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- Charting a Course: Navigating Rigor and Meaning in Global Health Research. Tiago Canelas, Motlatso Godongwana, Feyisayo A. Wayas, Estelle Victoria Lambert, Yves Wasnyo, and Louise Foley. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, November 2023. DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2023-0611
- Spotlight on air pollution in Africa. Mohammad Iqbal Mead, Gabriel Okello, Aderiana Mutheu Mbandi & Francis David Pope. Nature Geoscience, November 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01311-2
- The ultra-processed food industry in Africa. Petronell Kruger, Rachel Wynberg, Mikateko Mafuyeka, Amos Laar, Mélissa Mialon, Lori Lake, Chantell Witten, Nicholas Nisbett, Phillip Baker & Karen Hofman. Nature Food, July 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s43016-023-00802-0
- Comparing travel behaviour characteristics and correlates between large and small Kenyan cities (Nairobi versus Kisumu). Lambed Tatah, Louise Foley, Tolu Oni, Matthew Pearce, Charles Lwanga, Vincent Were, Felix Assah, Yves Wasnyo, Ebele Mogo, Gabriel Okello, Stephen Mogere, Charles Obonyo, James Woodcock. Journal of Transport Geography, June 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103625
- Participatory prioritisation of interventions to improve primary school food environments in Gauteng, South Africa. Agnes Erze, Safura Abdool Karim, Teurai Rwafa-Ponela, Petronell Kruger, Karen Hofman, Louise Foley, Tolu Oni, and Susan Goldstein. BMC Public Health, June 2023. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16101-z
- Environment correlates of adolescent active travel to school in Asia: An ecological study. Rizka Maulida, Rahul Goel, S. M. Labib, Tolu Oni, and Esther van Sluijs. Health & Place, May 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103024
- The Potential for Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Transport Systems in Africa and the Caribbean: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Study. Anna Brugulat-Panés, Lee Randall, Thiago Hérick de Sá, Megha Anil, Haowen Kwan, Lambed Tatah, James Woodcock, Ian R. Hambleton, Ebele R. I. Mogo, Lisa Micklesfield, Caitlin Pley, Ishtar Govia, Sostina Spiwe Matina, Caroline Makokha, Philip M. Dambisya, Safura Abdool Karim, Georgina Pujol-Busquets, Kufre Okop, Camille M. Mba, Lisa J. Ware, Felix Assah, Betty Nembulu, Gudani Mukoma, Warren Covelé Lucas, Nadia Bennett, Marshall K. Tulloch-Reid, Alice Charity Awinja,Tanmay Anand and Louise Foley. Sustainability, March 2023. DOI: 10.3390/su15065303
- Identifying priority interventions using the Behaviour Change Wheel to improve public primary school food environments in urban South Africa. Agnes Erzse, Safura Abdool Karim, Teurai Rwafa-Ponela, Petronell Kruger, Karen Joanne Hofman, Louise Foley, Tolu Oni, and Susan Goldstein. Lancet Global Health, March 2023. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00102-X
- Cooling cities through urban green infrastructure: a health impact assessment of European cities. Tamara Iungman, Marta Cirach, Federica Marando, Evelise Pereira Barboza, Sasha Khomenko, Pierre Masselot, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Natalie Mueller, Antonio Gasparrini, José Urquiza, Mehdi Heris, Meelan Thondoo, and Mark Nieuwenhuijsen. The Lancet, February 2023. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02585-5
- Air quality management strategies in Africa: A scoping review of the content, context, co-benefits and unintended consequences. Gabriel Okello, Rebecca Nantanda, Babatunde Awokola, Meelan Thondoo, Deo Okure, Lambed Tatah, Engineer Bainomugisha, and Tolu Oni. Environ Int, January 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107709
- Acceptability and use of waist-worn physical activity monitors in Jamaican adolescents: lessons from the field. Joanne A. Smith, Sara-Lou Christie, Bonny Rockette-Wagner, Lorraine Wilson, Ishtar O. Govia, Keri-Ann Facey & Marshall K. Tulloch-Reid. BMC Research Notes, January 2023. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-022-06266-y
- Association of Perceived Neighbourhood Walkability with Self-Reported Physical Activity and Body Mass Index in South African Adolescents. Feyisayo A Wayas, Joanne A Smith, Estelle V Lambert, Natalie Guthrie-Dixon, Yves Wasnyo, Sacha West, Tolu Oni, and Louise Foley. Int J Environ Res Public Health, January 2023. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20032449
- Socioeconomic inequalities in food purchasing practices and expenditure patterns: Results from a cross-sectional household survey in western Kenya. Vincent Were, Louise Foley, Rosemary Musuva, Matthew Pearce, Pamela Wadende, Charles Lwanga, Ebele Mogo, Eleanor-Turner Moss, and Charles Obonyo. Frontiers in Public Health, January 2023. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.943523
