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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Decision-making for childhood vaccination in crisis settings: a survey of practice & barriers	72
Fresh whole blood: A feasible alternative in disasters and mass casualty incidents? a systematic review and meta-analysis	66
The political economy of expedience: examining perspectives on military support to Sierra Leone’s Ebola response	62
The role of social capital in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian settings: a systematic review of qualitative studies	54
Health-seeking behavior in conflict-affected settings: a cross-sectional study of internally displaced persons in Somalia	52
Exposure to conflict and child health outcomes: evidence from a large multi-country study	51
The impact of conflict on infectious disease: a systematic literature review	48
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	40
What works and who knows? The importance of community and health worker perspectives in defining solutions to attacks on healthcare	39
Family formation among adolescent Rohingya refugees; trajectories into adolescent marriage and childbearing in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh	39
Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: a spatiotemporal analysis	35
Developing an integrated model of care for vulnerable populations living with non-communicable diseases in Lebanon: an online theory of change workshop	34
Mental health and structural injustice: a qualitative investigation of interlocking patterns of disadvantage among displaced populations in Nairobi, Kenya	30
Provision of mental health and psychosocial support services to health workers and community members in conflict-affected Northwest Syria: a mixed-methods study	29
Inequity and benefit incidence analysis in healthcare use among Syrian refugees in Egypt	29
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	29
Assessing gender responsiveness of COVID-19 response plans for populations in conflict-affected humanitarian emergencies	28
Did aid to the Ebola crisis divert aid for reproductive, maternal, and newborn health? An analysis of donor-reported data in Sierra Leone	27
Measuring sexual violence stigma in humanitarian contexts: assessment of scale psychometric properties and validity with female sexual violence survivors from Somalia and Syria	26
The impact of armed conflict on utilisation of health services in north-west Syria: an observational study	25
Community-based surveillance programme evaluation using the platform Nyss implemented by the Somali Red Crescent Society—a mixed methods approach	24
The impact of armed conflict on vaccination coverage: a systematic review of empirical evidence from 1985 to 2025	23
War and chronic illness: a health center-based study of Palestinians with non-communicable diseases in Gaza	23
Humanitarian surgical service utilization by a host country population: comparing surgery patterns between refugees and Tanzanians using an interrupted time-series analysis	22
Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence against women and its association with violence against children in refugee settlements in Uganda	20

Real ethics has dirty feet – data collector perspectives on risk exposure during data collection in conflict-affected Eastern DRC	20
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccine among female healthcare workers in Syria: results from a 2022 cross-sectional survey	20
Factors associated with health-seeking patterns among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency, Northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study	19
Feasibility and challenges in sustaining a community based surveillance system in post-Ebola Sierra Leone	19
Measurement of perceived needs in humanitarian contexts using the HESPER scale: a scoping study with reflections on the collaboration between researchers and humanitarian actors	19
Transactional sex work and HIV among women in conflict-affected Northeastern Uganda: a population-based study	18
Correction: Rebuilding the health sector in Gaza: alternative humanitarian voices	18
Health systems resilience in fragile and shock-prone settings through the prism of gender equity and justice: implications for research, policy and practice	18
Not only vaccine hesitancy, but also vaccination campaign hesitancy drives measles epidemics in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo	18
Under-five mortality during the war in Tigray: A community-based study	17
The lived experience of patients with conflict associated injuries whose wounds are affected by antimicrobial resistant organisms: a qualitative study from northwest Syria	16
Access to care in Afghanistan after august 2021: a cross-sectional study exploring Afghans’ perspectives in 10 provinces	16
Translating, contextually adapting, and pilot testing of psychosocial and mental health assessment instruments for Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	16
Assessing the integration of refugee health data into national health information systems in Jordan, Lebanon, and Uganda	16
“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	16
Impact of periodic intensification of routine immunization within an armed conflict setting and COVID-19 outbreak in Cameroon in 2020	16
Exploring maternal and neonatal health in a conflict-affected setting: cross-sectional findings from Gaza	15
Correction to: The crisis of maternal and child health in Afghanistan	15
Childhood exposure to armed conflict and nutritional health outcomes in Nigeria	15
Navigating challenges, solutions and requirements in the provision of trauma care in conflict settings by humanitarian actors: a scoping literature review	15
School violence, depression symptoms, and school climate: a cross-sectional study of Congolese and Burundian refugee children	14
Challenges faced by internally displaced diabetes patients in managing their health during a conflict: a qualitative study	14
Providing healthcare under the threat of gang-violence: a survey of Haitian healthcare providers	14
The Red Cross Red Crescent Health Information System (RCHIS): an electronic medical records and health information management system for the red cross red crescent emergency response units	13
Armed actor interventions in humanitarian and public health crises: examining perspectives of crisis-affected community members	13
Telemedicine interventions in six conflict-affected countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: a systematic review	13
Conflict, epidemic and faith communities: church-state relations during the fight against Covid-19 in north-eastern DR Congo	13
