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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, by Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide	210
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond	193
Public Health Should Lead the Charge on Improving Life Expectancy	178
A Prologue to the AJPH Supplement: Using Evidence to Expand Contraceptive Access	155
Mastheads	133
Temporal Changes in Vaccine-Specific Willingness Across Race/Ethnicity Following Serious Adverse Event Reports	131
Detecting New Sources of Childhood Environmental Lead Exposure Using a Statistical Surveillance System, 2015–2019	122
AJPH Global News	121
How Accountable to the Public Is Funding for Graduate Medical Education? The Case for State Medicaid GME Payments	102
What Is Public Health? An Interview With Former Governor John Kasich	91
Youth Violence Prevention: Building Local Power and Empowering Youths	81
To Reduce Sexual Minority Health Care Disparities, Advocate for Expanded Health Insurance Coverage and LGBTQ+ Rights	77
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis Hospitalizations in Young Infants After the Introduction of Paid Family Leave in New York State, 2015‒2019	77
Designing Surveillance at a Population Level	75
Erratum In: “‘Ashamed to Put My Name to It’: Monsanto, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, and the Use of Fraudulent Science, 1969–1985”	75
Promising Practices Observed in High-Throughput COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the United States, February–May 2021	75
US Government Health Agencies’ Efforts to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma	74
Table of Contents	69
Smallpox Immunization in Colonial America: All Too Relevant Today	66
Hepatitis C in the United States: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	64
A Community-Based Participatory Intervention in the United States Using Data to Shift the Community Narrative From Deficits to Strengths	61
Large-Scale Implementation of a Daily Rapid Antigen Testing Program in California for Detecting SARS-CoV-2	61
Structural Interventions That Reduce HIV Vulnerability: A Public Health of Consequence, June 2022	58
Self-Reported Health Indicators in the US Army: Longitudinal Analysis From a Population Surveillance System, 2014‒2018	56
Subscription Form	56

Equity and Disasters: Reframing Incident Command Systems	56
Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson	56
Disparate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Health Equity Data Gaps	55
AJPH’s Coverage of Education in Public Health in the Age of Democracy’s Crisis	55
Drug Overdose Epidemic Colliding With COVID-19: What the United States Can Learn From France	53
Contact Tracing Could Exacerbate COVID-19 Health Disparities: The Role of Economic Precarity and Stigma	49
Structural Racism, Poverty, and Sexism Shape the History of and Response to Childhood Maltreatment Among Incarcerated Individuals	49
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021	48
Public Health Preparedness Practitioners: Fluent in Disaster	48
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Visibility and Data Equity: Insights From NIH RADx-UP	47
Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021	47
Partnering With Churches to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Trustworthy Contexts	44
Training the Next Generation of Public Health Professionals	43
Notes From the Field: Why They Are Important	43
Who Counts and Who Gets Counted? Health Equity in Infectious Disease Surveillance	42
“We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”: Affirming the Call to Critically Engage Public Health	41
Housing Quality Metric (HQM): Neighborhood-Level Data, Housing Quality, and Population 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
Association Between the New York SAFE Act and Firearm Suicide and Homicide: An Analysis of Synthetic Controls, New York State, 1999‒2019	39
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	39
Coining Intersectional Stigma: Historical Erasures and The Future	38
Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022	35
Workplace Leave and Breastfeeding Duration Among Postpartum Women, 2016–2018	34
Prevalence, Correlates, and Impacts of Displacement Because of Natural Disasters in the United States From 2022 to 2023	34
Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016–2020): Role of Academic Institutions	34
Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States	34
Tobacco Control Leaders Call for a Balanced Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of Nicotine Vaping	34
Understanding Barriers to COVID-19 Testing Among Rural and Urban Populations in Kansas	33
State-Level History of Overdose Deaths Involving Stimulants in the United States, 1999‒2020	33
The North Karelia Project (1972–1997) and the Origins of the Community Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention	33
Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022	33
Use of Cannabis for Harm Reduction Among People at High Risk for Overdose in Vancouver, Canada (2016–2018)	33
AJPH Peer Reviewers: Thank You for Your Services	32
Regulation of Cannabis Retailers: Facilitating Responsible Adult Use and Promoting Health Equity While Preventing Access to Minors	32