- Multilevel correlates of abdominal obesity in adolescents and youth living with HIV in peri-urban Cape Town, South Africa. Monika Kamkuemah, Blessings Gausi, Tolu Oni, Keren Middelkoop. PLoS One, January 2023. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266637
- Active travel and paratransit use in African cities: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography. Lee Randall, Anna Brugulat-Panés, James Woodcock, Lisa Jayne Ware, Caitlin Pley, Safura Abdool Karim, Lisa Micklesfield, Gudani Mukoma, Lambed Tatah, Philip Mbulalina Dambisya, Sostina Spiwe Matina, Ian Hambleton, Gabriel Okello, Felix Assah, Megha Anil, Haowen Kwan, Alice Charity Awinja, Georgina Pujol-Busquets Guillén, and Louise Foley. Journal of Transport & Health, January 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2022.101558
2022
- Resilience in maternal and child nutrition outcomes in a refugee-hosting community in Cameroon: A quasi-experimental study. Lambed Tatah, Tharcisse Nkunzimana, Louise Foley, Alan de Brauw, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes. Heliyon, December 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12096
- Foodscapes, finance, and faith: Multi-sectoral stakeholder perspectives on the local population health and wellbeing in an urbanizing area in Kenya.
- Reducing Sugar Intake in South Africa: Learnings from a Multilevel Policy Analysis on Diet and Noncommunicable Disease Prevention. Nicole McCreedy, Maylene Shung-King, Amy Weimann, Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Trish Muzenda, Ishtar Govia, Vincent Were, Tolu Oni. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, September 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191811828
- A realist review of voluntary actions by the food and beverage industry and implications for public health and policy in low- and middle-income countries. Agnes Erzse, Safura Abdool Karim, Louise Foley & Karen Joanne Hofman. Nature Food, August 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s43016-022-00552-5
- A mixed-methods participatory intervention design process to develop intervention options in immediate food and built environments to support healthy eating and active living among children and adolescents in Cameroon and South Africa. Agnes Erzse, Teurai Rwafa-Ponela, Petronell Kruger, Feyisayo A. Wayas, Estelle Victoria Lambert, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Edwin Ngwa, Susan Goldstein, Louise Foley, Karen J. Hofman, Stephanie Teguia, Tolu Oni, Felix Assah, Maylene Shung-King, Safura Abdool Karim. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, August 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191610263
- Travel Behaviour and Barriers to Active Travel among Adults in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Lambed Tatah, Yves Wasnyo, Matthew Pearce, Tolu Oni, Louise Foley, Ebele Mogo, Charles Obonyo, Jean Claude Mbanya, James Woodcock, Felix Assah. Sustainabilitity, July 2022. DOI: 10.3390/su14159092
- Physical Activity Behaviour and Comparison of GPAQ and Travel Diary Transport-Related Physical Activity in Accra, Ghana. Lambed Tatah, Matthew Pearce, Rahul Goel, Soren Brage, James Woodcock & Fidelia A. A. Dake. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, June 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19127346
- Navigating the local foodscape: qualitative investigation of food retail and dietary preferences in Kisumu and Homa Bay Counties, western Kenya. Rosemary M. Musuva, Louise Foley, Pamela Wadende, Oliver Francis, Charles Lwanga, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Vincent Were & Charles Obonyo. BMC Public Health, June 2022. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13580-4
- The relationships between socioeconomic status, dietary knowledge and patterns, and physical activity with adiposity in urban South African women. Gudani Mukoma, Stephanie V Wrottesley, Juliana Kagura, Tolu Oni, Lisa Micklesfield & Shane A Norris. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, June 2022. DOI: 10.1080/16070658.2022.2076374
- Assessing adolescent diet and physical activity behaviour, knowledge and awareness in low- and middle-income countries: a systematised review of quantitative epidemiological tools. Trish Muzenda, Monika Kamkuemah, Jane Battersby & Tolu Oni. BMC Public Health, May 2022. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13160-6
- The other pandemic: social media engagement around non-communicable disease preventive behaviours during Nigeria’s COVID-19 lockdowns. Ebele R. I. Mogo, Taibat Lawanson, Richard Unuigboje, Yossabel Chetty, Victor Onifade, Damilola Odekunle, Toluwalope Ogunro, Nfondoh Blanche, Rose Alani, Louise Foley, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Felix Assah, Olalekan Popoola, Camaren Peter & Tolu Oni, Cities and Health, May 2022. DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2073540
