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  1. Loneliness and E-cigarette Use Among Adolescents in England: Evidence From the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Survey 2023
  2. Disposal practices for unused and expired medications among outpatients in three healthcare facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis
  3. Who does not want to quit? Determinants of no intention to stop smoking in a population-based sample of current smokers
  4. Self-Rated Health by Time Since Smoking Cessation
  5. A structured training intervention on tobacco harm reduction for mental health workers across two psychiatric hospitals in Malawi: a quasi-experimental pre–post study
  6. Differences in respiratory wheezing between current exclusive e-cigarette users, current exclusive cigarette smokers, and never users of either product: findings from a population-based study
  7. Disposal practices of unused and expired medications among healthcare practitioners in Ibadan, Nigeria: results from a cross-sectional survey
  8. An Equity‐Focused Systematic Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plans in 14 West African Countries
  9. Pre-pandemic diabetes and risk of long COVID: longitudinal evidence
  10. Preoperative smoking cessation interventions and their effects on smoking abstinence and postoperative outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  11. Strengthening antimicrobial resistance surveillance across African military settings
  12. Association between household secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and regular e-cigarette use among adolescents: evidence from a national school-based survey
  13. Socioeconomic deprivation and its association with polypharmacy in England: results from a national cross-sectional survey
  14. Physical disability and risk of incident hypertension: a prospective cohort analysis
  15. Mapping Disease Burden of Major Depressive Disorder and Its Risk Factors in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  16. Predictors of e-cigarette use among individuals with asthma: findings from a cross-sectional population-based study
  17. Self-medication among pregnant women in Ibadan, Nigeria: an analysis of determinants, knowledge, perception, attitude, and practice
  18. ‘E-cigarette smoking’ is a misleading term: a critical review of its use in academic literature
  19. When meta-analysis misleads: the need for methodological integrity in e-cigarette research
  20. Improved aerobic capacity in a randomized controlled trial of noncombustible nicotine and tobacco products
  21. Economic burden attributable to high BMI-caused cancers: a global level analysis between 2002 and 2021
  22. Closing gender equality gaps in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
  23. Access, Utilization and Barriers to  Malaria Preventive Intervention  for Children under the Age of Five in Flood-Affected Region in South-South, Nigeria
  24. Leveraging artificial intelligence to combat antimicrobial resistance in geriatric care
  25. Left behind no more: ensuring equitable vaccine access to curb mpox in Africa
  26. Antibiotic Use and Misuse in Maritime Settings: Challenges and Implications for Global Antimicrobial Resistance Response
  27. Determinants of knowledge of risks associated with cigarette smoking among adolescents in Scotland
  28. Antimicrobial Resistance on Ships: A Narrative Review
  29. Measuring and addressing violence against women with disabilities in Africa
  30. XEC severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 subvariant in Africa: A rising health alarm
  31. Assessing the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions toward smoking cessation among medical students in Rwanda
  32. Distribution, Risk Factors and Epidemiological Trends of Pancreatic Cancer Across Countries’ Income Levels: A Comprehensive Analysis
  33. Self-rated health differences between exclusive e-cigarette users and exclusive cigarette smokers: evidence from the 2017–2019 Scottish Health Survey
  34. Antimicrobial Resistance in Slums: A Call for Global Action
  35. Factors contributing to under-5 child mortality in Nigeria: A narrative review
  36. Rethinking Global Health Research: Decolonization and Equity in Epidemiology
  37. The role of artificial intelligence in enhancing healthcare for people with disabilities
  38. Understanding research gaps and priorities for tobacco harm reduction in low-income and middle-income countries
  39. Utilizing Administrative Data to Inform Health Promotion, Policy, and Practice
  40. Top 10 Public Health Challenges for 2024: Charting a New Direction for Global Health Security
  41. Mpox as an emerging health threat for survivors of sex trafficking
  42. Comparing self-rated health among exclusive e-cigarette users and traditional cigarette smokers: an analysis of the Health Survey for England 2019
  43. Antimicrobial prescribing practices and factors associated with antimicrobial prescribing in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Oyo state: A retrospective study
  44. Lady health workers smoking cessation initiative in rural Pakistan
  45. Caught between violence: Mpox virus and the perils of neglect in Africa
  46. Regulation of health professions education and the growth of schools in Somalia
  47. Broadening the Global Mpox Response: A Critical Reflection on Vulnerable Populations
  48. Sex Workers and the Mpox Response in Africa
