2025
Hübl L, Nnyombi A, Apoko P, Okello D, Walakira E, Kutalek R. Community perceptions of yellow fever and its treatment practices in regions with reported outbreaks in Uganda: A qualitative study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 19(7): e0013251. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013251
Kutalek R, Grohma P, Maukner AC, Wojczewski S, Palumbo L, Salvi C. The role of RCCE-IM in the mpox response: a qualitative reflection process with experts and civil society in three European countries. Journal of Infection and Public Health 18, 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2025.102787
Geise M, Osborne J, Grohma P, Giles-Vernick T, Lana B, Diagne PM, Öcek Z, Cebron UL, Vodopivec N, Brunec A, Baldacchino JP, Said M, Orsini G, Sultana V, Vaccaro C, Volkmann AM, Kutalek R, Dückers M. Using qualitative research in community engagement to capture and mitigate machanisms in the face of infectious diseases; Insight from a research-based program in five European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251346407
Zuckerhut B, Naderer B, Eberl JM, Tolochko P, Lercher L, Jirovsky-Platter E, Winzer E, Hromi-Fiedler A, Pérez-Escamilla R, Wakolbinger M. Content Analysis of Austrian Print and Online Newspaper Coverage of Breastfeeding Over Two Decades. Matern Child Nutr.;21(2):e13795. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13795
2024
Jirovsky-Platter E, Wakolbinger M, Kühn T, Hoffmann K, Rieder A, Haider S. Experiences of Vegans with General Practitioners in the Austrian Health Care System: A Qualitative Study. Nutrients;16(3):392. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16030392
Grohma P, Wojczewski S, Juen B, Riedel P-L, Seufert F, Streifeneder V, Reichel S, Pichler S, Kulcar V, Nestlinger S, Stickler M, Schober C, Scheller H, Kutalek R. Defining vulnerabilities and enabling community engagement in epidemic preparedness: the CAVE-model from Austria. European Journal of Public Health 00, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae173
Desvars-Larrive A, Burger P, Khol J.L. Posautz A, Schernhammer E, Kutalek R. et al. Launching Austria’s One Health network: paving the way for transdisciplinary collaborations. One Health Outlook 6, 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-024-00116-6
Gobat N, Carter S, Kutalek R, Rashid SF, Lees S, Anoko JN 2024. Social science evidence for outbreak and pandemic response: rapid research and analytics for public health emergencies. In: E. S. Higgs and R. A. Sorenson (eds.), Principles and Practice of Emergency Research Response, p. 693-715. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48408-7_39
Huebl L, Nnyombi A, Kihumuro A, Lukwago D, Walakira E, Kutalek R. Perceptions of yellow fever emergency mass vaccinations among vulnerable groups in Uganda: A qualitative study. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012173
Wojczewski S, Leitner KM, Hoffmann K, Kutalek R, Jirovsky-Platter E. 2024. Vaccine hesitancy among physicians: a qualitative study with general practitioners and pediatricians in Austria and Germany. BMJ Open;14:e077411. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077411
2023
Jeleff M, Haddad C, Kutalek R. Between superimposition and local initiatives: making sense of “implementation gaps” as a governance problem of antimicrobial resistance. Social Science and Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100332
Osborne J, Goncharova M, Germanovich M, Koshalko O, Kutalek R, Dückers M, Rodyna R. Locating vaccine uptake and public participation in Ukraine: An exploratory qualitative study on attitudes and barriers to early childhood vaccination. Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2267643
Wojczewski S, Grohma P, Kutalek R. Risk communication and community engagement with vulnerable groups: Perceptions of social-services CSOs during Covid-19. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 94, 103817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103817
Jirovsky-Platter E, Grohma P, Naher N, Rodyna, R, Nabirye C, Dückers M, Ahmed SM, Osborne J, Kaawa-Mafigiri D, Giles-Vernick T, Kutalek R. Community engagement to tackle infectious threats: A viewpoint based on a social science mapping process in Bangladesh, Uganda, and Ukraine. Journal of Global Health. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.03025
Kutalek R, Syed AM, Kaawa-Mafigiri D, Giles-Vernick T. Community engagement: Learning from low-income countries. The Lancet, 401, 10390, May 27, 1767f. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00568-8
Jensen SA, Traugott M, Ramazanova D, Haslacher H, Mucher P, Perkmann T, Jeleff M, Kutalek R, Wenisch C, Jordakieva G, Crevenna R. SARS-CoV-2 Infections in “less visible” hospital staff: The roles and safety of environmental services and allied health professionals. Journal of Infection and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.05.041
Praschinger A, Koblizek R, Kutalek R, Masel EK. Global health – spread it with comics! GMS J Med Educ.;40(3):Doc28. https://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma001610
Beichler H, Kutalek R, Dorner TE. People living with HIV and AIDS: Experiences towards antiretroviral therapy, paradigm changes, coping, stigma and discrimination – A grounded theory study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, 4, 3000. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043000.