Post-migration stressors, mental health and well-being in resettled refugees from Syria: Do individuals’ coping strategies matter?	13
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	12
Opportunities and challenges in preventing violence against adolescent girls through gender transformative, whole-family support programming in Northeast Nigeria	12
Integrating mental health and psychosocial support into economic inclusion programming for displaced families in Ecuador	12
The implications of the Sudan war on healthcare workers and facilities: a health system tragedy	12
Exploring factors that shaped Syrian refugees integration into Lebanon’s national health system using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework	12
How is the implementation of empirical research results documented in conflict-affected settings? Findings from a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature	12
Public knowledge, attitudes, practices, and key influencing factors regarding cancer screening in Yemen	12
The association between perceived neighborhood social cohesion and intimate partner violence in a refugee camp in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia	12
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	11
Handwashing with soap and influencing factors in crisis-affected refugee populations in Kenya and Uganda	11
The impact of childhood maltreatment on treatment outcomes for posttraumatic stress symptoms and aggression in male former combatants using narrative exposure therapy [NET] - results from a RCT in Eas	11
Shifting to Tele-Mental Health in humanitarian and crisis settings: an evaluation of Médecins Sans Frontières experience during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
A scoping review of epidemics of substance misuse and suicide in Syria: casualties of protracted conflict and political instability	11
A chronicle of crises and emergencies: (dis)continuity of care for Syrian refugee children with neglected non-communicable diseases in Lebanon	11
Evolution and lessons from an integrated service delivery network in North West Syria	10
Measles in conflict-affected northern Syria: results from an ongoing outbreak surveillance program	10
Strengthening community-based surveillance: lessons learned from the 2018–2020 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak	10
Destruction, disruption and disaster: Sudan’s health system amidst armed conflict	10
Correction: Participatory approaches and methods in gender equality and gender‑based violence research with refugees and internally displaced populations: a scoping review	10
How are hygiene programmes designed in crises? Qualitative interviews with humanitarians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq	10
Global health diplomacy in humanitarian action	10
Impact of the armed conflict in Colombia: consequences in the health system, response and challenges	10

Gender-based violence and infectious disease in humanitarian settings: lessons learned from Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19 to inform syndemic policy making	10
Does inter-border conflict influence the views of task sharing among community health volunteers in Nigeria? A qualitative study	10
Examining the integration of refugees into the national health system in Uganda: an analysis using the policy triangle framework	9
World AIDS Day 2023: time to prioritize perilous HIV medicine	9
Burial workers’ perceptions of community resistance and support systems during an Ebola outbreak in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: a qualitative study	9
Facilitating hand hygiene in displacement camps during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative assessment of a novel handwashing stand and hygiene promotion package	9
Attitudes, motivators, and barriers toward influenza vaccination for children: a study from a conflict-ridden country	9
COVID-19 vaccination in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study of vaccine coverage, hesitancy, and associated risk factors among community members and healthcare workers	9
War’s youngest victims: a descriptive cross-sectional study on injury distributions, severity patterns, and outcomes among paediatric trauma patients in Kharkiv, Ukraine	9
Perceptions and attitudes of Rohingya community stakeholders to pregnancy termination services: a qualitative study in camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	9
Evaluation of public health surveillance systems in refugee settlements in Uganda, 2016–2019: lessons learned	8
Social determinants of student mental health before and after the Beirut port explosion: two cross-sectional studies	8
Violence against health care workers in a crisis context: a mixed cross-sectional study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	8
Healthcare workers’ experiences of workplace violence: a qualitative study in Lebanon	8
Alcohol and other drug use patterns and services in an integrated refugee settlement in Northern Zambia: a formative research study	8
Correction to: “It was with my consent since he was providing me with money”: a mixed methods study of adolescent perspectives on peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democrati	8
Challenges to the implementation and adoption of physical distancing measures against COVID-19 by internally displaced people in Mali: a qualitative study	8
Close relationships with caregivers as protective factor for the mental health and functioning of war-affected Congolese youth	8
Self-managed abortion as a humanitarian revolution: accounts of a telehealth pilot in the Middle East	7
Impacts of attacks to female health care workers in three territories of Colombia	7
Exploring the use of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests among displaced populations in Iraq: findings from a pilot project in four IDP camps	7
Adult mortality patterns in Yemen before and during armed conflict: evidence from a web survey of the global diaspora	7
Prevalence and correlates of anxiety, depression, and symptoms of trauma among Palestinian adults in Gaza after a year of war: a cross-sectional study	7
An exploratory study of the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of community health worker programmes in conflict-affected South Sudan	7
Five recommendations to advance implementation science for humanitarian settings: the next frontier of humanitarian research	7
Physical injuries and burns among refugees in Lebanon: implications for programs and policies	7
An analysis of humanitarian and health aid alignment over a decade (2011–2019) of the Syrian conflict	7
