OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Public Health is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	171
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	126
Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	121
Mastheads	120
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	99
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	97
Violence and Depression Among Adolescent Boys in Soweto, South Africa, 2020‒2023	81
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	79
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	79
Subscription Form	70
Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022	56
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	56
Beyond Prevention: How Gender-Affirming Care Can Transform HIV Outcomes for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Populations	55
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	53
Table of Contents	50
Universal Unconditional Cash Transfers for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Necessary but Insufficient	50
Extreme Polarization Is a Threat to US Health	43
“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”: Affirming the Call to Critically Engage Public Health	42
Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide	42
Wastewater Surveillance: A Rare Bipartisan Opportunity to Strengthen Public Health	41
Occupational Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Indigenous Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2020–2022	41
Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson	41
Table of Contents	39
Tackling Wicked Problems: The Power of Community Among the Unhoused	38
Identification of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals in the All of Us Research Program, 2017–2022	38

Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	37
Association Between the New York SAFE Act and Firearm Suicide and Homicide: An Analysis of Synthetic Controls, New York State, 1999‒2019	36
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	36
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	34
Disaggregating Office of Management and Budget Race/Ethnicity Data to Examine Racial Disparities in Late-Stage HIV Diagnosis, Hawaii, 2010–2022	34
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	34
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	33
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	33
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Visibility and Data Equity: Insights From NIH RADx-UP	33
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	32
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population Health	31
Partnering With Churches to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Trustworthy Contexts	31
State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020	30
Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023	29
Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States	29
Designing Surveillance at a Population Level	29
Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions	29
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	28
Changes in Abortion Access, Travel, and Costs Since the Implementation of State Abortion Bans, 2022–2024	27
Prior Authorization Requirements and Medicaid Enrollees’ Use of Tobacco Cessation Medications, Colorado, 2023	27
Statement of Ownership	27
The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health	27
Public Health Common Ground: The Proof by COVID-19	26
Suicide and the Solitary Life: Differential Risks of Living Alone Across Sociodemographic Groups	26
The Peace Exchange: Physical and Psychological Sacrifices of Military Personnel From Historically Marginalized Backgrounds	25
Table of Contents	24
To End Youth Vaping as an On-Ramp to Addiction, Close Legal Loopholes and Rigorously Enforce the Law	24
Wilner and Holton Respond	24
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two Sides of the Coin	23
The Influence of a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Vaccination Rates in a University Setting	23
Characteristics Associated With a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis, Vaccine Uptake, and Intention to Be Vaccinated Among Essential Workers in the US Household Pulse Survey	23
Mastheads	23
Advancing Equity in Local Health Departments: An Inside-Out Approach	23
Table of Contents	23
Mastheads	23
Table of Contents	23
Evaluation of a Photovoice Exhibit About Immigrant Health Priorities in Southeast Minnesota	22
AJPH Peer Reviewers 2023–2024: Thank You for Your Services	22
Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024	22
Measurement Matters for Transgender Veterans’ Visibility in the Electronic Health Record	22
Bold Action Needed for Equitable Access to Nutrition Assistance by All	22
Advancing Pediatric Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection	21
Subscription Form	21
Regulation of Cannabis Retailers: Facilitating Responsible Adult Use and Promoting Health Equity While Preventing Access to Minors	21
From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window	21