2022
Adamidis F, Kum L, Kitta A, Unseld M, Praschinger A, Koblizek R, Anvari-Pirsch A, Kutalek R, Melichar P, Zeilinger EI, Masel EK. The potential of medical comics to teach palliative care skills: a cross-sectional study of 668 medical students. Annals of Palliative Medicine. https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/apm-22-637
Kutalek R, Lahlal M, Kaawa-Mafigiri D, Ryan-Coker M, Böll S, Parisi S, Yeong CP, Pritsch M. Putting global health high on the agenda of medical schools. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10354-022-00974-7
Nachtnebel S, Kutalek R. Community participation and community engagement in the response to the Zika-Virus outbreak in Latin America 2015-2019 – A scoping review. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.27.22276908
Jeleff M, Lehner L, Giles-Vernick T, Dückers M, Napier D, Jirovsky-Platter E, Kutalek R. Vulnerability and One Health assessment approaches for infectious threats from a social science perspective: A systematic scoping review. The Lancet Planetary Health 6, 8: e682-693. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00097-3
Jeleff M, Traugott M, Jirovsky-Platter E, Jordakieva G, Kutalek R. Occupational challenges of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. A qualitative study. BMJ Open 12:e054516. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054516
2021
Ecker F, Kutalek R. “I’m not an anti-vaxxer!” Vaccine hesitancy among physicians: A qualitative study. European Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab174
Lehner L, Gribi J, Hoffmann K, Paul K, Kutalek R. Beyond the “information deficit model” - Understanding vaccine-hesitant attitudes of midwives in Austria: A Qualitative Study. BMC Public Health 21, 1671. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11710-y
Osborne J, Paget J, Giles-Vernick T, Kutalek R, Napier D, Baliatsas C, Dückers M. Community engagement and vulnerability in infectious diseases: A systematic review and qualitative analysis of literature. Social Science and Medicine 284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114246
Arnberger A, Allex B, Eder R, Wanka A, Kolland F, Wiesböck L, Mayrhuber E A-S, Kutalek R, Wallner P, Hutter H-P. Changes in recreation use in response to urban heat differ between migrant and non-migrant green space users in Vienna, Austria. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 63, 127193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127193
Osborne J, Paget J, Napier D, Giles-Vernick T, Kutalek R, Rodyna R, Ahmed SM, Dückers M. Addressing vulnerabilities in communities facing infectious disease threats: A need for social science-driven assessments. Journal of Global Health 11: 03003. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.11.03003
Jirovsky-Platter E, and Rieder A. Pandemien und Gender – Die ungleichen Auswirkungen einer Pandemie auf die Geschlechtergerechtigkeit. In Pandemien und Ethik: Entwicklung – Probleme – Lösungen. Reis A, Schmidhuber M, and Frewer A, eds. Pp. 291-303. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Jirovsky-Platter, E. "Weibliche Genitalverstümmelung (FGM) – Ein Überblick Für Hausärzt*Innen Aus Medizinanthropologischer Perspektive. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – an Overview for Family Physicians from a Medical Anthropological Perspective." Zeitschrift für Allgemeinmedizin 97, no. 1. doi.org/10.3238/zfa.2021.0010–0017.
2020
Kutalek R, Baingana F, Sevalie S, Broutet N, Thorson A: "Perceptions on the collection of body fluids for research on persistence of Ebola virus." PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008327
Huebl L, Nnyombi A, Walakira E, Kutalek R. "Yellow fever vaccine safety perception of pregnant women in emergency response mass vaccination in Uganda." American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.19-0439
2019
Jeleff, M., Lehner, L., Giles-Vernick, T., Dückers, M. L. A., Napier, A. D., Jirovsky, E., & Kutalek, R. (2019). Vulnerability assessment tools for infectious threats and antimicrobial resistance: a scoping review protocol. BMJ open, 9(11), e031944. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031944
Traugott MT, Singh M, Raj DK, Kutalek R. "Geophagy in India. A qualitative exploratory study on motivation and perception of female consumers." Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Health 113(3): 123-130, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try123
Wanka A, Wiesböck L, Allex B, Mayrhuber ES, Arnberger A, Eder R, Kutalek R, Wallner P, Hutter HP, Kolland F. "Everday discrimination in the neighbourhood: what a “doing” perspective on age and ethnicity can offer." Ageing and Society 39(9): 2133-2158, doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18000466
Hoffmann, K; George, A; Jirovsky, E; Dorner, T. Re-examining access points to the different levels of health care: a cross-sectional series in Austria, European Journal of Public Health, ckz050, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz050.