Acupuncture’s Radical Roots and Political Branches	32
Prior Authorization Requirements and Medicaid Enrollees’ Use of Tobacco Cessation Medications, Colorado, 2023	32
Bold Action Needed for Equitable Access to Nutrition Assistance by All	32
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership	32
The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health	31
Continuing Education	30
Statement of Ownership	30
Advancing Pediatric Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection	29
The Challenges of Public Health Leadership	29
Reducing Disparities by Restructuring Health Care: Brazil’s Family Health System Shows the Way!	29
Self et al. Respond	29
Career Opportunities	29
Subscription Form	29
Wilner and Holton Respond	28
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: Two Sides of the Coin	28
Protecting and Promoting Adolescent Health: A Public Health of Consequence, March 2023	28

From Evidence to Action: Uniting Around Nutrition in the 1000-Day Window	28
The Peace Exchange: Physical and Psychological Sacrifices of Military Personnel From Historically Marginalized Backgrounds	28
Table of Contents	28
Public Health Common Ground: The Proof by COVID-19	28
Competencies, Training Needs, and Turnover Among Rural Compared With Urban Local Public Health Practitioners: 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey	27
Beyond the Magic Bullet: What Will It Take to End the AIDS Epidemic?	27
Seroprevalence Studies Are Critical Early Pandemic Tools, and They Were Underappreciated During COVID-19	27
Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area	27
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives: A Critical Perspective	27
Suicide and the Solitary Life: Differential Risks of Living Alone Across Sociodemographic Groups	27
Massachusetts Initiative to Improve Contraception Services: A Tale of Two Programs	27
Public Health Across the Political Spectrum for All	27
To End Youth Vaping as an On-Ramp to Addiction, Close Legal Loopholes and Rigorously Enforce the Law	27
Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Moving From Evidence to Action	26
Mastheads	26
The Changing Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States During the Years 2010 to 2018	26
Table of Contents	26
Sexually Transmitted Infection Disparities and Social Determinants of Health in California, 2013‒2021	26
Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024	26
Death Certification in the United States	26
Promoting Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Rural and Underserved Arizona: Experiences From Three County Health Departments	25
Vulnerability and Resilience: Use and Misuse of These Terms in the Public Health Discourse	25
Advancing Equity in Local Health Departments: An Inside-Out Approach	25
Table of Contents	25
Measurement Matters for Transgender Veterans’ Visibility in the Electronic Health Record	25
Mastheads	25
Reaching Vulnerable and Underserved Communities in the US Southwest Through a Successful COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership	24
Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction	24
Persistent Criminalization and Structural Racism in US Drug Policy: The Case of Overdose Good Samaritan Laws	24
AJPH Peer Reviewers 2023–2024: Thank You for Your Services	24
Characteristics Associated With a Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis, Vaccine Uptake, and Intention to Be Vaccinated Among Essential Workers in the US Household Pulse Survey	24
Association of “#covid19” Versus “#chinesevirus” With Anti-Asian Sentiments on Twitter: March 9–23, 2020	24
The Influence of a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Vaccination Rates in a University Setting	24
Regulation of Added Substances in the Food Supply by the Food and Drug Administration Human Foods Program	24
Medication Abortion “Reversal” Laws: How Unsound Science Paved the Way for Dangerous Abortion Policy	23
Adherence to Social-Distancing and Personal Hygiene Behavior Guidelines and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis: Evidence From the Understanding America Study	23
Democratizing Research With Data Dashboards: Data Visualization and Support to Promote Community Partner Engagement	23
Data Democratization for Health Equity: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2023	22
The Short and the Long Arm of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Direct and Indirect Effects of the US Economic Lockdown	22
Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach	22
Nurturing Innovation at the Roots: The Success of COVID-19 Vaccination in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities	22
Embracing Advanced Methodology to Improve Population Health	22
Social and Environmental Stressors of Urban Oil and Gas Facilities in Los Angeles County, California, 2020	22
Documenting Our History, Protecting Our Futures: Queer Communities	22
Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in the LGBTQIA Community	22
Expanding Mail-Based Distribution of Drug-Related Harm Reduction Supplies Amid COVID-19 and Beyond	22
Knowledge Translation and the Opioid Crisis	22
Rethinking “Herd” Mentalities and Rethinking the Value of the History of Public Health	22
