OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Doing ‘reciprocity work’: The role of fieldworkers in a mass drug administration trial in the Gambia	67
Exploring terminology for puerperal sepsis and its symptoms in urban Karachi, Pakistan to improve communication, care-seeking, and illness recognition	38
Professionalisation experiences of a ‘business-minded’ HIV targeted intervention NGO in India: An organisational ethnography	31
Tuberculosis in prison: What about after release? The example of French Guiana	29
Health work and skills in the last mile of disease elimination. Experiences from sleeping sickness health workers in South Sudan and DR Congo	29
Country and policy factors influencing the implementation of primary care-based alcohol screening: A comparison of Colombia, Mexico and Peru	26
Practicing at the margins-fertility care in sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) landscape in South Africa and Zimbabwe a medical professional perspective	23
Making global health ‘work’: Frontline workers’ labour in research and interventions	22
Burden and associated risk factors of undernutrition among displaced pregnant and lactating women: A scoping review	22
Unveiling lives: A glimpse into the daily routines of individuals affected by leprosy in Malaysia using the walk-and-talk technique	22
The governance of antimicrobial resistance in Brazil: Challenges for developing and implementing a one health agenda	21
The feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness and impact of implementing person-centered communication for prevention of female genital mutilation in antenatal care settings in Guinea, Kenya and Som	20
Knowledge, perceptions and practices towards blood donation among undergraduate medical students in an upcountry Ugandan university: A mixed methods study	19
Not business as usual: Engaging the corporate sector in India’s TB elimination efforts	19
Impact of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on children’s health: Evidence and recommendations for mitigation	18
The social determination of health and the transformation of rights and ethics	18
Under-representation of low and middle income countries (LMIC) in the research literature: Ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals: have the trends changed?	17
‘If they see you bleeding they will quarantine you’: Women’s help-seeking for violence during the Ebola and COVID-19 outbreaks in Sierra Leone	17
Substance use policy and practice in the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data	16
The quality of intrapartum care during stillbirth deliveries in conflict-affected Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo: A phenomenological study	15
Exploring the impact of military conflict on sex work in Ukraine: Women’s experiences of economic burden	15
The perception of gestational risk through the lens of social determinants of health: a mixed-methods study	15
Perspectives and experiences of Zambian pregnant and postpartum women receiving two intervention models to increase uptake of male partner HIV testing	15
Accelerating the prevention of HIV and violence in adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe through multi-sectoral programming: Cross-sectional analysis of the 2017 violence against children surve	14
Overlap and differences between internalised stigma and depression: A Delphi study	14

Undoing elimination: Modelling Australia’s way out of the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Who writes the pandemic? State power, individual subjectivity, and the history of the present in China’s COVID-19 response	13
The challenge of dealing with non-AIDS comorbidities for people living with HIV: Perspectives and experiences of patients and healthcare providers	13
‘I am struggling to survive’ – limited living conditions increase the burden of HIV: A qualitative study	13
Parallel systems in healthcare: Addressing Indigenous health equity in Canada	13
Cancer screening research in Bangladesh: Insights from a scoping review	13
Operational manager’s knowledge and attitudes toward data and universal health coverage indicators in primary health clinics in Ugu, South Africa	12
Resilience and associated factors in orphaned and separated adolescents in Kenya: Understanding the relationship with care environment and HIV risks	12
‘Keep learning, keep trying’: exploring food and cultural experiences and supports of Inuvialuit youth in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region	12
Commentary: COVID-19 healthcare barriers around vaccine uptake among migrant workers within the Canadian Prairies	12
The varied perspectives of organisational effectiveness: What’s at stake for early childhood development programmes in Rwanda?	12
Evidence on factors influencing HPV vaccine implementation in South Asia: A scoping review	12
Implementation of a safer conception programme for HIV-affected men and women in rural Uganda	12
Promoting conspiracy theory: From AIDS to COVID-19	11
Organoids at the forefront of global health: accelerated research and ethical implications in the cases of Zika and COVID-19	11
Rohingya women’s knowledge and perceptions about pregnancy termination in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: A community-based study	11
Physical barriers in access to public reproductive healthcare services of women with physical disabilities in Vietnam	11
Unpacking ‘irrational’ behaviours: Situating the antibiotic selling practices of drug sellers in East Africa	11
The erasure of infection-associated chronic conditions: Critical interpretive synthesis of literature on healthcare for long COVID and related conditions in Brazil	11
Discrepancies in the portrayal of the COVID-19 vaccine in Chinese and US international media outlets: A corpus-based discursive news values analysis	10
