BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The median citation count of BMJ Global Health is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health496
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it411
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review278
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories226
A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of application-based tiered care (Mom’s Good Mood) in treating perinatal anxiety within a primary health care system in China225
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem219
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response197
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal181
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study155
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy150
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study149
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context146
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries134
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact132
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos119
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review116
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long112
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support109
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India109
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care106
Creating health by building peace102
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data100
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region80
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study78
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services77
A multi-country comparison between mobile phone surveys and face-to-face household surveys to estimate the prevalence of non-communicable diseases behavioural risk factors in low- and middle-income se76
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population75
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health74
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management73
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis72
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling72
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana72
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic70
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse67
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum66
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health65
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review64
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals64
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa63
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax63
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman62
Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial60
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries57
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia55
Ask the people: developing guidelines for genomic research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples54
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership53
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union53
Global health at a crossroads: WHO’s 2025 Emergency Response to outbreaks, conflicts and humanitarian crises51
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis51
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya50
Mpox exposes fundamental obstacles for vaccinating children in outbreaks50
‘Knowing how the machine works’: a novel framework for engaging with the political determinants of health48
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa48
We move together: a realist evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Eastern Province, Zambia48
Enhanced or hindered research benefits? A realist review of community engagement and participatory research practices for non-communicable disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries46
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China46
Estimating the contribution of transmission in primary healthcare clinics to community-wide TB disease incidence, and the impact of infection prevention and control interventions, in KwaZulu-Natal, So46
Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates46
Co-creating an arts-based eye health education strategy in Zanzibar: process, outcomes and lessons learnt45
Primary healthcare system and provider responses to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan44
Inequity of healthcare access and use and catastrophic health spending in slum communities: a retrospective, cross-sectional survey in four countries44
Assessing the feasibility of partner-implemented digital payment systems for health workers: stakeholder perspectives from Uganda’s yellow fever mass vaccination campaign – a qualitative study44
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care from the perspective of fathers, partners and other family members: a qualitative evidence synthesis43
Tackling non-communicable disease risk in young adults across the Caribbean: a call to action43
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine42
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships41
Accelerating and sustaining progress: PEPFAR’s path to achieving 95-95-95 by 203041
Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial41
Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience: the case of Lebanon’s primary healthcare system41
A missing piece in the Health for Peace agenda: gender diverse leadership and governance40
Design, implementation and outcomes of a national oxygen distribution network in Lesotho40
Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors40
Missing piece: the imperative of gender-disaggregated data in unraveling health inequity40
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations39
Effects of PACK training on the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by primary care clinicians during 2 years of implementation in Florianópolis, Brazil: extended follow-up 39
Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–201639
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement in culturally sensitive research in southwestern Nigeria39
Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats39
A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa39
Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries38
Correction: A framework for community health worker optimisation in conflict settings: prerequisites and possibilities from Northwest Syria38
Noma as a neglected tropical disease: an opportunity to reconsider neglect in global health37
Correction for assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the international alcohol control study37
The Linda Kizazi study: a comparison of morbidity and mortality from birth to 2 years between children who are HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed, uninfected in the era of universal antiretroviral therapy37
The relationship between rural residence and cervical cancer screening in three sub-Saharan countries with different national screening policies37
The academy, a battleground for justice: a call for prioritarian scholarship37
The socioeconomic and health system determinants of financial protection indicators: a global systematic review (2008–2023)37
Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit37
Building professional capacity for quality improvement and patient safety in Georgia36
Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso36
Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness36
Acceptability and effectiveness of a study information video in improving the research consent process for youth: a non-inferiority trial36
A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings36
