Centre for Global Development

Research output

Research output per year 2011 2017 2018 2019 2023 2024

• 657 Citations
• 60 Article
• 12 Working paper
• 10 Commissioned Report
• 6 Other Report
• 33 More
  • 6 Other contribution
  • 5 Chapter
  • 5 Preprint
  • 4 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
  • 3 Book
  • 3 Oral Presentation/ Invited Talk
  • 2 Database
  • 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 1 Foreword/postscript
  • 1 Comment/debate
  • 1 Newspaper
  • 1 Website, Blog, Social Media

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Understanding the health system utilisation and reasons for avoidable mortality after fatal injury within a Three-Delays framework in Karonga, Northern Malawi: a retrospective analysis of verbal autopsy data

  Whitaker, J., Edem, I., Amoah, A. S., Dube, A., D'Ambruoso, L., Rickard, R. F., Leather, A. J. M. & Davies, J., 29 Apr 2024, In: BMJ Open. 14, 4, 11 p., e081652.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Malawi 100%
  • Autopsy 65%
  • Mortality 38%
  • Health 37%
  • Wounds and Injuries 37%

• Retrospective analysis of Verbal Autopsy data to understand health system utilisation and reasons for avoidable mortality after fatal injury within a three delays framework in Karonga, Northern Malawi.

  Whitaker, J. & D'Ambruoso, L., 10 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: BMJ Open.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Equitable access to quality injury care; Equi-Injury project protocol for prioritizing interventions in four low- or middle-income countries: a mixed method study

  Equi-Injury Group & Ghalichi, L., 4 Apr 2024, In: BMC Health Services Research. 24, 1, 15 p., 429.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Quality of Health Care 100%
  • Income 94%
  • stakeholder 79%
  • income 77%
  • Rwanda 65%
  2 Downloads (Pure)

• A protocol for a critical realist synthesis of school mindfulness interventions designed to promote pupils' mental wellbeing

  Abbott, P., Nixon, G., Stanley, I. & D'Ambruoso, L., 9 Jan 2024, In: Frontiers in public health. 11, 12 p., 1309649.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Mindfulness 100%
  • Pupil 90%
  • pupil 65%
  • Systematic Reviews 15%
  • Social Media 12%
  1 Downloads (Pure)
• 2023

  Sugar-sweetened beverage intakes among adults between 1990 and 2018 in 185 countries

  Global Dietary Database, Dec 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, 5957.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • beverages 100%
  • Sugar-Sweetened Beverages 87%
  • sugars 80%
  • Africa South of the Sahara 43%
  • education 38%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  1 Downloads (Pure)

• Literacy and Quality of Life: A Study of Adults with Poor Literacy Capabilities in Western Rwanda

  Mtika, P. & Abbott, P., 7 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Rwanda 100%
  • quality of life 70%
  • literacy 60%
  • Adult Education 18%
  • group discussion 15%
  1 Downloads (Pure)

• A protocol for a critical realist systematic synthesis of ~interventions to~ promote pupils’ wellbeing by improving the school climate in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  Abbott, P. A., Shanks, R., Stanley, I. & D’Ambruoso, L., 23 May 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: PloS ONE.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Climate 100%
  • Pupil 94%
  • Income 71%
  • Mindfulness 65%
  • Climate Change 30%
  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment

  Teti, A. & Abbott, P., 1 Apr 2023, In: PS: Political Science & Politics. 56, 2, p. 259 - 264 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • North Africa 100%
  • East Africa 98%
  • political science 79%
  • Middle East 78%
  • international relations 75%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  2 Downloads (Pure)

• Children’s and adolescents’ rising animal-source food intakes in 1990–2018 were impacted by age, region, parental education and urbanicity

  Miller, V., Webb, P., Cudhea, F., Zhang, J., Reedy, J., Shi, P., Erndt-Marino, J., Coates, J., Micha, R., Mozaffarian, D. & Global Dietary Database, Apr 2023, In: Nature Food. 4, 4, p. 305-319 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • animal-based foods 100%
  • education 79%
  • food intake 70%
  • Eating 59%
  • Parents 59%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Incident type 2 diabetes attributable to suboptimal diet in 184 countries

  O’Hearn, M., Lara-Castor, L., Cudhea, F., Miller, V., Reedy, J., Shi, P., Zhang, J., Wong, J. B., Economos, C. D., Micha, R., Mozaffarian, D. & Global Dietary Database, Apr 2023, In: Nature Medicine. 29, 4, p. 982-995 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Risk Assessment 100%
  • Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 62%
  • Diet 56%
  • Central Asia 31%
  • Eastern Europe 27%
  34 Citations (Scopus)
• 2022

