| Understanding and applying medical anthropology PJ Brown, S Closser Routledge, 2016 | 270 | 2016 |
| Measuring the health systems impact of disease control programmes: a critical reflection on the WHO building blocks framework S Mounier-Jack, UK Griffiths, S Closser, H Burchett, B Marchal BMC public health 14, 1-8, 2014 | 154 | 2014 |
| Chasing polio in Pakistan: why the world's largest public health initiative may fail S Closser Vanderbilt University Press, 2010 | 113 | 2010 |
| A women’s development army: narratives of community health worker investment and empowerment in rural Ethiopia K Maes, S Closser, E Vorel, Y Tesfaye Studies in Comparative International Development 50 (4), 455-478, 2015 | 99 | 2015 |
| The impact of polio eradication on routine immunization and primary health care: a mixed-methods study S Closser, K Cox, TM Parris, RM Landis, J Justice, R Gopinath, K Maes, ... The Journal of infectious diseases 210 (suppl_1), S504-S513, 2014 | 85 | 2014 |
| Listening to community health workers: how ethnographic research can inform positive relationships among community health workers, health institutions, and communities K Maes, S Closser, I Kalofonos American Journal of Public Health 104 (5), e5-e9, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| Culture, status and context in community health worker pay: pitfalls and opportunities for policy research. A commentary on Glenton et al.(2010) KC Maes, BA Kohrt, S Closser Social science & medicine 71 (8), 1375-1378, 2010 | 74 | 2010 |
| Using community health workers: discipline and hierarchy in Ethiopia's women's development army K Maes, S Closser, E Vorel, Y Tesfaye Annals of Anthropological Practice 39 (1), 42-57, 2015 | 70 | 2015 |
| The global context of vaccine refusal: insights from a systematic comparative ethnography of the global polio eradication initiative S Closser, A Rosenthal, K Maes, J Justice, K Cox, PA Omidian, ... Medical anthropology quarterly 30 (3), 321-341, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| Why we must provide better support for Pakistan's female frontline health workers S Closser, R Jooma PLoS medicine 10 (10), e1001528, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Volunteers in Ethiopia’s women’s development army are more deprived and distressed than their neighbors: cross-sectional survey data from rural Ethiopia K Maes, S Closser, Y Tesfaye, Y Gilbert, R Abesha BMC public health 18, 1-11, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
| Does volunteer community health work empower women? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Women’s Development Army S Closser, H Napier, K Maes, R Abesha, H Gebremariam, G Backe, ... Health policy and planning 34 (4), 298-306, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in” M Schaaf, J Fox, SM Topp, C Warthin, LP Freedman, RS Robinson, ... International journal for equity in health 17, 1-5, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| “We can't give up now”: global health optimism and polio eradication in Pakistan S Closser Medical Anthropology 31 (5), 385-403, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| Psychosocial distress among unpaid community health workers in rural Ethiopia: Comparing leaders in Ethiopia's Women's Development Army to their peers K Maes, S Closser, Y Tesfaye, R Abesha Social Science & Medicine 230, 138-146, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
| Pakistan's lady health worker labor movement and the moral economy of heroism S Closser Annals of Anthropological Practice 39 (1), 16-28, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| A new reflexivity: Why anthropology matters in contemporary health research and practice, and how to make it matter more S Closser, EP Finley American Anthropologist 118 (2), 385-390, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| The anthropology of health systems: a history and review S Closser, E Mendenhall, P Brown, R Neill, J Justice Social science & medicine 300, 114314, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
| Per diems in polio eradication: perspectives from community health workers and officials S Closser, A Rosenthal, J Justice, K Maes, M Sultan, S Banerji, ... American journal of public health 107 (9), 1470-1476, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Polio eradication and health systems in Karachi: vaccine refusals in context S Closser, R Jooma, E Varley, N Qayyum, S Rodrigues, A Sarwar, ... Global Health Communication 1 (1), 32-40, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
Kenneth MaesAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Oregon State UniversityVerified email at oregonstate.edu