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs	22
Black Race Matters in the Latino Population	22
The Sankofa Paradox: Why Black Women Know the HIV Epidemic Ends With “WE”	21
Adult Day Services, Health Equity for Older Adults With Complex Needs, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	21
COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Among New York City Parents of Children Aged 5–11 Years	21
Adapting Survey Data Collection to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From a Local Health Department	21
Reshaping Contraceptive Access Efforts by Centering Equity, Justice, and Autonomy	21
Homicide Epidemic in Cali, Colombia: A Surveillance System Data Analysis, 1993‒2018	21
Data Related to Social Determinants of Health Captured in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	21
Registered Nurses’ Well-Being, Michigan, 2022	20
Defining Climate Justice in Nursing for Public and Planetary Health	20
Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years	20
Disparities in Health and Economic Burdens of Cancer Attributable to Suboptimal Diet in the United States, 2015‒2018	20
Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind	20
Helm-Murtagh and Erwin Respond	20
Stigma Is Associated With Widening Health Inequities: Challenges From the Current COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Table of Contents	19
Erratum In: “Impact of a Permitless Concealed Firearm Carry Law in West Virginia, 1999–2015 and 2016–2020”	19
Medicaid Expansions and Participation in Supplemental Security Income by Noncitizens	19
The Effect of Coal-Fired Power Plant Closures on Emergency Department Visits for Asthma-Related Conditions Among 0- to 4-Year-Old Children in Chicago, 2009–2017	19
Is the Probation Population’s Health and Health Care Utilization Gendered?	19
Pragmatic Approach to the Assessment and Use of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Health Workers	18
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean	18
Gurbaxani et al. Respond	18
Career Opportunities	18
Subscription Form	18
Why Was COVID-19 Not the First Leading Cause of Death in the United States in 2020? Rethinking the Ranking List	18
Social Justice and Public Health: A Public Health of Consequence, April 2024	18
COVID-19—The Historical Lessons of the Pandemic Reinforce Systemic Flaws and Exacerbate Inequity	18
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005–2021	17
Health Remedies as a Source of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic Exposure, New York City, 2010–2019	17
Association of Local Cannabis Policy and Retail Availability With Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Northern California	17

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in the Active Component US Military	17
The USDA’s Actions to Promote and Elevate Nutrition Security During the First 1000 Days	17
Portion Sizes of Ultra-Processed Foods in the United States, 2002 to 2021	17
Alcohol, Binge Drinking, and Cancer Risk: Accelerating Public Health Messaging Through Countermarketing	17
Health Equity Research: A Clarion Call to Focus on Racism, Not Race	17
Untangling Concepts of Financial Circumstances for Public Health Professionals and Scholars: A Glossary and Concept Map	17
Unveiling the Unseen: Documenting and Analyzing Nonfatal Shootings by Police	17
Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022	17
Structural Inequities, HIV Community-Based Organizations, and the End of the HIV Epidemic	17
Benefits of Frequent HIV Testing in the THRIVE Demonstration Project: United States, 2015–2020	17
Mastheads	16
Narratives Are Useful Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Risk Communication	16
Subscription Form	16
Revisiting the Protective Value of Barrier Face Coverings After the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Delivering Preexposure Prophylaxis to People Who Use Drugs and Experience Homelessness, Boston, MA, 2018–2020	16
On Race and Place in Substance Use Research	16
New Abortion Bans Will Increase Existing Health and Economic Disparities	16
Table of Contents	16
Diversity of End-of-Life Care in the Boom of Deaths at Old Age	16
The Untapped Potential of Precision Health to Improve Heat Resilience for Those Who Need It Most	16
Extending an Antiracism Lens to the Implementation of Precision Public Health Interventions	16
Beyond Stigma: The Case Against the Criminalization of Sex Work for HIV Prevention and Health Equity	16
Mastheads	16
Yes, Food Portion Sizes and People Have Become Bigger and Bigger. What Is to Be Done?	16
The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill	16
Erratum In: “Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives”	16
Improving Data Surveillance Resilience Beyond COVID-19: Experiences of Primary heAlth Care quAlity Cohort In ChinA (ACACIA) Using Unannounced Standardized Patients	16
Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)	16
Equitable COVID-19 Testing Access for Underserved Communities: The Success of Vending Machines	16
Automated Opt-Out Hepatitis C Testing to Reduce Missed Screening Opportunities in the Emergency Department	15
Subscription Form	15