  Voice needs teeth to have bite’! Expanding community-led multisectoral action-learning to address alcohol and drug abuse in rural South Africa

  D'Ambruoso, L., Mabetha, D., Twine, R., Van Der Merwe, M., Hove, J., Goosen, G., Sigudla, J. & Witter, S., 19 Oct 2022, In: PLOS Global Public Health. 2, 10, 28 p., e0000323.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Bites and Stings 100%
  • South Africa 96%
  • Alcoholism 83%
  • Substance-Related Disorders 80%
  • Learning 66%
  2 Downloads (Pure)

• Refining Circumstances of Mortality Categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making

  D'Ambruoso, L., Price, J., Cowan, E., Goosen, G., Fottrell, E., Herbst, K., Van Der Merwe, M., Sigudla, J., Davies, J. & Kahn, K., 4 Apr 2022, In: Global Health Action. 14, 16 p., 2000091.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • health decisions 100%
  • Autopsy 60%
  • mortality 60%
  • Decision Making 59%
  • death 52%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Lessons from community participation in primary health care and water resource governance in South Africa: a narrative review

  Hove, J., D'Ambruoso, L., Kahn, K., Witter, S., Van Der Merwe, M., Mabetha, D., Tembo, K. & Twine, R., 7 Jan 2022, In: Global Health Action. 15, 1, 18 p., 2004730.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Water Resources 100%
  • Community Participation 73%
  • Water resources 68%
  • Health Resources 65%
  • South Africa 61%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  25 Downloads (Pure)

• Tackling modern slavery: a sustainability accounting perspective

  Islam, M., Abbott, P. & Haque, S., Jan 2022, In: Futurum. 12, p. 20-23 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Accountability 100%
  • Transparency 97%
  • Working Conditions 96%
  • Sustainability 95%
  • Slavery 78%
  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Burden of Mortality Linked to Community-nominated Priorities in Rural South Africa

  Mattila, P., Davies, J., Mabetha, D., Tollman, S. & D'Ambruoso, L., 2022, In: Global Health Action. 15, 1, 13 p., 2013599.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • South Africa 100%
  • mortality 79%
  • Republic of South Africa 70%
  • Mortality 47%
  • death 38%
  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Strangers in Plain Sight: Conceptions of Democracy in EU Neighbourhood Policy and in Public Opinion across North Africa

  Abbott, P. & Teti, A., 2022, In: The Journal of North African Studies. 27, 4, p. 691-713 24 p.

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  • conception of democracy 100%
  • neighborhood policy 93%
  • North Africa 78%
  • public opinion 60%
  • European Union 48%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Building back fairer in public health policy requires collective action with and for the most vulnerable in society

  D'Ambruoso, L., Abbott, P. & Binagwaho, A., 16 Mar 2021, In: BMJ Global Health. 6, 3, 4 p., e005555.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Public Policy 100%
  • Pandemics 96%
  • monopoly 94%
  • knowledge production 94%
  • Health Policy 91%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  9 Downloads (Pure)

• Prelude to the revolution: Independent civic activists in Mubarak’s Egypt and the quest for hegemony

  Gervasio, G. & Teti, A., 2021, In: Journal of North African Politics. 26, 6, p. 1099-1121 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • hegemony 100%
  • leadership 67%
  • Egypt 62%
  • mobilization 60%
  • Hegemony 58%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  13 Downloads (Pure)

• Understanding the political economy dynamics of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) sector in Rwanda

  Tsinda, A., Abbott, P., Chenoweth, J. & Mucyo, S., 2021, In: International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 13, 2, p. 265-278 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • political economy 100%
  • Rwanda 96%
  • Sanitation 87%
  • Hygiene 83%
  • hygiene 79%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Failing adult learners: Why Rwanda’s adult literacy education is not delivering

  Abbott, P., Mugisha, R., Mtika, P. & Nzabalirwa, W., 30 Nov 2020, In: International Journal of Educational Development . 79, 9 p., 102288.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Rwanda 100%
  • literacy 97%
  • Literacy 81%
  • education 62%
  • Education 43%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  15 Downloads (Pure)

• Burundi elections: what's at stake and what to expect

  Abbott, P. & Stubbs, T., 30 Apr 2020, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • military coup d'etat 100%
  • Burundi 77%
  • exile 68%
  • journalist 52%
  • military 49%

• The tide that failed to rise: Young people’s politics and social values in and after the Arab uprisings

  Abbott, P., Teti, A. & Sapsford, R., Jan 2020, In: Mediterranean Politics. 25, 1, p. 1-25 25 p.

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  • social value 100%
  • politics 88%
  • Arab 71%
  • tide 66%
  • young 53%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  12 Downloads (Pure)

• Strengthening interlinked marketing exchange systems to improve water and sanitation in informal settlements of Kigali, Rwanda

  Tsinda, A., Chenowath, J. & Abbott, P., 2020, In: International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 12, 3, p. 300-308 10 p.

