OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Conflict and Health is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Violence against healthcare in conflict: a systematic review of the literature and agenda for future research	47
The impact of armed conflict on utilisation of health services in north-west Syria: an observational study	37
COVID-19 and multiple crises in Afghanistan: an urgent battle	31
The relationship between armed conflict and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition status and services in northeastern Nigeria: a mixed-methods case study	28
In the era of humanitarian crisis, young women continue to die in childbirth in Mali	28
Exploring resource scarcity and contextual influences on wellbeing among young refugees in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda: findings from a qualitative study	28
Lockdowns, lives and livelihoods: the impact of COVID-19 and public health responses to conflict affected populations - a remote qualitative study in Baidoa and Mogadishu, Somalia	28
Vulnerability of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to COVID-19: quantitative insights	27
Challenges and opportunities for infection prevention and control in hospitals in conflict-affected settings: a qualitative study	26
Escaping the past and living in the present: a qualitative exploration of substance use among Syrian male refugees in Germany	24
Factors impacting antenatal care utilization: a systematic review of 37 fragile and conflict-affected situations	24
Quality in crisis: a systematic review of the quality of health systems in humanitarian settings	24
Exploring the mental health and psychosocial problems of Congolese refugees living in refugee settings in Rwanda and Uganda: a rapid qualitative study	23
Innovative strategies for providing menstruation-supportive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities: learning from refugee camps in Cox’s bazar, Bangladesh	22
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of Rohingya refugees with pre-existing health problems in Bangladesh	21
Health-related quality of life of refugees: a systematic review of studies using the WHOQOL-Bref instrument in general and clinical refugee populations in the community setting	21
Lay-delivered talk therapies for adults affected by humanitarian crises in low- and middle-income countries	20
Dynamics of non-communicable disease prevention, diagnosis and control in Lebanon, a fragile setting	19
Operational considerations for the management of non-communicable diseases in humanitarian emergencies	19
Humanitarian led community-based surveillance: case study in Ekondo-titi, Cameroon	19
Experiences of armed conflicts and forced migration among women from countries in the Middle East, Balkans, and Africa: a systematic review of qualitative studies	18
COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: documenting and sharing context-specific programmatic experiences	18
I don't leave my people; They need me: Qualitative research of local health care professionals' working motivations in Syria	18
Setting research priorities for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian settings	17
The impact of interventions to reduce risk and incidence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict states and other humanitarian crises in low and middle income co	17

Addressing recall bias in (post-)conflict data collection and analysis: lessons from a large-scale health survey in Colombia	17
Challenges and strategies in conducting sexual and reproductive health research among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	16
“Having more women humanitarian leaders will help transform the humanitarian system”: challenges and opportunities for women leaders in conflict and humanitarian health	16
Gender-based violence (GBV) coordination in humanitarian and public health emergencies: a scoping review	16
Introduction to collection: confronting the challenges of health research in humanitarian crises	15
Mobile clinics in conflict-affected communities of North West and South West regions of Cameroon: an alternative option for differentiated delivery service for internally displaced persons during COVI	15
Shifting to Tele-Mental Health in humanitarian and crisis settings: an evaluation of Médecins Sans Frontières experience during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Challenges to the implementation and adoption of physical distancing measures against COVID-19 by internally displaced people in Mali: a qualitative study	15
The socioeconomic burden of antibiotic resistance in conflict-affected settings and refugee hosting countries: a systematic scoping review	15
Complex emergencies and the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases in Africa: developing a practical approach for implementing safe and effective mapping and intervention strategies	14
Attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities during the first year of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine	14
Pathways to food insecurity in the context of conflict: the case of the occupied Palestinian territory	14
