Miedema, S., Simuzingili, M., Annor, F.B., Stewart, K., Perez, A.I., Haardorfer, R., Avery, L., & Massetti, G.M. (in press). Cross-sectional analysis of contextual factors associated with sexual violence against children and youth in low- and middle-income countries. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Besera, G., Annor, F.B., Swedo, E.A., Chiang, L.F., Charania, S.N., Mndzebele, P., Li, M.J., Hegle, J., Laterra, A., Cree, R.A., Mkhonta, T., Mills, K., Felton, S., & Massetti, G.M. (2025). Functional disability, violence, HIV status, and risk factors for HIV among adolescent girls and young women — Eswatini, 2022. MMWR, 74, 152-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7409a2

Hertzog, L., Cluver, L., Banougnin, B., Saminathen, M., Little, M., Mchenga, M., Yates, R., Rudgard, W., Chiang, L., Annor, F., Picchetti, V., Massetti, G., Foraci, M., Sanaha, R., & Toska, E. (2024). Social protection as a strategy for HIV prevention, education promotion and child marriage reduction among adolescents: A cross-sectional population-based study in Lesotho. BMC Population Health.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18903-1

Lee, N., Bachman, G., Howard, A., Hegle, J., Gilbert, L., Self-Brown, S.R., Perry, E., & Massetti, G.M. (2024). Orphanhood vulnerabilities for violence and HIV by education, sex, and orphan type among 18-24-year-old youth: findings from the 2018 Lesotho Violence Against Children and Youth Survey. Psychology, Health, & Medicine, 29, 655-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2023.2235280

Massetti, G.M., Annor, F.B., Stamatakis, C., Hegle, J. (2024). Prevalence of functional disability and experiences of violence and HIV among adolescents with disabilities, Lesotho VACS 2018.  Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 14, 223-233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44197-023-00184-3

Perry Mohling, E.W., Recinos, M., Kwiringira, J., Phung, E., Olwit, C., Swahn, M., Self-Brown, S., & Massetti, G.M. (2024). Adverse childhood experiences, mental distress, self-harm and suicidality, and cumulative HIV risk by sex in Lesotho. Child Abuse & Neglect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106701

Howard, A.L., Chiang, L., Picchetti, V., Zhu, L., Hegle, J., Patel, P., Saul, J., Wasula, L., Nantume, S., Coomer, R., Kamuingona, R., Oluoch, R.P., Mharadze, T., Duffy, M., Kambona, C.A., Ramphalla, P., Fathim, K.M., & Massetti, G.M. (2023). Population estimates of HIV risk factors to inform HIV prevention programming for adolescent girls and young women. AIDS Education and Prevention, 35, 20-38. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2023.35.suppA.20

Lee, N., Pigott, T.D., Watson A., Reuben, K., O’Hara, K., Massetti, G.M., Fang, X., & Self-Brown, S. (2023). Childhood polyvictimization and associated health outcomes: A systematic scoping review. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211073847

Picchetti, V., Stamatakis, C., Annor, F.B., Massetti, G.M., & Hegle, J. (2022). Association between lifetime sexual violence victimization and selected health conditions and risk behaviors among 13–24-year-olds in Lesotho: Results from the Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS), 2018. Child Abuse & Neglect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105916

Stamatakis, C., Annor, F., Massetti, G., Hegle, J., Low, A., Ndagije, F., & Tlhomola, M. (2022). Patterns of gendered risk factors and associations with intimate partner violence and low educational attainment among adolescent girls and young women in Lesotho: A latent class analysis. Child Abuse and Neglect, 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105927

Velloza, J., Davies, L., Ensminger, A., Theofelus, F., Andjamba, H., Kamuingona, R., Massetti, G.M., Coomer, R., Forster, N., O’Malley, G. (2022). Cycles of violence among young women in Namibia: Exploring the links between childhood violence and adult intimate partner violence from the Violence Against Children and Youth Survey. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211073107

Velloza, J., Davies, L., Ensminger, A., Thofelus, F.M., Andjamba, H., Kamuingona, R., Nakuta, J., Uiras, W., Massetti, G.M., Coomer, R., Wolkon, A., Forster, N., O’Malley, G. (2022). Disclosure and help-seeking behaviors related to childhood sexual and physical violence: Results from the Namibia Violence Against Children and Youth Survey. Child Abuse and Neglect, 128.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105624

Chiang, L., Howard, A., Stoebenau, K., Massetti, G.M., Apondi, R., Hegle, J., & Stamatakis, C. (2021). Sexual risk behaviors, mental health outcomes and attitudes supportive of wife-beating associated with childhood transactional sex among adolescent girls and young women: Findings from the Uganda Violence Against Children Survey. PLoS ONE, 16, e0249064. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249064

Currie, D., Apondi, R., West, C., Patel, P., Hegle, J., Howard, A., Massetti, G.M., Benevides deBarros, R., Durant, T., Kiyingi, H., & Chiang, L. (2021). A comparison of two population-based household surveys in Uganda for collecting data on violence against children and youth. PLoS ONE, 16, e0260986.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260986

