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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	169
US Government Health Agencies’ Efforts to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma	125
Designing Surveillance at a Population Level	117
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	113
Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	95
Mastheads	87
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	80
Violence and Depression Among Adolescent Boys in Soweto, South Africa, 2020‒2023	79
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	79
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	76
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	76
Subscription Form	67
A Community-Based Participatory Intervention in the United States Using Data to Shift the Community Narrative From Deficits to Strengths	53
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	53
Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022	51
Beyond Prevention: How Gender-Affirming Care Can Transform HIV Outcomes for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Populations	50
Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States	49
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	49
Table of Contents	48
Universal Unconditional Cash Transfers for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Necessary but Insufficient	47
Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions	46
Extreme Polarization Is a Threat to US Health	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	41
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	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	40
Wastewater Surveillance: A Rare Bipartisan Opportunity to Strengthen Public Health	40
Tackling Wicked Problems: The Power of Community Among the Unhoused	39
Table of Contents	39
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	37
Identification of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals in the All of Us Research Program, 2017–2022	37
Coining Intersectional Stigma: Historical Erasures and The Future	36
State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020	36
Association Between the New York SAFE Act and Firearm Suicide and Homicide: An Analysis of Synthetic Controls, New York State, 1999‒2019	36
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population Health	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	35
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	34
A Prologue to the AJPH Supplement: Using Evidence to Expand Contraceptive Access	34
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	33
Disaggregating Office of Management and Budget Race/Ethnicity Data to Examine Racial Disparities in Late-Stage HIV Diagnosis, Hawaii, 2010–2022	33
Changes in Abortion Access, Travel, and Costs Since the Implementation of State Abortion Bans, 2022–2024	32
Structural Interventions That Reduce HIV Vulnerability: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2022	32
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	32
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	32
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Visibility and Data Equity: Insights From NIH RADx-UP	32
Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023	32
The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health	31
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	31
Prior Authorization Requirements and Medicaid Enrollees’ Use of Tobacco Cessation Medications, Colorado, 2023	31
Statement of Ownership	31
Partnering With Churches to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Trustworthy Contexts	31
Public Health Common Ground: The Proof by COVID-19	30
Table of Contents	30
The Peace Exchange: Physical and Psychological Sacrifices of Military Personnel From Historically Marginalized Backgrounds	30
Suicide and the Solitary Life: Differential Risks of Living Alone Across Sociodemographic Groups	30
Wilner and Holton Respond	30
To End Youth Vaping as an On-Ramp to Addiction, Close Legal Loopholes and Rigorously Enforce the Law	29
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two Sides of the Coin	28
Table of Contents	28
Mastheads	27
Characteristics Associated With a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis, Vaccine Uptake, and Intention to Be Vaccinated Among Essential Workers in the US Household Pulse Survey	26
Mastheads	26
Bold Action Needed for Equitable Access to Nutrition Assistance by All	25
The Influence of a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Vaccination Rates in a University Setting	25
AJPH Peer Reviewers 2023–2024: Thank You for Your Services	25
Table of Contents	25
Advancing Equity in Local Health Departments: An Inside-Out Approach	25
Measurement Matters for Transgender Veterans’ Visibility in the Electronic Health Record	24
Evaluation of a Photovoice Exhibit About Immigrant Health Priorities in Southeast Minnesota	24
Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024	24
AJPH Peer Reviewers: Thank You for Your Services	24
Competencies, Training Needs, and Turnover Among Rural Compared With Urban Local Public Health Practitioners: 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey	23
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives: A Critical Perspective	23
Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program	23

Massachusetts Initiative to Improve Contraception Services: A Tale of Two Programs	23
Advancing Pediatric Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection	23
Subscription Form	22
Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural and Underserved Arizona: Experiences From Three County Health Departments	22
Seroprevalence Studies Are Critical Early Pandemic Tools, and They Were Underappreciated During COVID-19	22
Persistent Criminalization and Structural Racism in US Drug Policy: The Case of Overdose Good Samaritan Laws	21
Common Data Element (CDE) Success from Community-Engagement Not Mandates: If You Build It [Data Warehouse], Will They [Participants] Come?	21
Integrating Primary Care and Public Health: Promising Pathways to Building Infrastructure and Delivering Services	21
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership	21
Understanding Barriers to COVID-19 Testing Among Rural and Urban Populations in Kansas	21
Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Moving From Evidence to Action	21
Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023	21
From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window	21
Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction	21
Sexually Transmitted Infection Disparities and Social Determinants of Health in California, 2013‒2021	21
Hardship and Hope: The Relationship Between Unconditional Prenatal and Infant Cash Transfers, Economic Stability, and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being	20
Reaching Vulnerable and Underserved Communities in the US Southwest Through a Successful COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership	20
Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area	20
The Need for Comprehensive and Timely City-Level Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm Injury Surveillance	20
Regulation of Cannabis Retailers: Facilitating Responsible Adult Use and Promoting Health Equity While Preventing Access to Minors	20
Evaluating Algorithmic Approaches to Uncover Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Scientific Authorship	20
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean	19
Documenting Our History, Protecting Our Futures: Queer Communities	19
Rethinking “Herd” Mentalities and Rethinking the Value of the History of Public Health	19
Erratum In: “Impact of a Permitless Concealed Firearm Carry Law in West Virginia, 1999–2015 and 2016–2020”	19
Embracing Advanced Methodology to Improve Population Health	19
Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach	19
Subscription Form	19
The Short and the Long Arm of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Direct and Indirect Effects of the US Economic Lockdown	19
Tobacco Company Efforts to Persuade Consumers to Fight the Proposed Federal Menthol Cigarette and Flavored Cigar Bans in the United States	18
Evaluation of ShootSafe, an Interactive, Sequential Website to Teach Youths Firearms Safety: A Randomized Clinical Trial	18
Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)	18
Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022	18
Untangling Concepts of Financial Circumstances for Public Health Professionals and Scholars: A Glossary and Concept Map	18
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs	18
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police	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
Social Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Depression Screening of US Adolescents, 2016 to 2021	18
Gurbaxani et al. Respond	18
Medication Abortion “Reversal” Laws: How Unsound Science Paved the Way for Dangerous Abortion Policy	17
Reshaping Contraceptive Access Efforts by Centering Equity, Justice, and Autonomy	17
Helm-Murtagh and Erwin Respond	17
Benefits of Frequent HIV Testing in the THRIVE Demonstration Project: United States, 2015–2020	17
Beyond Stigma: The Case Against the Criminalization of Sex Work for HIV Prevention and Health Equity	17
On Race and Place in Substance Use Research	17
Adult Day Services, Health Equity for Older Adults With Complex Needs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	17
Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions	17
The USDA’s Actions to Promote and Elevate Nutrition Security During the First 1000 Days	17
Improving Data Surveillance Resilience Beyond COVID-19: Experiences of Primary heAlth Care quAlity Cohort In ChinA (ACACIA) Using Unannounced Standardized Patients	17
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005–2021	17
Democratizing Research With Data Dashboards: Data Visualization and Support to Promote Community Partner Engagement	17
Black Race Matters in the Latino Population	17
Health Equity Research: A Clarion Call to Focus on Racism, Not Race	17
COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Among New York City Parents of Children Aged 5–11 Years	17
Public Trust, Private Data: Four Considerations for the Future of Health	17
Defining Climate Justice in Nursing for Public and Planetary Health	16
Operationalizing Meaningful Community Engagement to Reduce the Burden of Multiple Chronic Conditions	16
Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers	16
Registered Nurses’ Well-Being, Michigan, 2022	16
Mastheads	16
Mastheads	16
Association of Local Cannabis Policy and Retail Availability With Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Northern California	16
Social Justice and Public Health: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2024	16
Health Remedies as a Source of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic Exposure, New York City, 2010–2019	16
Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind	16
Subscription Form	16
Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years	16
Data Related to Social Determinants of Health Captured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	16
Adolescent Dating Violence and Suicide Planning Among Girls in US High Schools: An Intracategorical Intersectional Analysis by Race and Ethnicity	16
Social and Environmental Stressors of Urban Oil and Gas Facilities in Los Angeles County, California, 2020	16
Equitable COVID-19 Testing Access for Underserved Communities: The Success of Vending Machines	16
Data Democratization for Health Equity: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2023	16
The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill	16
Mastheads	15
Table of Contents	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
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
Addressing Misinformation: A More Nuanced Understanding for Public Health Professionals	15
Connecting the Dots: Public Health, Clinical, and Community Connections to Improve Contraception Access	15
Erratum In: “Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives”	15
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
Erratum In: “Erratum In: ‘Living Alone and Suicide Risk in the United States, 2008–2019’”	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
Fixing Up Places Is Easier Than Fixing People	14
Table of Contents	14
Subscription Form	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
Implementation of Doxy-PEP in a Diverse Sexual Health Program in Northern Manhattan: The Doxy-Care Study	13
