Abram Luther Wagner

Datos Biográficos

ID6168213
NOMBREAbram Luther Wagner
NOMBRESAbram Luther
APELLIDOWagner
FIRMAWAGNER A L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0003-4691-7802
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS69
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR18
TOTAL COMO EDITOR51
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Impact of behavioral insights-informed social media campaigns on HPV vaccination in Bangladesh

    Open AccessSajiga Agha, Abram Luther WagnerARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Cervical cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in Bangladesh. In 2024, the government introduced the single-dose HPV vaccine across six divisions of Bangladesh through a school-based vaccination campaign. This study evaluates the impact of targeted and population-wide social media interventions designed to boost HPV vaccine uptake. A pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental study was conducted across six divisions of Ba…

  • Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness in preventing severe outcomes and assessing the impact of prior Sars-CoV-2 infection among hospitalized adults in Albania, July 2022-July 2023

    Open AccessJonilda Sulo, Kujtim Mersini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected Albania, with over 319959 cases and 3625 deaths by December 2023. Despite a national vaccination campaign initiated in January 2021, only 44.1% of the eligible population had completed the full vaccination regimen by late 2023. In this study, we aim to estimate the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe outcomes and in assessing association of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection among adult…

  • Compliance with the WHO-recommended infant feeding practices among HIV-positive mothers at Public Health Facilities of Mekelle, Tigray, northern Ethiopia

    Open AccessHaftom Tadesse Alemayohu, Solomon Weldemariam Gebrehiwot et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Breastfeeding is crucial for the health of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-exposed infants, survival, and development. In the absence of interventions, approximately 10–20% of children can acquire HIV infection during breastfeeding. There is a dearth of studies on this topic, and the findings are inconsistent in the study region. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended infan…

  • Beyond emotions

    Open AccessAthina Manoli, Maria Kyprianidou et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Understanding the drivers of COVID-19 vaccination intentions remains relevant as public health systems prepare for future pandemics. This study examined how emotional and social-cognitive factors influence COVID-19 vaccination intentions during two key phases of the COVID-19 pandemic: before (April-June 2020) and after (January-February 2021) vaccination rollout. A total of 586 adults completed an online survey assessing beliefs about COVID-19, s…

  • Integration of Covid-19 testing into existing ILI surveillance system in Ghana

    Open AccessErnest Kenu, Delia Akosua Bandoh et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    The similarities between the presentations of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) and COVID-19, generated calls for the integration of COVID-19 surveillance into the existing ILI surveillance system. The aim was to optimize outcomes through efficient use of resources. Ghana responded to the World Health Organization call to integrate the two systems. We share the processes undertaken to integrate SARS-CoV-2 into the ILI surveillance system in Ghana. Sta…

  • Routine childhood immunization coverage, timeliness, dropout, and missed opportunities in Northern Ghana

    Open AccessMatthew Konlan, Chrysantus Kubio et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Routine childhood immunization plays a crucial role in reducing vaccine-preventable diseases and child mortality. However, sustained progress requires not only high coverage but also timely administration, continuity across multi-dose schedules, and minimization of missed opportunities for vaccination. Persistent subnational inequities, post-COVID-19 disruptions, and gaps in service delivery threaten progress toward Immunization Agenda 2030 targe…

  • Perceived shifts in routine vaccine confidence during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kinshasa Province, DRC

    Open AccessAlix Boisson-Walsh, Patrick Ngimbi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted routine immunizations worldwide, decreasing confidence in vaccination programs. We used mixed methods to examine changes in vaccine confidence from before to during the pandemic in HBV-negative adults in Kinshasa who were exposed to HBV in the household, and eligible for HBV vaccination. We measured changes in routine HBV vaccine confidence with a previously validated Shift in Vaccine Confidence (SVC) sel…

  • Challenges and enablers in measles vaccination implementation in Ethiopia

    Open AccessGulilat Gezahegn Wodajo, Tezera Moshago Berheto et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Even though safe and free vaccines are available, measles vaccination coverage remains low in Ethiopia. There is a paucity of studies on measles vaccination implementation challenges and enablers. Hence, this study aimed to examine implementation challenges and enablers of measles vaccination, both from the perspectives of service providers and caregivers. A case study was conducted in the east Gurage zone of central Ethiopia from December 2023 t…

