OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Knowledge, perceptions and practices towards blood donation among undergraduate medical students in an upcountry Ugandan university: A mixed methods study	59
Tuberculosis in prison: What about after release? The example of French Guiana	55
The feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness and impact of implementing person-centered communication for prevention of female genital mutilation in antenatal care settings in Guinea, Kenya and Som	53
Professionalisation experiences of a ‘business-minded’ HIV targeted intervention NGO in India: An organisational ethnography	41
Evolution of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV policy in Zambia: Application of the policy triangle to understand the roles of actors, process and power	30
COVID-19, violence, and mental health among Indigenous gay and bisexual men in Guatemala: An urgent call from key stakeholders	27
Health work and skills in the last mile of disease elimination. Experiences from sleeping sickness health workers in South Sudan and DR Congo	24
Correction	20
Supporting healthcare workers caring for ex-combatants: incentives among Colombian providers with FARC ex-combatants	19
Exploring terminology for puerperal sepsis and its symptoms in urban Karachi, Pakistan to improve communication, care-seeking, and illness recognition	18
Making global health ‘work’: Frontline workers’ labour in research and interventions	16
Doing ‘reciprocity work’: The role of fieldworkers in a mass drug administration trial in the Gambia	15
Impact of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on children’s health: Evidence and recommendations for mitigation	15
‘If they see you bleeding they will quarantine you’: Women’s help-seeking for violence during the Ebola and COVID-19 outbreaks in Sierra Leone	15
Perceived discrimination among Syrian refugees in Germany and its associations with mental health	15
Country and policy factors influencing the implementation of primary care-based alcohol screening: A comparison of Colombia, Mexico and Peru	15
Evaluation of a youth-led participatory action research to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights issues in Senegal	15
The social determination of health and the transformation of rights and ethics	15
Not business as usual: Engaging the corporate sector in India’s TB elimination efforts	14
Unveiling lives: A glimpse into the daily routines of individuals affected by leprosy in Malaysia using the walk-and-talk technique	14
Under-representation of low and middle income countries (LMIC) in the research literature: Ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals: have the trends changed?	14
Exploring the dynamics of workplace typologies for sex workers in Eastern Ukraine	13
Perspectives and experiences of Zambian pregnant and postpartum women receiving two intervention models to increase uptake of male partner HIV testing	13
Politics and pandemics	13
The governance of antimicrobial resistance in Brazil: Challenges for developing and implementing a one health agenda	13

Caring for children with Congenital Zika Syndrome: The unmet needs of mothers in Southern Colombia	13
Exploring the impact of military conflict on sex work in Ukraine: Women’s experiences of economic burden	13
Undoing elimination: Modelling Australia’s way out of the COVID-19 pandemic	13
The challenge of dealing with non-AIDS comorbidities for people living with HIV: Perspectives and experiences of patients and healthcare providers	12
Cancer screening research in Bangladesh: Insights from a scoping review	12
Substance use policy and practice in the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data	12
The varied perspectives of organisational effectiveness: What’s at stake for early childhood development programmes in Rwanda?	12
Parallel systems in healthcare: Addressing Indigenous health equity in Canada	12
Commentary: COVID-19 healthcare barriers around vaccine uptake among migrant workers within the Canadian Prairies	12
‘I am struggling to survive’ – limited living conditions increase the burden of HIV: A qualitative study	11
The erasure of infection-associated chronic conditions: Critical interpretive synthesis of literature on healthcare for long COVID and related conditions in Brazil	11
Evidence on factors influencing HPV vaccine implementation in South Asia: A scoping review	11
‘It’s a delicate topic’: Stigma, capabilities and young people’s mental health in post-conflict Colombia	11
Operational manager’s knowledge and attitudes toward data and universal health coverage indicators in primary health clinics in Ugu, South Africa	10
Promoting conspiracy theory: From AIDS to COVID-19	10
Healthcare providers intentions to use an electronic personal health record for undocumented migrants: A qualitative exploration study in The Netherlands	10
Resilience and associated factors in orphaned and separated adolescents in Kenya: Understanding the relationship with care environment and HIV risks	10
Cooperators or competitors? The interactions between WHO and the World Bank in global health governance	10
Implementation of a safer conception programme for HIV-affected men and women in rural Uganda	10
Organoids at the forefront of global health: accelerated research and ethical implications in the cases of Zika and COVID-19	10
Discrepancies in the portrayal of the COVID-19 vaccine in Chinese and US international media outlets: A corpus-based discursive news values analysis	10
Transactional sex, consumer society, and neoliberalism in Uganda: A political economic analysis of drivers and models of response	10
Hustling and suffering: Male sex workers and HIV interventions in Kenya	9
Foot care intervention delivered by community health worker (CHWs): A scoping review	9
