BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Global Health is 10. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it654
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response569
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support287
Creating health by building peace257
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population210
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management190
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review168
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia151
Transition of obesity in India, 2006–2021: a state-wise investigation from an equity perspective142
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health130
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman125
Impact analysis and evaluation of the Ethiopian Neonatal Network124
Implementation pathways of a health services delivery redesign model to improve maternal and newborn outcomes in Kenya121
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries110
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care102
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis100
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum88
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories84
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region83
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic81
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse80
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries79
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context72
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services71
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy71
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data69
Evidence-based opportunities to address pandemic drivers via the Pandemic Agreement: lessons from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control67
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health65
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling65
The nexus of artificial intelligence and virology: transformative but with potential perils62
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study59
When disaster meets conflict: Bridging health, nutrition and equity in Myanmar59
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India58
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review56
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 China55
Co-creating a decision-making framework for primary healthcare models in conflict-affected Cameroon and Nigeria55
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review55
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals54
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana53
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 se52
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study51
School-based behaviour change intervention to reduce ultra-processed food consumption among adolescents: evidence from a cluster-randomised controlled trial in India50
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership50
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos49
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem48
Cost-effectiveness of modified fully oral 9-month treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Moldova47
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis47
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study46
Mpox exposes fundamental obstacles for vaccinating children in outbreaks45
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax45
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 44
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes44
‘Knowing how the machine works’: a novel framework for engaging with the political determinants of health44
Projections of dengue epidemics attributable to climate change in Peru43
From shock to resilience in GBV and SRH services: the role of research43
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review43
Assessing the feasibility of partner-implemented digital payment systems for health workers: stakeholder perspectives from Uganda’s yellow fever mass vaccination campaign – a qualitative study42
Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors42
We move together: a realist evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Eastern Province, Zambia42
Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates41
Risk and protective factors of depression among caregivers of children with disabilities in rural Rwanda41
Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit41
Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research40
Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso40
Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience: the case of Lebanon’s primary healthcare system40
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine39
Tackling non-communicable disease risk in young adults across the Caribbean: a call to action39
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships39
Missing piece: the imperative of gender-disaggregated data in unraveling health inequity38
Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats38
A missing piece in the Health for Peace agenda: gender diverse leadership and governance38
Noma as a neglected tropical disease: an opportunity to reconsider neglect in global health37
The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era37
The academy, a battleground for justice: a call for prioritarian scholarship37
Building professional capacity for quality improvement and patient safety in Georgia37
Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries37
The burden, clinical outcomes and risk factors related to neglected tropical diseases and malaria in migrant populations in the Middle East and North Africa: a systematic review and meta-analyses36
Retention and effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-G) to treat depression at scale in Uganda and Zambia36
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 countries36
Association between timeliness of detection, notification and response and the magnitude, severity and duration of disease outbreaks: a retrospective review of 84 outbreaks in Uganda, 2017–202236
Strengthening the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) COVID-19 vaccination information system36
Shifting power dynamics in global health governance: a challenge and an opportunity for Asia and the Global South36
The return of austerity imperils global health35
Correction: A framework for community health worker optimisation in conflict settings: prerequisites and possibilities from Northwest Syria35
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 therapy35
Acceptability and effectiveness of a study information video in improving the research consent process for youth: a non-inferiority trial35
Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data35
Correction for assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the international alcohol control study35
Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–201634
Global health at a crossroads: WHO’s 2025 Emergency Response to outbreaks, conflicts and humanitarian crises34
Design, implementation and outcomes of a national oxygen distribution network in Lesotho34
A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries34
Integration of family planning and nutrition programmes in 64 WHO member states of Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia regions: findings from a survey of Ministry of Health officials33
