OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Public Health is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	169
US Government Health Agencies’ Efforts to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma	124
Designing Surveillance at a Population Level	116
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	110
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	94
Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	86
Mastheads	84
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	78
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	77
Violence and Depression Among Adolescent Boys in Soweto, South Africa, 2020‒2023	76
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	75
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	71
Subscription Form	67
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	53
A Community-Based Participatory Intervention in the United States Using Data to Shift the Community Narrative From Deficits to Strengths	51
Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023	50
Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States	50
Partnering With Churches to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Trustworthy Contexts	48
State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020	47
Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022	46
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	46
Beyond Prevention: How Gender-Affirming Care Can Transform HIV Outcomes for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Populations	45
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	44
Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide	42
“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”: Affirming the Call to Critically Engage Public Health	40

Occupational Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Indigenous Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2020–2022	40
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	40
Wastewater Surveillance: A Rare Bipartisan Opportunity to Strengthen Public Health	39
Table of Contents	38
Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson	38
Tackling Wicked Problems: The Power of Community Among the Unhoused	37
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	36
Identification of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals in the All of Us Research Program, 2017–2022	36
Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions	36
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population Health	35
Extreme Polarization Is a Threat to US Health	35
Table of Contents	35
Universal Unconditional Cash Transfers for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Necessary but Insufficient	33
Coining Intersectional Stigma: Historical Erasures and The Future	33
A Prologue to the AJPH Supplement: Using Evidence to Expand Contraceptive Access	32
Association Between the New York SAFE Act and Firearm Suicide and Homicide: An Analysis of Synthetic Controls, New York State, 1999‒2019	32
Evaluation of Public Health Contact Tracing for Mpox Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men—10 US Jurisdictions, May 17–July 31, 2022	32
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	32
Prior Authorization Requirements and Medicaid Enrollees’ Use of Tobacco Cessation Medications, Colorado, 2023	31
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Visibility and Data Equity: Insights From NIH RADx-UP	31
Structural Interventions That Reduce HIV Vulnerability: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2022	31
Changes in Abortion Access, Travel, and Costs Since the Implementation of State Abortion Bans, 2022–2024	31
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	31
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	31
Disaggregating Office of Management and Budget Race/Ethnicity Data to Examine Racial Disparities in Late-Stage HIV Diagnosis, Hawaii, 2010–2022	31
Statement of Ownership	30
Table of Contents	30
The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health	30
The Peace Exchange: Physical and Psychological Sacrifices of Military Personnel From Historically Marginalized Backgrounds	30
Public Health Common Ground: The Proof by COVID-19	30
Suicide and the Solitary Life: Differential Risks of Living Alone Across Sociodemographic Groups	30
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two Sides of the Coin	29
To End Youth Vaping as an On-Ramp to Addiction, Close Legal Loopholes and Rigorously Enforce the Law	29
Table of Contents	29
Wilner and Holton Respond	29
Mastheads	28
Characteristics Associated With a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis, Vaccine Uptake, and Intention to Be Vaccinated Among Essential Workers in the US Household Pulse Survey	27
Mastheads	27
The Influence of a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Vaccination Rates in a University Setting	26
Table of Contents	26
Advancing Equity in Local Health Departments: An Inside-Out Approach	26
AJPH Peer Reviewers 2023–2024: Thank You for Your Services	25
Bold Action Needed for Equitable Access to Nutrition Assistance by All	25
Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024	25
Public Health Across the Political Spectrum for All	25
Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program	24
Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction	24
Evaluation of a Photovoice Exhibit About Immigrant Health Priorities in Southeast Minnesota	24
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership	24
Regulation of Cannabis Retailers: Facilitating Responsible Adult Use and Promoting Health Equity While Preventing Access to Minors	23

Seroprevalence Studies Are Critical Early Pandemic Tools, and They Were Underappreciated During COVID-19	23
Measurement Matters for Transgender Veterans’ Visibility in the Electronic Health Record	23
Advancing Pediatric Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection	23
Subscription Form	22
Understanding Barriers to COVID-19 Testing Among Rural and Urban Populations in Kansas	22
Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural and Underserved Arizona: Experiences From Three County Health Departments	22
Integrating Primary Care and Public Health: Promising Pathways to Building Infrastructure and Delivering Services	22
Competencies, Training Needs, and Turnover Among Rural Compared With Urban Local Public Health Practitioners: 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey	22
Reaching Vulnerable and Underserved Communities in the US Southwest Through a Successful COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership	21
Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area	21
AJPH Peer Reviewers: Thank You for Your Services	21
From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window	21
Persistent Criminalization and Structural Racism in US Drug Policy: The Case of Overdose Good Samaritan Laws	21
Massachusetts Initiative to Improve Contraception Services: A Tale of Two Programs	20
Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Moving From Evidence to Action	20
The Need for Comprehensive and Timely City-Level Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injury Surveillance	20
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives: A Critical Perspective	20
Evaluating Algorithmic Approaches to Uncover Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Scientific Authorship	20
Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach	20
Sexually Transmitted Infection Disparities and Social Determinants of Health in California, 2013‒2021	20
Common Data Element (CDE) Success from Community-Engagement Not Mandates: If You Build It [Data Warehouse], Will They [Participants] Come?	20
Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023	20
Hardship and Hope: The Relationship Between Unconditional Prenatal and Infant Cash Transfers, Economic Stability, and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being	20
Embracing Advanced Methodology to Improve Population Health	19
Erratum In: “Impact of a Permitless Concealed Firearm Carry Law in West Virginia, 1999–2015 and 2016–2020”	19
Gurbaxani et al. Respond	19
Rethinking “Herd” Mentalities and Rethinking the Value of the History of Public Health	19
Subscription Form	19
Data Democratization for Health Equity: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2023	19
The Short and the Long Arm of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Direct and Indirect Effects of the US Economic Lockdown	19
Documenting Our History, Protecting Our Futures: Queer Communities	19
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean	19
Health Remedies as a Source of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic Exposure, New York City, 2010–2019	18
Untangling Concepts of Financial Circumstances for Public Health Professionals and Scholars: A Glossary and Concept Map	18
The USDA’s Actions to Promote and Elevate Nutrition Security During the First 1000 Days	18
US Right-Wing, Pro-Family Movements in East Africa: Furthering Legislation That Fuels Health Inequities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Persons Assigned Female Sex at Birth in Western Kenya	18
COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Among New York City Parents of Children Aged 5–11 Years	18
Tobacco Company Efforts to Persuade Consumers to Fight the Proposed Federal Menthol Cigarette and Flavored Cigar Bans in the United States	18
Social Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Depression Screening of US Adolescents, 2016 to 2021	18
Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions	18
Democratizing Research With Data Dashboards: Data Visualization and Support to Promote Community Partner Engagement	17
Defining Climate Justice in Nursing for Public and Planetary Health	17
On Race and Place in Substance Use Research	17
Evaluation of ShootSafe, an Interactive, Sequential Website to Teach Youths Firearms Safety: A Randomized Clinical Trial	17
Medication Abortion “Reversal” Laws: How Unsound Science Paved the Way for Dangerous Abortion Policy	17
Black Race Matters in the Latino Population	17
Adolescent Dating Violence and Suicide Planning Among Girls in US High Schools: An Intracategorical Intersectional Analysis by Race and Ethnicity	17
Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind	17
Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022	17
Helm-Murtagh and Erwin Respond	17
Improving Data Surveillance Resilience Beyond COVID-19: Experiences of Primary heAlth Care quAlity Cohort In ChinA (ACACIA) Using Unannounced Standardized Patients	17
Beyond Stigma: The Case Against the Criminalization of Sex Work for HIV Prevention and Health Equity	17
Social Justice and Public Health: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2024	17
Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)	17
Reshaping Contraceptive Access Efforts by Centering Equity, Justice, and Autonomy	17
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005–2021	17
Health Equity Research: A Clarion Call to Focus on Racism, Not Race	17
Public Trust, Private Data: Four Considerations for the Future of Health	17
Benefits of Frequent HIV Testing in the THRIVE Demonstration Project: United States, 2015–2020	17
Social and Environmental Stressors of Urban Oil and Gas Facilities in Los Angeles County, California, 2020	16
Registered Nurses’ Well-Being, Michigan, 2022	16
Equitable COVID-19 Testing Access for Underserved Communities: The Success of Vending Machines	16
Adult Day Services, Health Equity for Older Adults With Complex Needs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Subscription Form	16
Operationalizing Meaningful Community Engagement to Reduce the Burden of Multiple Chronic Conditions	16
Association of Local Cannabis Policy and Retail Availability With Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Northern California	16
Data Related to Social Determinants of Health Captured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	16
Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers	16
The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill	16
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police	16
Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years	16
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs	16
Mastheads	16
Mastheads	16
Addressing Misinformation: A More Nuanced Understanding for Public Health Professionals	15
Promoting Evidence-Based Policy Solutions to the US Gun Violence Epidemic	15
The Untapped Potential of Precision Health to Improve Heat Resilience for Those Who Need It Most	15
Table of Contents	15
Subscription Form	15
Erratum In: “Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives”	15

Mastheads	15
Connecting the Dots: Public Health, Clinical, and Community Connections to Improve Contraception Access	15
Keeping Public Health Advocacy Strong	15
Revisiting the Protective Value of Barrier Face Coverings After the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Table of Contents	15
Diversity of End-of-Life Care in the Boom of Deaths at Old Age	15
Erratum In: “Erratum In: ‘Living Alone and Suicide Risk in the United States, 2008–2019’”	14
Making Vaccines Equitably Available to All Persons in Pima County, Arizona, 2020–2021	14
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Removal and Birth Intendedness: Moving Beyond the Binary	14
Table of Contents	14
Black Women With HIV: Ongoing Challenges and New Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes	14
Benefits of Masks as a School-Based Prevention Intervention Outweigh the Risks	14
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals?	14
Changing Licensing and Credentialing Applications to Promote Health Workers’ Mental Health, Virginia, December 2022–September 2023	14
Gendered Racism: “A Different Interpretation of the Same Facts” About the HIV Epidemic Among Black Women in the United States	14
A Community-Based Youth Diversion Program as an Alternative to Incarceration, Illinois, 2017–2019	14
Mortality Inequities: Power, Theory, and Data Considerations	14
Unseen and Unheard: Increasing the Visibility of Limited English Proficiency Individuals Through a Language Justice Framework	13
Short- and Long-Term Potential Impacts of Ongoing and Escalating Legal and Political Attacks on LGBTQ Health and Health Equity	13
Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”	13
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Case for Disaggregated HIV Data and Tailored Interventions for African Immigrants	13
New Abortion Bans Will Increase Existing Health and Economic Disparities	13
Food Insecurity and Delayed or Forgone Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States	13
The Escalating War on Immigrants Is a Public Health Crisis	13
Trends in US Life Expectancy: Falling Behind and Failing to Act	13
The Evolving Overdose Crisis: United States Needs Robust Policy Change to Address the Fourth Wave	13
Investing in Public Health and Community Partnerships Reduced COVID-19–Related Disparities	13
Fixing Up Places Is Easier Than Fixing People	13
Automated Opt-Out Hepatitis C Testing to Reduce Missed Screening Opportunities in the Emergency Department	13
Implementation of Doxy-PEP in a Diverse Sexual Health Program in Northern Manhattan: The Doxy-Care Study	13
Use of a Learning Community to Expand Access to Contraception	12
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository	12
Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications	12
Oral Health of and Dental Workforce Among the Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States	12
Mastheads	12
Bringing an Equity Lens to Address the Evolving Overdose Crisis: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2023	12
The Future of Pharmacist-Delivered Status-Neutral HIV Prevention and Care	12
Employee Cardiometabolic Risk Following a Cluster-Randomized Workplace Intervention From the Work, Family and Health Network, 2009–2013	12
Erratum In: “Control of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates at a Spanish University With In-Person Class Attendance”	12
Table of Contents	12
Subscription Form	12
SNAP: The Most Important Component of Our Efforts to End Food Insecurity in the United States	12
Championing the 2021 New York State Law: A Step Toward Data Disaggregation on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders	12
Subscription Form	12
Looking Back: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care in Louisiana	12
Fleeting Fixes, Fractured Systems: Confronting the Continuing Crisis of the Public Health Workforce	12
Knowledge and Practice of Pinworm Infection in Preschool Children, Jiangsu Province, China, 2019–2020	12
Shooting at the CDC: Tragedy, Turmoil, and Resilience	12
Conflicts of Interest	12
Subscription Form	12
Evaluation of a Novel Data Source for National Influenza Surveillance: Influenza Hospitalization Data in the National Healthcare Safety Network, United States, September 2021–April 2024	12
Paleofire Data for Public Health Nursing Wildfire Planning: A Planetary Perspective	12
Structural Racism and Racial Trauma Among African Americans at Elevated Risk for HIV Infection	12
Yellow Power: Building Asian Student Community Voices Against Gender-Based Violence Through Public Health Research and Art	12
Strategies to Increase the Population-Level Impact of Naloxone Distribution in Communities Highly Affected by the Overdose Crisis	12
The Murder of Black Women in the United States: A Public Health Crisis	12
A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle That Underlies Healthy Communities	12
Restoring and Expanding Public Trust in Public Health	11
“Whiteness” and the Opioid Epidemic: A Construct in Need of Elaboration	11
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	11
Implementation of Baltimore City’s COVID-19 Isolation Hotel	11
The Plight of Marginalized Populations in 2025: The Assault on Health Equity Through a Systems Lens	11
Flavors Remain a Major Driver of Youth E-Cigarette Use	11
Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study	11
Substance Use Among Asian American Adults in 2016–2020: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of a National Survey on Drug Use and Health Data	11
Closing Gaps Between Cannabis Policy and Scientific Understanding	11
School Mandate and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Prekindergartners in New York City, 2012–2019	11
The Need to Invest in Infrastructure and Partnerships to Achieve Complete Public Health Data	11
A Medicaid-Funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020‒2022	11
Longitudinal Impact of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Abortion Service Delivery in Ohio, 2022‒2023	11
Lessons From COVID-19 Testing Research: The Power of Rapid Response	11
Contraceptive Care Using Reproductive Justice Principles: Beyond Access	11
Relationships Matter: Rebuilding Policymaker Trust in Public Health Leadership	11
Adolescents’ Mental Health: Disparities, Prevention Strategies, and Future Directions	11
Are State-Level Policies Supporting Community Health Worker Employment? The Jury Is Still Out	11
Roe v Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration	11
A Social Vulnerability Framework to Identify and Assist With Environmental Injustice	11
Cancer Care Access in Chile’s Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement	11
Table of Contents	10
Masterful History Tour: How and Why the Public Health Approach to Disease Has Evolved and Improved	10
Reproductive Justice Matters: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2022	10
Abortion Care Is Health Care: A Public Health of Consequence, September 2022	10
Development of Texas’s First Chinese American Community Health Worker Certification for Family Health History-Based Cancer Prevention	10
Pathways to Peace and Public Health Equity Among Women and Children in Conflict Zones: The Case of Northern Uganda	10
The Legacy of the Latino Caucus for Public Health: Reflections and Analyses on Its 50th Anniversary	10
AJPH Global News	10
Barriers to Participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program for Early Childhood Care Providers	10
Evaluation of the Ontario Mandatory Working-at-Heights Training Requirement in Construction, 2012‒2019	10
Mastheads	10
Timely Second-Dose Completion of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination at Community-Based and Mobile Vaccine Clinics in Maryland	10
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	10
Killing Vaping and Americans	10
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	10