Dealing with difficult choices: a qualitative study of experiences and consequences of moral challenges among disaster healthcare responders	14
Armed conflict and household food insecurity: evidence from war-torn Tigray, Ethiopia	14
Cancer among syrian refugees living in Konya Province, Turkey	13
Conflict-related health research in Syria, 2011–2019: a scoping review for The Lancet - AUB Commission on Syria	13
Gender-based violence and infectious disease in humanitarian settings: lessons learned from Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19 to inform syndemic policy making	13
Working short and working long: can primary healthcare be protected as a public good in Lebanon today?	13
Priorities for addressing substance use disorder in humanitarian settings	12
Implementation of maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) in humanitarian settings: insights and experiences of humanitarian health practitioners and global technical expert mee	12
Gender-based violence experiences among Palestinian women during the COVID-19 pandemic: mental health professionals’ perceptions and concerns	12
Improving diabetes control for Syrian refugees in Jordan: a longitudinal cohort study comparing the effects of cash transfers and health education interventions	12
Destruction, disruption and disaster: Sudan’s health system amidst armed conflict	12
Knowledge of cervical cancer risk factors and symptoms among women in a refugee settlement: a cross-sectional study in northern Uganda	12
An analysis of humanitarian and health aid alignment over a decade (2011–2019) of the Syrian conflict	12
A mixed methods study to assess the impact of COVID-19 on maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition in fragile and conflict-affected settings	12
‘We need someone to deliver our voices’: reflections from conducting remote qualitative research in Syria	12
Mental health of women and children experiencing family violence in conflict settings: a mixed methods systematic review	11
Telemedicine interventions in six conflict-affected countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: a systematic review	11
Using a community-based system dynamics approach for understanding inclusion and wellbeing: a case study of special needs education in an eastern African refugee camp	11
Resilience of health systems in conflict affected governorates of Iraq, 2014–2018	10
“Actually, the psychological wounds are more difficult than physical injuries:” a qualitative analysis of the impacts of attacks on health on the personal and professional lives of health workers in t	10
The role of social capital in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian settings: a systematic review of qualitative studies	10
The enduring consequences of conflict-related sexual violence: a qualitative study of women survivors in northern Uganda	10
The boundaries between complex posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters and post-migration living difficulties in traumatised Afghan refugees: a network analysis	10
Intimate partner violence against women on the Colombia Ecuador border: a mixed-methods analysis of the liminal migrant experience	10
Adolescent access to health services in fragile and conflict-affected contexts: The case of the Gaza Strip	10
“If I was with my father such discrimination wouldn’t exist, I could be happy like other people”: a qualitative analysis of stigma among peacekeeper fathered children in the Democratic Republic of Con	10
Measuring mental health in humanitarian crises: a practitioner’s guide to validity	10
“I try the one that they say is good.” - factors influencing choice of health care provider and pathways to diabetes care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon	9
Healthcare governance during humanitarian responses: a survey of current practice among international humanitarian actors	9
Conflict-related violence and mental health among self-settled Democratic Republic of Congo female refugees in Kampala, Uganda – a respondent driven sampling survey	9
Reproductive health at conflict borders: a cross-sectional survey of human rights violations and perinatal outcomes at the Thai-Myanmar border	9
Considerations for planning COVID-19 treatment services in humanitarian responses	9
Community-based surveillance in internally displaced people’s camps and urban settings during a complex emergency in Yemen in 2020	9
COVID-19 testing acceptability and uptake amongst the Rohingya and host community in Camp 21, Teknaf, Bangladesh	9
A literature review exploring how health systems respond to acute shocks in fragile and conflict-affected countries	9
Translating, contextually adapting, and pilot testing of psychosocial and mental health assessment instruments for Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	9
Measles in conflict-affected northern Syria: results from an ongoing outbreak surveillance program	9
Disseminating evidence-based research on mental health and coping to adolescents facing adversity in Lebanon: a pilot of a psychoeducational comic book ‘Somoud’	9