  49. Loneliness is associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in older adults: Findings from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey
  50. Disease Burden, Risk Factors, and Temporal Trends in Breast Cancer in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Global Study
  51. Prevalence, demographic, socio-economic, and lifestyle factors associated with cigarette, e-cigarette, and dual use: evidence from the 2017–2021 Scottish Health Survey
  52. Public Health Word of the Year 2023 — Conflict
  53. The realities of adolescent sexual behaviours in Nigeria: a narrative review
  54. Sexual and reproductive health rights in the era of artificial intelligence
  55. Leaving no one behind: addressing the sexuality of people with disabilities
  56. Climate change, flooding, and HIV transmission in Africa: Potential relationships and a call for action
  57. Prevalence and Determinants of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents in Thailand: Evidence From 2021 Global School-Based Health Survey
  58. Predictors and Prevalence of Alcohol and Cannabis Co-use Among Filipino Adolescents: Evidence From a School-based Student Health Survey
  59. Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Artificial Intelligence Among Healthcare Professionals in Mogadishu, Somalia
  60. Antimicrobial resistance and people living with disabilities
  61. Harnessing the potential of African youth for transforming health research in Africa
  62. Navigating the digital frontier during the COVID‐19 pandemic and EVALI epidemic: The impact of social media on public health
  63. Somalia’s Medical Education and Regulation: A Review of the Health Regulatory Landscape
  64. Addressing language inequities in global health science scholarly publishing
  65. Knowledge, perception, and willingness of emerging Public Health Advocates to effectively communicate about smoking cessation and Tobacco Harm Reduction in Africa
  66. Exacerbation of food insecurity in Africa: A consequence of the dual threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis
  67. Awareness, Coverage, and Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria
  68. How the World Bank's Pandemic Fund can address health inequities
  69. Drug take-back program: assessment of knowledge, practices, and barriers to safe disposal of unused medication among healthcare students in a Nigerian university
  70. Ten golden rules for optimal antibiotic use in hospital settings: the WARNING call to action
  71. Antimicrobial stewardship: community pharmacists’ antibiotic dispensing practices, knowledge, and perception regarding antibiotics and antibiotic resistance
  72. Exploring electronic cigarette portrayals: a content and thematic analysis of African online news coverage
  73. Beyond rhetoric in the pandemic treaty: Prioritizing equity and inclusion for marginalized populations
  74. The hidden mental health crisis of antimicrobial resistance
  75. The Roles of Pharmacists in Responding to Public Health Emergencies: A Case of COVID-19
  76. Public Health Word of the Year 2022 – New Normal
  77. Knowledge, Perception, and Willingness of Emerging Public Health Advocates to Effectively Communicate about Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Harm Reduction in Africa
  78. The global antimicrobial resistance response effort must not exclude marginalised populations
  79. Taliban's war on educating girls and women must end now: A call for global actions
  80. Top 10 public health challenges to track in 2023: Shifting focus beyond a global pandemic
  81. Balancing the risks and benefits of antibiotic use in a globalized world: the ethics of antimicrobial resistance
  82. Portrayal of electronic cigarettes in the news
  83. Decolonizing Epidemiological Research: A Critical Perspective
  84. The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism
  85. Monkeypox virus among seafarers is not to be neglected
  86. Strengthening Africa’s capacity for vaccine research: Needs and challenges
  87. The COVID-19 pandemic and health workforce brain drain in Nigeria
  88. Bibliometric analysis of contributions to COVID-19 research in Malaysia
  89. Socioeconomic inequalities in prostate cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries: An analysis of the demographic and health surveys between 2010 and 2019
  90. Fixing Data Gaps for Population Health in Africa: An Urgent Need
  91. Self-medication practices among seafarers: a bibliometric review
  92. Monkeypox outbreak: The need to include prisons in public health response
  93. Mental health implications of monkeypox: An urgent need for action
  94. Nigeria End Malaria Council: What to expect
  95. Navigating the COVID-19 outbreak in Zambia
  96. Perspective Chapter: Tobacco Control in Sub-Saharan Africa – Challenges and Recommendations
  97. Increasing challenges of malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa: Priorities for public health research and policymakers
  98. Undergraduate students’ involvement in research: Values, benefits, barriers and recommendations
  99. Neglecting antibiotic stewardship in prisons: A concern for antimicrobial resistance response
  100. Targeting the wrong enemies: Monkeys are not responsible for the current outbreak of monkeypox
  101. Top ten public health challenges to track in 2022
  102. Addressing the social issues around vaccination could be the pivotal strategy to achieve the 2022 COVID-19 vaccination coverage target