Fang, X., Ren, J., Kang. J., Ligiero, D., Fry, D.*, Annor, F.B., Burrows, S., Butchart, R.A., Diaz, K.J., Fang, Z., Fernandez, B., Finkelhor, D., Ginestra, C., Gong, X., Howard, A., Jin, W., Krzeczkowska, A., Kurdi, Z., Liu, J., Liu, W., Lozano, M.P.M., Lu, M., Lu, Y., Massetti, G.M., Mercy, J., Olie, L., Qin, C., Roa, A.H., Savadova, S., Zhu, H., Zhu, Y., Vermeulen, I. (2026). A systematic review of the global and regional estimates of the prevalence of sexual violence against children. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-02436-1  

Villaveces, A., Chen, Y., Tucker, S., Blenkinsop, A., Cluver, L., Sherr, L., Losby, J., Graves, L., Noonan, R., Annor, F., Kojey-Merle, V., Wang, D., Massetti, G.M., Liburd, L., Nelson, C.A., Unwin, H.J.T., Flaxman, S., Hillis, S., & Ratmann, O. (2025). Orphanhood and caregiver death among children in the United States by all-cause mortality 2000-2021. Nature Medicine, 31, 672-683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03343-6

Hillis, S.D., Blenkinsop, A., Villaveces, A., Annor, F.B., Liburd, L., Massetti, G.M., Demissie, Z., Mercy, J.M., Nelson, C.A., Cluver, L., Flaxman, S., Sherr, L., Donnelly, C.A., Ratmann, O., Unwin, H.J.T. (2021). COVID-19-associated Orphanhood and Caregiver Death in the United States. Pediatrics, 148, 22021053760. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-053760

Miedema, S., Massetti, G.M., Annor, F., Chiang, L., Lundgren, R., & Raj, A. (2026). Psychometric validation of a novel community norms measure among youth, Eswatini Violence Against Children and Youth Survey, 2022. PLoS One, 21, e0345048. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0345048

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Little, M.T., Butchart, A., Massetti, G.M., Hermosilla, S., Wittesaele, C., Pearson, I., Jochim, J., Swingler, S., Schupp, C., Bohret, I., Neelakantan, L., Backhaus, S., Martin, M., Mase, M., Page, S., Janowski, R., Blackwell, A., Bernstein, K.T., Rakotomalala, S., & Cluver, L. (2025). Interventions to prevent, reduce, and respond to violence against children and adolescents: A systematic review of systematic reviews to update the INSPIRE framework. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

Annor, F.B., Chiang, L.F., Oluoch, P., Mang’oli, V., Mogaka, M., Mwangi, M., Ngunjiri, A., Onyango, F., Achia, T., Patel, P., Massetti, G.M., Dahlberg, L.D., Simon, T.R., Mercy, J.A. (2022). Changes in prevalence of violence and risk factors for violence and HIV among children and young people in Kenya: a comparison of the 2010 and 2019 Kenya Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys. Lancet Global Health, 10, e124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00457-5

Swedo, E.A., Anderson, K.N., Okwori, G., DePadilla, L., Clayton, H.B., Villaveces, A., Ray, C.M., Niolon, P.H., Massetti, G.M. (2025). Adolescents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences, Poor Mental Health, and Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Adolescent Health, 76, 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.07.030

Amene, E., Annor, F., Gilbert, L., McOwen, J., Agusto, A., Manuel, P., Nobah, M.T.V.N., & Massetti, G.M. (2024). Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in sub-Saharan Africa: A multicountry analysis of the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS). Child Abuse & Neglect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106353

Annor, F.B., Amene, E.A., Zhu, L., Stamatakis, C., Picchetti, V., Matthews, S., Miedema, S.S., Brown, C., Thorsen, V.C., Manuel, P., Gilbert, L.K., Kambona, C., Coomer, R., Trika, J., Kamuingona, R., Dube, S.R., Massetti, G.M. (2024). Parental absence as an adverse childhood experience among young adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Child Abuse & Neglect. https://doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106556 

Besera, G., Annor, F.B., Swedo, E.A., Aslam, M.V., & Massetti, G.M. (2024). Adverse Childhood Experiences module nonresponse: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2019 and 2021. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2024.08.001

Hertz, M., Heim Viox, M., Massetti, G.M., Anderson, K.N., Bacon, S., Fordyce, E., Mercado, M., & Verlenden, J. (2023). Adverse childhood experiences among US adolescents over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pediatrics, 151. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-060799

Howard, A.L., Chiang, L., Picchetti, V., Zhu, L., Hegle, J., Patel, P., Saul, J., Wasula, L., Nantume, S., Coomer, R., Kamuingona, R., Oluoch, R.P., Mharadze, T., Duffy, M., Kambona, C.A., Ramphalla, P., Fathim, K.M., & Massetti, G.M. (2023). Population estimates of HIV risk factors to inform HIV prevention programming for adolescent girls and young women. AIDS Education and Prevention, 35, 20-38. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2023.35.suppA.20

Lee, N., Pigott, T.D., Watson A., Reuben, K., O’Hara, K., Massetti, G.M., Fang, X., & Self-Brown, S. (2023). Childhood polyvictimization and associated health outcomes: A systematic scoping review. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211073847

Anderson, K.N., Swedo, E.A., Trinh, E., Ray, C.M., Krause, K.H., Verlenden, J.V., Clayton, H.B., Villaveces, A., Massetti, G.M., & Niolon, P.H. (2022). Adverse Childhood Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Poor Mental Health and Suicidal Behaviors Among High School Students — Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, January–June 2021. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 71, 1301-1305. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7141a2