- Comparison of household socioeconomic status classification methods and effects on risk estimation: lessons from a natural experimental study, Kisumu, Western Kenya. Vincent Were, Louise Foley, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Ebele Mogo, Pamela Wadende, Rosemary Musuva & Charles Obonyo. International Journal for Equity in Health April 2022. DOI: 10.1186/s12939-022-01652-1
- Three Growth Spurts in Global Physical Activity Policies between 2000 and 2019: A Policy Document Analysis. Trish Muzenda, Maylene Shung-King, Estelle Victoria Lambert, Anna Brugulat Panés, Amy Weimann, Nicole McCreedy, Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Ishtar Govia, Vincent Were and Tolu Oni. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, March 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19073819
- Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography. Louise Foley, Anna Brugulat-Panés, James Woodcock, Ishtar Govia, Ian Hambleton, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Ebele R.I. Mogo, Alice Charity Awinjad, Philip M. Dambisya, Sostina Spiwe Matina, Lisa Micklesfield, Safura Abdool Karim, Lisa Jayne Ware, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Felix Assah, Caitlin Pley, Nadia Bennett, Georgina Pujol-Busquets, Kufre Okop, Tanmay Anand, Camille M.Mba, Haowen Kwan, Gudani Mukoma, Megha Anil, Lambed Tatah, Lee Randall. Social Science & Medicine, January 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114545
2021
- Analysis of Cameroon’s Sectoral Policies on Physical Activity for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention. Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Maylene Shung-King, Tolu Oni, James Woodcock, Amy Weimann, Nicole McCreedy, Trish Muzenda, Ishtar Govia, Jean Claude Mbanya, and Felix Assah Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, December 2021. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182312713
- Intersectoral Action for Addressing NCDs through the Food Environment: An Analysis of NCD Framing in Global Policies and Its Relevance for the African Context. Amy Weimann, Maylene Shung-King, Nicole McCreedy, Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Trish Muzenda, Ishtar Govia, Vincent Were, Tolu Oni. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health October 2021. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182111246
- Cycling behaviour in 17 countries across 6 continents: levels of cycling, who cycles, for what purpose, and how far? Rahul Goel, Anna Goodman, Rachel Aldred, Ryota Nakamura, Lambed Tatah, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Thiago Herick de Sa, Geetam Tiwari, Audrey de Nazelle, Marko Tainio, Ralph Buehler, Thomas Götschi & James Woodcock. Transport Reviews, May 2021. DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2021.1915898
- Availability and advertising of sugar sweetened beverages in South African public primary schools following a voluntary pledge by a major beverage company: a mixed methods study. Agnes Erzse, Nicola Christofides, Nicholas Stacey, Kelsey Lebard, Louise Foley & Karen Hofman. Global Health Action, April 2021. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2021.1898130
- Evidence for factors associated with diet and physical activity in African and Caribbean countries. Eleanor Turner-Moss, Ahmed Razavi, Nigel Unwin & Louise Foley on behalf of the Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network. Bull World Health Organ, April 2021;99:464–472I doi:10.2471/BLT.20.269308
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Foodscapes, Finance and Faith: A Qualitative Investigation of Multi-Sectoral Stakeholder Perspectives on a New Mall and Supermarket in Kenya. Wadende P, Francis O, Musuva R, Mogo E, Turner-Moss E, Were V, Obonyo C, Foley L. Preprint from Research Square, June 2021 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-547640/v1 PPR: PPR350681
2020
- The global diet and activity research (GDAR) network: a global public health partnership to address upstream NCD risk factors in urban low and middle-income contexts. Tolu Oni, Felix Assah, Agnes Erzse, Louise Foley, Ishtar Govia, Karen J. Hofman, Estelle Victoria Lambert, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Maylene Shung-King, Joanne Smith, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Nigel Unwin, Pamela Wadende, James Woodcock, Jean Claude Mbanya, Shane A. Norris, Charles O. Obonyo, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Nicholas J. Wareham & on behalf of the GDAR network. Globalization and Health, October 2020. DOI: 10.1186/s12992-020-00630-y
