OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Health-Science and Practice 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Conundrum of Low COVID-19 Mortality Burden in sub-Saharan Africa: Myth or Reality?	80
Contraception in the Era of COVID-19	55
Egypt's Ambitious Strategy to Eliminate Hepatitis C Virus: A Case Study	34
Improving Hospital Oxygen Systems for COVID-19 in Low-Resource Settings: Lessons From the Field	28
Health for the People: Past, Current, and Future Contributions of National Community Health Worker Programs to Achieving Global Health Goals	26
Doing Things Differently: What It Would Take to Ensure Continued Access to Contraception During COVID-19	26
Contraceptive Method Mix: Updates and Implications	26
Human Resources for Health-Related Challenges to Ensuring Quality Newborn Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review	25
Impact of Improved Biomass and Liquid Petroleum Gas Stoves on Birth Outcomes in Rural Nepal: Results of 2 Randomized Trials	24
Will the Higher-Income Country Blueprint for COVID-19 Work in Low- and Lower Middle-Income Countries?	24
Differentiated Service Delivery Models for HIV Treatment in Malawi, South Africa, and Zambia: A Landscape Analysis	21
Prevention of COVID-19 in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in War-Torn North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Study	21
Bringing Greater Precision to Interactions Between Community Health Workers and Households to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes in India	19
What Goes In Must Come Out: A Mixed-Method Study of Access to Contraceptive Implant Removal Services in Ghana	18
Language and Measurement of Contraceptive Need and Making These Indicators More Meaningful for Measuring Fertility Intentions of Women and Girls	18
Global Access to Technology-Enhanced Medical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Students in Narrowing the Gap	18
Real-Time Tracking of COVID-19 Rumors Using Community-Based Methods in Côte d'Ivoire	17
Mask Reuse in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Creating an Inexpensive and Scalable Ultraviolet System for Filtering Facepiece Respirator Decontamination	17
Implementation of GeneXpert for TB Testing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review	16
Uptake and Short-Term Retention in HIV Treatment Among Men in South Africa: The Coach Mpilo Pilot Project	15
Meeting the Global Target in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Care Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	15
Factors That Influence Data Use to Improve Health Service Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	14
Design Is an Essential Medicine	14
Equitable Open Access Publishing: Changing the Financial Power Dynamics in Academia	14
Opportunities and Challenges of Delivering Postabortion Care and Postpartum Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	14

Implementation Approaches for Introducing and Overcoming Barriers to Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa	14
Levels, Trends, and Inequalities in Using Institutional Delivery Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Stratified Analysis by Facility Type	14
Community Health Workers in Pandemics: Evidence and Investment Implications	13
Diversifying Implementation Science: A Global Perspective	13
Initiation of Breastfeeding in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Time-to-Event Analysis	13
Coping With COVID-19: Learning From Past Pandemics to Avoid Pitfalls and Panic	13
Institutionalization of Projects Into Districts in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Needs Stewardship, Autonomy, and Resources	12
Determinants of Facility-Level Use of Electronic Immunization Registries in Tanzania and Zambia: An Observational Analysis	12
COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Through the Lens of Modeling	12
Complexity in Health: Can Design Help Support Interdisciplinary Solutions?	12
A Theory of Change for Guiding the Integration of Human-Centered Design Into Global Health Programming	12
Multimonth Dispensing of Antiretroviral Therapy Protects the Most Vulnerable From 2 Pandemics at Once	11
Implementation of a Community Transport Strategy to Reduce Delays in Seeking Obstetric Care in Rural Mozambique	11
Close to Home: Evidence on the Impact of Community-Based Girl Groups	11
The Evolving Landscape of Medical Device Regulation in East, Central, and Southern Africa	11
Using Human-Centered Design to Develop a Program to Engage South African Men Living With HIV in Care and Treatment	11
Juntos: A Support Program for Families Impacted by Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil	11
Beyond No Blame: Practical Challenges of Conducting Maternal and Perinatal Death Reviews in Eastern Ethiopia	10
Protecting Mental Health Data Privacy in India: The Case of Data Linkage With Aadhaar	10
How Home Delivery of Antiretroviral Drugs Ensured Uninterrupted HIV Treatment During COVID-19: Experiences From Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, and Nigeria	10
Design for Health: Human-Centered Design Looks to the Future	10
Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Strengthen TB Infection Control: A Rapid Review	10
The All Babies Count Initiative: Impact of a Health System Improvement Approach on Neonatal Care and Outcomes in Rwanda	10
Using Community Health Workers and a Smartphone Application to Improve Diabetes Control in Rural Guatemala	10
Using Human-Centered Design to Develop, Launch, and Evaluate a National Digital Health Platform to Improve Reproductive Health for Rwandan Youth	10
Effectiveness of mHealth Interventions for Improving Contraceptive Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review	10
