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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Developing a new pragmatic tool for assessing contextual fit and feasibility of evidence-based interventions towards effective implementation in global health543
Health is a bridge for peace: let us make use of it456
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 China244
Perceptions of body size and non-communicable disease risk among people with HIV in Nairobi, Kenya: an explanatory mixed-methods study240
Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response240
Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries187
Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos166
Using the multiple streams model to elicit an initial programme theory: from policy dialogues to a roadmap for scaling up integrated care160
Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support160
Creating health by building peace143
How far are we? National preparedness and response capacities for emerging infectious disease outbreaks in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region135
Influenza vaccination may have only minimum or no effect on COVID-19 in the aged population129
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals125
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 se125
Policy networks and competing interests in the development of the Mexican sugar-sweetened beverages tax115
Guideline for feedback of individual genetic research findings for genomics research in Africa113
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19: a case study from Oman112
Health impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination using potential next-generation influenza vaccines in Thailand: a modelling study107
Multimethod evaluation of health services integration for neglected tropical diseases requiring case management in Liberia100
Cost-effectiveness of modified fully oral 9-month treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Moldova85
‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy84
Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership82
Evaluating primary care networks in low-income and lower middle-income countries: a scoping review77
Health systems governance, shocks and resilience: a scoping review of key concepts and theories73
The downstream effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon: qualitative findings on how the pandemic affected education and reproductive health73
Exploring the availability of specialist health workforce education in East and Southern Africa: a document analysis71
Cost-effectiveness of different tuberculosis diagnostic approaches in Nigeria based on decision analytical modelling70
Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review67
Benefit–cost analysis of an integrated package of interventions during preconception, pregnancy and early childhood in India66
The nexus of artificial intelligence and virology: transformative but with potential perils65
When disaster meets conflict: Bridging health, nutrition and equity in Myanmar65
Health journal coverage of climate change and health: a bibliometric study65
Lessons from the development process of the Afghanistan integrated package of essential health services63
The quality of antiretroviral medicines: an uncertain problem62
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience: strengthening the maternal and newborn care continuum61
Gender equality and the gender gap in life expectancy in the European Union59
Making food-related health taxes palatable in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Ghana56
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data54
Use of traditional medicine and control of hypertension in 12 African countries53
Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review52
Evidence-based opportunities to address pandemic drivers via the Pandemic Agreement: lessons from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control52
Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons from COVID-19 pandemic51
Acceptability of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine alongside existing malaria interventions in the trial context51
Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse51
Responsible artificial intelligence in public health: a Delphi study on risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management50
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis50
Global health at a crossroads: WHO’s 2025 Emergency Response to outbreaks, conflicts and humanitarian crises49
Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates48
‘Knowing how the machine works’: a novel framework for engaging with the political determinants of health48
Mpox exposes fundamental obstacles for vaccinating children in outbreaks48
Assessing the feasibility of partner-implemented digital payment systems for health workers: stakeholder perspectives from Uganda’s yellow fever mass vaccination campaign – a qualitative study47
The impact of institutional delivery on neonatal and maternal health outcomes: evidence from a road upgrade programme in India47
Tackling non-communicable disease risk in young adults across the Caribbean: a call to action46
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine45
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships44
Flexible ngo-donor coordination in aid interventions to strengthen resilience: the case of Lebanon’s primary healthcare system43
Missing piece: the imperative of gender-disaggregated data in unraveling health inequity43
The socioeconomic and health system determinants of financial protection indicators: a global systematic review (2008–2023)42
A missing piece in the Health for Peace agenda: gender diverse leadership and governance42
Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries42
The academy, a battleground for justice: a call for prioritarian scholarship42
A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa42
Correction for assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the international alcohol control study42
Nutrition remains a top priority in Ukraine despite the ongoing war: the fight against trans fats42
Correction: A framework for community health worker optimisation in conflict settings: prerequisites and possibilities from Northwest Syria42
Building professional capacity for quality improvement and patient safety in Georgia41
Noma as a neglected tropical disease: an opportunity to reconsider neglect in global health41
The relationship between rural residence and cervical cancer screening in three sub-Saharan countries with different national screening policies41
Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018: a prospective surveillance40
Acceptability and effectiveness of a study information video in improving the research consent process for youth: a non-inferiority trial40
Global insights can accelerate India’s journey towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem40
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes39
Strengthening the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) COVID-19 vaccination information system39
Co-creating an arts-based eye health education strategy in Zanzibar: process, outcomes and lessons learnt38
Health workforce supply, needs and financial feasibility in Lesotho: a labour market analysis38
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement in culturally sensitive research in southwestern Nigeria38
Primary healthcare system and provider responses to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan38
Design, implementation and outcomes of a national oxygen distribution network in Lesotho37
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care from the perspective of fathers, partners and other family members: a qualitative evidence synthesis37
Unlocking the potential of forage fish to reduce the global burden of disease37
Retention and effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-G) to treat depression at scale in Uganda and Zambia37