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada: a scoping review35
Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data35
The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era35
Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania35
An assessment of antimicrobial resistance national action plans and their impact on antibiotic use35
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update35
Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease35
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes35
Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018: a prospective surveillance34
Associations between social determinants of health and interpersonal violence-related injury in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study34
Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research34
A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries33
Health workforce supply, needs and financial feasibility in Lesotho: a labour market analysis33
Global insights can accelerate India’s journey towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem33
The impact of institutional delivery on neonatal and maternal health outcomes: evidence from a road upgrade programme in India33
The return of austerity imperils global health33
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study33
Tracking progress towards universal health coverage for essential health services in China, 2008–201833
Strengthening the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) COVID-19 vaccination information system33
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review33
The social dimensions of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo32
Lessons learnt from daily oral PrEP delivery to inform national planning for PrEP ring introduction for women in low-income and middle-income countries: a qualitative inquiry of international stakehol32
Quality of clinical evidence and political justifications of ivermectin mass distribution of COVID-19 kits in eight Latin American countries32
Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience31
Significance of timely responses to mental health crises during unprecedented societal and global changes using an agile, empathic and user-centred digital approach: lessons from the Hong Kong experie31
Engaging pharmacies in tuberculosis control: operational lessons from 19 case detection interventions in high-burden countries31
Green space exposure and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global analysis using Apple mobility data30
Estimating the burden of mpox among MSM in South Africa30
Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation30
Incentives in immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review mapping evidence on effectiveness and unintended consequences30
Evolution of assisted deliveries at primary healthcare centres in an unstable security context in Mali29
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data29
Geographic barriers to establishing a successful hospital referral system in rural Madagascar29
Social-ecological predictors of HIV testing among adult men: analysis of the 2022 Tanzania demographic and health survey data29
Conflict, sanctions and the struggles of Syrians for food security in the shadow of the UN Food Systems Summit 202129
Forecasting global progress in breast cancer control in the context of the sustainable development goals29
Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review29
COVID-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research29
Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review29
AVIVA: a telehealth tool to improve cervical cancer screening in resource-constrained settings28
Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review28
Uncovering systemic barriers related to equity, diversity and inclusion in child health research: a scoping review addressing marginalised communities28
Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis28
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change?28
Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations28
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis27
Supporting local ownership of transition processes: a key pathway to sustaining the HIV response27
Diagnostic accuracy of a simplified minimally invasive tissue sampling protocol for stillbirths in low-resource settings27
Can youth-centred sexual and reproductive health self-care and contraceptive innovation address unintended pregnancy among girls and young women? Some reflections from Asia and the Pacific27
Strengthening primary health care in Nigeria: a means to achieve universal health coverage27
Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau26
Recognising stillbirth as a loss of life and not a baby born without life26
Autonomy and independence: a critical imperative for midwifery26
Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research26
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa26
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994–201826
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda, February 202126
Mpox containment strategies in China, 2022–2023: from preparedness to legal management26
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis25
The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews25
Factors associated with fluoxetine adherence among outpatients with common mental disorders in Western Kenya25
Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond25
Understanding community health worker employment preferences in Malang district, Indonesia, using a discrete choice experiment24
‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala24
Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control24
Lessons learned from COVID-19 modelling efforts for policy decision-making in lower- and middle-income countries24
Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar24
Achieving universal health coverage; implementation of the ‘supporting physician retention in deprived areas’ programme in Iran24
Understanding factors impacting global priority of emergency care: a qualitative policy analysis24
The status and challenges of HPV vaccine programme in China: an exploration of the related policy obstacles24
Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study24
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 202124
Midwife-led birthing centres in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda: an economic evaluation of case study sites24
The future of global health: restructuring governance through inclusive youth leadership24
Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–202024
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a quasi-experimental study24
Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya24
Conscientious objection: a global health perspective24
A review of authorship in herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 202024
Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis24
Evaluation of a multicomponent child development intervention delivered through the government health system: a feasibility study23
The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord: establishing baseline consensus microbial data-sharing norms to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration23
The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults23
Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens23
Does the implementation of UHC reforms foster greater equality in health spending? Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in Burkina Faso23
Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health23
The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for23
Cost-effectiveness of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services in Africa: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial23
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency23
Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries22
Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone22
Inequalities in use of hospitals for childbirth among rural women in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative analysis of 18 countries using Demographic and Health Survey data22
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings22
Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?22
We have the evidence but governments must now build the systems to deliver on hand hygiene22
Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis22
Assessing the effectiveness of the expanded hepatitis A vaccination program in China: an interrupted time series design22
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–202121
Protracted armed conflict and maternal health: a scoping review of literature and a retrospective analysis of primary data from northwest Syria21
Roadblocks and solutions to planning surgical care for a billion Indians21
Fragile, handle with care: refining a key concept for global health and development21
Improving risk analysis of the environmental drivers of the spillover, emergence/re-emergence and spread of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Marburg virus and Middle East respiratory syndrome c21
Identifying implementation science research and policy priorities to advance universal health coverage: a multi-country modified Delphi study21
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape: current knowledge and gaps21
‘What we lacked was the courage to take decisions that differed from the rest of the world’: expert perspectives on the role of evidence in COVID-19 policymaking in Iraq21
Experiences of violence and discrimination among LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global cross-sectional analysis21
Hierarchy of qualities in global health partnerships: a path towards equity and sustainability20
Are maternal vaccines effective and safe for mothers and infants? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials20
Differences in mental health between younger and older adults in complex humanitarian settings in low-income and middle-income countries: retrospective analysis from Médecins Sans Frontières-supported20
Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand20
Improving healthcare accessibility for pregnant women and children in the context of health system strengthening initiatives and terrorist attacks in Central Mali: a controlled interrupted time series20
Quantifying the effects of attacks on health facilities on health service use in Northwest Syria: a case time series study from 2017 to 201920
How should morality play a role in global health?20
Multilevel determinants of community health workers for an effective maternal and child health programme in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review20
The Ethiopian Surgical Outcome Study (Ethio-SOS): a 7-day multicentre national prospective observational cohort study20
Climate change, resource insecurities and sexual and reproductive health among young adolescents in Kenya: a multi-method qualitative inquiry20
Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia19
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review19
Making ‘resilience’ useful again: recognising health system resilience as an effective boundary object19
A comparative analysis of supply chain factors impacting COVID-19 vaccine security in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs)19
Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional standardised patients study of adherence to national TB guidelines in urban Nigeria19
Risk communication and community engagement capacity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a call for action19
Universal access to comprehensive COVID-19 services for everyone in Thailand19
Aligning health worker education and learning approaches with population health needs: WHO’s Family Planning and Comprehensive Abortion Care Toolkit for the primary healthcare workforce19
Optimising the reach of mobile health messaging programmes: an analysis of system generated data for the Kilkari programme across 13 states in India19
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–201919
Barriers to community engagement during the response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda19
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda19
Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research19
Effect of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services on case detection in Africa: the INPUT stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial19
Enhancing research integration to improve One Health actions: learning lessons from neglected tropical diseases experiences19
Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways: a changing paradigm19
Transitioning the COVID-19 response in the WHO African region: a proposed framework for rethinking and rebuilding health systems19
Effects of a free health insurance programme for the poor on health service utilisation and financial protection in Senegal19
Decolonising global health by decolonising academic publishing19
Retention in the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory19
Budgetary impact of using BPaL for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis19
Claims data from health insurance programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an untapped resource to promote Universal Health Coverage19
Disseminating information on acute public health events globally: experiences from the WHO’s Disease Outbreak News19
Norm diffusion in global health governance: the role of think tanks19
Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study19
Cardiovascular health and economic outcomes under improved air quality in China: a modelling study19
The complexities of conflict-induced severe malnutrition in Sudan19
Kenya’s experience implementing event-based surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic18
Safeguarding in practice: anticipating, minimising and mitigating risk in teenage pregnancy research in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya18
Health system effectiveness of symptomatic malaria case management in Papua New Guinea18
National hospital costing systems matter for universal healthcare: the India PM-JAY experience18
Vaginal examinations and mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth in health facilities: secondary analysis of labour observations in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria18
Developing forecasting capacity for public health emergency management in Africa using syndemics approach: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic18
Postpartum recovery after severe maternal morbidity in Kilifi, Kenya: a grounded theory of recovery trajectories beyond 42 days18
Data for whom? Experiences and perceptions of a perinatal eRegistry in two hospitals in Mtwara region, Tanzania18
The autonomy of public health facilities in decentralised contexts: insights from applying a complexity lens in Kenya18
Primary health care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 South-East Asian countries: a cross-case synthesis with lessons for future health systems strengthening18
Public health emergency archetypes: a framework to guide efforts to ensure equitable access to medical countermeasures18
Ethical preparedness of data monitoring committees (DMCs) to oversee international clinical trials: a qualitative descriptive study18
Implementing Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in all countries in the WHO African region: process challenges, lessons learnt and perspectives for th18
The effect of an annual temporary abstinence campaign on population-level alcohol consumption in Thailand: a time-series analysis of 23 years18
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