OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethnicity & Disease 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Financial Well-Being Among US Adults with Vascular Conditions: Differential Impacts Among Blacks and Hispanics	117
Mental Health, Self-Care, and Engagement in Care among Black Women Living with HIV	89
Parkinson’s Disease Inequities in Daily Cognitive Activities: An Intersectional Approach	43
Decolonizing a Wretched Healthcare System: The African Public Health Practitioner Case	38
Black Feminism and Womanism: A Narrative Review of the Weight Loss Literature	33
Knowledge Sharing to Reduce Toxin Exposure Risks from Harmful Algal Blooms: Global Networks and Political Barriers	28
Spatial Variation in Very Preterm Birth to Hispanic Women Across the United States: The Role of Intensified Immigration Enforcement	25
Exploring Associations between Race/Ethnicity and Glaucoma Prevalence in a Multicenter Brazilian Study: The ELSA-Brasil	15
Association of Diabetic Retinopathy with Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Latinos with Type 2 Diabetes	15
Commentary on Metabolic Health Disparities Affecting the Rio Grande Valley Mexican American Population: Seeking Answers Using Animal Models	15
Suicide Ideation and the Association of Chronic Disease among American Indians	14
Advancing Inclusive Research: Establishing Collaborative Strategies to Improve Diversity in Clinical Trials	14
“They Don’t Care If We Live or Die”: A Qualitative Analysis Examining the US Immigration System’s Treatment of Undocumented Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
The Association Between NRMN STAR Grantsmanship Self-Efficacy and Grant Submission	14
COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes and Barriers among Unvaccinated Residents in Rural Northern/Central Illinois	13
Understanding Core Community Needs for School-Based Asthma Programming: A Qualitative Assessment in Colorado Communities	12
The Role of Financial Strain and Educational Attainment on Smoking Abstinence of African Americans and Whites Who Smoke	11
Anti-Black Structural Racism Goes Online: A Conceptual Model for Racial Health Disparities Research	11
Racial Disparities in Health Care Use in Gentrifying Neighborhoods	11
A Qualitative Analysis on Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs and Issues During COVID-19 Using a Reproductive Justice Framework	9
Supporting Underserved Communities for Health Care: US Immigrants’ Experiences with Social Support	9
Acculturation, Perceptions about Seeking Mental Health Care, and Utilization of Mental Health Services among US-based South Asians	8
Neck Circumference Cut-Off for Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Nigeria	7
Best Practice Recommendations for Integrating Health Equity into Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Dementia Care	7
Perceived Religious Influence on Health Is Associated with Beneficial Health Behaviors in Members of Predominantly Black Churches	7

Risk and Protective Factors for Cost-Related Nonadherence Among Middle East and North African (MENA ) Adults	7
Electronic Health Literacy among Linguistically Diverse Patients in the Los Angeles County Safety Net Health System	6
A Community-Engaged Process for Adapting a Cardiovascular Health Intervention for Persons with Serious Mental Illness	5
Central Blood Pressure and Subclinical Atherosclerotic Risk in Young Hispanic American Women	5
“I Have Come Because I See You Care About Me”: Recruiting Older Black Americans for Genomic Research	5
The Prevalence of Multimorbidity among Foreign-born Adults in the United States	5
Navigating Access to Cancer Care: Identifying Barriers to Precision Cancer Medicine	5
Tiwala, Gaining Trust to Recruit Filipino American Families: CARE -T2D Study	4
Everyday Violence: Immigration Enforcement, COVID-19, and Depression among Undocumented Young Adults in California	4
Associations between Structural Racism, Environmental Burden, and Cancer Rates: An Ecological Study of US Counties	4
Psychological Factors and Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes in a United States–Mexico Border Community	4
Maternal and Infant Health Inequities, Reproductive Justice and COVID Addressed in RACE Series	4
Neighborhood Food Environment Associated with Cardiometabolic Health among Predominately Low-income, Urban, Black Women	4
Assessing Representativeness of Seriously Ill Patient Survey Responders in a Pragmatic Clinical Trial	4
Developing a Social Determinants of Health Needs Assessment for Colorado Kids (SNACK) Tool for a School-Based Asthma Program: Findings from a Pilot Study	4
Use of Zip Code Based Aggregate Indicators to Assess Race Disparities in COVID-19	4
Peer-Led Focus Groups Identify Barriers to Healthy Lifestyle in African American Adolescents from Baltimore City	4
Community and Healthcare Perspectives on Implementing Hypertension Interventions for a Multiethnic Safety-Net Population	3
Implementation Research at NHLBI: Methodological and Design Challenges and Lessons Learned from the DECIPHeR Initiative	3
Let Us Just Ask People What They Think: Community Perceptions and Recommendations about Coronavirus Vaccination	3