Substance (mis)use among refugees as a matter of social ecology: insights into a multi-site rapid assessment in Germany	9
Mortality beyond emergency threshold in a silent crisis– results from a population-based mortality survey in Ouaka prefecture, Central African Republic, 2020	8
Measuring sexual violence stigma in humanitarian contexts: assessment of scale psychometric properties and validity with female sexual violence survivors from Somalia and Syria	8
Healthworker preparedness for COVID-19 management and implementation experiences: a mixed methods study in Uganda’s refugee-hosting districts	8
The effect of the ongoing civil strife on key immunisation outcomes in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon	8
Cross-sectional survey in Central African Republic finds mortality 4-times higher than UN statistics: how can we not know the Central African Republic is in such an acute humanitarian crisis?	8
Ensuring equity in mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	8
How structural and symbolic violence during resettlement impacts the social and mental wellbeing of forced migrant women: the lived experiences of Arabic speaking survivors of IPV resettled in Melbour	7
The impact of a community based rehabilitation program in Afghanistan: a longitudinal analysis using propensity score matching and difference in difference analysis	7
A qualitative study on health care providers’ experiences of providing comprehensive abortion care in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	7
Identifying transferable lessons from cholera epidemic responses by Médecins Sans Frontières in Mozambique, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2015–2018: a scoping review	7
Perilous medicine in Tigray: a systematic review	7
Living a frozen life: a qualitative study on asylum seekers’ experiences and care practices at accommodation centers in Sweden	7
Mental health and psychosocial support in conflict: children’s protection concerns and intervention outcomes in Syria	7
Assessing exposure to war-related traumatic events in older Vietnamese war survivors	7
Rapid mental health screening in conflict zones: a translation and cross-cultural adaptation into Arabic of the shortened Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS-25)	7
Research as usual in humanitarian settings? Equalising power in academic-NGO research partnerships through co-production	7
Ageism, an invisible social determinant of health for older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a service providers’ perspective	7
School violence, depression symptoms, and school climate: a cross-sectional study of Congolese and Burundian refugee children	6
Have attacks on healthcare become the new normal? a public health call to action for armed conflicts before it is too late	6
The status of emergency obstetric and newborn care in post-conflict eastern DRC: a facility-level cross-sectional study	6
The impact of conflict on infectious disease: a systematic literature review	6
Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: a spatiotemporal analysis	6
Strengthening healthcare providers’ capacity for safe abortion and post-abortion care services in humanitarian settings: lessons learned from the clinical outreach refresher training model (S-CORT) in	6
The impact of social capital and social environmental factors on mental health and flourishing: the experiences of asylum-seekers in France	6
Inclusive education in a refugee camp for children with disabilities: How are school setting and children’s behavioral functioning related?	6
Health systems resilience in fragile and shock-prone settings through the prism of gender equity and justice: implications for research, policy and practice	6
Conducting research on building psychosocial support for Syrian refugee families in a humanitarian emergency	6
Lessons learned from implementation of a national hotline for Ebola virus disease emergency preparedness in South Sudan	6
Preparing humanitarians to address ethical problems	6
Adult mortality before and during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in nine communities of Yemen: a key informant study	6
The impact of article processing charge waiver on conducting research in low-income countries	6
The crisis of maternal and child health in Afghanistan	6
Health-related articles on Syria before and after the start of armed conflict: a scoping review for The Lancet-American University of Beirut Commission on Syria	6
Assessing gender responsiveness of COVID-19 response plans for populations in conflict-affected humanitarian emergencies	6
Prevalence and risk factors for hypertension and diabetes among those screened in a refugee settlement in Uganda	6
Surveys about attended births appear to be deceptive in CAR: are the population saying what they think NGO’s want to hear?	6
The implications of the Sudan war on healthcare workers and facilities: a health system tragedy	5
Pre-positioning an evaluation of cash assistance programming in an acute emergency: strategies and lessons learned from a study in Raqqa Governorate, Syria	5
