Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

QUB Global and Public Health current awareness bulletin

This bulletin, for QUB Global and Public Health students and staff, contains links to some of the latest papers on global/public health topics. These might help to trigger research ideas in students who are unsure of topics to pursue for essays, dissertations etc.

To receive new issues of this bulletin via email, please contact Richard Fallis, Subject Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences.

September 2025

A brief overview on the threat of zoonotic viruses

Climate change and workplace heat stress: technical report and guidance (WHO report)

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

Effective altruism in global health: doing better, justly 

Equity in protection: bridging global data gaps for an EBV vaccine—a systematic review and meta-analysis

From poverty to health: intraurban inequalities in child health indicators in low-income and middle-income countries during the SDG era  

How well do disease-specific studies and WHO-CHOICE cost estimates align? Example of estimating cost per episode of diarrhoea and respiratory syncytial virus in 128 low-income and middle-income countries  

The Immunization Agenda 2030 Strategy to reach zero-dose children in low-income and middle-income countries 

Impact of food, beverage, and alcohol brand marketing on consumptive behaviors and health in children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Impact of racial disparities on treatment of early triple negative breast cancer among American Indians/Alaska Natives and Non-Hispanic Whites

‘Knowing how the machine works’: a novel framework for engaging with the political determinants of health 

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

Making health insurance responsive to citizens: learning from six low-income and middle-income countries 

Monkeypox: a comprehensive review of virology, epidemiology, and global health implications

Navigating the storm: ethical consideration to climate justice and sustainable health equity in Africa

The path forward for vaccine policy in the United States

Personal night light exposure predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases in >88,000 individuals (preprint)

Preferences of women for maternal healthcare services in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review of discrete choice experiments 

Restoring the infant mortality rate as a measure of societal health and well-being

Total and specific potato intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from three US cohort studies and a substitution meta-analysis of prospective cohorts

Uncovering systemic barriers related to equity, diversity and inclusion in child health research: a scoping review addressing marginalised communities 

Using behavioural science to design public health social media campaigns 

Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review

Sources

BMJ, The (Aug); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Clinical Breast Cancer (Aug); Journal of Climate Change and Health, The (Sep-Oct); Lancet, The (Aug); medRxiv (Jun); Microbes and Infectious Diseases (Aug); Nature (Aug); NEJM (Aug); Obesity Reviews (Sep); Tobacco Control (Aug); WHO website (Aug)

August 2025

Africa’s invisible Parkinson’s problem

Aluminum-adsorbed vaccines and chronic diseases in childhood: a nationwide cohort study

An analysis of colorectal cancer in Ghana: implications for low and middle income countries

The case for optimal investment in combating HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria: a global modelling study

Climate crossroads: how global warming drives coronavirus emergence, the long COVID crisis of tomorrow, and AI’s role in navigating our future

Current and future trends in the consumption, sale and purchasing of alcohol-free and low-alcohol products in Great Britain, 2014 to 2023

A decade later, what have we learned from the Zika epidemic in children with intrauterine exposure?

Elevated toxic element emissions from popular disposable e-cigarettes: sources, life cycle, and health risks

Environmental noise in Europe 2025 (European Environment Agency report)

Epidemiology and phylogenomic characterisation of two distinct mpox outbreaks in Kinshasa, DR Congo, involving a new subclade Ia lineage: a retrospective, observational study

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

Exploring the connection of health disparities and inequities with health care-acquired infections in North America: a scoping review of the literature

Global burden of eye injuries in children and adolescents, 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study

Global radiology: building equitable and effective partnerships with low and middle-income countries

Global, regional, and national trends in routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Hospital ownership and surgical outcomes in East, Central, and Southern Africa

How climate change is threatening Africa by supercharging Rift Valley fever

How much does the absence of the ‘hidden population’ from United Kingdom household surveys underestimate smoking prevalence?

Improving care for people with dementia through co-creation of action plans in the Western Pacific region

Incident dementia across neighbourhood material deprivation: implications for underdiagnosis

Life expectancy of American Indian and Alaska Native persons and underreporting of mortality in vital statistics

Long COVID rates higher in women: evidence grows

Longitudinal patterns of e-cigarette use initiation and progression to frequent vaping from mid-to-late adolescence to young adulthood

Medicine’s changemakers—meet the medics fighting for health equity

People are being involuntarily committed, jailed after spiraling into "ChatGPT psychosis"

Prevalence of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Rethinking the evidence on COVID-19 in Africa

Virtual global health: the perceptions of students and practitioners of healthcare professions in Sudan on the project ECHO telementorship program – a US academic institution collaborative

Sources

ACS Central Science (Jun); Addiction (Aug); American Journal of Infection Control (Jul); American Journal of Ophthalmology (Aug); American Journal of Surgery, The (Jul); Annals of Internal Medicine (Jul); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); BMC Infectious Diseases (Jul); BMC Medical Education (Jul); BMJ, The (Jul); Clinical Imaging (Sep-in progress); European Environment Agency website (Jun); Futurism website (Jun); Infectious Diseases Now (Sep); JAMA (Jul); JAMA Surgery (Jul); Lancet, The (Jul); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Aug); Medscape (Jul)

July 2025

Advances in the management of hepatitis B

The Black prisoners of Stateville: race, research, and reckoning at the dawn of precision medicine

Community-based mentoring to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in adolescent pregnancies in Sierra Leone (2YoungLives): a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial

Demographic and socioeconomic determinants of maternal knowledge and confidence in promoting infant and toddler oral health: an exploratory study

Did the United States smokeless tobacco industry use cigarette industry strategies to sponsor and manipulate research?

Digital interventions for common mental health problems among older adults in low- and middle-income countries

Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: a systematic review

Environmental risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus through the lens of social determinants of health

Estimating the potential malaria morbidity and mortality avertable by the US President's Malaria Initiative in 2025

Gender inequality in access to rheumatology care in APLAR countries: outcomes and potential solutions

Human papillomavirus vaccine coverage surveys in low- and middle-income countries: current efforts and future considerations for very young adolescents

The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: an overview of systematic reviews

Implementing public health vending machines on the reservation lands of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa (United States)

Integrating gender-inclusive initiatives in medical school in Rwanda: faculty and student experiences at the University of Global Health Equity

Microbial laden mobile phones from international conference attendees pose potential risks to public health and biosecurity

Prevalence of undernutrition in children with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

A systematic review and meta-analysis of factors associated with adolescent substance use in Africa, 2000 to 2020

Understanding the influence of abortion on 2024 US elections

Values and preferences regarding the health sector response to interpersonal violence against transgender and gender-diverse individuals: a systematic review

Why should we be concerned by internalised racism in global health?

Sources

Addiction (Jun-Jul); Arthritis Care & Research (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun); BMJ Global Health (Jun); Harm Reduction Journal (May); Infection, Disease & Health (May); International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (Jun); JAMA (Jun); Lancet, The (Jun); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Jul); Medical Teacher (issue 7); Pediatric Dental Journal (Aug)

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