Luchuo Engelbert Bain

Biographic Data

ID7757158
NAMELuchuo Engelbert Bain
GIVEN NAMESLuchuo Engelbert
FAMILY NAMEBain
SIGNATUREBAIN L E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Johannesburg
ORCID0000-0002-6006-2698
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The precarious state of community engagement in African clinical trials

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Sidney Sangong et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Community engagement (CE) is an ethical imperative for clinical trials, yet it is often treated as a peripheral activity rather than a core scientific requirement. In light of the Africa CDC’s mandate to achieve 60% local vaccine production by 2040, establishing robust community engagement frameworks within African clinical trials is vital. We systematically synthesized evidence on CE approaches, with a focus on funding and sustainability, utiliz…

  • A conceptual framework for measuring AI health equity

    Open AccessBasile Njei, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2026

    BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in health systems globally and has the potential to improve efficiency, diagnostic accuracy, and decision support. However, its benefits remain unevenly distributed, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Models developed using datasets from specific populations may perform poorly in other settings, reinforcing structural inequities rather than correcting them. O…

  • Visa restrictions

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Samuel Akombeng Ojong et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

  • National public health institutes in Africa

    Open AccessSidney Sangong, Luchuo Engelbert Bain et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Optimal functioning of public health systems entails a single coordinating focal point incorporating public health activities of both private and public sectors of a society. The consolidation of public health functions at the national level through the establishment of national public health institutes (NPHI) aids in effectively tackling public health challenges by incorporating data and expertise to coordinate efforts across different sectors. …

  • Menteeship as power

    Open AccessSamuel Akombeng Ojong, Ojong Samuel Akombeng et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Within global and public health practice, emerging professionals navigate cross-cultural, power-laden systems shaped by donor influence, colonial legacies, and entrenched hierarchies that stifle mentorship’s transformative potential [1]. Although often framed as a collaborative alliance for mutual growth [2], mentorship remains largely mentor-centric, concentrating power and success in established figures and fostering dependency on mentor agency…

  • Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100

    Open AccessNatalia V Bhattacharjee, Austin E Schumacher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Accurate assessments of current and future fertility-including overall trends and changing population age structures across countries and regions-are essential to help plan for the profound social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges that these changes will bring. Estimates and projections of fertility are necessary to inform policies involving resource and health-care needs, labour supply, education, gender equality,…

  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Kanyin Liane Ong et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…

  • Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAustin E Schumacher, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…

  • Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys), and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territor…

    Open AccessAlize J Ferrari, Damian Francesco Santomauro et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. The availability of disease burden estimates can promote evidence-based interventions that enable public health researchers, policy makers, and other professionals to im…

  • Identifying the conundrums of “global health” in the Global North and Global South

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Oluwafemi Atanda Adeagbo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    OPINION article Front. Public Health, 15 January 2024Sec. Public Health Policy Volume 12 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1168505

  • Increasing HIV testing and linkage to care among men in rural South Africa using conditional financial incentives and a decision support app

    Open AccessThulile Mathenjwa, Luchuo Engelbert Bain et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Men in sub-Saharan Africa are less likely to accept HIV testing and link to HIV care than women. We conducted a trial to investigate the impact of conditional financial incentives and a decision support application, called EPIC-HIV, on HIV testing and linkage to care. We report the findings of the trial process evaluation to explore whether the interventions were delivered as intended, identify mechanisms of impact and any contextual factors that…

  • Health-related quality of life among adults living with chronic non-communicable diseases in the Ho Municipality of Ghana

    Open AccessWilliam Kwame Witts, Hubert Amu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Our study revealed elevated proportions of reported problems in the "Anxiety/Depression" and "Pain/Discomfort" dimensions, indicating noteworthy concerns in these areas of HRQoL. The prevalent issues reported across HRQoL dimensions are cause for concern, posing potential exacerbation of health conditions. We advocate for collaborative efforts from the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service, and relevant stakeholders to scrutinize and implement…