  103. Tobacco control needs a choice-based approach to curb cigarette smoking
  104. Nigeria's scientific contributions to COVID-19: A bibliometric analysis
  105. Why are missed opportunities for immunisation and immunisation defaulting among children indistinguishable?
  106. Factors influencing severity of recurrent malaria in a conflict-affected state of South Sudan: an unmatched case-control study
  107. Revisiting the issue of access to medicines in Africa: Challenges and recommendations
  108. Decisive or impulsive? Re-examining Africa’s lockdown response to COVID-19
  109. Exposure to household air pollution from cooking fuel in Ugandan households and associated household factors: a retrospective analysis of demographic and health survey data
  110. Medical Use of Cannabis in Africa: The Pharmacists’ Perspective
  111. Why many African countries may not achieve the 2022 COVID-19 vaccination coverage target
  112. Impact of Nyiragongo Volcanic Eruptions on the Resilience to the COVID-19 and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  113. Community engagement in global health research
  114. Challenges facing pharmaceutical care provision in Nigerian tertiary hospitals: A short review
  115. COVID 19 and Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa: Perspectives from Ghana
  116. Could seafarers serve as medium of transmission of resistant bacteria?
  117. COVID-19 surveillance systems in 13 African countries
  118. The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
  119. Can Africa achieve herd immunity?
  120. Why climate change can cause new diseases, and what we need to do about it
  121. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on antenatal healthcare services in Sub-Saharan Africa
  122. Leveraging mobile health technology towards Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria
  123. The African continent needs to prioritise planetary health
  124. Dealing with two ‘SARS’ outbreaks in Nigeria: The public health implications
  125. Enhancing preventive medicine over curative medicine: Role of telemedicine
  126. Increasing coverage of vaccination by pharmacists in Nigeria; an urgent need
  127. Prison health during the COVID-19 era in Africa
  128. Uneven power dynamics must be levelled in COVID-19 vaccines access and distribution
  129. How West African countries prioritize health
  130. What sub-Saharan African countries can learn from malaria elimination in China
  131. Self-medication with antibiotics among seafarers: a public health issue
  132. Zoonotic infectious diseases and maritime seaport: areas of concern
  133. Trends in Household Air Pollution Contributed by the Type of Cooking Fuel Used in Ugandan Households from 2000 to 2016 and Associated Household Factors: An Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys
  134. COVID‐19 calls for health systems strengthening in Africa: A case of Nigeria
  135. Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines among marginalised populations in Africa
  136. COVID-19 and its impacts: The situation in Niger republic
  137. COVID‐19 and progress towards achieving universal health coverage in Africa: A case of Nigeria
  138. The use of antibiotics in COVID-19 management: a rapid review of national treatment guidelines in 10 African countries
  139. Prevalence, risk factors and impact of cellular immunity on intestinal parasitosis among people living with HIV at Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria
  140. Pharmacoeconomics in Africa: needs, prospect and challenges
  141. Risk communication and community engagement strategies for COVID-19 in 13 African countries
  142. Community distribution of oxygen: a unique COVID-19 intervention
  143. Factors influencing severity of recurrent malaria in a conflict-affected State of south Sudan
  144. Towards improving community pharmacy-based mental health services in Nigeria
  145. Vaccinate people in Africa’s prisons against COVID-19
  146. UK aid and research double accounting hits SDG projects
  147. COVID-19: A novel burden on the fragile health system of Angola
  148. COVID-19 in a shattered health system: Case of Libya
  149. Dam if You Do, Dam if You Don't: Politics and Floods in the Shadow of COVID-19 in Sudan
  150. Psychosocial factors of stigma and relationship to healthcare services among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Kano state, Nigeria
  151. Willingness to Vaccinate against COVID-19 among Healthcare Workers: An Online Survey in 10 Countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