‘We don't use the same ways to treat the illness:’ A qualitative study of heterogeneity in health-seeking behaviour for acute gastrointestinal illness among the Ugandan Batwa	9
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of women regarding breast and cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study in India	9
Priorities for global access to life-saving interventions during public health emergencies: Crisis nationalism, solidarity or charity?	9
An examination of sugar-sweetened beverage tax regulations in six jurisdictions: Applying a social justice perspective to beverage taxation and exemptions	9
Teachers’ perceptions of children’s access to toilets in urban ECDE institutions, and the psychosocial consequences	9
A scoping review of the integration of empowerment-based perspectives in quantitative intersectional stigma research	9
Gender and exposure pathways to zoonotic infections in communities at the interface of wildlife conservation areas of Uganda: A qualitative study	9
Mixed-methods findings from the Ngutulu Kagwero (agents of change) participatory comic pilot study on post-rape clinical care and sexual violence prevention with refugee youth in a humanitarian settin	9
The UK’s pandemic preparedness and early response to the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Acceptability of self-collected vaginal swabs and point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted and genital infections among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea	8
Experiences and challenges in sexual health service access among men who have sex with men in Kenya	8
Whole-of-community and intersectoral interventions that address alcohol-related harms: A scoping review	8
Ideological assumptions of Chile’s international migrant healthcare policy: A critical discourse analysis	8
Caring for children with SAM: Intersectional stories of shame, blame and stigmatisation in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya	8
Falling through the net: An adaptive assessment of the ‘Three Delays’ encountered by patients seeking emergency maternal and neonatal care within a remote health system on Lake Victoria, Kenya	8
Institutional gender mainstreaming in health in UN Agencies: Promising strategies and ongoing challenges	8
‘We like things tangible:’ A critical analysis of menstrual hygiene and health policy-making in India, Kenya, Senegal and the United States	8
A case study comparison of engaging community activists to prevent gender-based violence in Peru and Rwanda	8
Panama’s gender-based lockdown and the resilience of transgender activism: An interview with Pau González of Hombres Trans Panamá	8
‘It kills the freedom or the spirit of people being who they are’: impact of sexuality-based stigma and discrimination on the lives of gay and bisexual men in Kenya	8
Cultural considerations in health care capacity building: A qualitative study in Lesotho	8
Challenges implementing technology transfer as a viable pathway for equitable vaccine production and access: A case study of the mRNA vaccine hub in South Africa	7
Scoping review on lessons learnt on the promotion and use of drugs and traditional medicine in Africa during COVID-19	7
Rethinking water, sanitation, and hygiene for human growth and development	7
The precarity of mobile loan debt and repayment among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya: Implications for sexual health	7
Where is menstruation in global health policy? The need for a collective understanding	7

Engaging the public in decisions about emergency vaccine deployment strategies: Lessons from scenario-based discussions in Sierra Leone	7
How does domestic violence stigma manifest in women’s lives in Afghanistan? A study of survivors’ lived experiences of help-seeking across three provinces.	7
Parent–child conflict and adolescent health literacy in Mexico: Results from a nationwide dyad study in Mexico	7
Intimate partner violence is associated with cytomegalovirus among young women in rural South Africa: An HPTN 068 analysis	7
Introducing the Power In Nepali Girls (PING) empowerment scale	7
Perception about telemedicine services among parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders in a specialised tertiary centre in Oman	7
Like ticking time bombs. Improvising structural competency to ‘Defuse’ the exploding of violence against emergency care workers in Italy	7
Perceptions of patent and proprietary medicine vendors and communities of the tiered accreditation programme for family planning services in Lagos and Kaduna states, Nigeria	7
Women’s education and attitudes toward malaria in children: Evidence from Nigeria	7
Chasing targets in a pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on HIV outreach workers for MSM (men who have sex with men) in Jakarta, Indonesia	7
Rethinking cancer prevention for migrant populations in Queensland, Australia: A retrospective cohort study comparing culturally and linguistically diverse and Australian born cancer patients	7
Preparing for future pandemics while responding to the current ones in the midst of a planetary climate crisis: Can we face this triple global health challenge?	7
Indigenous sovereignty, data sourcing, and knowledge sharing for health	7
Mystifying medicines and maximising profit: Antibiotic distribution in community pharmacies in Thailand	7
Toward improving anal health care among GBMSM in Kenya: Lessons from a patient’s illness, treatment and recovery journey	7
Reimagining authorship guidelines to promote equity in co-produced academic collaborations	7
Challenges faced by migrant seasonal agricultural farmworkers for food accessibility in Spain: A qualitative study	7
Where is the bottleneck? Drones and the paradoxes of digitising medical supplies in Ghana's landscapes of care	7
Healthy food, unhealthy food: Indigenous perspectives on the nutrition transition	7
Forty days of regulatory emergency use authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines: Interfacing efficacy, hesitancy and SDG target 3.8	6