- Implications of COVID-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries. Tolu Oni, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Pamela Wadende, Charles O. Obonyo, James Woodcock, Ebele R. I. Mogo, Feyisayo A. Odunitan-Wayas, Felix Assah, Lambed Tatah, Louise Foley, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Divya Bhagtani, Amy Weimann, Camille Mba, Nigel Unwin, Anna Brugulat-Panés, Karen J. Hofman, Joanne Smith, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Agnes Erzse, Maylene Shung-King, Estelle V. Lambert & Nicholas J. Wareham. Global Health Action, September 2020. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2020.1810415
- Developing a participatory approach to building a coalition of transdisciplinary actors for healthy urban planning in African cities – a case study of Douala, Cameroon. Amy Weimann, Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi, Christopher Foka, Uilrich Waffo, Pamela Carbajal, Remy Sietchiping & Tolu On. Cities and Health, May 2020 2019. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1741966
- A citizen science approach to determine perceived barriers and promoters of physical activity in a low-income South African community. Feyisayo A. Odunitan-Wayas, Nicola Hamann, Nandipha A. Sinyanya, Abby C. King, Ann Banchoff, Sandra J. Winter, Sharief Hendricks, Kufre J. Okop & Estelle V. Lambert. Global Public Health, January 2020 doi: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1712449
2019
- Understanding the rise of cardiometabolic diseases in low- and middle-income countries. J. Jaime Miranda, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Camila Corvalan, Adnan A. Hyder, Maria Lazo-Porras, Tolu Oni & Jonathan C. K. Wells. Nature Medicine November 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0644-7
- A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Interventions in South Africa, a Rapidly Urbanising Middle-Income Country. Amy Weinman and Tolu Oni. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 2019. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16193608.
Study protocols 2020-22
2022
- A protocol for a systematic review on intersectoral interventions to reduce non-communicable disease risk factors in African cities. Ebele R.I. Mogo, Anna Brugulat-Panés, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Charles Ebikeme, Trish Muzenda, Louise Foley, Tolu Oni. Public Health in Practice, April 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2022.100251
- A Systematic Review Protocol of Opportunities for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention via Public Space Initiatives in African Cities. Ebele R I Mogo, Taibat Lawanson, Louise Foley, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Felix Assah, Toluwalope Ogunro, Victor Onifade, Damilola Odekunle, Richard Unuigboje, Nfondoh Blanche, Rose Alani, Lia Chatzidiakou, Olalekan Popoola, Roderic Jones, Tolu Oni. Int J Environ Res Public Health, February 2022. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19042285
2021
- Protocol for a Multi-Level Policy Analysis of Non-Communicable Disease Determinants of Diet and Physical Activity: Implications for Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Maylene Shung-King, Amy Weimann, Nicole McCreedy, Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Trish Muzenda, Ishtar Govia, Vincent Were, and Tolu Oni. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, December 2021. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182413061
- Adolescent Levers for a Diet and Physical Activity Intervention Across Socioecological Levels in Kenya, South Africa, Cameroon, and Jamaica: Mixed Methods Study Protocol. Odunitan-Wayas FA, Wadende P, Mogo ERI, Brugulat-Panés A, Micklesfield LK, Govia I, Mapa-Tassou C, Mukoma G, Smith JA, Motlhalhedi M, Wasnyo Y, Were V, Assah F, Okop KJ, Norris SA, Obonyo C, Mbanya JC, Tulloch-Reid MK, King AC, Lambert EV, Oni T. JMIR Res Protoc, July 2021; DOI: 10.2196/26739. PMID: 34255729
2020
- Impacts of a New Supermarket on Dietary Behavior and the Local Foodscape in Kisumu, Kenya: Protocol for a Mixed Methods, Natural Experimental Study. Louise Foley, Oliver Francis, Rosemary Musuva, Ebele RI Mogo, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Pamela Wadende, Vincent Were, Charles Obonyo. JMIR Res Protoc, December 2020. DOI:10.2196/17814
- Investigating the relationship between physical activity and social and community networks and social networking platforms/technologies in the Caribbean and Africa: a mixed methods review. Nadia Bennett, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Ishtar Govia, Ian Hambleton, Faith McKoy-Johnson, Trevor Ferguson, Akil Williams, Tiffany Palmer, Louise Foley, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Lisa Ware, Felix Assah, Camille Mba. PROSPERO, June 2020