Liberia's Community Health Assistant Program: Scale, Quality, and Resilience	9
Social Distancing in the Era of COVID-19: A Call for Maintaining Social Support for the Maternal Population	9
A Qualitative Exploration of Community Ownership of a Maternity Waiting Home Model in Rural Zambia	9
Costing Analysis of a Pilot Community Health Worker Program in Rural Nepal	9
Evaluation of the Impact of Immunization Second Year of Life Training Interventions on Health Care Workers in Ghana	9
Integrating Human-Centered Design to Advance Global Health: Lessons From 3 Programs	9
Prioritizing Health-Sector Interventions for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries in Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries: National NCDI Poverty Commissions	9
Galvanizing Action on Primary Health Care: Analyzing Bottlenecks and Strategies to Strengthen Community Health Systems in West and Central Africa	8
Accuracy of Using Mid-Upper Arm Circumference to Detect Wasting Among Children Aged 6–59 Months in Nepal	8
An International Virtual Classroom: The Emergency Department Experience at Weill Cornell Medicine and Weill Bugando Medical Center in Tanzania	8
Transitioning to Digital Systems: The Role of World Health Organization’s Digital Adaptation Kits in Operationalizing Recommendations and Interoperability Standards	8
The Equity Tool for Valuing Global Health Partnerships	8
Institutionalizing a Regional Model for Improving Quality of Newborn Care at Birth Across Hospitals in Eastern Uganda: A 4-Year Story	8
Scaling Up Access to Implants: A Summative Evaluation of the Implants Access Program	8
Screening for Severe Illness at Diagnosis Has the Potential to Prevent Early TB Deaths: Programmatic Experience From Karnataka, India	8
Where Do Caregivers Take Their Sick Children for Care? An Analysis of Care Seeking and Equity in 24 USAID Priority Countries	8
The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Another Commercial Determinant of Health: The Global Firearm Industry	8
Evaluating Vertical Malaria Community Health Worker Programs as Malaria Declines: Learning From Program Evaluations in Honduras and Lao PDR	8
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy	7
Practical Implications of Policy Guidelines: A GIS Model of the Deployment of Community Health Volunteers in Madagascar	7
Evaluating the Implementation of an Intervention to Improve Postpartum Contraception in Tanzania: A Qualitative Study of Provider and Client Perspectives	7
Factors Associated With Delayed Contraceptive Implant Removal in Ethiopia	7
Mapping the Antimicrobial Supply Chain in Bangladesh: A Scoping-Review-Based Ecological Assessment Approach	7
Using mHealth to Improve Timeliness and Quality of Maternal and Newborn Health in the Primary Health Care System in Ethiopia	7

Women’s Experiences With Family Planning Under COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional, Interactive Voice Response Survey in Malawi, Nepal, Niger, and Uganda	7
Extending Delivery of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention to Children Aged 5–10 Years in Chad: A Mixed-Methods Study	7
Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Tapes and Measurement Discrepancies: Time to Standardize Product Specifications and Reporting	7
Household Survey Measurement of Newborn Postnatal Care: Coverage, Quality Gaps, and Internal Inconsistencies in Responses	7
Young People’s Experiences With an Empowerment-Based Behavior Change Intervention to Prevent Sexual Violence in Nairobi Informal Settlements: A Qualitative Study	7
District Health Teams’ Readiness to Institutionalize Integrated Community Case Management in the Uganda Local Health Systems: A Repeated Qualitative Study	7
Mind the Global Community Health Funding Gap	7
From Insecurity to Health Service Delivery: Pathways and System Response Strategies in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo	7
The Critical Role and Evaluation of Community Mobilizers in Polio Eradication in Remote Settings in Africa and Asia	7
Integrating Calcium Into Antenatal Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation in Ethiopia: Women’s Experiences, Perceptions of Acceptability, and Strategies to Support Calcium Supplement Adherence	7
Community Health Worker Program Sustainability in Africa: Evidence From Costing, Financing, and Geospatial Analyses in Mali	6
Measuring Service Quality and Assessing Its Relationship to Contraceptive Discontinuation: A Prospective Cohort Study in Pakistan and Uganda	6
Test and Prevent: Evaluation of a Pilot Program Linking Clients With Negative HIV Test Results to Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in Zimbabwe	6
Scaling Up Improved Inpatient Treatment of Severe Malnutrition: Key Factors and Experiences From South Africa, Bolivia, Malawi, and Ghana	6
Measuring Knowledge of Community Health Workers at the Last Mile in Liberia: Feasibility and Results of Clinical Vignette Assessments	6
A Mixed-Methods Process Evaluation: Integrating Depression Treatment Into HIV Care in Malawi	6
Implementation of a Pediatric Early Warning Score to Improve Communication and Nursing Empowerment in a Rural District Hospital in Rwanda	6
What Makes a National Pharmaceutical Track and Trace System Succeed? Lessons From Turkey	6
A Platform for Sustainable Scale: The Challenge Initiative’s Innovative Approach to Scaling Proven Interventions	6
Health Care Worker Preferences and Perspectives on Doses per Container for 2 Lyophilized Vaccines in Senegal, Vietnam, and Zambia	6
Where Women Access Contraception in 36 Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Why It Matters	6
Applying the Community Health Worker Coverage and Capacity Tool for Time-Use Modeling for Program Planning in Rwanda and Zanzibar	6