  • The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019

    Open AccessJoão Vasco Santos, Alicia Padron-Monedero et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    There was a clear trend towards improvement in the overall health status of the EU but with differences between countries. EU health policymakers need to address the burden of diseases, paying specific attention to causes such as mental disorders. There are many opportunities for mutual learning among otherwise similar countries with different patterns of disease

  • Determinants of social support among people living with HIV in Nigeria–a multicenter cross-sectional study

    Open AccessOluwatobi Emmanuel Babalola, Oluwaseun Abdulganiyu Badru et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: More than 38.4 million people were living with HIV worldwide in 2021. Sub-Saharan Africa bears two-thirds of the burden, with Nigeria having nearly two million people living with HIV (PLWH). Social support from social networks such as family and friends improve the quality of life, and reduces enacted and perceived stigma, but social support for PLWH remains suboptimal in Nigeria. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of social su…

  • Community-engagement in research in humanitarian settings

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Claude Ngwayu Nkfusai et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

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  • Global Health Mentorship

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Brenda Mbouamba Yankam et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • Ethical considerations in using a smartphone‐based GPS app to understand linkages between mobility patterns and health outcomes

    Open AccessThulile Mathenjwa, Busisiwe Nkosi et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2023

    Smartphones with Global Positioning System (GPS) apps offer simple and accurate tools to collect data on human mobility. However, their associated ethical challenges remain to be assessed. We used the Emanuel framework to assess the ethical concerns of using smartphone GPS to record mobility patterns of young adults in rural South Africa for a larger study on mobility and HIV risk (Sesikhona). We conducted four focus groups (FGDs) with individual…

  • Shared correlates of maternal and childhood overweight in Cameroon

    Open AccessLambed Tatah, Luchuo Engelbert Bain et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Besides religion, which affects both mothers and childhood overweight (with the Muslim faith being protective), much of childhood overweight is not directly explained by many of the observed determinants of maternal overweight. These determinants are likely to influence childhood overweight indirectly through maternal overweight. Extending this analysis to include unobserved correlates such as physical activity, dietary, and genetic characteristi…

  • Improving Employee Mental Health

    Open AccessGerald Chia Gwain, Hubert Amu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: In the US, over 52.9 million (21%) adults lived with a mental health illness in 2020, with depression, being one of the commonest of these conditions. The World Health Organization ranks depression as the most important contributor to global disability. As frontline workers who are responsible for taking care of a myriad of patients daily, health workers are usually exposed to depressive situations which eventually result in the devel…

  • Commentary

    Open AccessClaude Ngwayu Nkfusai, Caroline Ekoko Subi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    OPINION article Front. Public Health, 04 April 2022Sec. Infectious Diseases – Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.790996

  • Covid-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”

    Open AccessHubert Amu, Robert Kokou Dowou et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has made major progress in improving access to health care over the past three decades. Despite efforts made toward achieving universal health coverage, the health systems of countries in the sub-region are inundated by a myriad of challenges that have become more virulent amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper discusses the health systems challenges and responses in SSA amidst the COVID-19 using the World Health Organiza…

  • The Padre merits of developing and implementing context-specific national action plans for health security in Central Africa

    Open AccessFrankline Sevidzem Wirsiy, Denis Ebot Ako-Arrey et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    OPINION article Front. Public Health, 24 November 2022Sec. Public Health Policy https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.907163

  • Research and publication ethics knowledge and practices in the health and life sciences

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Ikenna D Ebuenyi et al.ARTICLEEthics Medicine and Public Health2022

  • Prevalence and determinants of maternal healthcare utilisation among young women in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Richard Gyan Aboagye et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Background Maternal health constitutes high priority agenda for governments across the world. Despite efforts by various governments in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the sub-region still records very high maternal mortality cases. Meanwhile, adequate utilization of maternal healthcare (antenatal care [ANC], skilled birth attendance [SBA], and Postnatal care [PNC]) plays a vital role in achieving improved maternal health outcomes. We examined the prev…