Health systems resilience in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a systematic scoping review	5
Primary Healthcare Quality in Conflict and Fragility: a subnational analysis of disparities using Population Health surveys	5
Adult newcomers’ perceptions of access to care and differences in health systems after relocation from Syria	5
Sexual and reproductive health self-care in humanitarian and fragile settings: where should we start?	5
Musculoskeletal impairment among Syrian refugees living in Sultanbeyli, Turkey: prevalence, cause, diagnosis and need for related services and assistive products	5
Impact of periodic intensification of routine immunization within an armed conflict setting and COVID-19 outbreak in Cameroon in 2020	5
The impact of decentralisation on health systems in fragile and post-conflict countries: a narrative synthesis of six case studies in the Indo-Pacific	5
Malaria vector control tools in emergency settings: What do experts think? Results from a DELPHI survey	5
Opportunities and challenges in preventing violence against adolescent girls through gender transformative, whole-family support programming in Northeast Nigeria	5
Violence against health care workers in a crisis context: a mixed cross-sectional study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	5
Migrant children in transit: health profile and social needs of unaccompanied and accompanied children visiting the MSF clinic in Belgrade, Serbia	5
Evaluating an e-learning program to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian workers in the MENA region: the Humanitarian Leadership Diploma	5
Impact of the armed conflict in Colombia: consequences in the health system, response and challenges	5
Trends in sexual violence patterns and case management: a sex disaggregated analysis in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo	4
Health system evaluation in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches and methods	4
Inequity and benefit incidence analysis in healthcare use among Syrian refugees in Egypt	4
Feasibility and acceptability of phone-delivered psychological therapy for refugee children and adolescents in a humanitarian setting	4
Models of care for non-communicable diseases for displaced populations in Iraq: a scoping review	4
Evaluation of public health surveillance systems in refugee settlements in Uganda, 2016–2019: lessons learned	4
Comparative analysis of the health status of the population in six health zones in South Kivu: a cross-sectional population study using the WHODAS	4
Sanctioned countries in the global COVID-19 vaccination campaign: the forgotten 70%	4
An exploratory pilot study of the effect of modified hygiene kits on handwashing with soap among internally displaced persons in Ethiopia	4
Gender based violence (GBV) coordination in a complex, multi-crisis context: a qualitative case study of Lebanon’s compounded crises (2019–2023)	4
Developing an integrated model of care for vulnerable populations living with non-communicable diseases in Lebanon: an online theory of change workshop	4
Tools for measuring gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) indicators in humanitarian settings	4
Conflict, epidemic and faith communities: church-state relations during the fight against Covid-19 in north-eastern DR Congo	4
A mediation analysis of the role of girl child marriage in the relationship between proximity to conflict and past-year intimate partner violence in post-conflict Sri Lanka	4
“There is a fear that you will be attacked just for the act of working in health”: a survey of experiences of violence against healthcare in Colombia	4
Measuring results of humanitarian action: adapting public health indicators to different contexts	4
Risk factors for miscarriage in Syrian refugee women living in non-camp settings in Jordan: results from the Women ASPIRE cross-sectional study	4
Policies on return and reintegration of displaced healthcare workers towards rebuilding conflict-affected health systems: a review for The Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria	4
Assessing innovative approaches for global health capacity building in fragile settings in the MENA region: development of the evaluation of capacity building (eCAP) program	4
Conducting public health surveillance in areas of armed conflict and restricted population access: a qualitative case study of polio surveillance in conflict-affected areas of Borno State, Nigeria	4
Evaluation of the electronic Early Warning and Response Network (EWARN) system in Somalia, 2017–2020	4
Psychological distress and social support among conflict refugees in urban, semi-rural and rural settlements in Uganda: burden and associations	4
Cultural adaptation of a scalable psychological intervention for Burundian refugee adolescents in Tanzania: a qualitative study	4
Underestimating attacks: comparing two sources of publicly-available data about attacks on health care in 2017	4
Community-based referral transportation system for accessing emergency obstetric services in the Rohingya refugee camp during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: facilitators and barriers through ben	4