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Removal and Birth Intendedness: Moving Beyond the Binary	15
Table of Contents	15
Addressing Misinformation: A More Nuanced Understanding for Public Health Professionals	15
Changing Licensing and Credentialing Applications to Promote Health Workers’ Mental Health, Virginia, December 2022–September 2023	15
Food Insecurity and Delayed or Forgone Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Unseen and Unheard: Increasing the Visibility of Limited English Proficiency Individuals Through a Language Justice Framework	15
Promoting Evidence-Based Policy Solutions to the US Gun Violence Epidemic	15
Escaping Disaster: Understanding the Drivers and Disparities in Disaster Displacement in the United States	15
Does Wastewater-Based Surveillance Protect the Health of Incarcerated Individuals?	15
Table of Contents	15
Table of Contents	15
Trends in US Life Expectancy: Falling Behind and Failing to Act	15
Balfour et al. Respond	15
Keeping Public Health Advocacy Strong	15
Erratum In: “Erratum In: ‘Living Alone and Suicide Risk in the United States, 2008–2019’”	15
Connecting the Dots: Public Health, Clinical, and Community Connections to Improve Contraception Access	15
Mastheads	15
Benefits of Masks as a School-Based Prevention Intervention Outweigh the Risks	14
Judicial Review of Public Health Powers Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Implications	14
Investing in Public Health and Community Partnerships Reduced COVID-19–Related Disparities	14
Structural Racism and Racial Trauma Among African Americans at Elevated Risk for HIV Infection	14
SNAP: The Most Important Component of Our Efforts to End Food Insecurity in the United States	14
The Evolving Overdose Crisis: United States Needs Robust Policy Change to Address the Fourth Wave	14
Making Vaccines Equitably Available to All Persons in Pima County, Arizona, 2020–2021	14
A Community-Based Youth Diversion Program as an Alternative to Incarceration, Illinois, 2017–2019	14
Mortality Inequities: Power, Theory, and Data Considerations	14
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository	14
Gendered Racism: “A Different Interpretation of the Same Facts” About the HIV Epidemic Among Black Women in the United States	14
The Environmental Injustice of Beauty Products: Toward Clean and Equitable Beauty	14
Black Women With HIV: Ongoing Challenges and New Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes	14
Vaccine Coverage Across the Life Course in Michigan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: January‒September 2020	14
Championing the 2021 New York State Law: A Step Toward Data Disaggregation on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders	14
“First Do No Harm”: Effective Communication About COVID-19 Vaccines	14
Use of a Learning Community to Expand Access to Contraception	13
Evaluation of the Ontario Mandatory Working-at-Heights Training Requirement in Construction, 2012‒2019	13
AJPH Global News	13
Paleofire Data for Public Health Nursing Wildfire Planning: A Planetary Perspective	13
COVID-19–Related Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Other Marginalized Communities in the United States	13
Conflicts of Interest	13
A Look at When Dying Really Counts: An AJPH Supplement on Mortality Data in Public Health Surveillance	13
Knowledge and Practice of Pinworm Infection in Preschool Children, Jiangsu Province, China, 2019–2020	13
Alternatives to Detention: Immigration Reform Grounded in Public Health	13
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the United States Using Enhanced Vital Records, 2016‒2017	13
Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”	13
Subscription Form	13
Harm Reduction for Veterans (and Others) Who Carry Guns and Experience Anger Attacks	13
COVID-19—The Case for Rethinking Health and Human Rights in Prisons	13
The Importance of Federal Waivers and Technology in Ensuring Access to WIC During COVID-19	13
Table of Contents	12
A Medicaid-Funded Statewide Diabetes Quality Improvement Collaborative: Ohio 2020‒2022	12
Estimating COVID-19‒ Related Mortality in India: An Epidemiological Challenge With Insufficient Data	12
Critical Care Requirements Under Uncontrolled Transmission of SARS-CoV-2	12
Closing Gaps Between Cannabis Policy and Scientific Understanding	12
A Four-Year Follow-Up to “Hosting Syrian Refugees”: Challenges, Resilience, and Small Joys During COVID-19	12
Subscription Form	12
Roe v Wade and the New Jane Crow: Reproductive Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration	12
A “Civity” Approach Helps Build the Civic Muscle That Underlies Healthy Communities	12
School Mandate and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Prekindergartners in New York City, 2012–2019	12
The War on Drugs, Racialized Capitalism, and Health Care Utilization Among White People Who Use Drugs in 22 Rural Appalachian Counties	12
Death Cafés: Where Communities Affirm Grief	12
Flavors Remain a Major Driver of Youth E-Cigarette Use	12
Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement	12
Implementation of Baltimore City’s COVID-19 Isolation Hotel	12
Strategies to Increase the Population-Level Impact of Naloxone Distribution in Communities Highly Affected by the Overdose Crisis	12