An epistemological reflection on the psychosocial processes experienced by One Health researchers	10
Gender and exposure pathways to zoonotic infections in communities at the interface of wildlife conservation areas of Uganda: A qualitative study	10
The UK’s pandemic preparedness and early response to the COVID-19 pandemic	10
‘It’s a delicate topic’: Stigma, capabilities and young people’s mental health in post-conflict Colombia	10
Foot care intervention delivered by community health worker (CHWs): A scoping review	10
Healthcare providers intentions to use an electronic personal health record for undocumented migrants: A qualitative exploration study in The Netherlands	10
Moving beyond jargon: Operationalising gender-transformative approaches to end harmful practices against adolescents	10
Cooperators or competitors? The interactions between WHO and the World Bank in global health governance	10
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of women regarding breast and cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study in India	10
Health diplomacy for a resilient Africa: Addressing shared threats and fostering regional collaboration	9
Mixed-methods findings from the Ngutulu Kagwero (agents of change) participatory comic pilot study on post-rape clinical care and sexual violence prevention with refugee youth in a humanitarian settin	9
Social network diffusion effects of an intimate partner violence prevention program in rural Nepal	9
Rethinking cancer prevention for migrant populations in Queensland, Australia: A retrospective cohort study comparing culturally and linguistically diverse and Australian born cancer patients	9
Patterns, harms and responses to licit and illicit substance use in Zimbabwe: A scoping review	9
Caring for children with SAM: Intersectional stories of shame, blame and stigmatisation in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya	9
The Trump administration's politics of cruelty and its impact on global health	9
Acceptability of self-collected vaginal swabs and point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted and genital infections among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea	9
An examination of sugar-sweetened beverage tax regulations in six jurisdictions: Applying a social justice perspective to beverage taxation and exemptions	9
Ideological assumptions of Chile’s international migrant healthcare policy: A critical discourse analysis	9
‘It kills the freedom or the spirit of people being who they are’: impact of sexuality-based stigma and discrimination on the lives of gay and bisexual men in Kenya	9
Whole-of-community and intersectoral interventions that address alcohol-related harms: A scoping review	9
Hustling and suffering: Male sex workers and HIV interventions in Kenya	9
Intimate partner violence is associated with cytomegalovirus among young women in rural South Africa: An HPTN 068 analysis	8
Reevaluating vaccine preferences and political influences in the MENA region	8
Challenges faced by migrant seasonal agricultural farmworkers for food accessibility in Spain: A qualitative study	8
How does domestic violence stigma manifest in women’s lives in Afghanistan? A study of survivors’ lived experiences of help-seeking across three provinces.	8
Women’s education and attitudes toward malaria in children: Evidence from Nigeria	8
Parent–child conflict and adolescent health literacy in Mexico: Results from a nationwide dyad study in Mexico	8
Speech-language pathology services for acquired communication disorders among indigenous peoples: A systematic review	8
Where is the bottleneck? Drones and the paradoxes of digitising medical supplies in Ghana's landscapes of care	8

Introducing the Power In Nepali Girls (PING) empowerment scale	8
A qualitative study on fertility preferences and barriers to fertility autonomy in rural Uganda among women with an unmet need for family planning	8
Empowering communities against AMR: Evaluating the one health-based antibiotic-wise village (SAJAKA) in Bali, Indonesia	8
The role of gender in antimicrobial resistance: Findings from a scoping review	8
Challenges implementing technology transfer as a viable pathway for equitable vaccine production and access: A case study of the mRNA vaccine hub in South Africa	8
Toward improving anal health care among GBMSM in Kenya: Lessons from a patient’s illness, treatment and recovery journey	8
Engaging the public in decisions about emergency vaccine deployment strategies: Lessons from scenario-based discussions in Sierra Leone	8
Healthy food, unhealthy food: Indigenous perspectives on the nutrition transition	8
Scoping review on lessons learnt on the promotion and use of drugs and traditional medicine in Africa during COVID-19	8
Preparing for future pandemics while responding to the current ones in the midst of a planetary climate crisis: Can we face this triple global health challenge?	8
Vertical dominance: Cost-effectiveness, randomisation, and the bias against horizontal interventions in global health	7
Bogotá, Colombia’s single route of attention for women victims of violence and at risk of femicide: ‘Choques’ (collisions) - perspectives of human rights lawyers stationed in health facilities	7
Exploring the intersectionality of stigma and substance use help-seeking behaviours among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning or otherwise gender or sexuality minority (LGBTQ+) ind	7
Navigating uncertainties of death: Minimally Invasive Autopsy Technology in global health	7
Biomedical technologies in context: Acceptability of a screening tool for sexually transmitted infections and bacterial vaginosis in Zimbabwe and South Africa	7
Perception about telemedicine services among parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders in a specialised tertiary centre in Oman	7
