BMJ Global Health

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Global Health is 10. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health519
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it428
A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of application-based tiered care (Mom’s Good Mood) in treating perinatal anxiety within a primary health care system in China282
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem235
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response233
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study232
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries199
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos183
Universal health coverage: the roof has been leaking for far too long158
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support154
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care153
Creating health by building peace139
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data135
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region127
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population123
A multi-country comparison between mobile phone surveys and face-to-face household surveys to estimate the prevalence of non-communicable diseases behavioural risk factors in low- and middle-income se120
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management113
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals112
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review108
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax104
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa94
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman80
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study80
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership77
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services75
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review74
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union73
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories70
Durability of effects from short-term economic incentives for clinic attendance among HIV positive adults in Tanzania: long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial66
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context66
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health65
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis65
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling64
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review63
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis63
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study61
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India59
The nexus of artificial intelligence and virology: transformative but with potential perils57
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana55
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health53
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia51
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse51
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic51
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum51
Cost-effectiveness of modified fully oral 9-month treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Moldova50
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy50
Global health at a crossroads: WHO’s 2025 Emergency Response to outbreaks, conflicts and humanitarian crises48
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries48
‘Knowing how the machine works’: a novel framework for engaging with the political determinants of health47
Mpox exposes fundamental obstacles for vaccinating children in outbreaks47
Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates46
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya46
Enhanced or hindered research benefits? A realist review of community engagement and participatory research practices for non-communicable disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries46
Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness45
The impact of institutional delivery on neonatal and maternal health outcomes: evidence from a road upgrade programme in India45
Assessing the feasibility of partner-implemented digital payment systems for health workers: stakeholder perspectives from Uganda’s yellow fever mass vaccination campaign – a qualitative study44
Tackling non-communicable disease risk in young adults across the Caribbean: a call to action44
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships43
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine43
Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience: the case of Lebanon’s primary healthcare system42
Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats41
A missing piece in the Health for Peace agenda: gender diverse leadership and governance41
Effects of PACK training on the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by primary care clinicians during 2 years of implementation in Florianópolis, Brazil: extended follow-up 41
Missing piece: the imperative of gender-disaggregated data in unraveling health inequity41
A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa41
Accelerating and sustaining progress: PEPFAR’s path to achieving 95-95-95 by 203041
Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries40
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations40
Correction: A framework for community health worker optimisation in conflict settings: prerequisites and possibilities from Northwest Syria40
Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–201640
Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit39
The academy, a battleground for justice: a call for prioritarian scholarship39
The socioeconomic and health system determinants of financial protection indicators: a global systematic review (2008–2023)39
Correction for assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the international alcohol control study39
The relationship between rural residence and cervical cancer screening in three sub-Saharan countries with different national screening policies38
Noma as a neglected tropical disease: an opportunity to reconsider neglect in global health38
Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease37
Primary healthcare system and provider responses to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan37
Building professional capacity for quality improvement and patient safety in Georgia37
Health workforce supply, needs and financial feasibility in Lesotho: a labour market analysis37
Co-creating an arts-based eye health education strategy in Zanzibar: process, outcomes and lessons learnt37
The return of austerity imperils global health37
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada: a scoping review37
Acceptability and effectiveness of a study information video in improving the research consent process for youth: a non-inferiority trial37
A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries36
Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018: a prospective surveillance36
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update36
We move together: a realist evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Eastern Province, Zambia36
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement in culturally sensitive research in southwestern Nigeria35
Strengthening the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) COVID-19 vaccination information system35
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa35
Global insights can accelerate India’s journey towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem35
Associations between social determinants of health and interpersonal violence-related injury in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study35
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes35
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care from the perspective of fathers, partners and other family members: a qualitative evidence synthesis34
Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso34
The Linda Kizazi study: a comparison of morbidity and mortality from birth to 2 years between children who are HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed, uninfected in the era of universal antiretroviral therapy34
Retention and effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-G) to treat depression at scale in Uganda and Zambia34
The burden, clinical outcomes and risk factors related to neglected tropical diseases and malaria in migrant populations in the Middle East and North Africa: a systematic review and meta-analyses34
Estimating the contribution of transmission in primary healthcare clinics to community-wide TB disease incidence, and the impact of infection prevention and control interventions, in KwaZulu-Natal, So33
A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings33
Design, implementation and outcomes of a national oxygen distribution network in Lesotho33
Tracking progress towards universal health coverage for essential health services in China, 2008–201833
Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors32
Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania32
Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data32
An assessment of antimicrobial resistance national action plans and their impact on antibiotic use31
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review31
Shifting power dynamics in global health governance: a challenge and an opportunity for Asia and the Global South31
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China31
Association between timeliness of detection, notification and response and the magnitude, severity and duration of disease outbreaks: a retrospective review of 84 outbreaks in Uganda, 2017–202231
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study30
Green space exposure and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global analysis using Apple mobility data30
The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era30
Lessons learnt from daily oral PrEP delivery to inform national planning for PrEP ring introduction for women in low-income and middle-income countries: a qualitative inquiry of international stakehol30
Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research30
The social dimensions of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo30
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data29
Conflict, sanctions and the struggles of Syrians for food security in the shadow of the UN Food Systems Summit 202129
COVID-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research29
Social-ecological predictors of HIV testing among adult men: analysis of the 2022 Tanzania demographic and health survey data29
Incentives in immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review mapping evidence on effectiveness and unintended consequences29
Forecasting global progress in breast cancer control in the context of the sustainable development goals29
Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review29
Recognising stillbirth as a loss of life and not a baby born without life28
Mpox containment strategies in China, 2022–2023: from preparedness to legal management28
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change?28
Supporting local ownership of transition processes: a key pathway to sustaining the HIV response28
Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond28
Improving maternal and child health in Pakistan: a programme evaluation using a difference in difference analysis27
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a quasi-experimental study27
Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations27
‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala27
Uncovering systemic barriers related to equity, diversity and inclusion in child health research: a scoping review addressing marginalised communities27
Factors associated with fluoxetine adherence among outpatients with common mental disorders in Western Kenya27
Evolution of assisted deliveries at primary healthcare centres in an unstable security context in Mali27
Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis27
Autonomy and independence: a critical imperative for midwifery27
Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–202026
Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience26
Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation26
Moving self-care from concept to practice26
Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research26
Can youth-centred sexual and reproductive health self-care and contraceptive innovation address unintended pregnancy among girls and young women? Some reflections from Asia and the Pacific26
The status and challenges of HPV vaccine programme in China: an exploration of the related policy obstacles26
Community co-design of contextually relevant rheumatic heart disease primary prevention25
Strengthening primary health care in Nigeria: a means to achieve universal health coverage25
Lessons learned from COVID-19 modelling efforts for policy decision-making in lower- and middle-income countries25
Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control25
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 202125
Geographic barriers to establishing a successful hospital referral system in rural Madagascar25
Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review25
Challenges to informed choice counselling: a qualitative study of contraceptive self-care introduction in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia25
Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau25
Diagnostic accuracy of a simplified minimally invasive tissue sampling protocol for stillbirths in low-resource settings25
Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya24
Significance of timely responses to mental health crises during unprecedented societal and global changes using an agile, empathic and user-centred digital approach: lessons from the Hong Kong experie24
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda, February 202124
Estimating the burden of mpox among MSM in South Africa24
Quality of clinical evidence and political justifications of ivermectin mass distribution of COVID-19 kits in eight Latin American countries24
Understanding factors impacting global priority of emergency care: a qualitative policy analysis24
Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review24
Engaging pharmacies in tuberculosis control: operational lessons from 19 case detection interventions in high-burden countries24
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis24
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis23
US divestment in global health: disruption, uncertainty and response23
The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews23
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994–201823
Midwife-led birthing centres in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda: an economic evaluation of case study sites23
Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study23
AVIVA: a telehealth tool to improve cervical cancer screening in resource-constrained settings23
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa23
Understanding community health worker employment preferences in Malang district, Indonesia, using a discrete choice experiment23
Achieving universal health coverage; implementation of the ‘supporting physician retention in deprived areas’ programme in Iran22
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency22
A review of authorship in herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 202022
Evaluation of a multicomponent child development intervention delivered through the government health system: a feasibility study22
The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for22