  • Factors associated with measles vaccine immunogenicity in children at University Teaching Hospitals, Lusaka, Zambia

    Open AccessPriscilla Nkonde Gardner, Jimmy Hangoma et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Measles poses a significant global public health challenge, particularly in low-resource settings where vaccination coverage is limited. This study examined factors associated with measles vaccine immunogenicity in children aged 2–15 years at the University Teaching Children’s Hospital and the HIV Pediatric Centre of Excellence in Lusaka, Zambia. This comparative analytical cross-sectional study was conducted from April to July 2024, enrolling 20…

  • Profiling zero-dose measles-rubella children in Zambia

    Open AccessMoses Mwale, Guissimon Phiri et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Measles & Rubella (MR) zero-dose children (unvaccinated for measles–rubella) cluster in underserved communities can sustain measles transmission. We estimated MR zero-dose prevalence after Zambia’s 2024 MR Supplementary Immunisation Activity (SIA) and identified associated risk factors and barriers. A coverage survey (two-stage stratified cluster design) across all 10 provinces, was conducted from 27 th December 2024–16 th January 2025, involved …

  • "Fear of the unknown"

    Open AccessRosalie Power, Unise Vakaloloma et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Vaccinating children with disability in low- and middle-income countries, such as Fiji, is a key priority for equity. This study aimed to understand the social and behavioral drivers of vaccine uptake among children with disability in Fiji, from the perspectives of health, disability, and community stakeholders. Five qualitative focus groups were conducted with 22 stakeholders, including healthcare workers, disability service providers and advoca…

  • Perceptions of respiratory tract infections and their implications for disease prevention practices among older adults in Mysuru, India

    Open AccessJantine Marly van Wijlick, K S Sahana et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) remain an important cause of mortality and morbidity, particularly among older adults. Annual influenza epidemics cause around 127,000 deaths in India of which 65% are among adults of 65 years and older. Because of India’s rapidly growing older adult population, RTIs are likely to become an even greater public health issue and implementing effective preventive strategies will be crucial. To inform pharmaceutica…

  • Determinants of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare personnel in a secondary-level health facility in Ghana

    Open AccessGloria Addobea Kumi, Mawuli Gohoho et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Vaccine hesitancy has been a long-standing concern globally and emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic among healthcare personnel. This study assessed the prevalence and determinants of vaccine hesitancy among healthcare personnel at the Volta Regional Hospital in Ghana. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 419 randomly selected healthcare personnel to collect sociodemographic, individual-level, community-level, and health system-level data,…

  • Pathways and processes to adopting or switching to a single-dose HPV vaccination schedule in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessSunny Roy, Megan D Wysong et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The World Health Organization (WHO) recently endorsed a single-dose human papillomavirus vaccination (HPVV) schedule, but adoption of the revised immunization schedule has not been uniform, notably in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with outsized cervical cancer burdens. We sought to characterize the sequence of events, as well as actors/institutions involved, that facilitate or impede country-level decision-making related to the HPVV sc…

  • Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare workers in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in the Covid-19 context

    Open AccessPaulina Garzaro, Natalie Fahsen et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Healthcare workers and patients are at continual risk for healthcare-associated infections due to poor hand hygiene. Programs that support appropriate hand hygiene practices may mitigate this risk, although implementation is challenged by several barriers, including limited availability of hand hygiene products at the point of care, as described by the world health organization (WHO). In this study, we used mixed methodologies, including in-depth…

  • Change in influenza vaccine uptake among adults in the United States from May 2020 to October 2024

    Open AccessHannah Melchinger, Sameer M Belgaumi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Influenza vaccines are essential against the spread of influenza virus. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends vaccination to all eligible individuals over 6 months of age; however, uptake remains suboptimal nationally. We do not fully understand the current nuances of influenza vaccine uptake, nor how it has been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. From 2020-2024, we conduc…

  • Is health, growth and development impaired in children who are Hepatitis B-exposed but uninfected

