as a Source of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic Exposure, New York City, 2010–2019	18
Improving Data Surveillance Resilience Beyond COVID-19: Experiences of Primary heAlth Care quAlity Cohort In ChinA (ACACIA) Using Unannounced Standardized Patients	18
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	18
Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind	17
COVID-19—The Historical Lessons of the Pandemic Reinforce Systemic Flaws and Exacerbate Inequity	17
Equitable COVID-19 Testing Access for Underserved Communities: The Success of Vending Machines	17
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police	17
Association of Local Cannabis Policy and Retail Availability With Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Northern California	17
On Race and Place in Substance Use Research	17
Helm-Murtagh and Erwin Respond	17
Medication Abortion “Reversal” Laws: How Unsound Science Paved the Way for Dangerous Abortion Policy	17
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005–2021	17
Beyond Stigma: The Case Against the Criminalization of Sex Work for HIV Prevention and Health Equity	17
Defining Climate Justice in Nursing for Public and Planetary Health	16
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs	16
Adolescent Dating Violence and Suicide Planning Among Girls in US High Schools: An Intracategorical Intersectional Analysis by Race and Ethnicity	16
Adapting Survey Data Collection to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From a Local Health Department	16
Social and Environmental Stressors of Urban Oil and Gas Facilities in Los Angeles County, California, 2020	16
Data Related to Social Determinants of Health Captured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	16
Social Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Depression Screening of US Adolescents, 2016 to 2021	16
Nurturing Innovation at the Roots: The Success of COVID-19 Vaccination in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities	16
Black Race Matters in the Latino Population	16

Democratizing Research With Data Dashboards: Data Visualization and Support to Promote Community Partner Engagement	16
Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions	16
Adherence to Social-Distancing and Personal Hygiene Behavior Guidelines and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis: Evidence From the Understanding America Study	16
Table of Contents	15
Revisiting the Protective Value of Barrier Face Coverings After the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Mastheads	15
Diversity of End-of-Life Care in the Boom of Deaths at Old Age	15
The Untapped Potential of Precision Health to Improve Heat Resilience for Those Who Need It Most	15
Connecting the Dots: Public Health, Clinical, and Community Connections to Improve Contraception Access	15
Data Democratization for Health Equity: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2023	15
Erratum In: “Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives”	15
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in the Active Component US Military	15
The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill	15
Addressing Misinformation: A More Nuanced Understanding for Public Health Professionals	15
Narratives Are Useful Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Risk Communication	15
Structural Inequities, HIV Community-Based Organizations, and the End of the HIV Epidemic	15
Subscription Form	15
Yes, Food Portion Sizes and People Have Become Bigger and Bigger. What Is to Be Done?	15
Mastheads	15
Table of Contents	15
The Escalating War on Immigrants Is a Public Health Crisis	14
Gendered Racism: “A Different Interpretation of the Same Facts” About the HIV Epidemic Among Black Women in the United States	14
Keeping Public Health Advocacy Strong	14
Table of Contents	14
Erratum In: “Erratum In: ‘Living Alone and Suicide Risk in the United States, 2008–2019’”	14
Subscription Form	14
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals?	14
A Community-Based Youth Diversion Program as an Alternative to Incarceration, Illinois, 2017–2019	14
Black Women With HIV: Ongoing Challenges and New Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes	14
Promoting Evidence-Based Policy Solutions to the US Gun Violence Epidemic	14
Trends in US Life Expectancy: Falling Behind and Failing to Act	14
Unseen and Unheard: Increasing the Visibility of Limited English Proficiency Individuals Through a Language Justice Framework	14
The Evolving Overdose Crisis: United States Needs Robust Policy Change to Address the Fourth Wave	14
Mortality Inequities: Power, Theory, and Data Considerations	14
Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States	14
Making Vaccines Equitably Available to All Persons in Pima County, Arizona, 2020–2021	14
