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Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Subject guide for all QUB Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences students and staff. Features guides to planning and running database searches, finding grey literature, and using EndNote for reference management.

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.

November 2025

Achieving cervical cancer elimination: an ecological assessment of global determinants using a policy determinant model

Causes and risk factors for deaths in young infants in South Asia: the ANISA prospective population-based observational cohort study

Developing the 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children: key reflections on processes and methods

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation (updated Cochrane review)

Embedding research capacity strengthening in multicountry sexual health research

Financing policies to sustain improved prevention, control, and management of non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions

A global analysis of quarantine and isolation policies governing outbreak responses

Global antibiotic consumption and regional antimicrobial resistance, 2010–21: an analysis of pharmaceutical sales and antimicrobial resistance surveillance data

The global, regional, and national burden of cancer, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Health worker unemployment in countries with critical health worker shortages: a rapid synthesis of evidence from 33 countries

Impact of scaling up breastfeeding on reducing the global burden of non-communicable diseases in mothers and children: a population-based modelling analysis for 132 low-income and middle-income countries

A landscape analysis of the vaccine ecosystem in Africa: research and development funding, clinical trials, regulation, and manufacturing readiness

Mapping inequities in global vaccine sentiment research

Optimising small island developing states and overseas countries and territories classification for comparative public health research: an alternative methodological approach

Oral nicotine pouches for cessation or reduction of use of other tobacco or nicotine products (new Cochrane review)

Progress towards universal health coverage in South Asia, 2000–2030: an examination of the twin elements of primary healthcare provision and financial protection

Protein powders and shakes contain high levels of lead

Sheltered yet unscreened: exploring cancer screening rates and barriers in the unhoused (homeless) population

Wartime food availability in the Gaza Strip, October 2023 to August 2024: a retrospective analysis

Sources

American Journal of Surgery (Oct); BMJ Global Health (Oct-Nov); Cochrane Library (Oct); Consumer Reports website (Oct); Lancet (Oct); Lancet Global Health (Nov)

October 2025

Breast cancer overall survival, annual risks of death, and survival gap apportionment in sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): 7-year follow-up of a prospective cohort study

Cross-sectional survey to assess hospital system readiness for hemorrhage during and after Cesarean delivery in Africa

Dementia in sub-Saharan Africa: risk factors, public perception, and management approaches

Digital payments for healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa (special issue of BMJ Global Health)

Effectiveness of measures taken by governments to support hand hygiene in community settings: a systematic review

Effects of reductions in US foreign assistance on HIV, tuberculosis, family planning, and maternal and child health: a modelling study

Epidemiological and demographic trends and projections in global health from 1970 to 2050: a descriptive analysis from the third Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, Global Health 2050

Health justice in fragile and shock-prone settings: from theory to practice towards building resilient health systems

Heatwaves: how air pollution is worsening effects on health

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

Implementation strategies to increase the uptake and impact of molecular WHO-recommended rapid diagnostic tests: evidence from a mixed-methods systematic review

Medical oxygen service readiness and service coverage in seven countries in Africa and Asia: a cross-sectional survey and clinical audit

Prevalence and determinants of e-cigarette use in South Asia: a systematic review

Prevalence of female sexual dysfunction in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Progress in epidemic-ready primary health care: early pilot results from four African countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda), December 2023 – October 2024

Quality of maternal and newborn care services in Uganda: a scoping review

A scoping review of person-centred maternity care service in humanitarian and fragile settings

Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality

Unveiling complexity in blue spaces and life expectancy

The upstream–downstream tension in the global health classroom

Weapons of influence: tactics of a growing global arms industry and needed health actions

Weapons, wealth, and health: the arms industry as a commercial determinant of health

What’s next for sugar taxes?

Sources

Anesthesia & Analgesia (Sep); BMJ, The (Sep); BMJ Global Health (Sep); Environmental Research (Sep); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Dec); Lancet, The (Aug-Sep); Lancet Global Health, The (Oct); Nature Climate Change (Aug)

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)

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