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Social Sciences and Humanities
Switzerland
2022

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
12213
World Ranking
1790
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Ilona Kickbusch is affiliated with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. Their research mainly focuses on health professions, with a strong emphasis on global public health policies and epidemiology. Their work spans several subfields, including general health professions, organizational behavior and human resource management, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, and infectious diseases.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as global public health policies and epidemiology, mobile health and mHealth applications, health literacy and information accessibility, global security and public health, global health and surgery, health and conflict studies, and global health care issues.

Notable recent papers include:

  • The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world (2021, The Lancet)
  • SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties (2021, The Lancet)
  • Covid-19: how a virus is turning the world upside down (2020, BMJ)
  • Response to the emerging novel coronavirus outbreak (2020, BMJ)
  • Global health diplomacy-reconstructing power and governance (2022, The Lancet)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Louise Holly
  • Barbara Prainsack
  • Christian Franz
  • Anurag Agrawal
  • Njide Ndili

The scientist has published primarily in the following venues:

  • BMJ (10 publications)
  • The Lancet (9 publications)
  • Health Promotion International (5 publications)
  • Global Policy (4 publications)
  • Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Health literacy: addressing the health and education divide

    Ilona S. Kickbusch

  • The commercial determinants of health

    Ilona Kickbusch;Luke Allen;Christian Franz

  • Health literacy : the solid facts

    Ilona Kickbusch;Jürgen M. Pelikan;Franklin Apfel Agis D. Tsouros

  • The Contribution of the World Health Organization to a New Public Health and Health Promotion

    Ilona Kickbusch

  • Advancing health literacy: a global challenge for the 21st century

    Don Nutbeam;Ilona Kickbusch

  • The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world

    Ilona Kickbusch;Dario Piselli;Anurag Agrawal;Anurag Agrawal;Ran Balicer

  • Global health diplomacy: the need for new perspectives, strategic approaches and skills in global health

    Ilona Kickbusch;Gaudenz Silberschmidt;Paulo Buss

  • Health literacy: A new concept for general practice?

    Robert John Adams;Nigel P. Stocks;David H. Wilson;Catherine L. Hill

  • Governance for health in the 21st century

    Ilona Kickbusch;David Eric Gleicher

  • The political determinants of health—10 years on

    Ilona Kickbusch

  • How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines.

    Amir Attaran;Donna Barry;Shamnad Basheer;Roger Bate

  • SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties.

    Miquel Oliu-Barton;Bary S R Pradelski;Bary S R Pradelski;Philippe Aghion;Patrick Artus

  • Evaluation of Health in All Policies: concept, theory and application

    Fran Baum;Angela Lawless;Toni Delany;Colin Macdougall

  • The development of international health policies--accountability intact?

    Ilona Kickbusch

  • Covid-19: how a virus is turning the world upside down.

    Ilona Kickbusch;Gabriel M Leung;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Malebona Precious Matsoso

  • Health and Modernity: The Role of Theory in Health Promotion

    David McQueen;Ilona Kickbusch;Louise Potvin

  • Self-care in health promotion

    Ilona Kickbusch

  • Response to the emerging novel coronavirus outbreak.

    Ilona Kickbusch;Gabriel Leung

  • IUHPE Position statement on health literacy: a practical vision for a health literate world

    Janine Bröder;Peter Chang;Ilona Kickbusch;Diane Levin-Zamir

  • Time to deliver: report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs

    Sania Nishtar;Sauli Niinistö;Maithripala Sirisena;Tabaré Vázquez

  • Approaches to an ecological base for public health

    Ilona Kickbusch

Frequent Co-Authors

Don Nutbeam
Don Nutbeam University of Sydney
Peter J. Hotez
Peter J. Hotez Baylor College of Medicine
Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar University of Edinburgh
Don de Savigny
Don de Savigny Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Elizabeth Harris
Elizabeth Harris University of New South Wales
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Louise Potvin
Louise Potvin University of Montreal
Fran Baum
Fran Baum University of Adelaide
Paul N. Newton
Paul N. Newton University of Oxford
Charles N. Rotimi
Charles N. Rotimi National Institutes of Health

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