Seroprevalence Studies Are Critical Early Pandemic Tools, and They Were Underappreciated During COVID-19	21
Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023	21
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership	21
Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Moving From Evidence to Action	21
AJPH Peer Reviewers: Thank You for Your Services	21

Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural and Underserved Arizona: Experiences From Three County Health Departments	21
Integrating Primary Care and Public Health: Promising Pathways to Building Infrastructure and Delivering Services	21
Sexually Transmitted Infection Disparities and Social Determinants of Health in California, 2013‒2021	21
Reaching Vulnerable and Underserved Communities in the US Southwest Through a Successful COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership	20
Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction	20
Competencies, Training Needs, and Turnover Among Rural Compared With Urban Local Public Health Practitioners: 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey	20
Common Data Element (CDE) Success from Community-Engagement Not Mandates: If You Build It [Data Warehouse], Will They [Participants] Come?	20
Understanding Barriers to COVID-19 Testing Among Rural and Urban Populations in Kansas	20
Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program	19
Evaluating Algorithmic Approaches to Uncover Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Scientific Authorship	19
Embracing Advanced Methodology to Improve Population Health	19
Persistent Criminalization and Structural Racism in US Drug Policy: The Case of Overdose Good Samaritan Laws	19
Hardship and Hope: The Relationship Between Unconditional Prenatal and Infant Cash Transfers, Economic Stability, and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being	19
Rethinking “Herd” Mentalities and Rethinking the Value of the History of Public Health	19
Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area	19
The Short and the Long Arm of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Direct and Indirect Effects of the US Economic Lockdown	19
Association of Local Cannabis Policy and Retail Availability With Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Northern California	18
Documenting Our History, Protecting Our Futures: Queer Communities	18
Social Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Depression Screening of US Adolescents, 2016 to 2021	18
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean	18
Erratum In: “Impact of a Permitless Concealed Firearm Carry Law in West Virginia, 1999–2015 and 2016–2020”	18
Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years	17
Evaluation of ShootSafe, an Interactive, Sequential Website to Teach Youths Firearms Safety: A Randomized Clinical Trial	17
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police	17
Health Remedies as a Source of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic Exposure, New York City, 2010–2019	17
Tobacco Company Efforts to Persuade Consumers to Fight the Proposed Federal Menthol Cigarette and Flavored Cigar Bans in the United States	17
Gurbaxani et al. Respond	17
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	17
Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)	17
Operationalizing Meaningful Community Engagement to Reduce the Burden of Multiple Chronic Conditions	16
Equitable COVID-19 Testing Access for Underserved Communities: The Success of Vending Machines	16
On Race and Place in Substance Use Research	16
The USDA’s Actions to Promote and Elevate Nutrition Security During the First 1000 Days	16
Medication Abortion “Reversal” Laws: How Unsound Science Paved the Way for Dangerous Abortion Policy	16
Health Equity Research: A Clarion Call to Focus on Racism, Not Race	16
Data Related to Social Determinants of Health Captured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	16
Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach	16
Social Justice and Public Health: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2024	16
Public Trust, Private Data: Four Considerations for the Future of Health	16
Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions	16
Adolescent Dating Violence and Suicide Planning Among Girls in US High Schools: An Intracategorical Intersectional Analysis by Race and Ethnicity	16
Adult Day Services, Health Equity for Older Adults With Complex Needs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers	16
Benefits of Frequent HIV Testing in the THRIVE Demonstration Project: United States, 2015–2020	16
Helm-Murtagh and Erwin Respond	16
Data Democratization for Health Equity: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2023	15
Black Race Matters in the Latino Population	15
Democratizing Research With Data Dashboards: Data Visualization and Support to Promote Community Partner Engagement	15
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs	15
Registered Nurses’ Well-Being, Michigan, 2022	15
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005–2021	15
Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022	15