Unseen and Unheard: Increasing the Visibility of Limited English Proficiency Individuals Through a Language Justice Framework	13
The Evolving Overdose Crisis: United States Needs Robust Policy Change to Address the Fourth Wave	13
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals?	13
Changing Licensing and Credentialing Applications to Promote Health Workers’ Mental Health, Virginia, December 2022–September 2023	13
New Abortion Bans Will Increase Existing Health and Economic Disparities	13
Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”	13
Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States	13
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Case for Disaggregated HIV Data and Tailored Interventions for African Immigrants	13
Paleofire Data for Public Health Nursing Wildfire Planning: A Planetary Perspective	13
Investing in Public Health and Community Partnerships Reduced COVID-19–Related Disparities	13
Mortality Inequities: Power, Theory, and Data Considerations	13
Trends in US Life Expectancy: Falling Behind and Failing to Act	13
Subscription Form	12
Automated Opt-Out Hepatitis C Testing to Reduce Missed Screening Opportunities in the Emergency Department	12
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository	12
The Escalating War on Immigrants Is a Public Health Crisis	12
Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications	12
Closing Gaps Between Cannabis Policy and Scientific Understanding	12
Fleeting Fixes, Fractured Systems: Confronting the Continuing Crisis of the Public Health Workforce	12
Shooting at the CDC: Tragedy, Turmoil, and Resilience	12
Mastheads	12
Subscription Form	12
Championing the 2021 New York State Law: A Step Toward Data Disaggregation on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders	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
Table of Contents	12
Looking Back: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care in Louisiana	12
“Whiteness” and the Opioid Epidemic: A Construct in Need of Elaboration	12
Implementation of Baltimore City’s COVID-19 Isolation Hotel	12
A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle That Underlies Healthy Communities	12
Conflicts of Interest	12
Structural Racism and Racial Trauma Among African Americans at Elevated Risk for HIV Infection	12
SNAP: The Most Important Component of Our Efforts to End Food Insecurity in the United States	12
Short- and Long-Term Potential Impacts of Ongoing and Escalating Legal and Political Attacks on LGBTQ Health and Health Equity	12
Oral Health of and Dental Workforce Among the Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States	12
Subscription Form	12
Bringing an Equity Lens to Address the Evolving Overdose Crisis: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2023	12
Yellow Power: Building Asian Student Community Voices Against Gender-Based Violence Through Public Health Research and Art	12
Erratum In: “Control of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates at a Spanish University With In-Person Class Attendance”	12
Adolescents’ Mental Health: Disparities, Prevention Strategies, and Future Directions	11
Relationships Matter: Rebuilding Policymaker Trust in Public Health Leadership	11
Strategies to Increase the Population-Level Impact of Naloxone Distribution in Communities Highly Affected by the Overdose Crisis	11
Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study	11
Evaluation of the Ontario Mandatory Working-at-Heights Training Requirement in Construction, 2012‒2019	11
The Murder of Black Women in the United States: A Public Health Crisis	11
Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement	11
Cancer Care Access in Chile’s Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Knowledge and Practice of Pinworm Infection in Preschool Children, Jiangsu Province, China, 2019–2020	11
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	11
A Medicaid-Funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020‒2022	11
Lessons From COVID-19 Testing Research: The Power of Rapid Response	11
Are State-Level Policies Supporting Community Health Worker Employment? The Jury Is Still Out	11
The Plight of Marginalized Populations in 2025: The Assault on Health Equity Through a Systems Lens	11
The War on Drugs, Racialized Capitalism, and Health Care Utilization Among White People Who Use Drugs in 22 Rural Appalachian Counties	11
Restoring and Expanding Public Trust in Public Health	11
The Need to Invest in Infrastructure and Partnerships to Achieve Complete Public Health Data	11
A Social Vulnerability Framework to Identify and Assist With Environmental Injustice	11
The Future of Pharmacist-Delivered Status-Neutral HIV Prevention and Care	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
Roe v Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration	11
Use of a Learning Community to Expand Access to Contraception	11
Flavors Remain a Major Driver of Youth E-Cigarette Use	11
Longitudinal Impact of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Abortion Service Delivery in Ohio, 2022‒2023	11
Timely Second-Dose Completion of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination at Community-Based and Mobile Vaccine Clinics in Maryland	10
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	10
AJPH Global News	10
Making Family Childcare More Resilient: Child and Adult Care Food Program Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic May Point the Way Forward	10
Employee Cardiometabolic Risk Following a Cluster-Randomized Workplace Intervention From the Work, Family and Health Network, 2009–2013	10
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST	10
Table of Contents	10
Masterful History Tour: How and Why the Public Health Approach to Disease Has Evolved and Improved	10
The Food and Drug Administration’s e-Cigarette Flavor Restrictions Have Not Gone Far Enough to Curb the Youth e-Cigarette Use Epidemic	10
Table of Contents	10
Contraceptive Care Using Reproductive Justice Principles: Beyond Access	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
Masking the Health Impacts of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies by Political Suppression of Data and Informational Erasure	10
Rethinking the Role of Jails Amid COVID-19	10
Introducing AJPH’s Newest Manuscript Format: Qualitative Notes From the Field	10
Mastheads	10