BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Global Health is 11. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Incidence, long-term predictors and progression of chronic kidney disease among African migrants and non-migrants: the transcontinental population-based prospective RODAM cohort study720
Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a natural experiment670
A meta-core outcome set for stillbirth prevention and bereavement care following stillbirth in LMIC322
Build on HIV investments for future pandemic preparedness244
Systematic review of the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of non-pneumatic antishock garments in low- and middle-income countries: lessons for global health226
A health systems approach to more effective decentralised HIV prevention: development of Malawi’s Blantyre Prevention Strategy192
Implications for developing global health education in China: evidence from an undergraduate teamwork with role-play190
Proof-of-principle of a technology transfer of a dried blood virus neutralisation assay to a Gavi-eligible country168
Factors driving adolescent tuberculosis incidence by age and sex in 30 high-tuberculosis burden countries: a mathematical modelling study167
Following the science? Views from scientists on government advisory boards during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study in five European countries155
Problematic problem diagnostics: why digital health interventions for community health workers do not always achieve their desired impact140
Using routine health data to evaluate the impact of indoor residual spraying on malaria transmission in Madagascar139
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services119
Public health emergency operation centres: status, gaps and areas for improvement in the Eastern Mediterranean Region116
Socio-structural influences on unintended pregnancy among girls aged 15–17 years in Papua New Guinea115
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos115
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context114
Implications of conflict on vaccination in the Sahel region112
Aspirations and realities of intergovernmental collaboration in national- level interventions: insights from maternal, neonatal and child health policy processes in Nigeria, 2009–2019110
Recommendations for developing effective and safe paediatric and congenital heart disease services in low-income and middle-income countries: a public health framework108
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health104
Reductions in under-5 mortality and public health improvements of the China Healthy Cities (Counties) initiative: a nationwide quasi-experimental study102
Overlooking the Canadian Indigenous demographic data: a response to Mallardet al's call for data on COVID-19 and Indigenous populations100
The absurdity of research registration for community-oriented knowledge coproduction97
No time for business as usual: can systems thinking help us to accelerate recovery for early child development?97
Monkeypox and the legacy of prejudice in targeted public health campaigns92
Dissent and the right to protest in context of global health90
Innovations to maximise impact of a data for decision-making training programme in the Federated States of Micronesia88
Health systems resilience and preparedness: critical displacements and disruption87
Self-management of iron and folic acid supplementation during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postnatal periods: a systematic review85
Recognising the elephant in the room: the commercial determinants of health82
Climate change and malaria, dengue and cholera outbreaks in Africa: a call for concerted actions81
Strengthening evidence to inform health systems: opportunities for the WHO and partners to accelerate progress on non-communicable diseases81
Health literacy development is central to the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases80
Under-five malnutrition among Palestine refugee children living in camps in Jordan: a mixed-methods study73
Creating health by building peace72
Media bias exposure and the incidence of COVID-19 in the USA70
Stewarding COVID-19 health systems response in Pakistan: what more can be done for a primary health care approach to future pandemics?69
Impact of measles vaccination strategies on vaccination rates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis69
Adherence to mask-wearing and its impact on the incidence and deaths of viral respiratory infectious diseases: a systematic review, meta-analysis and modelling study67
Immunisation health workforce capacity building in Southeast Asia: reflections from training programme implementation in Cambodia and Lao PDR65
Evaluating geographic accessibility to COVID-19 vaccination across 54 countries/regions63
A behavioural science framework for tackling upstream challenges in health systems62
Pacific priorities for the prevention of violence against women and girls61
Longitudinal functional status trajectories and its predictors among postpartum women with and without maternal morbidities in Northwest Ethiopia: a group based multi-trajectory modelling60
Contextual factors influencing implementation of tuberculosis digital adherence technologies: a scoping review guided by the RE-AIM framework60
Maintaining non-communicable disease (NCD) services during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from Thailand59
Approaching the SDG targets with sustained political commitment: drivers of the notable decline in maternal and neonatal mortality in Morocco58