Pathways to Care for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and HIV/AIDS Comorbidities in Soweto, South Africa: An Ethnographic Study	5
Faith-Based Advocacy for Family Planning Works: Evidence From Kenya and Zambia	5
STEPS: A Solution for Ensuring Standards of TB Care for Patients Reaching Private Hospitals in India	5
Health System Redesign to Shift to Hospital Delivery for Maternal and Newborn Survival: Feasibility Assessment in Kakamega County, Kenya	5
Health System Resilience: Withstanding Shocks and Maintaining Progress	5
Early Lessons From Launching an Innovative Community Health Household Model Across 3 Country Contexts	5
What Do We Demand? Responding to the Call for Precision and Definitional Agreement in Family Planning’s “Demand” and “Need” Jargon	5
Infant Circumcision for Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk Reduction Globally	5
Matching Development of Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tests to the Local Context: A Case Study of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Kenya and Uganda	5
New Mixed Methods Approach for Monitoring Community Perceptions of Ebola and Response Efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
Role of Information Sources in Vaccination Uptake: Insights From a Cross-Sectional Household Survey in Sierra Leone, 2019	5
Motivation and Performance of Community Health Workers: Nothing New Under the Sun, and Yet…	5
Improving the Quality of Health Care in Special Neonatal Care Units of India: A Before and After Intervention Study	5
Early Reflections on Mphatlalatsane, a Maternal and Neonatal Quality Improvement Initiative Implemented During COVID-19 in South Africa	5
Volunteer Community Health and Agriculture Workers Help Reduce Childhood Malnutrition in Tajikistan	5
The Development and Inclusion of Questions on Surgery in the 2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey	5
Expanding Contraceptive Method Choice With a Hormonal Intrauterine System: Results From Mixed Methods Studies in Kenya and Zambia	5
Methods and Benefits of Measuring Human-Centered Design in Global Health	5
What’s Next in Design for Global Health? How Design and Global Health Must Adapt for a Preferable Future	4
Using Human-Centered Design to Adapt Supply Chains and Digital Solutions for Community Health Volunteers in Nomadic Communities of Northern Kenya	4
Community Ownership in Primary Health Care—Managing the Intangible	4
Evaluation of Community Perceptions and Prevention Practices Related to Ebola Virus as Part of Outbreak Preparedness in Uganda, 2020	4
Care Around Birth Approach: A Training, Mentoring, and Quality Improvement Model to Optimize Intrapartum and Immediate Postpartum Quality of Care in India	4
What IsGlobal Health: Science and PracticeDoing to Address Power Imbalances in Publishing?	4
Human-Centered Design for Public Health Innovation: Codesigning a Multicomponent Intervention to Support Youth Across the HIV Care Continuum in Mozambique	4
Readiness to Provide Antenatal Corticosteroids for Threatened Preterm Birth in Public Health Facilities in Northern India	4
Community Health Workers as Vaccinators: A Rapid Review of the Global Landscape, 2000–2021	4
Networks of Care: An Approach to Improving Maternal and Newborn Health	4
Effects of Pharmacist Intervention on Community Control of Hypertension: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Zunyi, China	4
Implementation of Refugees' Inclusion in National Viral Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Screening Campaign in Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda	4
Strategies to Promote Health System Strengthening and Global Health Security at the Subnational Level in a World Changed by COVID-19	4
Counseling Is a Relationship Not Just a Skill: Re-conceptualizing Health Behavior Change Communication by India’s Accredited Social Health Activists	4
Improving Services for HIV-Exposed Infants in Zambia and Cameroon Using a Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach	4
Animal Source Food Social and Behavior Change Communication Intervention Among Girinka Livestock Transfer Beneficiaries in Rwanda: A Cluster Randomized Evaluation	4
The First Differentiated TB Care Model From India: Delays and Predictors of Losses in the Care Cascade	4
Living Safely With Bats: Lessons in Developing and Sharing a Global One Health Educational Resource	4
Remote Mentorship Using Video Conferencing as an Effective Tool to Strengthen Laboratory Quality Management in Clinical Laboratories: Lessons From Cambodia	4
Learnings From a Pilot Study to Strengthen Primary Health Care Services: The Community-Clinic-Centered Health Service Model in Barishal District, Bangladesh	4
Curbing the Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Uganda: Perspectives of Policy Actors	4
Down But Not Out: Vasectomy Is Faring Poorly Almost Everywhere—We Can Do Better To Make It A True Method Option	4
Applying Adult Learning Best Practices to Design Immunization Training for Health Care Workers in Ghana	4
Improving State Government's Responsiveness to Family Planning Interventions in Nigeria Using an Innovative Reflection and Action Tool	4
Galvanizing Collective Action to Accelerate Reductions in Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Prevention of Stillbirths	4
Effects of a Community-Based Program on Voluntary Modern Contraceptive Uptake Among Young First-Time Parents in Cross River State, Nigeria	4
Adapting High Impact Practices in Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe	4
Leveraging the Client-Provider Interaction to Address Contraceptive Discontinuation: A Scoping Review of the Evidence That Links Them	4
A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Kigoma, Tanzania	4