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van Kessel G, Milanese S, Dizon J, de Vries DH, MacGregor H, et al.

2025-04-01 • BMJ Global Health

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There is recognition of the importance of community resilience in mitigating lo...

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Gales M, Yonally Phillips EL, Zilversmit Pao L, Dubray C, Rodriguez Ribas Elizalde C, et al.

2025-01-19 • BMJ Global Health

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Understanding sex and gender differences during outbreaks is critical to delivering an effective response. Although recommendations and minimum req...

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Winkler NE, Muhie JM, Demlie YW, Berneh AA, Demessie BS, et al.

2024-12-01 • BMJ Global Health

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Evaborhene NA, Oga JO, Adebayo YA, Runyowa N, Okorie CE, et al.

2024-11-01 • BMJ Global Health

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Gleeson B, Ferreyra C, Palamountain K, Jacob ST, Spotswood N, et al.

2024-09-10 • BMJ Global Health

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Evaborhene NA, Udokanma EE, Adebisi YA, Okorie CE, Kafuko Z, et al.

2023-02-01 • BMJ Global Health

The call to strengthen global health governance against future outbreaks through a binding treaty on pandemics has attracted global attention and opinion. Yet, few of these perspectives ...

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Van Bortel W, Mariën J, Jacobs BKM, Sinzinkayo D, Sinarinzi P, et al.

2022-12-01 • BMJ Global Health

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Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are one of the key interventions in the global fight against malaria. Since 2014, mass distribution campaigns of LLINs aim for unive...

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Perehudoff K, 't Hoen E, Mara K, Balasubramaniam T, Abbott F, et al.

2022-07-15 • BMJ Global Health

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⇒ The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how current international laws and practices fail to ensure medical countermeasures (i.e., vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics an...

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Baobeid A, Faghani-Hamadani T, Sauer SM, Boum Y II, Hedt-Gauthier BL, et al.

2022-07-12 • BMJ Global Health

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Women researchers find it more difficult to publish in academic journals than men, an inequity that affects women's careers and was exacerbated during the pandemic, part...

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Martins D, Ribeiro I, Potet J

2021-10-25 • BMJ Global Health

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• Despite inherent differences, Snakebite Envenoming and COVID-19 have much in common in terms of research and development (R&D) challenges and opportunities.

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McDiarmid M, Crestani R

2019-08-31 • BMJ Global Health

Health workers were differentially infected during the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak with an incidence rate of 30 to 44/1000 depending on their job duties, compared to the wider population...

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Mbaye R, Gebeyehu R, Hossmann S, Mbarga NF, Bih-Neh E, et al.

2019-10-18 • BMJ Global Health

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Africa contributes little to the biomedical literature despite its high burden of infectious diseases. Global health research partnerships aimed at addressing Africa-end...

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Aboubakar S, Evers ES, Kobeissi L, Francis L, Najjemba R, et al.

2020-11-01 • BMJ Global Health

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Significant global gains in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (SRMNCAH&N) will be difficult unless conflict settings are a...

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Farley ES, Oyemakinde MJ, Schuurmans J, Ariti C, Saleh F, et al.

2020-04-14 • BMJ Global Health

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Noma, a rapidly progressing infection of the oral cavity, mainly affects children. The true burden is unknown. This study reports estimated noma prevalence in children in ...

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Kimathi D, Aitana J, Bejon P, Grais RF, Warimwe GM, et al.

2019-11-20 • BMJ Global Health

Introduction: Yellow fever is endemic in specific regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas, with recent epidemics occurring on both continents. The yellow fever vaccine is effectiv...

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Liu J

2017-01-25 • BMJ Global Health

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Kumar M, Daly M, de Plecker E, Jamet C, McRae M, et al.

2020-07-20 • BMJ Global Health

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• The COVID-19 pandemic has begun to severely limit access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including contraception and safe abortion care (SAC), which have h...

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Carter SE, Ahuka-Mundeke S, Pfaffmann Zambruni J, Navarro-Colorado C, van Kleef E, et al.

2021-08-01 • BMJ Global Health

The emerging field of outbreak analytics calls attention to the need for data from multiple sources to inform evidence-based decision making in managing infectious diseases outbreaks. To...

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Lazarus JV, Abdool Karim SS, van Selm L, Doran J, Batista C, et al.

2022-04-01 • BMJ Global Health

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-- There has been open and closed vial COVID-19 vaccine wastage in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries, with wastage rates of up to 30%.
-- Plans...

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Alba S, Verdonck K, Lenglet AD, Rumisha SF, Wienia M, et al.

2020-10-28 • BMJ Global Health

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Research integrity and research fairness have gained considerable momentum in the past decade and have direct implications for global health epidemiology. Research integri...

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Community resilience to health emergencies: a scoping review

Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review

Critical failings in humanitarian response: a cholera outbreak in Kumer Refugee Camp, Ethiopia, 2023

Caught between violence: Mpox virus and the perils of neglect in Africa

A call to bridge the diagnostic gap: diagnostic solutions for neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries

The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism

Long-lasting insecticidal nets provide protection against malaria for only a single year in Burundi, an African highland setting with marked malaria seasonality

A pandemic treaty for equitable global access to medical countermeasures: seven recommendations for sharing intellectual property, know-how and technology

Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa

Snakebites and COVID-19: two crises, one research and development opportunity

Duty of care and health worker protections in the age of Ebola: lessons from Médecins Sans Frontières

Who is telling the story? A systematic review of authorship for infectious disease research conducted in Africa, 1980-2016

The availability of global guidance for the promotion of women’s, newborns’, children’s and adolescents’ health and nutrition in conflicts

The prevalence of noma in northwest Nigeria

Randomized, double-blinded, controlled non-inferiority trials evaluating the immunogenicity and safety of fractional doses of Yellow Fever vaccines in Kenya and Uganda

WHO is badly in need of reform, but it cannot replace NGOs like our own

Now is the time: a call for increased access to contraception and safe abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic

How to improve outbreak response: a case study of integrated outbreak analytics from Ebola in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

COVID-19 vaccine wastage in the midst of vaccine inequity: causes, types and practical steps

Bridging research integrity and global health epidemiology (BRIDGE) statement: guidelines for good epidemiological practice