We move together: a realist evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Action Groups in Eastern Province, Zambia37
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, 2017–202237
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-analyses37
The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era36
Shifting power dynamics in global health governance: a challenge and an opportunity for Asia and the Global South36
A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries36
Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data36
Associations between social determinants of health and interpersonal violence-related injury in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study36
An assessment of antimicrobial resistance national action plans and their impact on antibiotic use36
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada: a scoping review34
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 countries34
An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya34
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
Cost of introducing and delivering malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01E) in areas of seasonal malaria transmission, Mali and Burkina Faso33
Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania33
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations33
Conceptual framework for systemic capacity strengthening for health policy and systems research33
The return of austerity imperils global health33
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 33
Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa32
Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–201632
The health workforce status in the WHO African Region: findings of a cross-sectional study31
Tracking progress towards universal health coverage for essential health services in China, 2008–201831
Health system governance for injury care in low- and middle-income countries: a survey of policymakers and policy implementors31
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update31
Accelerating and sustaining progress: PEPFAR’s path to achieving 95-95-95 by 203031
Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit30
A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings30
Overdiagnosis and overuse of diagnostic and screening tests in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review30
The social dimensions of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo29
Conflict, sanctions and the struggles of Syrians for food security in the shadow of the UN Food Systems Summit 202129
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, So29
Green space exposure and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global analysis using Apple mobility data29
Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review29
Improving access to medicines and beyond: the national volume-based procurement policy in China29
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 stakehol29
Incentives in immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review mapping evidence on effectiveness and unintended consequences29
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data28
Evolution of assisted deliveries at primary healthcare centres in an unstable security context in Mali28
Recognising stillbirth as a loss of life and not a baby born without life28
COVID-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research28
Forecasting global progress in breast cancer control in the context of the sustainable development goals28
Social-ecological predictors of HIV testing among adult men: analysis of the 2022 Tanzania demographic and health survey data28
Supporting local ownership of transition processes: a key pathway to sustaining the HIV response28
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania: a quasi-experimental study28
Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond27
Global health reciprocal innovation: ethical, legal and regulatory considerations27
Community co-design of contextually relevant rheumatic heart disease primary prevention27
Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research27
Mpox containment strategies in China, 2022–2023: from preparedness to legal management27
Autonomy and independence: a critical imperative for midwifery27
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 Pacific27
Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation27
Factors associated with fluoxetine adherence among outpatients with common mental disorders in Western Kenya27
‘History obligates us to do it’: political capabilities of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala27
Moving self-care from concept to practice27
Diagnostic accuracy of a simplified minimally invasive tissue sampling protocol for stillbirths in low-resource settings26
The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews26
Challenges to informed choice counselling: a qualitative study of contraceptive self-care introduction in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia26
Quality of clinical evidence and political justifications of ivermectin mass distribution of COVID-19 kits in eight Latin American countries26
Uncovering systemic barriers related to equity, diversity and inclusion in child health research: a scoping review addressing marginalised communities26
Strengthening primary health care in Nigeria: a means to achieve universal health coverage26
Decomposing income-related inequality in health-related quality of life in mainland China: a national cross-sectional study26
Estimating the burden of mpox among MSM in South Africa25
Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience25
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis25
US divestment in global health: disruption, uncertainty and response25
Engaging pharmacies in tuberculosis control: operational lessons from 19 case detection interventions in high-burden countries24
Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau24
How and why snakebite became a global health priority: a policy analysis24
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994–201824
Examining vulnerability and resilience in maternal, newborn and child health through a gender lens in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review24
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
Spatiotemporal dynamics of malaria in Zanzibar, 2015–202024
AVIVA: a telehealth tool to improve cervical cancer screening in resource-constrained settings24
Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis23
The status and challenges of HPV vaccine programme in China: an exploration of the related policy obstacles23
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change?23
Lessons learned from COVID-19 modelling efforts for policy decision-making in lower- and middle-income countries23
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardised seroprevalence studies, from January 2020 to December 202123
Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review23
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa23
Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control23
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers to uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Uganda, February 202123
Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya23
The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for22
Understanding community health worker employment preferences in Malang district, Indonesia, using a discrete choice experiment22
Evaluation of a multicomponent child development intervention delivered through the government health system: a feasibility study22
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
Achieving universal health coverage; implementation of the ‘supporting physician retention in deprived areas’ programme in Iran22
Midwife-led birthing centres in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda: an economic evaluation of case study sites22