The impact of institutional delivery on neonatal and maternal health outcomes: evidence from a road upgrade programme in India33
An assessment of antimicrobial resistance national action plans and their impact on antibiotic use32
Accelerating and sustaining progress: PEPFAR’s path to achieving 95-95-95 by 203032
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada: a scoping review32
Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania32
Co-creating an arts-based eye health education strategy in Zanzibar: process, outcomes and lessons learnt32
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa32
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations32
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care from the perspective of fathers, partners and other family members: a qualitative evidence synthesis32
A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa31
Tracking progress towards universal health coverage for essential health services in China, 2008–201831
A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings31
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update31
The socioeconomic and health system determinants of financial protection indicators: a global systematic review (2008–2023)30
Health workforce supply, needs and financial feasibility in Lesotho: a labour market analysis30
The relationship between rural residence and cervical cancer screening in three sub-Saharan countries with different national screening policies30
Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease30
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya30
Primary healthcare system and provider responses to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan29
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China28
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement in culturally sensitive research in southwestern Nigeria28
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study28
Global insights can accelerate India’s journey towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem28
Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–202027
Social-ecological predictors of HIV testing among adult men: analysis of the 2022 Tanzania demographic and health survey data27
Green space exposure and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global analysis using Apple mobility data27
Evolution of assisted deliveries at primary healthcare centres in an unstable security context in Mali27
Autonomy and independence: a critical imperative for midwifery27
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data27
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a quasi-experimental study26
Starved futures in the Gaza Strip: long-term outcomes of childhood malnutrition as a humanitarian emergency26
Factors associated with fluoxetine adherence among outpatients with common mental disorders in Western Kenya26
Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience26
Estimating the burden of mpox among MSM in South Africa26
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa26
Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research25
Mpox containment strategies in China, 2022–2023: from preparedness to legal management25
Quality of clinical evidence and political justifications of ivermectin mass distribution of COVID-19 kits in eight Latin American countries25
Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation25
Community co-design of contextually relevant rheumatic heart disease primary prevention25
AVIVA: a telehealth tool to improve cervical cancer screening in resource-constrained settings25
COVID-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research25
Moving self-care from concept to practice25
Challenges to informed choice counselling: a qualitative study of contraceptive self-care introduction in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia25
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change?25
Forecasting global progress in breast cancer control in the context of the sustainable development goals25
‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala24
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994–201824
The status and challenges of HPV vaccine programme in China: an exploration of the related policy obstacles24
Incentives in immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review mapping evidence on effectiveness and unintended consequences24
Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis24
Local systems, local solutions: which factors drive essential medicine availability in public health facilities across Indonesia?24
Socioeconomic disparities in adult mortality in Latin America24
Strengthening primary health care in Nigeria: a means to achieve universal health coverage24
The implementation of tuberculosis preventive therapy in HIV care clinics in Africa, Asia and Latin America: a multiregional site survey24
Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations24
The social dimensions of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo24
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis24
Diagnostic accuracy of a simplified minimally invasive tissue sampling protocol for stillbirths in low-resource settings23
Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review23
Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau23
The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews23
Decision-making considerations for single-dose HPV vaccination, including drivers of schedule adoption or switch: insights from immunisation stakeholders in 19 low-income and middle-income countries23
Global trends of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks in 202423
Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya23
US divestment in global health: disruption, uncertainty and response23
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 202123
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 experie23
Lessons learned from COVID-19 modelling efforts for policy decision-making in lower- and middle-income countries23
Understanding community health worker employment preferences in Malang district, Indonesia, using a discrete choice experiment23
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 Pacific23
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda, February 202123
Intimate partner violence trajectories over a 1-year period in a population-based cohort of women in Kenya: associations with individual and community normative factors22
Recognising stillbirth as a loss of life and not a baby born without life22
Supporting local ownership of transition processes: a key pathway to sustaining the HIV response22
Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control22
Uncovering systemic barriers related to equity, diversity and inclusion in child health research: a scoping review addressing marginalised communities22
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 stakehol22
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis22
Factors associated with Senegalese health workers’ willingness to receive mobile digital payments: cross-sectional study22
Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study22
Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond22
Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review22
The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for21
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency21
Implementation of male-specific motivational interviewing in Malawi: an assessment of intervention fidelity and barriers to scale-up21