Oral varespladib for the treatment of snakebite envenoming in India and the USA (BRAVO): a phase II randomised clinical trial58
Mitigating donor interests in the case of COVID-19 vaccine: the implication of COVAX and DAC membership56
Evaluation of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in the pandemic response in Iraq: pandemic preparation within a recovering healthcare infrastructure56
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 China56
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse55
Scent dogs in detection of COVID-19: triple-blinded randomised trial and operational real-life screening in airport setting54
Taking stock of global commitments on antimicrobial resistance53
How to use heat-stable carbetocin and tranexamic acid for the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage in low-resource settings53
Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries: the COSMOS study52
COVID-19 caused significant declines in regular vitamin A supplementation for young children in 2020: what is next?52
Climate cardiology52
Transforming global health: decoloniality and the human condition52
Authors’ reply to ‘assessments of the performance of pandemic preparedness measures must properly account for national income’51
Shifting official development assistance during COVID-19: earmarking, donor concentration and loans51
COVID-19 raises a health and human rights imperative to advance a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons51
Value for money of medicine sampling and quality testing: evidence from Indonesia50
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data50
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman49
Reimagining human rights in global health: what will it take?49
Monkeypox: balancing response and future preparedness during a global public health emergency49
Inequities in the deployment of COVID-19 vaccine in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2020–202148
A framework for managing health research capacity strengthening consortia: addressing tensions and enhancing capacity outcomes48
Development and implementation of the maternal and child health Handbook in Angola46
How do tobacco control policies work in low-income and middle-income countries? A realist synthesis46
Narratives of veterinary drug use in northern Tanzania and consequences for drug stewardship strategies in low-income and middle-income countries45
Patient–physician communication on herbal medicine use during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis45
Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis infection prevention and control interventions in South African clinics: a model-based economic evaluation informed by complexity science methods44
Estimation of country-specific tuberculosis resistance antibiograms using pathogen genomics and machine learning44
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 trial44
The cost effectiveness and optimal configuration of HIV self-test distribution in South Africa: a model analysis43
ART initiations following community-based distribution of HIV self-tests: meta-analysis and meta-regression of STAR Initiative data43
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it43
Rethinking trust in the context of mistreatment of women during childbirth: a neglected focus42
Strategies used by the soft drink industry to grow and sustain sales: a case-study of The Coca-Cola Company in East Asia42
Widening geographic range of Rift Valley fever disease clusters associated with climate change in East Africa42
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa42
Caught between violence: Mpox virus and the perils of neglect in Africa42
Critical failings in humanitarian response: a cholera outbreak in Kumer Refugee Camp, Ethiopia, 202341
Building implementable packages for universal health coverage41
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population41
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support41
Evidence-informed framework for gender transformative continuing education interventions for midwives and midwifery associations40
What works in global health partnerships? Reflections on a collaboration between researchers from Vietnam and Northern Ireland40
Attitudes towards FCTC Article 5.3 among tobacco control stakeholders in Thailand and their relationship with awareness of tobacco industry tactics40
The priority review voucher: a misconceived quid pro quo40
A narrative review of high-level isolation unit operational and infrastructure features39
Overriding drug and medical technology patents for pandemic recovery: a legitimate move for high-income countries, too39
Learning from COVID-19 to prevent and prepare for pandemics in the Eastern Mediterranean Region39
The effects of literacy on health in Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT): a systematic review and narrative synthesis39
Insights from a qualitative study of the procurement and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients in India39
What is a justice-oriented approach to global health?39
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis38
Respectful care an added extra: a grounded theory study exploring intrapartum experiences in Zambia and Tanzania37
How well do coverage surveys and programmatically reported mass drug administration coverage match? Results from 214 mass drug administration campaigns in 15 countries, 2008–201737