  152. Who Will Pay for the COVID-19 Vaccines for Africa?
  153. Towards 90-90-90 Target: COVID-19 and HIV Response in Africa
  154. COVID-19 Highlights the Need for Inclusive Responses to Public Health Emergencies in Africa
  155. Drug supply shortage in Nigeria during COVID-19: efforts and challenges
  156. Drug supply situation in Rwanda during COVID-19: issues, efforts and challenges
  157. Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
  158. “Annals of Public Health Issues” Has Come to Stay!
  159. COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance: A Review
  160. The challenge of dearth of information in Tanzania’s COVID-19 response
  161. Towards an inclusive health agenda: people who inject drugs and the COVID-19 response in Africa
  162. Volcanic and Limnic eruption: a potential threat to one health
  163. When it is available, will we take it? Social media users’ perception of hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria
  164. Key population of HIV should not be forgotten in Africa's COVID-19 response: Nigeria as a case study
  165. Psychosocial Factors of Stigma and Relationship to Healthcare Service among Adolescents Living With HIV/AIDS in Kano State, Nigeria
  166. Identifying the Gaps in HIV Prevention and Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
  167. Lesson learned from student-led one hundred days awareness on antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria
  168. The impact of COVID-19 on pharmacy students in Sudan: A cross-sectional survey
  169. Sex Workers Should not Be Forgotten in Africa’s COVID-19 Response
  170. COVID-19 in Nigeria: Is the pharmaceutical sector spared?
  171. Drug shortage crisis in Sudan in times of COVID-19
  172. Last fight of wild polio in Africa: Nigeria’s battle
  173. Impact of COVID-19 on Pharmacy Education
  174. Polio in Afghanistan: The Current Situation amid COVID-19
  175. Addressing COVID-19 in Afghanistan: What are the efforts and challenges?
  176. When it is available, will we take it? Public perception of hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria
  177. Conflict and COVID-19: a double burden for Afghanistan’s healthcare system
  178. Prospects of BNAbs in Management of HIV/AIDS
  179. Impact of COVID‐19 on access to healthcare in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Current evidence and future recommendations
  180. Nigeria, COVID-19 and the dearth of health workers
  181. Rural communities in Africa should not be forgotten in responses to COVID ‐19
  182. Assessment of Health Budgetary Allocation and Expenditure Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria
  183. Philippines braces for the typhoon season amidst COVID-19
  184. COVID-19 in the Elderly and the Immunocompromised
  185. Proposed model for hospital and community pharmacy services during COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
  186. COVID-19: Community Pharmacy Practice in Africa
  187. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on medicine security in Africa: Nigeria as a case study
  188. Addressing COVID-19 in Malawi
  189. Mineral composition of two Stylosanthes species oversown in natural pasture: effect of tillage practice and sowing method
  190. COVID-19 Pandemic: Medical and Pharmacy Education in Nigeria
  191. Current efforts and challenges facing responses to 2019-nCoV in Africa
  192. SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing in Africa: needs and challenges
  193. The formidable task of fighting COVID-19 in Sudan
  194. The First Eighty-Four (84) Days of COVID-19 in Africa: Analysis of Incidence and Deaths Associated with COVID-19
  195. Coronavirus disease-19 and access to medicines in Africa
  196. Depression Among Pharmacy Students in Nigeria: Is It a Neglected Issue?
  197. Burden of Tuberculosis and Challenges Facing Its Eradication in West Africa
  198. Letter to the Editor: Pharmacy Education in Africa
  199. Prevalence and Socio-economic Impacts of Malnutrition Among Children in Uganda
  200. Policy Reform Towards Implementing Harm Reduction in Nigeria
  201. Assessment of self-medication practices with antibiotics among undergraduate university students in Rwanda
  202. Systematic Review of Factors Influencing Access to HAART by Pregnant Women Living with HIV