Quantifying the effects of attacks on health facilities on health service use in Northwest Syria: a case time series study from 2017 to 201922
Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar21
The future of global health: restructuring governance through inclusive youth leadership21
The Ethiopian Surgical Outcome Study (Ethio-SOS): a 7-day multicentre national prospective observational cohort study21
Climate change, resource insecurities and sexual and reproductive health among young adolescents in Kenya: a multi-method qualitative inquiry21
Caffeine for the care of preterm infants in sub-Saharan Africa: a missed opportunity?21
Differences in mental health between younger and older adults in complex humanitarian settings in low-income and middle-income countries: retrospective analysis from Médecins Sans Frontières-supported21
Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health21
Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis20
‘What we lacked was the courage to take decisions that differed from the rest of the world’: expert perspectives on the role of evidence in COVID-19 policymaking in Iraq20
Identifying implementation science research and policy priorities to advance universal health coverage: a multi-country modified Delphi study20
Assessing the effectiveness of the expanded hepatitis A vaccination program in China: an interrupted time series design20
Cost-effectiveness of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services in Africa: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial20
Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries20
Improving risk analysis of the environmental drivers of the spillover, emergence/re-emergence and spread of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Marburg virus and Middle East respiratory syndrome c20
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda20
Factors associated with Senegalese health workers’ willingness to receive mobile digital payments: cross-sectional study20
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–202120
We have the evidence but governments must now build the systems to deliver on hand hygiene20
Fragile, handle with care: refining a key concept for global health and development20
Protracted armed conflict and maternal health: a scoping review of literature and a retrospective analysis of primary data from northwest Syria20
Hierarchy of qualities in global health partnerships: a path towards equity and sustainability20
Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens20
Conscientious objection: a global health perspective20
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape: current knowledge and gaps20
The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord: establishing baseline consensus microbial data-sharing norms to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration20
Roadblocks and solutions to planning surgical care for a billion Indians20
Multilevel determinants of community health workers for an effective maternal and child health programme in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review20
Preceding group A streptococcus skin and throat infections are individually associated with acute rheumatic fever: evidence from New Zealand19
Experiences of violence and discrimination among LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global cross-sectional analysis19
Inequalities in use of hospitals for childbirth among rural women in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative analysis of 18 countries using Demographic and Health Survey data19
How should morality play a role in global health?19
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–201919
Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone19
Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research19
Improving healthcare accessibility for pregnant women and children in the context of health system strengthening initiatives and terrorist attacks in Central Mali: a controlled interrupted time series19
Retention in the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory19
Budgetary impact of using BPaL for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis19
Does the implementation of UHC reforms foster greater equality in health spending? Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in Burkina Faso19
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review19
The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults19
Health worker unemployment in countries with critical health worker shortages: a rapid synthesis of evidence from 33 countries19
Decolonising global health by decolonising academic publishing19
A systematic review of the indirect impacts of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health services and outcomes in humanitarian settings18
The effectiveness and sustainability of peer support interventions for persons living with HIV: a realist synthesis18
Are maternal vaccines effective and safe for mothers and infants? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials18
Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia18
Barriers to community engagement during the response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda18
Norm diffusion in global health governance: the role of think tanks18
Enhancing research integration to improve One Health actions: learning lessons from neglected tropical diseases experiences18
The effect of an annual temporary abstinence campaign on population-level alcohol consumption in Thailand: a time-series analysis of 23 years18
Disseminating information on acute public health events globally: experiences from the WHO’s Disease Outbreak News18
Aligning health worker education and learning approaches with population health needs: WHO’s Family Planning and Comprehensive Abortion Care Toolkit for the primary healthcare workforce18
Claims data from health insurance programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an untapped resource to promote Universal Health Coverage18
Optimising the reach of mobile health messaging programmes: an analysis of system generated data for the Kilkari programme across 13 states in India18
Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study18
Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways: a changing paradigm18
Risk communication and community engagement capacity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a call for action18
Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional standardised patients study of adherence to national TB guidelines in urban Nigeria18
Making ‘resilience’ useful again: recognising health system resilience as an effective boundary object18
Transitioning the COVID-19 response in the WHO African region: a proposed framework for rethinking and rebuilding health systems18
Cardiovascular health and economic outcomes under improved air quality in China: a modelling study18
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings18
The complexities of conflict-induced severe malnutrition in Sudan18
Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes18
Addressing vaccine hesitancy: experimental evidence from nine high-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic18
The autonomy of public health facilities in decentralised contexts: insights from applying a complexity lens in Kenya17
Ethical preparedness of data monitoring committees (DMCs) to oversee international clinical trials: a qualitative descriptive study17
Data for whom? Experiences and perceptions of a perinatal eRegistry in two hospitals in Mtwara region, Tanzania17
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation: balancing equity and coverage in Pakistan17
Implementing Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in all countries in the WHO African region: process challenges, lessons learnt and perspectives for th17
Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana: implications for quality management and control of malaria17
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