Evaluation of a multicomponent child development intervention delivered through the government health system: a feasibility study21
How should morality play a role in global health?21
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
Midwife-led birthing centres in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda: an economic evaluation of case study sites21
Climate change, resource insecurities and sexual and reproductive health among young adolescents in Kenya: a multi-method qualitative inquiry21
Implementation of basic training in neonatal resuscitation in the outskirts of Conakry, Guinea: evaluation of neonatal mortality by ‘before and after intervention’ design21
The Ethiopian Surgical Outcome Study (Ethio-SOS): a 7-day multicentre national prospective observational cohort study20
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
Evaluation of a One Health programme to address antimicrobial resistance in Pacific Island Countries: a mixed-methods study20
Roadblocks and solutions to planning surgical care for a billion Indians20
Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone20
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
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape: current knowledge and gaps20
The future of global health: restructuring governance through inclusive youth leadership20
Impact and cost-effectiveness of Neotree, a digital data capture and decision support tool designed to improve neonatal survival in Zimbabwe: an interrupted time series analysis and economic evaluatio20
Embracing complexity and innovation to tackle the social determinants of health19
Pathways to care and service preferences, and experiences of women who self-manage abortion through community pharmacies in two counties of Kenya19
Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens19
Quantifying the effects of attacks on health facilities on health service use in Northwest Syria: a case time series study from 2017 to 201919
We have the evidence but governments must now build the systems to deliver on hand hygiene19
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–202119
A review of authorship in herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 202019
Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic: Middle East and North Africa regional perspective for future preparedness19
‘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 Iraq19
Mental health of Ukrainian children and youth during the Russian-Ukrainian war: a scoping review19
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review19
Assessing the effectiveness of the expanded hepatitis A vaccination program in China: an interrupted time series design19
A research agenda for digital payments of health workers in large-scale health campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa19
Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health19
Conscientious objection: a global health perspective19
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings19
Identifying implementation science research and policy priorities to advance universal health coverage: a multi-country modified Delphi study19
Health worker unemployment in countries with critical health worker shortages: a rapid synthesis of evidence from 33 countries19
Barriers to community engagement during the response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda19
Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries19
The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults19
Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis18
Fragile, handle with care: refining a key concept for global health and development18
Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research18
Are maternal vaccines effective and safe for mothers and infants? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials18
Experiences of violence and discrimination among LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global cross-sectional analysis18
Gender-based violence and women’s nutrition: a systematic review18
Retention in the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory18
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 data18
Extreme rainfall and anaemia among children under five in 46 low- and middle-income countries18
The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord: establishing baseline consensus microbial data-sharing norms to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration18
Protracted armed conflict and maternal health: a scoping review of literature and a retrospective analysis of primary data from northwest Syria18
Aligning health worker education and learning approaches with population health needs: WHO’s Family Planning and Comprehensive Abortion Care Toolkit for the primary healthcare workforce18
Postpartum recovery after severe maternal morbidity in Kilifi, Kenya: a grounded theory of recovery trajectories beyond 42 days18
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda18
Cost-effectiveness of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services in Africa: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial18
Achieving universal health coverage; implementation of the ‘supporting physician retention in deprived areas’ programme in Iran18
Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar18
Participation in cervical cancer screening among migrants and non-migrants in primary healthcare in Lisbon: a register-based study18
Norm diffusion in global health governance: the role of think tanks18
National hospital costing systems matter for universal healthcare: the India PM-JAY experience18
Enhancing research integration to improve One Health actions: learning lessons from neglected tropical diseases experiences17
Health system effectiveness of symptomatic malaria case management in Papua New Guinea17
Managing the challenges associated with decreasing demand for COVID-19 vaccination in Central and West Asia17
Transitioning the COVID-19 response in the WHO African region: a proposed framework for rethinking and rebuilding health systems17
The effectiveness and sustainability of peer support interventions for persons living with HIV: a realist synthesis17
Addressing vaccine hesitancy: experimental evidence from nine high-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic17
Substantial increase in stillbirth rate during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a population-based study in the Indian state of Bihar17
“If I wasn’t a pastor, I would be telling them about condoms, contraceptives and PrEP”—conflicts, dilemmas and credibility: qualitative insights from religious leaders and the promotion of pre-exposur17
Disseminating information on acute public health events globally: experiences from the WHO’s Disease Outbreak News17
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)17
Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana: implications for quality management and control of malaria17
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 Nigeria17
Effects of a free health insurance programme for the poor on health service utilisation and financial protection in Senegal17
Risk communication and community engagement capacity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a call for action17
Readiness to deliver integrated cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic care in primary healthcare: phase II of HEARTS 2.0 in 26 countries in the Americas17
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