Understanding resilience, self-reliance and increasing country voice: a clash of ideologies in global health37
An exploration of stakeholder views and perceptions on taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in Ghana37
Emergent patterns in global health diplomacy: a network analysis of the resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 202236
Essential public health functions are not enough: fostering linkages between functions through National Public Health Institutes improves public health impact36
The role of the private sector in delivering essential packages of health services: lessons from country experiences36
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis36
Vaccine equity in COVID-19: a meta-narrative review35
Cocreated regional research agenda for evidence-informed policy and advocacy to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa35
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem35
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study35
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study35
Teaching spirituality to humanitarians34
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review34
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and response on the utilisation of health services in public facilities during the first wave in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo34
Lessons for the HIV response from structural innovations catalysed by COVID-1934
Diverse and competing interests around tobacco: qualitative analysis of two decades of parliamentary questions in India34
Increased utilisation and quality: a focus on inequality and a learning health system approach—explaining Nepal’s success in reducing maternal and newborn mortality 2000–202033
Snakebites and COVID-19: two crises, one research and development opportunity33
Building confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine in a polio-endemic country: strategic communication lessons from Pakistan33
The performance of digital technologies for measuring tuberculosis medication adherence: a systematic review33
Prevalence of Long COVID symptoms in Bangladesh: a prospective Inception Cohort Study of COVID-19 survivors33
The cost of inaction on health equity and its social determinants33
Conflicts of interest are harming maternal and child health: time for scientific journals to end relationships with manufacturers of breast-milk substitutes33
Transferable data exclusivity vouchers are not the solution to the antimicrobial drug development crisis: a commentary on the proposed EU pharma regulation32
Evaluation of the use of modelling in resource allocation decisions for HIV and TB32
SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021: a cross-sectional, nationally representative, age-stratified serosurvey32
Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on prevalence of malaria infection in malaria indicator surveys in Burkina Faso and Nigeria32
Understanding the extent of economic evidence usage for informing policy decisions in the context of India’s national health insurance scheme: Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY32
Rethinking public health campaigns in the COVID-19 era: a call to improve effectiveness, equity and impact32
Long-term retention and positive deviant practices in Uganda’s community client-led antiretroviral distribution groups (CCLADs): a mixed-methods study32
A model-based approach to estimating the prevalence of disease combinations in South Africa32
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long32
‘Staying alive’ with antiretroviral therapy: a grounded theory study of people living with HIV in Peru31
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study31
Four decades of epidemiological data reveal trajectories towards malaria elimination in Kheda district (Gujarat), western part of India31
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review31
Designathons in health research: a global systematic review31
WHO’s support for COVID-19 research and knowledge management in the Eastern Mediterranean Region31
In search of a ‘good number’: knowledge controversy and population estimates in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination31
Benefiting the NHS through innovation: how to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal31
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries31
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and mortality of zoonotic diseases in China31
Towards comprehensive clinical trials for new tuberculosis drug regimens: policy recommendations from a stakeholder analysis30
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region30
National public health institutes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Insights from experts in the field30
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health30
Mitigating the effects of COVID-19 on HIV treatment and care in Lusaka, Zambia: a before–after cohort study using mixed effects regression30
Relative efficiency of demand creation strategies to increase voluntary medical male circumcision uptake: a study conducted as part of a randomised controlled trial in Zimbabwe30
Revisiting health systems to integrate perinatal mental health into maternal and child health services: perspectives from research, policy and implementation30
Aligning the principles and practice of research integrity and research fairness in global health: a mixed-methods study30
The global health and economic burden of chikungunya from 2011 to 2020: a model-driven analysis on the impact of an emerging vector-borne disease29
