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ProfessorSchool of Public HealthUniversity of Alberta

Stephen Hodgins

Professor

School of Public Health

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Top 2% scientist

Citations in 2023: rank 403,965 worldwide

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12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Last author on 2 recent papers. In many fields the last author leads the lab.
Supervisor on 3 trainee awards (3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

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Latest papers

Comparing apples with apples: A proposed taxonomy for “Community Health Workers” and other front-line health workers for international comparisons
PLOS Global Public Health · 2025 · first author
"Community Over Commercialization": Help Us Keep GHSP Open.
Global health, science and practice · 2025
Navigating Change, Sustaining Impact: GHSP's Mission in a Transformed Landscape.
Global health, science and practice · 2025 · first author

All 29 publications

Latest funding

Fostering Collaboration among Health Service Providers and Resource Teams to Support Adoption and Scale-Up of the Integrating Prevention into Connect Care for Health (IPiC-Health) Initiative in Alberta, Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$35,000
the role of digital interventions in gender-based violence (GBV) vulnerable settings: a case study
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$6,000
Climate-Resilient Water-Related Disease Control and Prevention in East Africa's Lake Victoria Basin
CIHR · 2021 · Supervisor
$6,000

All 3 grants and awards

29 publications.

Comparing apples with apples: A proposed taxonomy for “Community Health Workers” and other front-line health workers for international comparisons

Stephen Hodgins, Uta Lehmann, Henry B. Perry, Nicholas Leydon, Kerry Scott, Smisha Agarwal, Hannah Marcus, Rajani R. Ved, Elijah Olivas, Madeleine Ballard, Dickson Nansima Mbewe, Margaret Odera, Sherlie Petit Homme, Benard Otieno, Pasipano Wutete, Angeline Chikumba, Prossy Muyingo, John Kyakuha, Emmanuel Harcourt, Md Fozur Rahman Chowdhury, David Musoke, Thadee Niyoyitungira, Abimbola Olaniran, John Koku Awoonor‐Williams, Lívia Milena Barbosa de Deus e Méllo, Romário Correia dos Santos, Isabela Cardoso de Matos Pinto, Ram Shrestha, Salim Sadruddin, Melanie Morrow, et al. (33 authors)

PLOS Global Public Health202515 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004156 PMID: 39913354

"Community Over Commercialization": Help Us Keep GHSP Open.

Abraham S, Culbertson N, Hodgins S, Salem RM

Global health, science and practice2025

DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-24-00608 PMID: 40813244

Navigating Change, Sustaining Impact: GHSP's Mission in a Transformed Landscape.

Hodgins S, Salem RM, GHSP Editorial Team

Global health, science and practice2025First author

DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-25-00050 PMID: 41494825

Linking weather and health outcomes: Examining the potential influences of weather factors and particulate matter pollution on adverse pregnancy outcomes in the Kavre district, Nepal.

Tiwari I, Syer J, Spitzer D, Hodgins S, Tamrakar SR, Dhimal M, Yamamoto SS

Environmental research2024Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.119212 PMID: 38797462

Masking for COVID-19 and other respiratory viral infections: implications of the available evidence

Daniel T. Halperin, Shira Doron, Stephen Hodgins, Robert C. Bailey, Stefan Baral, Rajiv Bhatia, Jeanne Noble, Monica Gandhi, Norman Hearst

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology2024Open Access

DOI: 10.1017/ash.2024.67 PMID: 38721491

Low-Dose Antenatal Calcium Supplementation: An Intervention Ready for Prime Time.

Hodgins S, Mathai M

Global health, science and practice2024First author

DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-24-00074 PMID: 38360047

Strengthening primary health care through community health workers in South Asia.

Shrestha P, Afsana K, Weerasinghe MC, Perry HB, Joshi H, Rana N, Memon ZA, Khaled N, Malhotra S, Bhardwaj S, Kafle S, Inagaki Y, Schimdt A, Hodgins S, Neupane D, Rao KD

The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2024.100463 PMID: 39301268

Ten Years for GHSP: Where Are We Now? Where Will We Go?

Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rajani R. Ved, Nana A. Y. Twum-Danso, Abdulmumin Saad, Stephen Hodgins

Global Health Science and Practice2023Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-23-00102 PMID: 37116935

Another Best Practice: Leveraging User and Stakeholder Perspectives to Improve and Refine Existing Medical Products.

Peine KJ, Fabic MS, Hodgins S

Global health, science and practice2023Senior author

DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-23-00494 PMID: 38135522

Climate change impacts on the health of South Asian children and women subpopulations - A scoping review

Ishwar Tiwari, McKenzie H. Tilstra, Sandra M. Campbell, Charlene C. Nielsen, Stephen Hodgins, Álvaro Román Osornio-Vargas, Kyle Y. Whitfield, Bhim Prasad Sapkota, Shelby Suzanne Yamamoto

Heliyon202234 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10811 PMID: 36203903

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Stephen Hodgins

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Comparing apples with apples: A proposed taxonomy for “Community Health Workers” and other front-line health workers for international comparisons

"Community Over Commercialization": Help Us Keep GHSP Open.

Navigating Change, Sustaining Impact: GHSP's Mission in a Transformed Landscape.

Linking weather and health outcomes: Examining the potential influences of weather factors and particulate matter pollution on adverse pregnancy outcomes in the Kavre district, Nepal.

Masking for COVID-19 and other respiratory viral infections: implications of the available evidence

Low-Dose Antenatal Calcium Supplementation: An Intervention Ready for Prime Time.

Strengthening primary health care through community health workers in South Asia.

Ten Years for GHSP: Where Are We Now? Where Will We Go?

Another Best Practice: Leveraging User and Stakeholder Perspectives to Improve and Refine Existing Medical Products.

Climate change impacts on the health of South Asian children and women subpopulations - A scoping review

Fostering Collaboration among Health Service Providers and Resource Teams to Support Adoption and Scale-Up of the Integrating Prevention into Connect Care for Health (IPiC-Health) Initiative in Alberta, Canada

the role of digital interventions in gender-based violence (GBV) vulnerable settings: a case study

Climate-Resilient Water-Related Disease Control and Prevention in East Africa's Lake Victoria Basin

Frequent collaborators

Shelby Yamamoto

Dominic Alaazi

Stefan Baral

Devidas Menon

Gian Jhangri

Georges Azzie

Andrew Hatala

Dan Poenaru

Krista Hardy

Amanda Fowler-Woods

Denise Spitzer

Rabia Khan

Kerry Scott

Faizal Haji

Joshua Evans

Alvaro Osornio Vargas

Evan Wong

Jan Christilaw

Sophie Soklaridis

Zulfiqar Bhutta