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency21
Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar21
The PHA4GE Microbial Data-Sharing Accord: establishing baseline consensus microbial data-sharing norms to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration21
Quantifying the effects of attacks on health facilities on health service use in Northwest Syria: a case time series study from 2017 to 201921
Roadblocks and solutions to planning surgical care for a billion Indians21
Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health21
The Ethiopian Surgical Outcome Study (Ethio-SOS): a 7-day multicentre national prospective observational cohort study21
The future of global health: restructuring governance through inclusive youth leadership21
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape: current knowledge and gaps20
How should morality play a role in global health?20
‘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
Protracted armed conflict and maternal health: a scoping review of literature and a retrospective analysis of primary data from northwest Syria20
Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries20
Assessing the effectiveness of the expanded hepatitis A vaccination program in China: an interrupted time series design20
Participation in cervical cancer screening among migrants and non-migrants in primary healthcare in Lisbon: a register-based study20
Decolonising global health by decolonising academic publishing20
Factors associated with Senegalese health workers’ willingness to receive mobile digital payments: cross-sectional study20
Fragile, handle with care: refining a key concept for global health and development20
We have the evidence but governments must now build the systems to deliver on hand hygiene20
Multilevel determinants of community health workers for an effective maternal and child health programme in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review20
Health worker unemployment in countries with critical health worker shortages: a rapid synthesis of evidence from 33 countries20
The shifts in intergenerational relations in Cameroon and their potential impact on the health of older adults20
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–202120
Identifying implementation science research and policy priorities to advance universal health coverage: a multi-country modified Delphi study20
Cost-effectiveness of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services in Africa: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial20
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
Availability, scope and quality of monkeypox clinical management guidelines globally: a systematic review19
Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens19
Multiple modes of data sharing can facilitate secondary use of sensitive health data for research19
Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–201919
Colonialism in the new digital health agenda19
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings19
Critical care in Gaza amidst military pressure: the struggle of healthcare workers in Gaza’s Warzone19
Climate change, resource insecurities and sexual and reproductive health among young adolescents in Kenya: a multi-method qualitative inquiry19
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-supported19
Retention in the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory19
Are maternal vaccines effective and safe for mothers and infants? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials19
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
Conscientious objection: a global health perspective19
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
Experiences of violence and discrimination among LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global cross-sectional analysis19
Intimate partner violence trajectories over a 1-year period in a population-based cohort of women in Kenya: associations with individual and community normative factors19
Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis19
Budgetary impact of using BPaL for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis19
Caught in the crossfires: the Virchow Prize, its inaugural winner, and the quest to decolonise global health18
Health system effectiveness of symptomatic malaria case management in Papua New Guinea18
Enhancing research integration to improve One Health actions: learning lessons from neglected tropical diseases experiences18
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
Making ‘resilience’ useful again: recognising health system resilience as an effective boundary object18
Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways: a changing paradigm18
Managing the challenges associated with decreasing demand for COVID-19 vaccination in Central and West Asia18
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
COmmunities Facilitating incREasing Smoke-free Homes (CO-FRESH): co-developing a toolkit with local stakeholders in Indonesia and Malaysia18
Optimising the reach of mobile health messaging programmes: an analysis of system generated data for the Kilkari programme across 13 states in India18
Norm diffusion in global health governance: the role of think tanks18
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
The complexities of conflict-induced severe malnutrition in Sudan18
Addressing vaccine hesitancy: experimental evidence from nine high-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic18
Risk communication and community engagement capacity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a call for action18
Framing, moral foundations and health taxes: interpretive analysis of Ethiopia’s tobacco excise tax policy passage18
Global impact of COVID-19 on newborn screening programmes18
Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study18
Cardiovascular health and economic outcomes under improved air quality in China: a modelling study18
Transitioning the COVID-19 response in the WHO African region: a proposed framework for rethinking and rebuilding health systems18
Household costs of care in children under five attending primary care in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger: a cross-sectional study nested in the AIRE project18
Building resilience for sexual and reproductive health at the community level: learning from three crisis-affected provinces in Pakistan18
Primary health care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 South-East Asian countries: a cross-case synthesis with lessons for future health systems strengthening17
Starfield’s 4Cs of NCD management in primary healthcare: a conceptual framework development from a case study of 19 countries17
Household food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated socioeconomic demographic factors in Papua New Guinea: evidence from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance Sys17
Why addressing inequality must be central to pandemic preparedness17
Can higher spending on primary healthcare mitigate the impact of ageing and non-communicable diseases on health expenditure?17
Mobile phone-based surgical telemedicine in Sudan: a conflict-driven innovation with global relevance17
Improving coverage of antenatal iron and folic acid supplementation and malaria prophylaxis through targeted information and home deliveries in Côte d’Ivoire: a cluster randomised controlled trial17
Safeguarding in practice: anticipating, minimising and mitigating risk in teenage pregnancy research in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya17
Developing forecasting capacity for public health emergency management in Africa using syndemics approach: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic17
National hospital costing systems matter for universal healthcare: the India PM-JAY experience17
Gender-based violence and women’s nutrition: a systematic review17
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