Toward a more systematic understanding of water insecurity coping strategies: insights from 11 global sites29
Misguided charity: the bane of global health29
How can we better integrate the prevention, treatment, control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases with other health interventions? A systematic review29
Urgent support mechanism: saving millions of COVID-19 vaccines from expiry in Africa29
Utilisation, out-of-pocket payments and access before and after COVID-19: Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage Scheme29
Pathways to leadership: what accounts for women’s (in)equitable career paths in the health sectors in India and Kenya? A scoping review29
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care29
Useful or not? The discussion of traditional Chinese medicine to treat COVID-19 on a Chinese social networking site29
Landscape of official development assistance for nutrition data and information systems29
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia29
A scoping review of paediatric latent tuberculosis infection care cascades: initial steps are lacking29
A costing framework to compare tuberculosis infection tests28
Effect of peer-distributed HIV self-test kits on demand for biomedical HIV prevention in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a three-armed cluster-randomised trial comparing social networks versus dire28
Intimate partner violence against women and child maltreatment in a Brazilian birth cohort study: co-occurrence and shared risk factors28
Reframing the Three Delays framework: factors influencing referrals to facilities by matrones in rural Haiti28
Factors associated with the disbursements of development assistance for health in low-income and middle-income countries, 2002–201728
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: the management of members’ complaints by mutual health organisations in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo28
Beyond HIV prevalence: identifying people living with HIV within underserved areas in South Africa27
Humane shelter at home: a call to reimagine a core pandemic intervention27
Building up a genomic surveillance platform for SARS-CoV-2 in the middle of a pandemic: a true North–South collaboration27
Governance factors that affect the implementation of health financing reforms in Tanzania: an exploratory study of stakeholders’ perspectives27
Unmasking power as foundational to research on sexual and reproductive health and rights27
Overcoming challenges across the HIV care continuum in the Asia-Pacific region: expert recommendations27
Antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections among under-5 children in Bangladesh: a population-based survey27
Smart investment in global childcare requires local solutions and a coordinated research agenda27
Effectiveness of return-of-service schemes for human resources for health retention: a retrospective cohort study of four Southern African countries27
Convergence of HIV and non-communicable disease epidemics: geospatial mapping of the unmet health needs in an HIV hyperendemic community in South Africa26
Influences of community engagement and health system strengthening for cholera control in cholera reporting countries26
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership26
Ethical considerations of phone-based interviews from three studies of COVID-19 impact in Bihar, India26
Safeguarding HIV prevention and care services amidst military conflict: experiences from Ukraine26
Public health use of HIV phylogenetic data in sub-Saharan Africa: ethical issues25
Institutional leadership afterDobbs: a mixed methods analysis of US medical schools' public statements regarding abortion25
Colonisation and its aftermath: reimagining global surgery25
Prevalence and associations of COVID-19 testing in an online sample of transgender and non-binary individuals25
Codevelopment of COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidelines in lower-middle-income countries: the ‘SPRINT’ principles25
Unequal burden of COVID-19 in Hungary: a geographical and socioeconomic analysis of the second wave of the pandemic25
Challenges in maintaining medicine quality while aiming for universal health coverage: a qualitative analysis from Indonesia25
Mentorship as an overlooked dimension of research capacity strengthening: how to embed value-driven practices in global health25
Natural disasters, population displacement and health emergencies: multiple public health threats in Mozambique25
Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-1924
Human-centred design bolsters vaccine confidence in the Philippines: results of a randomised controlled trial24
Authorship inequalities in global health research: the IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration24
Research opportunities for the primordial prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease—streptococcal vaccine development: a national heart, lung and blood institute workshop report24
Comparing observed occurrence of mistreatment during childbirth with women’s self-report: a validation study in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria24
Are concepts of adolescence from the Global North appropriate for Africa? A debate24
The use of network meta-analysis in updating WHO living maternal and perinatal health recommendations24
A cluster-randomised controlled equivalence trial of the Surprise Soap handwashing intervention among older children living in a refugee settlement in Sudan24