2018
Kutalek R. "Medizinanthropologie in der medizinischen Aus- und Weiterbildung." Curare – Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie 41(3+4): 123-130.
Mayrhuber E, Dückers M, Wallner P, Arnberger A, Allex B, Wiesböck L, Wanka A, Kolland F, Eder R, Hutter HP, Kutalek R. "Vulnerability to heatwaves and implications for public health interventions – a scoping review." Environmental Research 166(42-54), doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.05.021
Kutalek R & A Prinz. "Kulturelle Syndrome und kulturell gebundene Leidenskonzepte." In: Machleidt W, Kluge U, Sieberer M, & Heinz A (eds.), Praxis der interkulturellen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Migration und psychische Gesundheit. Elsevier, München: 451-462.
Kutalek R. "Medizinanthropologie und globale Gesundheit." In: Kunze U, & Wittmann K (eds.), Der Mensch in Umwelt, Familie und Gesellschaft. Facultas Verlag, Wien: 292-299.
Kutalek R, Jirovsky E, Grabovac I. "From macro- to micro-factors in health: Social science approaches in research on sexually transmitted infections." PLoS Medicine 15(1): e1002490, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002490
Jirovsky, E. “If you can afford it, you can do it”- Deliberations of people in Burkina Faso on clitoral reconstruction after female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). In: Griffin, Gabriele; Jordal, Malin (eds.): Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries: Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World. Routledge: London/ New York: pp. 140-55.
Mechili EA, Angelaki A, Petelos E, Sifaki-Pistolla D, Chatzea VE, Dowrick C, Hoffmann K, Jirovsky E et al. Compassionate care provision: an immense need during the refugee crisis: Lessons learned from a European capacity-building project. Journal of Compassionate Health Care; 5:2. DOI: 10.1186/s40639-018-0045-7.
Lionis, C.; Petelos, E.; Mechili, E. A.; Sifaki-Pistolla, D.; Chatzea, V. E.; Angelaki, A.; Rurik, I. ; Pavlic, D. R.; Dowrick, C.; Duckers, M.; Ajdukovic, D.; Bakic, H.; Jirovsky, E.; Mayrhuber, E. S.; van den Muijsenbergh, M.; Hoffmann, K. 2018. Assessing refugee healthcare needs in Europe and implementing educational interventions in primary care: a focus on methods. BMC Int Health Hum Rights 18:1.
2017
Mayrhuber S, Niederkrotenthaler T, Kutalek R. "'We are Survivors and not a Virus': Content Analysis of Media Reporting on Ebola Survivors in Liberia." PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(8): e0005845, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005845
Gundacker C, Kutalek R, Glaunach R, Deweis C, Hengstschläger M, Prinz A. "Geophagy during pregnancy: Is there a health risk for infants?" Environmental Research 156: 145-147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.03.028
Schaffler, Y. "“Wild” Spirit Possession in the Dominican Republic: From Expression of Distress to Cultural Expertise." In: Felbeck C, & Klump A (eds.), Dominicanidad/Dominicanity. Perspectivas de un concepto (trans-)nacional/Perspectives on a (trans-)national concept. : Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main: 221-237.
Jirovsky, E. FGM/C as a health concern - lay people’s views on the bodily practice in Burkina Faso: an ethnographic study. Reproductive Health 14((Suppl 2):4).