Human preparedness: Relational infrastructures and medical countermeasures in Sierra Leone	6
Taking small steps: Sensitising the police through male sex workers’ community-led advocacy in Nairobi, Kenya	6
Medical mistrust, discrimination and healthcare experiences in a rural Namibian community	6
Higher risk of COVID-19 infection among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar under the military coup	6
Social risks, economic dynamics and the local politics of COVID-19 prevention in Eldoret town, Kenya	6
Exploring the intersectionality of stigma and substance use help-seeking behaviours among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or otherwise gender or sexuality minority (LGBTQ+) ind	6
Teacher and caregiver perceptions of family engagement in teacher-led task-shifted child mental health care in a low-and-middle-income country	6
Technologies that empower women for better access to healthcare in India – A scoping review	6
Learners’ viewpoints on the possibilities and limitations imposed by social contexts on online group-based participatory interventions to address violence	6
Indigenous sovereignty in research and epistemic justice: Truth telling through research	6
What it takes to get it right: A qualitative study exploring optimal handover of health programmes in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone	6
Navigating uncertainties of death: Minimally Invasive Autopsy Technology in global health	6
Reimagining global health: From decolonisation to indigenization	6
The family context of ASHA and Anganwadi work in rural Rajasthan: Gender and labour in CHW programmes	6
Comparative situational analysis of comprehensive abortion care in four Southern African countries	6
Mapping out a Canadian university’s trauma-informed landscape: A preliminary exploration	6
What matters most in Cirebon, Indonesia: cultural nuances to health-related stigma	6
Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation	6
“how shall I say love … ”: Reimagining a non-relational geopolitics of love in the time of COVID-19	6
Associations between climate change-related factors and sexual health: A scoping review	6
Concerns about starting antiretroviral treatment among pregnant women in Lesotho	6
Outcomes of substance use and sexual power among adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town: Implications for structural and cultural differences	5
Common mental disorders and coping strategies amongst internally displaced Colombians: A systematic review	5
COVAX and the rise of the ‘super public private partnership’ for global health	5
Individual and community experiences and the use of language in understanding diabetes and depression in rural Kenya	5
Scrutinising delay in leprosy diagnosis in Colombia: perceptions and experiences by leprosy health professionals	5
Contextualising men’s role and participation in PMTCT programmes in Malawi and Zambia: A hegemonic masculinity perspective	5
A light touch intervention with a heavy lift – gender, space and risk in a global vaccination programme	5
‘Rio Negro, We care’. Indigenous women, cosmopolitics and public health in the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Using photovoice to inform and support health systems to reach marginalised populations: experiences from six low- and middle-income countries	5
Science, health, and human rights	5
The silent shot : An analysis of the origin, sustenance and implications of the MMR vaccine – autism rumour in the Somali diaspora in Sweden and beyond	5
Learning from the strengths of health care in schools in Brazil & opportunities for contemporary global school health	5
Evaluation of human papillomavirus (HPV) knowledge among healthcare professionals: A study of conference attendees in Angola	5
Assessing the social patterning and magnitude of inequalities in sexual violence among young women in Uganda: Findings from 2016 demographic and health survey	5
Understanding the financial burden of incomplete abortion: An analysis of the out-of-pocket expenditure on postabortion care in eight public-sector health care facilities in Dakar, Senegal	5
Love and anger: Putafeminismos/whore feminisms in Brazil	5
The cost of inaction on preconception health in Nigeria: An economic impact analysis	5
Adolescent pregnancy outcomes in Jos, North Central Nigeria: The roles of disclosure and social support systems	5
Perceptions, preferences, and experiences of tuberculosis education and counselling among patients and providers in Kampala, Uganda: A qualitative study	5
From policy to practice: syndemic and intersectional challenges to ART adherence for transgender women under India's post-test and treat policy	5
Integrated health services for refugee and host populations in Uganda: A qualitative study of stakeholder’s perspectives	5
The politics and governance of drug production in public-private partnerships: Brazil ’ s response to hepatitis C	5
Disparities in self-reported exposure to tobacco marketing among youth and young adults from low-socioeconomic status neighbourhoods in Mexico City	5
Barriers in access to services and information gaps by genders and key populations in the national Tuberculosis programme in Cambodia	5
Examining factors impacting acceptance of COVID-19 countermeasures among structurally marginalised Canadians	5
Persistence of female genital mutilation/cutting in two Kenyan communities: What can we learn from change that falls short of abandonment?	5
The Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS): Using VACS data to drive programmes and policies	5
The transformative terrain: An in-depth analysis of trends in self-managed abortion in India using NFHS-5 national data	5
Self-rated physical health, health-risk behaviors, and disparities: A cross-sectional study of youth in the slums of Kampala, Uganda	5