Simplified models to assess newborn gestational age in low-middle income countries: findings from a multicountry, prospective cohort study24
Assessing vaccine introduction and uptake timelines in Gavi-supported countries: are introduction timelines accelerating across vaccine delivery platforms?23
The role of social media in public health crises caused by infectious disease: a scoping review23
Anticipating the future: prognostic tools as a complementary strategy to improve care for patients with febrile illnesses in resource-limited settings23
Whose voice counts? Achieving better outcomes in global sexual and reproductive health and rights research23
Understanding why and how youth-friendly health services improve viral load suppression among adolescents and young people living with HIV in Nigeria: realist evaluation with qualitative comparative a23
Mapping regional funding for COVID-19 research in the Asia-Pacific region23
Research priorities for the secondary prevention and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop report23
The international diffusion of food innovations and the nutrition transition: retrospective longitudinal evidence from country-level data, 1970–201023
The COVID-19 pandemic death toll in India: can we know better?23
Driving digital transformation of comprehensive primary health services at scale in India: an enterprise architecture framework23
Health expenditures by services and providers for 195 countries, 2000–201723
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax23
How to better engage the private sector in health service delivery in Africa22
Ten lessons learnt: scaling and transitioning one of the largest mobile health communication programmes in the world to a national government22
Mapping global trends in vaccine sales before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional time-series analysis22
COVID-19 vaccine trials with children: ethics pointers22
Comparison of community-led distribution of HIV self-tests kits with distribution by paid distributors: a cluster randomised trial in rural Zimbabwean communities22
Third party monitoring for health in Afghanistan: the good, the bad and the ugly22
Implementing maternal and newborn health quality of care standards in healthcare facilities to improve the adoption of respectful maternity care in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a controlled before 22
Interventions to address antimicrobial resistance: an ethical analysis of key tensions and how they apply in low- income and middle-income countries22
Annual cost savings of US$70 million with similar outcomes: vaccine procurement experience from Iraq22
Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame22
Hospital care for critical illness in low-resource settings: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic22
Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth: validity and reliability of community survey measures22
If we build it, will they come? Results of a quasi-experimental study assessing the impact of maternity waiting homes on facility-based childbirth and maternity care in Zambia22
Progress towards health equity in Vietnam: evidence from nationwide official health statistics, 2010-202022
Qualified, skilled or trained delivery care provider: a conundrum of who, where and when22
The cost of public health interventions to respond to the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo22
Compact for care: how the Affordable Care Act marketplaces fell short for a vulnerable population in Hawaii21
Crowdfunding for health research: a qualitative evidence synthesis and a pilot programme21
Sudan virus disease outbreak in Uganda: urgent research gaps21
Data-driven decision-making for district health management: a cluster-randomised study in 24 districts of Ethiopia21
Flashing red lights: the global implications of COVID-19 vaccination passports21
Adolescent birth rates and the urban social environment in 363 Latin American cities21
Overview of attacks against civilian infrastructure during the Syrian civil war, 2012–201821
Longitudinal study on quality of life following cervical cancer treatment in Botswana21
Educational approaches to teach students to address colonialism in global health: a scoping review21
Defending frontline defenders of sexual and reproductive health rights: a call to action-oriented, human rights-based responses21
Effect of home-based childcare on childhood mortality in rural Maharashtra, India: a cluster randomised controlled trial21
A network meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions for refugees and asylum seekers with PTSD21
Analysing COVID-19 outcomes in the context of the 2019 Global Health Security (GHS) Index21
Research within international non-governmental organisation programmes in low and middle-income countries: challenges amid opportunities21
ViSHWaS: Violence Study of Healthcare Workers and Systems—a global survey21
Cost-effectiveness and sustainability of improved hospital oxygen systems in Nigeria21
Strengthening health systems through surgery21
Breaking the silence on gendered harassment and assault of community health workers: an analysis of ethnographic studies21
Alternative healthcare delivery arrangements in Nepal: a systematic review of comparative effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness studies21
COVID-19 vaccination implementation in 52 African countries: trajectory and implications for future pandemic preparedness20
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