The precarity of mobile loan debt and repayment among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya: Implications for sexual health	7
Rethinking development: Language, power and the cost of progress	7
Perceptions of patent and proprietary medicine vendors and communities of the tiered accreditation programme for family planning services in Lagos and Kaduna states, Nigeria	7
Like ticking time bombs. Improvising structural competency to ‘Defuse’ the exploding of violence against emergency care workers in Italy	7
Where is menstruation in global health policy? The need for a collective understanding	7
Through their lens: A photovoice study exploring pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences, coping strategies and barriers to heat adaptation in an urban township in South Africa	7
Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation	6
Comparative situational analysis of comprehensive abortion care in four Southern African countries	6
The gatekeepers of global health knowledge: A systematic review of diversity in editorial boards	6
Associations between climate change-related factors and sexual health: A scoping review	6
Human preparedness: Relational infrastructures and medical countermeasures in Sierra Leone	6
When ART is not a magic bullet: Tailored care for vulnerable people living with hiv in the era of treat-all in Shinyanga, Tanzania	6
Correcting misperceived norms: An integrated intervention to prevent adolescent sexual violence and HIV in South Africa	6
Outcomes of substance use and sexual power among adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town: Implications for structural and cultural differences	6
‘Well… we keep adapting our labs’: Interconnected factors shaping vaccine R&D and production capacity in Brazil	6
Mapping out a Canadian university’s trauma-informed landscape: A preliminary exploration	6
Learners’ viewpoints on the possibilities and limitations imposed by social contexts on online group-based participatory interventions to address violence	6
Technologies that empower women for better access to healthcare in India – A scoping review	6
Reimagining global health: From decolonisation to indigenization	6
Indigenous sovereignty in research and epistemic justice: Truth telling through research	6
The cost of inaction on preconception health in Nigeria: An economic impact analysis	6
Adolescents and young adults dating and HIV perceptions: A phenomenological study in N’Djamena, Chad	6
Using photovoice to inform and support health systems to reach marginalised populations: experiences from six low- and middle-income countries	6
Learning from the strengths of health care in schools in Brazil & opportunities for contemporary global school health	6
What matters most in Cirebon, Indonesia: cultural nuances to health-related stigma	6
Refractive error correction and harvest worker productivity in the Guatemalan coffee sector: A quasi-experimental analysis	6
Challenges and opportunities in screening and management of hypertension and type 2 diabetes in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: A qualitative study of multi-sectoral stakeholders	6
Adolescent pregnancy outcomes in Jos, North Central Nigeria: The roles of disclosure and social support systems	6
Medical mistrust, discrimination and healthcare experiences in a rural Namibian community	6
Evaluation of human papillomavirus (HPV) knowledge among healthcare professionals: A study of conference attendees in Angola	6
The politics and governance of drug production in public-private partnerships: Brazil ’ s response to hepatitis C	6
Integrated health services for refugee and host populations in Uganda: A qualitative study of stakeholder’s perspectives	6
The transformative terrain: An in-depth analysis of trends in self-managed abortion in India using NFHS-5 national data	6
Global learning: A post-COVID-19 approach to advance health equity	5
Fighting for mothers who do sex work: An interview with Dudu Dlamini	5
The silent shot : An analysis of the origin, sustenance and implications of the MMR vaccine – autism rumour in the Somali diaspora in Sweden and beyond	5
From policy to practice: syndemic and intersectional challenges to ART adherence for transgender women under India's post-test and treat policy	5
‘First you are a victim, then a survivor and finally, a warrior’: Perceptions of refugee women on sexual and gender based violence in the Netherlands	5
Number worship: Race, place and numbers in ‘the San Francisco America pretends does not exist’	5
Stigmatisation and resistance processes: Reflections on the field of HIV research and an agenda for contemporary stigma studies	5
Love and anger: Putafeminismos /whore feminisms in Brazil	5
The influence of socioeconomic and cultural factors on emotional violence in gender-based abuse	5
Canadian tuberculosis health care workers’ perspectives on education and counselling for patients and family members who are born outside of Canada	5
Examining factors impacting acceptance of COVID-19 countermeasures among structurally marginalised Canadians	5
Temporal changes in HIV-related stigma and sexual behaviours: An examination of 22 African countries	5
Examining African contributions to global health: Reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation	5
The economic consequence of large-scale epidemic outbreak: The path and loss evaluation of COVID-19 in China based on input-output analysis	5
A light touch intervention with a heavy lift – gender, space and risk in a global vaccination programme	5
An evaluation case study of village-based relational community engagement activities in Lao PDR	5
Scrutinising delay in leprosy diagnosis in Colombia: perceptions and experiences by leprosy health professionals	5