Social and Environmental Stressors of Urban Oil and Gas Facilities in Los Angeles County, California, 2020	15
Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind	15
Untangling Concepts of Financial Circumstances for Public Health Professionals and Scholars: A Glossary and Concept Map	15
Mastheads	14
The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill	14
Mastheads	14
Making Vaccines Equitably Available to All Persons in Pima County, Arizona, 2020–2021	14
Mastheads	14
Subscription Form	14
Diversity of End-of-Life Care in the Boom of Deaths at Old Age	14
Promoting Evidence-Based Policy Solutions to the US Gun Violence Epidemic	14
Black Women With HIV: Ongoing Challenges and New Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes	14
Beyond Stigma: The Case Against the Criminalization of Sex Work for HIV Prevention and Health Equity	14
The Need for Comprehensive and Timely City-Level Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injury Surveillance	14
Keeping Public Health Advocacy Strong	14
Subscription Form	14
Table of Contents	14
Mortality Inequities: Power, Theory, and Data Considerations	13
A Community-Based Youth Diversion Program as an Alternative to Incarceration, Illinois, 2017–2019	13
Table of Contents	13
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Case for Disaggregated HIV Data and Tailored Interventions for African Immigrants	13
Championing the 2021 New York State Law: A Step Toward Data Disaggregation on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders	13
Fixing Up Places Is Easier Than Fixing People	13
Erratum In: “Erratum In: ‘Living Alone and Suicide Risk in the United States, 2008–2019’”	13
Changing Licensing and Credentialing Applications to Promote Health Workers’ Mental Health, Virginia, December 2022–September 2023	13
Trends in US Life Expectancy: Falling Behind and Failing to Act	13
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	13
Gendered Racism: “A Different Interpretation of the Same Facts” About the HIV Epidemic Among Black Women in the United States	13

Benefits of Masks as a School-Based Prevention Intervention Outweigh the Risks	13
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals?	13
Unseen and Unheard: Increasing the Visibility of Limited English Proficiency Individuals Through a Language Justice Framework	13
SNAP: The Most Important Component of Our Efforts to End Food Insecurity in the United States	12
Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”	12
Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States	12
Conflicts of Interest	12
The Escalating War on Immigrants Is a Public Health Crisis	12
Subscription Form	12
Automated Opt-Out Hepatitis C Testing to Reduce Missed Screening Opportunities in the Emergency Department	12
Short- and Long-Term Potential Impacts of Ongoing and Escalating Legal and Political Attacks on LGBTQ Health and Health Equity	12
New Abortion Bans Will Increase Existing Health and Economic Disparities	12
The Untapped Potential of Precision Health to Improve Heat Resilience for Those Who Need It Most	12
Subscription Form	12
Subscription Form	12
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Removal and Birth Intendedness: Moving Beyond the Binary	12
Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications	12
Investing in Public Health and Community Partnerships Reduced COVID-19–Related Disparities	12
The Evolving Overdose Crisis: United States Needs Robust Policy Change to Address the Fourth Wave	12
Implementation of Doxy-PEP in a Diverse Sexual Health Program in Northern Manhattan: The Doxy-Care Study	12
Structural Racism and Racial Trauma Among African Americans at Elevated Risk for HIV Infection	12
Oral Health of and Dental Workforce Among the Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States	12
Addressing Misinformation: A More Nuanced Understanding for Public Health Professionals	12
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository	12
Looking Back: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care in Louisiana	11
A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle That Underlies Healthy Communities	11
Employee Cardiometabolic Risk Following a Cluster-Randomized Workplace Intervention From the Work, Family and Health Network, 2009–2013	11
Closing Gaps Between Cannabis Policy and Scientific Understanding	11
Strategies to Increase the Population-Level Impact of Naloxone Distribution in Communities Highly Affected by the Overdose Crisis	11
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	11
Mastheads	11
Shooting at the CDC: Tragedy, Turmoil, and Resilience	11
Bringing an Equity Lens to Address the Evolving Overdose Crisis: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2023	11
The Need to Invest in Infrastructure and Partnerships to Achieve Complete Public Health Data	11
The Future of Pharmacist-Delivered Status-Neutral HIV Prevention and Care	11
Yellow Power: Building Asian Student Community Voices Against Gender-Based Violence Through Public Health Research and Art	11
Fleeting Fixes, Fractured Systems: Confronting the Continuing Crisis of the Public Health Workforce	11