van Loenen T, van den Muijsenbergh M, Hofmeester M, Dowrick C, van Ginneken N, Mechili EA, Angelaki A, Ajdukovic D, Bakic H, Pavlic DR, Zelko E, Hoffmann K, Jirovsky E, Mayrhuber ES et al. Primary care for refugees and newly arrived migrants in Europe; a qualitative study on health needs, barriers and wishes. Eur J Public Health. 2017 Dec 12. DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckx210
2016
Cohn S & Kutalek R. "Historical Parallels, Ebola Virus Disease and Cholera: Understanding Community Distrust and Social Violence with Epidemics." PLOS Currents Outbreaks 26(1), 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.aa1f2b60e8d43939b43fbd93e1a63a94
Holt D, Bouder F, Elemuwa C, Gaedicke G, Khamesipour A, Kisler B, Kochhar S, Kutalek R, Maurer W, Obermeier P, Seeber L, Trusko B, Gould S, Rath B. "The importance of the patient voice in vaccination and vaccine safety – are we listening?" Clinical Microbiology and Infection, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2016.09.027
Huebl L, Leick S, Guettl L, Akello G, Kutalek R. "Geophagy in Northern Uganda: Perspectives from consumers and clinicians." American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 15, doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0579
Kutalek R. "Geophagie – Das Essen von Lehmerde." medi.um 2-3/2016: 14-16.
Kutalek R & de Jong E. "Anthropology in Global Public Health Emergencies: The Case of Ebola Response." The European Journal of Public Health 26(s1): ckw174.095.
Nkomazana O, Wojczewski S, Phaladze N, Kutalek R, Mash B. "How to create more supportive supervision for primary healthcare: lessons from Ngamiland district of Botswana: Co-operative inquiry group." Global Health Action 9 :31263, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.31263
Sabernig K. "Anatomical structures and the structure of anatomy in Tibetan medicine. The fourth chapter of the explanatory tantra in its commentaries." Curare 39(1): 22-32.
Sabernig K. " Editorial." Curare 39(1): 4-5.
Sabernig K (ed.). "The Human Body in Asian Texts and Images." Curare 39.
Schaffler Y, Cardena E, Reijman S, Haluza D. "Traumatic experience and somatoform dissociation among spirit possession practitioners in the Dominican Republic." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 40(1): 74-99. doi: 10.1007/s11013-015-9472-5
Wiesböck L, Wanka A, Mayrhuber E A-S, Allex B, Kolland F, Hutter HP, Wallner P, Arnberger A, Eder R, Kutalek R: "Heat vulnerability, poverty and health inequalities in urban migrant communities: A pilot study from Vienna." In: Filho WL, Azeiteiro U, Alves F (eds.), Climate Change and Health: Improving Resilience and Reducing Risks. Springer, London/New York: 389-401, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24660-4_22
2015
Elemuwa Ch, Kutalek R, Ali M, Mworozi E, Kochhar S, Rath B. "Global lessons from Nigeria’s ebolavirus control strategy." Expert Reviews in Vaccines 1-4, doi: 10.1586/14760584.2015.1064313.
Hoffman K, van Bijnen E, George A, Kutalek R, Jirovsky E, Wojczewski S, Maier M. "Associations between the prevalence of influenza vaccination and patient’s knowledge about antibiotics: A cross-sectional study in the framework of the APRES-project in Austria." BMC Public Health 15(981), doi:10.1186/s12889-015-2297-x, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/15/981
Jirovsky E, Hoffmann K, Maier M, Kutalek R. ""Why should I have come here?" - a qualitative investigation of migration reasons and experiences of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa in Austria." BMC Health Services Research 03/2015, doi: 10.1186/s12913-015-0737-z
Kutalek R, Wang S, Falla M, Wesseh S, Gilbert J. "Ebola interventions: Listen to communities." Lancet Global Health 22/Jan, dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(15)70010-0
Kutalek R, Münzenmeier V, Prinz A. "What about Ethnomedizin? Reflections on the early days of medical anthropologies in German-speaking countries." In: Hsu E, & Potter C (eds.), Medical Anthropology in Europe. Routledge, London: 41-49.
Wojczewski S, Pentz St, Blacklock C, Hoffmann K, Peersman W, Nkomazana o, Kutalek R. "African female physicians and nurses in the global care chain - Qualitative explorations from five destination countries." PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129464, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129464
Wojczewski S, Poppe A, Hoffmann K, Peersman W, Nkomazana O, Pentz St, Kutalek R. "Diaspora engagement of African migrant health workers – examples from five destination countries." Global Health Action 8(29210), http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.29210
Wojczewski S, Willcox M, Mubangizi V, Hoffmann K, Maling S, Niederkrotenthaler T, Natukunda S, Maier M, Mant D, Kutalek R. "Portrayal of the human resource crisis and accountability in healthcare: Content analysis of Ugandan newspapers." PLoS ONE 10(4): e0121766, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121766