2026 Felicia Marie Knaul: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	57	1731	1553	832	735	248	18328

Overview

Felicia Marie Knaul is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, economics and econometrics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and health.

The main topics of their work include:

Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Intimate Partner and Family Violence
Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
Global Maternal and Child Health
Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Migration, Health and Trauma

Frequent co-authors of Felicia Marie Knaul include Héctor Arreola-Ornelas, Afsan Bhadelia, William E. Rosa, Michael Touchton, and Lukas Radbruch.

Their publications often appear in several key venues, with the most frequent being:

The Lancet
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
The Lancet Global Health
The Lancet Public Health

Some of their recent papers are:

"Redefining Palliative Care-A New Consensus-Based Definition" (2020), published in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
"Domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic - Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2021), published in Journal of Criminal Justice
"The key role of palliative care in response to the COVID-19 tsunami of suffering" (2020), published in The Lancet
"The Lancet Breast Cancer Commission" (2024), published in The Lancet
"Punt Politics as Failure of Health System Stewardship: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Brazil and Mexico" (2021), published in The Lancet Regional Health - Americas

Best Publications

Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

Felicia Marie Knaul;Paul E Farmer;Eric L Krakauer;Eric L Krakauer;Liliana De Lima

1368
Citations
Expanding global access to radiotherapy

Rifat Atun;David A Jaffray;David A Jaffray;David A Jaffray;Michael B Barton;Freddie Bray

1166
Citations
Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition

Lukas Radbruch;Liliana De Lima;Felicia Knaul;Roberto Wenk

1162
Citations
Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action.

Paul Farmer;Julio Frenk;Felicia M Knaul;Lawrence N Shulman

953
Citations
Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America

Rifat Atun;Luiz Odorico Monteiro De Andrade;Luiz Odorico Monteiro De Andrade;Gisele Almeida;Daniel Cotlear

840
Citations
The quest for universal health coverage: achieving social protection for all in Mexico

Felicia Marie Knaul;Eduardo González-Pier;Octavio Gómez-Dantés;David García-Junco

763
Citations
Domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic - Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis

Alex R. Piquero;Alex R. Piquero;Wesley G. Jennings;Erin Jemison;Catherine Kaukinen

688
Citations
Planning cancer control in Latin America and the Caribbean

Paul E. Goss;Brittany L. Lee;Brittany L. Lee;Tanja Badovinac-Crnjevic;Kathrin Strasser-Weippl

625
Citations
Sistema de salud de México

Octavio Gómez Dantés;Sergio Sesma;Victor M. Becerril;Felicia M. Knaul

576
Citations
Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico

Julio Frenk;Eduardo González-Pier;Octavio Gómez-Dantés;Miguel A Lezana

554
Citations
Women and Health: the key for sustainable development

Ana Langer;Afaf Meleis;Felicia M Knaul;Rifat Atun

539
Citations
Evidence is good for your health system: policy reform to remedy catastrophic and impoverishing health spending in Mexico.

Felicia Marie Knaul;Héctor Arreola-Ornelas;Oscar Méndez-Carniado;Chloe Bryson-Cahn

388
Citations
Improving responsiveness of health systems to non-communicable diseases

Rifat Atun;Shabbar Jaffar;Sania Nishtar;Felicia M Knaul

339
Citations
Health insurance in Mexico: achieving universal coverage through structural reform.

Felicia Marie Knaul;Julio Frenk

328
Citations
Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes, and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

David M Cutler;Felicia Knaul;Rafael Lozano;Oscar Méndez

317
Citations
A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat

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315
Citations
Youth Education and Work in Mexico

Deborah Levison;Karine S Moe;Felicia Marie Knaul

278
Citations
Overcoming social segregation in health care in Latin America

Daniel Cotlear;Octavio Gómez-Dantés;Felicia Knaul;Rifat Atun

254
Citations
A standard set of value-based patient-centered outcomes for breast cancer: The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) initiative

Wee Loon Ong;Wee Loon Ong;Maartje G. Schouwenburg;Annelotte C.M. Van Bommel;Caleb Stowell

247
Citations
Costs, affordability, and feasibility of an essential package of cancer control interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition.

Hellen Gelband;Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan;Cindy L Gauvreau;Susan Horton

235
Citations
Evidence-based health policy: three generations of reform in Mexico.

Julio Frenk;Jaime Sepúlveda;Octavio Gómez-Dantés;Felicia Knaul

223
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Julio Frenk University of California, Los Angeles

Rifat Atun Harvard University

Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco

Paul Farmer Harvard University

Margaret E. Kruk Washington University in St. Louis

Agnes Binagwaho Harvard University

Stéphane Verguet Harvard University

Susan Horton University of Waterloo

Kathleen McCartney Harvard University

Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University

External Links

Personal website of Felicia Marie Knaul Google Scholar page

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