Correction to: Challenges and opportunities for infection prevention and control in hospitals in conflict-affected settings: a qualitative study	7
Experiences of armed conflicts and forced migration among women from countries in the Middle East, Balkans, and Africa: a systematic review of qualitative studies	7
‘They were just enjoying love and she was making money’: A qualitative analysis of UN peacekeeper sexual interactions in the Democratic Republic of Congo	7
“Older people tend to be invisible”: a qualitative study exploring the needs and inclusion of older Syrian refugees in the context of compounding crises in host country, Lebanon	7
Correction: Have attacks on healthcare become the new normal? A public health call to action for armed conflicts before it is too late	7
Healthcare accessibility, utilization, and quality of life among internally displaced people during the Sudan war: a cross-sectional study	7
Strengthening event-based surveillance (EBS): a case study from Afghanistan	7
Correction: Health and well-being of older populations affected by humanitarian crises in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature	6
The enduring consequences of conflict-related sexual violence: a qualitative study of women survivors in northern Uganda	6
Gender based violence (GBV) coordination in a complex, multi-crisis context: a qualitative case study of Lebanon’s compounded crises (2019–2023)	6
Ageism, an invisible social determinant of health for older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a service providers’ perspective	6
Healthcare accessibility in yemen’s conflict zones: comprehensive review focused on strategies and solutions	6
Integrating Syrian refugees into Lebanon’s healthcare system 2011–2022: a mixed-method study	6
Inferring the impact of humanitarian responses on population mortality: methodological problems and proposals	6
Feasibility and acceptability of phone-delivered psychological therapy for refugee children and adolescents in a humanitarian setting	6
Correction: Impact of Ebola and COVID‑19 on maternal, neonatal, and child health care among populations affected by conflicts: a scoping review exploring demand and supply‑side barriers and solutions	6
Associations of psychological distress, alcohol and substance use, and HIV risk behaviour in forcibly displaced persons and migrants in Nigeria	6
Dealing with difficult choices: a qualitative study of experiences and consequences of moral challenges among disaster healthcare responders	6
Determinants of health among people who use illicit drugs in the conflict-affected countries of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence	6
Addressing recall bias in (post-)conflict data collection and analysis: lessons from a large-scale health survey in Colombia	6
Towards universal health care coverage in low- and middle- income countries: integrating refugees into national health systems	6
A qualitative assessment of Ukraine’s trauma system during the Russian conflict: experiences of volunteer healthcare providers	5
Gender-based violence (GBV) coordination in humanitarian and public health emergencies: a scoping review	5
Implementation of lockdown, quarantine, and isolation measures in the context of COVID-19 among internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso: a qualitative study	5
Maternal health outcomes in the context of fragility: a retrospective study from Lebanon	5
Ensuring equity in mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	5
Pathways to food insecurity in the context of conflict: the case of the occupied Palestinian territory	5
Deferral of elective surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Palestinian patients: a cross-sectional study	5
I don't leave my people; They need me: Qualitative research of local health care professionals' working motivations in Syria	5
A qualitative assessment of disease and non-battle injuries in Ukraine since the Russian invasion	5
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian settings: epidemiology, health service utilization, and health care seeking behavior in Bangui and surrounding areas, Central African Republic	5
Malaria vector control tools in emergency settings: What do experts think? Results from a DELPHI survey	5
Post-quake call for action: developing core competencies matrix for Syrian health workers in emergency time	5
How integration of refugees into national health systems became a global priority: a qualitative policy analysis	4
The hidden toll of war: a comprehensive study of orthopedic injuries in Yemen	4
Reproductive health risks of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in humanitarian settings of Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
The impact of decentralisation on health systems in fragile and post-conflict countries: a narrative synthesis of six case studies in the Indo-Pacific	4
Correction: Health and well-being of older populations affected by humanitarian crises in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature	4
Expanding the evidence on integration of cash assistance in gender-based violence case management in humanitarian settings: lessons learned from multi-country evaluations	4
A descriptive analysis of a medical humanitarian aid initiative for quality perinatal management in war-torn Ukraine	4
Epidemiological investigation of a cholera outbreak and its socioeconomic determinants in southwest state, Somalia, January − August, 2024	4
The impact of armed conflicts on HIV treatment outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Clinical features and predictors of mortality among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Niger	4
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	4
Understanding the organization and delivery of health services following the repatriation of South Sudanese refugees from the West Nile districts in Uganda	4
A qualitative study of cultural concepts of distress among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	4
Underestimating attacks: comparing two sources of publicly-available data about attacks on health care in 2017	4
A review of the response and the emergency medical team (EMT) deployment following a tanker explosion in Freetown, Sierra Leone	4
Evaluating an e-learning program to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian workers in the MENA region: the Humanitarian Leadership Diploma	4
Realising health justice in Palestine: beyond humanitarian voices	4
Inclusive education in a refugee camp for children with disabilities: How are school setting and children’s behavioral functioning related?	4
Rebuilding child health in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): evaluating the Asili social enterprise program	4