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  • Informal Settlements 100%
  • informal settlement 88%
  • Rwanda 87%
  • Sanitation 79%
  • sanitation 68%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Ben Ali: the Tunisian autocrat who laid the foundations for his demise

  Abbott, P., 7 Oct 2019, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Tunisia 100%
  • correctional institution 73%
  • popular uprising 65%
  • smuggling 53%
  • exile 51%

• Tunisians head for the polls amid dimming faith in democracy

  Abbott, P., Teti, A. & Sapsford, R., 3 Sept 2019, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • faith 100%
  • democracy 71%
  • popular uprising 53%
  • election 51%
  • president 26%

• Beyond elections: perceptions of democracy in four Arab countries

  Teti, A., Abbott, P. & Cavatorta, F., Jun 2019, In: Democratization. 26, 4, p. 645-665 21 p.

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  • election 100%
  • democracy 99%
  • Arab countries 92%
  • economic rights 28%
  • civil & political right 25%
  37 Citations (Scopus)

  102 Downloads (Pure)

• Corruption, Trust, Inclusion and Cohesion in North Africa and the Middle East

  Sapsford, R., Tsourapas, G., Abbott, P. & Teti, A., 15 Mar 2019, In: Applied Research in Quality of Life. 14, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.

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  • North Africa 100%
  • group cohesion 83%
  • Middle East 78%
  • corruption 78%
  • inclusion 59%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

  11 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Women, Land and Empowerment in Rwanda

  Abbott, P., Mugisha, R. & Sapsford, R., Aug 2018, In: Journal of International Development. 30, 6, p. 1006-1022 17 p.

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  • Rwanda 100%
  • empowerment 96%
  • Empowerment 71%
  • woman 70%
  • land 41%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  8 Downloads (Pure)

• Beekeeping adoption: A case study of three smallholder farming communities in Baringo County, Kenya

  Heckle, R., Smith, P., Macdiarmid, J., Campbell, E. & Abbott, P., 4 Apr 2018, In: Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics. 119, 1, p. 1-11 11 p.

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  • small-scale farming 100%
  • apiculture 98%
  • Kenya 75%
  • case studies 63%
  • beekeepers 22%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  39 Downloads (Pure)

• Al-Sisi poised for empty victory in Egypt as signs of unrest grow across the region

  Abbott, P. & Teti, G. A., 26 Mar 2018, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Egypt 100%
  • presidential election 49%
  • voting 42%
  • opposition 39%
  • firm 38%

• Improving sanitation in informal settlements of East African cities: hybrid of market and state-led approaches

  Tsinda, A., Abbott, P., Chenoweth, J., Pedley, S. & Kwizera, M., Feb 2018, In: International Journal of Water Resources Development . 34, 2, p. 229-244 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Informal Settlements 100%
  • informal settlement 88%
  • Sanitation 79%
  • Hybrid Model 74%
  • sanitation 68%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Tunisia is back on a knife edge – here’s why

  Abbott, P. & Teti, G. A., 17 Jan 2018, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Tunisia 100%
  • anniversary 29%
  • Economic Policy 27%
  • protest 24%
  • budget 22%
• 2017

  Challenges of Doing Public Opinion Survey Research in the MENA

  Abbott, P. & Teti, A., 31 Dec 2017, In: American political Science Association MENA Workshops Alumnie e-newsletter. Fall, 3, p. 15-19 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Socially Inclusive Development: The Foundations for Decent Societies in East and Southern Africa

  Abbott, P., Wallace, C. & Sapsford, R., Dec 2017, In: Applied Research in Quality of Life. 12, 4, p. 813-839 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Southern Africa 100%
  • East Africa 99%
  • society 59%
  • social process 33%
  • international agencies 21%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  15 Downloads (Pure)

• Introducing visual participatory methods to develop local knowledge on HIV in rural South Africa

  Brooks, C., D'Ambruoso, L., Kazimierczak, K., Ngobeni, S., Twine, R., Tollman, S., Kahn, K. & Byass, P., 28 Sept 2017, In: BMJ Global Health. 2, 3, p. 1-14 14 p., e000231.

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  • South Africa 100%
  • Republic of South Africa 70%
  • HIV 65%
  • mortality 63%
  • health 43%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  17 Downloads (Pure)

• Iraq after ISIS: Continued conflict or rebuilding beyond ethno-sectarian identities?