Erratum In: “Control of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates at a Spanish University With In-Person Class Attendance”	11
Evaluation of the Ontario Mandatory Working-at-Heights Training Requirement in Construction, 2012‒2019	11
“Whiteness” and the Opioid Epidemic: A Construct in Need of Elaboration	11
Relationships Matter: Rebuilding Policymaker Trust in Public Health Leadership	11
A Medicaid-Funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020‒2022	11
Rethinking the Role of Jails Amid COVID-19	10
A Social Vulnerability Framework to Identify and Assist With Environmental Injustice	10
Substance Use Among Asian American Adults in 2016–2020: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of a National Survey on Drug Use and Health Data	10
Roe v Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration	10
Restoring and Expanding Public Trust in Public Health	10
Are State-Level Policies Supporting Community Health Worker Employment? The Jury Is Still Out	10
Development of Texas’s First Chinese American Community Health Worker Certification for Family Health History-Based Cancer Prevention	10
Abortion Care Is Health Care: A Public Health of Consequence, September 2022	10
Introducing AJPH’s Newest Manuscript Format: Qualitative Notes From the Field	10
Barriers to Participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program for Early Childhood Care Providers	10
Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement	10
The Murder of Black Women in the United States: A Public Health Crisis	10
Lessons From COVID-19 Testing Research: The Power of Rapid Response	10
Longitudinal Impact of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Abortion Service Delivery in Ohio, 2022‒2023	10
The War on Drugs, Racialized Capitalism, and Health Care Utilization Among White People Who Use Drugs in 22 Rural Appalachian Counties	10
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	10
Mastheads	10
Table of Contents	10
The Plight of Marginalized Populations in 2025: The Assault on Health Equity Through a Systems Lens	10
Knowledge and Practice of Pinworm Infection in Preschool Children, Jiangsu Province, China, 2019–2020	10
Adolescents’ Mental Health: Disparities, Prevention Strategies, and Future Directions	10
Cancer Care Access in Chile’s Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study	10
Mobilizing Mayors Across the Political Spectrum to Promote Population Health: The Move With the Mayor Initiative	10
Making Family Childcare More Resilient: Child and Adult Care Food Program Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic May Point the Way Forward	10
Federal Impacts on Buprenorphine Prescribing in Washington State, 2012 to 2022	9
Cisgender Privilege in Public Health Research	9
Contextualizing President Trump’s Executive Orders Targeting Transgender Health and Gender-Affirming Care	9
Predictors of Persistent COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal Among Previously Infected Patients in Nebraska	9
Timely Second-Dose Completion of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination at Community-Based and Mobile Vaccine Clinics in Maryland	9
Table of Contents	9
Environmental Justice From Pennsylvania to Paris: A Public Health of Consequence, January 2023	9
Ubiquitous Lead— A Challenge for the Future of Public Health	9
Are We Doing Enough to Prevent and Respond to Workplace Violence Against Adolescents?	9
Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care by Sexual Orientation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: United States, January 2021–February 2022	9
Multiple Social Demographics and Disparities in Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy in the United States, 2016–2022: An Intersectional Analytic Framework	9
Masterful History Tour: How and Why the Public Health Approach to Disease Has Evolved and Improved	9
To Demonstrate Trustworthiness, Public Health Must Listen, Reflect, Act, and Revisit	9
How Green Spaces Can Combat Gun Violence in America	9
Neighborhood Proactive Policing and Racial Inequities in Preterm Birth in New Orleans, 2018‒2019	9
Mastheads	9
Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Unionization in Direct Care Occupations	9
To Arms, Public Health Citizens!	9
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	9
Pathways to Peace and Public Health Equity Among Women and Children in Conflict Zones: The Case of Northern Uganda	9
The Legacy of the Latino Caucus for Public Health: Reflections and Analyses on Its 50th Anniversary	9
Bergen et al. Respond	8
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Nutritional Benefits and Barriers Hindering Participation by Home-Based Childcare Providers	8
Centering Youth and Family Needs in Juvenile Justice Reform Efforts	8
The Public Health Implications of a Leaking Fire Backflow Preventer	8
Strategic Litigation, Public Health, and the Decriminalization of Same-Sex Sexual Intimacy: Lessons From Legal Challenges Across Former British Colonies	8
Street Trees and Public Health	8
Countering the Antiscience of Abortion Regulation	8