Publications

Journal Articles

Strong, J., N. K. Quartey, O. Tackie and N. K. R. Owoo (2025). "‘Gay issues have come and it is worrying us’: Interrogating vulnerability, masculinities, and reproduction through queerphobic narratives among men in Accra, Ghana." Journal of Critical Public Health 2(3): 43-57

Strong, J., A. M. Moore, E. Coast, O. Owolabi and T. Fetters (2025). "Capturing pregnancy recognition trajectories: a critical reflection of new quantitative measures tested in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Zambia." Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 33(1): 2531684.

Nandagiri, R., E. Coast, J. Strong, K. Footman, L. Berro Pizzarossa, C. Wenham and K. Jelinska (2025). "Precarity and pills in a pandemic: online abortion care-seeking in Poland during COVID-19." SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 8: 100663.

Strong, J., E. Coast, J. Corker and M. Weinberger (2025). "Capturing Emergency Contraceptive Pill Use: Critical Reflections on Measurement and Reporting." Studies in Family Planning 56(3): 470-481.

Mulhern, O., R. Hussain, J. Strong, A. M. Moore, M. Tignor, K. Afsana, P. P. Mondal and A. Hossain (2025). "Measuring Unmet Need for Contraception Using a Person-Centered Algorithm: An Application With a Community-Based Sample of Married Rohingya Women in Bangladesh." Studies in Family Planning 56(3): 437-453.

Strong, J. (2025). "Hegemonic masculinities, reproductive justice, and data: the missing link for gender transformational change in sexual and reproductive health and rights." Journal of Gender Studies: 1-20.

Strong, J., E. Coast and M. Chiweshe (2025). "Locating Men in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice: Past, Present, Futures." Studies in Family Planning 56(2): 332-344.

Lattof, S. R., J. Strong, B. Maliqi and N. Yaqub (2025). "Impact of Private Sector Delivery of Quality Care on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review." Ann Glob Health 91(1): 35.

Strong, J., R. Barrett, Z. Surtee, M. O'Hare, F. Conway and A. Portela (2025). "Interventions to reduce the effects of air pollution and of extreme heat on maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes: a mapping of the literature." J Glob Health 15: 04035.

Coast, E., T. Fetters, M. T. Chiweshe, B. Vwalika, R. Griffin, L. Tembo, J. Strong, C. Chishiba, M. Birara, G. Chiudzu, A. Getachew, S. M. Welelaw, G. Kangaude and N. Madise (2025). "Adolescent abortion care trajectories and safety in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Zambia: A comparative mixed methods study." PLOS Global Public Health 5(5): e0004469.

Jung, A.-S., N. Yaqub, S. R. Lattof, J. Strong and B. Maliqi (2025). "Private sector quality interventions to improve maternal and newborn health in low-and middle-income countries: a scoping review." Frontiers in Public Health 13: 1332612.

Morris, G., B. Maliqi, S. R. Lattof, J. Strong and N. Yaqub (2024). "Private sector quality of care for maternal, new-born, and child health in low-and-middle-income countries: a secondary review." Frontiers in Global Women's Health Volume 5 - 2024.

Strong, J. (2024). "“Even when you write with a pencil there is an eraser to clean it”: Examining men's conceptualisations of and involvement in emergency contraceptive use in Accra, Ghana." Social Science & Medicine 344: 116635.

Rahman, A., J. Strong, P. P. Mondal, A. Maynard, T. Haque, A. M. Moore and K. Afsana (2024). "Perceptions and attitudes of Rohingya community stakeholders to pregnancy termination services: a qualitative study in camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh." Conflict and Health18(1): 19.

Strong, J., E. Coast, T. Fetters, M. Chiweshe, A. Getachew, R. Griffin and L. Tembo (2023). "“I was waiting for my period”: understanding pregnancy recognition among adolescents seeking abortions in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Zambia." Contraception: 110006.

Strong, J., E. Coast, E. Freeman, A. M. Moore, A. H. Norris, O. Owolabi and C. H. Rocca (2023). "Pregnancy recognition trajectories: a needed framework." Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters31(1): 2167552.

VandeVusse, A. J., J. Mueller, M. Kirstein, J. Strong and L. D. Lindberg (2023). "“Technically an abortion”: Understanding perceptions and definitions of abortion in the United States." Social Science & Medicine335: 116216.

Strong, J., N. L. S. Lamptey, N. K. Quartey and N. K. R. Owoo (2022). "“If I Am Ready”: Exploring the relationships between masculinities, pregnancy, and abortion among men in James Town, Ghana." Social Science & Medicine314: 115454.

Strong, J. (2022). "Men’s involvement in women’s abortion-related care: a scoping review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries." Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters30(1): 2040774.

Zielke, J., J. Strong, F. Ahmed, C. Miani, Y. Namer, S. Storey and O. Razum (2022). "Towards gender-transformative SRHR: a statement in reply to EUPHA and offer of a working definition." European Journal of Public Health: ckac102.

Strong, J., S. R. Lattof, B. Maliqi and N. Yaqub (2021). "Experiences of private sector quality care amongst mothers, newborns, and children in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review." BMC Health Services Research21(1): 1311.

Strong, J. (2021). "Exploring the roles of men and masculinities in abortion and emergency contraception pathways, Ghana: a mobile phone-based mixed-methods study protocol." BMJ Open11(2): e042649.

Nandagiri, R., E. Coast and J. Strong (2020). "COVID-19 and Abortion: Making Structural Violence Visible." International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health46(Supplement 1): 83-89.

Coast, E., S. R. Lattof and J. Strong (2019). "Puberty and menstruation knowledge among young adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review." Int J Public Health64(2): 293-304.

Book Chapters

Strong, J., E. Coast and R. Nandagiri (2023). Abortion, Stigma, and Intersectionality. Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health. P. Liamputtong. Cham, Springer International Publishing: 1-22.

Strong, J., R. Nandagiri, S. Randall and E. Coast (2023). Qualitative research in demography: marginal and marginalised. How to Conduct Qualitative Research in Social Science. P. Liamputtong. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar: 147-163.