  Teti, A., Abbott, P. & Dagher, M., 12 Aug 2017, openDemocracy.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Iraq 100%

• Perceptions of EU Foreign Policy in the MENA Region

  Teti, A. & Abbott, P. A., 12 Aug 2017, Open Democracy.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• What do people in the Arab countries want? Conceptions of democracy

  Teti, A. & Abbott, P., 12 Aug 2017, openDemocracy.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • conception of democracy 100%
  • Arab countries 85%
  • economic rights 80%
  • political right 76%
  • social rights 74%

• Iraq must now rebuild itself – and that means fixing its dreadful governance

  Abbott, P., Teti, G. A. & DeJesus, K. M., 31 Jul 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Iraq 100%
  • humanitarian assistance 72%
  • governance 70%
  • political power 54%
  • legitimacy 42%

• Election guide: what you need to know about the Rwandan presidential poll

  Abbott, P. & Stubbs, T., 30 Jul 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • election 100%
  • constitutional amendment 91%
  • Rwanda 78%
  • erosion 72%
  • president 51%

• Public disgust over corruption threatens stability in Middle East and North Africa

  Abbott, P., Teti, G. A. & Sapsford, R., 13 Jun 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • North Africa 100%
  • East Africa 98%
  • Middle East 78%
  • corruption 78%
  • Tunisia 33%

• Initiating a participatory action research process in the Agincourt health and socio–demographic surveillance site

  Wariri, O., D'Ambruoso, L., Twine, R., Ngobeni, S., Van Der Merwe, M., Spies, B., Kahn, K., Tollman, S., Wagner, R. G. & Byass, P., Jun 2017, In: Journal of Global Health. 7, 1, 010413.

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  • Health Services Research 100%
  • research process 83%
  • action research 78%
  • surveillance 75%
  • Health 42%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)

• Learning from Success: How Rwanda Achieved the Millennium Development Goals for Health

  Abbott, P., Sapsford, R. & Binagwaho, A., Apr 2017, In: World Development . 92, p. 103-116 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Rwanda 100%
  • Millennium Development Goals 94%
  • learning 60%
  • health 50%
  • Health 49%
  45 Citations (Scopus)

• Quality of integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa: user and provider perspectives

  Ameh, S., Klipstein-Grobusch, K., D'Ambruoso, L., Kahn, K., Tollman, S. & Gómez-Olivé, F. X., Mar 2017, In: Health Policy and Planning. 32, 2, p. 257-266 10 p.

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  • Chronic Diseases 100%
  • South Africa 93%
  • Chronic Disease 65%
  • Republic of South Africa 65%
  • manager 62%
  80 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)

• The case for verbal autopsy in health systems strengthening

  D'Ambruoso, L., Boerma, T., Byass, P., Fottrell, E., Herbst, K., Källander, K. & Mullan, Z., 1 Jan 2017, In: Lancet Global Health. 5, 1, p. e20-e21 2 p.

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  • Global Health 100%
  • Autopsy 86%
  • Health 49%
  • Uganda 40%
  • Population Health 36%
  28 Citations (Scopus)

  9 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  The Promise and the Reality: Women's Rights in Rwanda

  Abbott, P. & Malunda, D., 30 Nov 2016, In: African Journal of International and Comparative Law. 24, 4, p. 561-581 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • women's rights 100%
  • Rwanda 98%
  • rights of woman 36%
  • genocide 31%
  • Gender equality 28%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Biodiversity informatics in Eastern Africa: Status, drivers and barriers

  Tsinda, A., Mugisha, R., Mutesi, L., Bizoza, A., Keyitesi, E. & Abbott, P. A., Jul 2016, In: Journal for Nature Conservation . 32, p. 67-80 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality

  D'Ambruoso, L., Kahn, K., Wagner, R. G., Twine, R., Spies, B., Van Der Merwe, M., Gomez-Olive, F. X., Tollman, S. & Byass, P., 15 Jun 2016, In: Global Health Research and Policy. 1, p. 1-15 15 p., 2.

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  • Autopsy 100%
  • Mortality 59%
  • Health 57%
  • Censuses 32%
  • Cause of Death 23%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

  19 Downloads (Pure)

• Community perspectives on HIV, violence and health surveillance in rural South Africa: a participatory pilot study

  Hullur, N., D'Ambruoso, L., Edin, K., Wagner, R. G., Ngobeni, S., Kahn, K., Tollman, S. & Byass, P., Jun 2016, In: Journal of Global Health. 6, 1, p. 1-12 12 p., 010406.

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  • Violence 100%
  • South Africa 99%
  • surveillance 82%
  • Republic of South Africa 70%
  • HIV 65%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  11 Downloads (Pure)

• The rocky road ahead to peace: the Arab Uprisings and the conflict in Libya

  Xypolia, I., 31 Mar 2016, In: Journal of Global Faultlines. 3, 1, p. 50-55 6 p.

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