Looking Back to Leap Forward: A Framework for Operationalizing the Structural Racism Construct in Minority and Immigrant Health Research	3
Generation 1.5: Years in the United States and Other Factors Affecting Smoking Behaviors Among Asian Americans	3
Perceived Susceptibility to Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension Self-Management among Black and White Live Kidney Donors	3
Rationale for the Design and Implementation of Interventions Addressing Institutional Racism at a Local Public Health Department	3
Applying a Race(ism)-Conscious Adaptation of the CFIR Framework to Understand Implementation of a School-Based Equity-Oriented Intervention	3
Barriers and Facilitators to Improving Cardiovascular Health in Churches with Predominantly Black Congregations	2
Using COVID-19 Surveillance Systems to Identify and Monitor Disparities: Best Practices and Recommendations	2
Community-Academic Partnerships for Health Research: An Iterative and Transparent Process of Patient Engagement Before the Research Begins	2
COVID-19 Case-Fatality Rates in Michigan Are Higher for Arab Americans Compared With Non-Hispanic White Individuals for the Oldest Age Groups	2
Planning the Implementation of a Multilevel Blood Pressure Control Intervention in Chicago: Community and Clinical Perspectives	2
Social Engagement and Mental Health Symptoms Across Asian American Ethnic Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Poverty, Comorbidity, and Ethnicity: COVID-19 Outcomes in a Safety Net Health System	2
Exploring the Lived Experience of Food Insecure African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes Living in the Inner City	2
Community Engagement in Implementation Science: the Impact of Community Engagement Activities in the DECIPHeR Alliance	2
Associations of Major Lifetime and Everyday Discrimination with Cognitive Function among Middle-Aged and Older Adults	2
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Rate Ratios Provide an Incomplete Picture of US Trends, April 2020–March 2021	2
Barely Tweeting and Rarely About Racism: Assessing US State Health Department Twitter Use During the COVID -19 Vaccine Rollout	2
The Association Between Educational Attainment and Mortality: Examining Absolute and Relative Effects by Race/Ethnicity	2
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Emotional Reactions to the Flint Water Crisis among Michigan Women in Communities Outside of Flint	2
Neighborhood-level Asian American Populations, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Outcomes in 500 US Cities	2
Glucometabolic State Transitions: The Jackson Heart Study	2
An Equity-Based Scoring System for Evaluating Surveillance-Related Harm in Public Health Crises	2
Factors Associated with Anticoagulation Initiation for New Atrial Fibrillation in an Urban Emergency Department	2
Key Principles Underlying a Research-Practice Alignment in a Federally Qualified Health Center	2
Racial Disparities in Foot Examination among People with Diabetes in Brazil: A Nationwide Survey, 2019	1
Structural Racism: A Call to Action for Health and Health Disparities Research	1
Accuracy of Perceived Breast Cancer Risk in Black and White Women with an Elevated Risk	1
Stroke Incidence and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Among African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study	1
Rapid Assessment of COVID Evidence (RACE): Continuing Health Equity Research Beyond the Series	1
Attitudes about COVID-19 Testing among Black Adults in the United States	1

Diurnal Cortisol Slope and Nighttime Blood Pressure: A Study in European Americans and African Americans	1
Training Underrepresented Early-Career Faculty in Cardiovascular Health Research during COVID -19: Structural Inequities and Health Disparity	1
Relationship Between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Severe Maternal Morbidity and Maternal Mortality	1
Engaging Predominantly Black Churches in an Intervention to Improve Cardiovascular Health and Reduce Racial Inequities	1
Factors Associated with HPV Vaccine Adherence among Latino/a Adolescents in a Rural, Texas-Mexico Border County	1
Prevalence and Correlates of HIV-Associated Health Behaviors in a Population-Based Sample of Puerto Rican Adults, 2019	1
Structural Racism and Immigrant Health: Exploring the Association Between Wage Theft, Mental Health, and Injury among Latino Day Laborers	1
Examining the Role of Family History of US Enslavement in Health Care System Distrust Today	1
Sleep as a Predictor of Health-Related Quality of Life among Economically Disadvantaged Black Older Adults	1
The Use of Navigators to Increase Patient Portal Enrollment among Patients in a Federally Qualified Health Care System	1
Integrated Methods for Applying Critical Race Theory to Qualitative COVID-19 Equity Research	1
MiQuit: A Study Protocol to Link Low-Income Smokers to a State Tobacco Quitline	1
Commentary: Public Health Surveillance and Health Equity: Cause for Concern	1
A Pilot Study Examining Stress and Obesity among Employees at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU): Does Job Satisfaction Matter?	1
Richard S. Cooper, MD in Memoriam	1