    Open AccessSheila F Lumley, Elaine Parker et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    An estimated 254 million people are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection worldwide. Many infants are born to mothers with HBV but do not themselves acquire the infection. It is unclear whether this exposure to HBV in early life - without the development of active infection - may be associated with adverse outcomes. We propose the term “HBV-exposed uninfected (HBEU)”, drawing parallels with the HIV field which recognises that chil…

  • Longitudinal association between parents’ reported vaccination program preferences and children’s actual immunization patterns in Shanghai, China

    Open AccessZhuoying Huang, Mengdi Ji et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    There were no associations between parents' reported preference categories and children's vaccination patterns. The high acceptance of combination vaccines and tolerance of co-administration gives parents choices for vaccination and impart increased confidence in including new vaccines in the vaccination program

  • Associations between extreme weather events and child undernutrition

    Kenneth Petscavage, Martin Kavao Mutua et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025Referencias: 26

    BACKGROUND: Extreme weather events, or natural disasters, present a large and increasing threat to human health, infrastructure and food security, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the burden of undernutrition is high. However, research about associations between natural disasters and undernutrition in early childhood is limited. METHODS: We combined anthropometric data of children aged 0-59 months from 51 Demographic and Health Survey…

  • Digital health literacy, vaccine information sources, and vaccine acceptance among parents in Ontario

    Open AccessSarah Ashfield, Lorie Donelle et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Parents make important vaccination decisions for their children and many variables affect parents’ decisions to accept or decline vaccines. Parents are tasked with locating, understanding, and applying information to inform health decisions often using online resources; however, the digital health literacy levels of parents are unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate parents’ digital health literacy levels, their sources for vaccine…

  • Attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccination

    Open AccessObi Peter Adigwe, Godspower Onavbavba et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Vaccine acceptance is complex and context-specific, varying across time, place and perceived behavioural nature of the community involved. A high vaccine acceptance rate is important to achieve herd immunity, however, vaccine hesitancy is a possible barrier to this. This study aimed to assess attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination and associated factors. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken to investigate the attitudes of Federal Capital Terri…

  • Parental vaccine hesitancy and acceptance of a Covid-19 vaccine

    Open AccessGrace Joachim, Shu‐Fang Shih et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    COVID-19 vaccination rates for children globally are relatively low. This study aimed to investigate parental vaccine hesitancy and parents’ acceptance of a COVID-19 for their children for their children in the United States, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia.We analyzed data from an opt-in, internet-based cross-sectional study (n = 23,940). Parents were asked about their acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine for their children, and if the…

  • Uptake and cardiac events of Covid-19 vaccinations among Canadian youth and young adults

    Open AccessKimball Zhang, Emilie Terebessy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Few studies have examined population-level data of the COVID-19 original and bivalent vaccine on its uptake and potential side effects. We used population-based health administrative data from Jan 2021–Feb 2023 to identify Ontario residents aged 12–35 years old to calculate their rates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and vaccine-related cardiac events (myocarditis and pericarditis). Multivariable Cox, logistic, and negative binomial regression analyse…

  • Moral foundations messaging to improve vaccine attitudes

    Open AccessMaike Winters, Sarah Christie et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The uptake of routine childhood vaccinations has declined globally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, due in part to increased vaccine hesitancy among parents. The Moral Foundations Theory proposes six foundations which can be targeted to increase vaccine uptake. In this study, we tested whether a post by UNICEF with a purity violation message could affect vaccine attitudes among parents in Argentina, where routine immunization coverage ha…

  • Impact of vaccination education in cardiac rehabilitation on attitudes and knowledge

    Open AccessAndrea Rivera Solera, Marta Supervia et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Clinical guidelines recommend influenza vaccination for cardiac patients, and COVID-19 vaccination is also beneficial given their increased risk. Patient education regarding vaccination was developed for cardiac rehabilitation (CR); impact on knowledge and attitudes were evaluated. A single-group pre-post design was applied at a Spanish CR program in early 2022. After baseline assessment, a nurse delivered the 40-minute group education. Knowledge…