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Removal and Birth Intendedness: Moving Beyond the Binary	14
Balfour et al. Respond	14
Mastheads	14
Table of Contents	14
Benefits of Masks as a School-Based Prevention Intervention Outweigh the Risks	14
Changing Licensing and Credentialing Applications to Promote Health Workers’ Mental Health, Virginia, December 2022–September 2023	13
Structural Racism and Racial Trauma Among African Americans at Elevated Risk for HIV Infection	13
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Case for Disaggregated HIV Data and Tailored Interventions for African Immigrants	13
Implementation of Doxy-PEP in a Diverse Sexual Health Program in Northern Manhattan: The Doxy-Care Study	13
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the United States Using Enhanced Vital Records, 2016‒2017	13
Subscription Form	13
Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications	13
Championing the 2021 New York State Law: A Step Toward Data Disaggregation on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders	13
Paleofire Data for Public Health Nursing Wildfire Planning: A Planetary Perspective	13
Use of a Learning Community to Expand Access to Contraception	13
COVID-19–Related Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Other Marginalized Communities in the United States	13
Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”	13
Automated Opt-Out Hepatitis C Testing to Reduce Missed Screening Opportunities in the Emergency Department	13
Food Insecurity and Delayed or Forgone Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
New Abortion Bans Will Increase Existing Health and Economic Disparities	13
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository	13
SNAP: The Most Important Component of Our Efforts to End Food Insecurity in the United States	13
Vaccine Coverage Across the Life Course in Michigan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: January‒September 2020	13
The Environmental Injustice of Beauty Products: Toward Clean and Equitable Beauty	13
Conflicts of Interest	13
Investing in Public Health and Community Partnerships Reduced COVID-19–Related Disparities	13
Harm Reduction for Veterans (and Others) Who Carry Guns and Experience Anger Attacks	12
Table of Contents	12
Erratum In: “Control of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates at a Spanish University With In-Person Class Attendance”	12
Strategies to Increase the Population-Level Impact of Naloxone Distribution in Communities Highly Affected by the Overdose Crisis	12
A Medicaid-Funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020‒2022	12
Subscription Form	12
AJPH Global News	12
Vaccine Resistance and History in the Land of Liberty	12
Looking Back: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care in Louisiana	12
Evaluation of the Ontario Mandatory Working-at-Heights Training Requirement in Construction, 2012‒2019	12
A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle That Underlies Healthy Communities	12
Mastheads	12
Subscription Form	12
Is Omicron Showing Us the Path Ahead?	12
Oral Health of and Dental Workforce Among the Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States	12
A Four-Year Follow-Up to “Hosting Syrian Refugees”: Challenges, Resilience, and Small Joys During COVID-19	12
School Mandate and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Prekindergartners in New York City, 2012–2019	12
The War on Drugs, Racialized Capitalism, and Health Care Utilization Among White People Who Use Drugs in 22 Rural Appalachian Counties	11
The Plight of Marginalized Populations in 2025: The Assault on Health Equity Through a Systems Lens	11
Vaccine Solidarity Requires Social Justice: A Public Health of Consequence, February 2022	11
Are State-Level Policies Supporting Community Health Worker Employment? The Jury Is Still Out	11
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	11
Yellow Power: Building Asian Student Community Voices Against Gender-Based Violence Through Public Health Research and Art	11
Cancer Care Access in Chile’s Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Roe v Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration	11
Implementation of Baltimore City’s COVID-19 Isolation Hotel	11
Employee Cardiometabolic Risk Following a Cluster-Randomized Workplace Intervention From the Work, Family and Health Network, 2009–2013	11
The Murder of Black Women in the United States: A Public Health Crisis	11
“Whiteness” and the Opioid Epidemic: A Construct in Need of Elaboration	11
The Future of Pharmacist-Delivered Status-Neutral HIV Prevention and Care	11
Closing Gaps Between Cannabis Policy and Scientific Understanding	11
Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study	11
Bringing an Equity Lens to Address the Evolving Overdose Crisis: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2023	11