Soares Andrade CA, Mahrouse N. Kovács N,Cuschieri S. et al. National and Subnational Analysis of Self-reported Diabetes Mellitus and Health Inequalities in Europe. Scientific Reports – Accepted
Yoo SG, Teufel F, Theilmann M,….. Cuschieri S. et al. GLP-1 receptor agonists for obesity: eligibility across 99 countries. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2026, 14; DOI: 1016/S2213-8587(25)00356-0
Grech S, Cuschieri A, Mintoff F, Pisani D, Cuschieri S. The impact and burden of spinal fractures in a small island state: Pre-, acute, and post-COVID-19 trends from Malta. Injury 2026; 57(2): 112950 DOI: 1016/j.injury.2025.112950
Cardiometabolic Diseases Collaborators*. Attainment of global diabetes targets in 2021: a pooled analysis of individual-level data from national surveys in 100 low- income, middle-income, and high-income countries. Lancet Global Health 2026; 14:e21-32 DOI: 1016/S2214-109X(25)00393-6
Cuschieri S, Cuschieri A, Ali S, Stranges S. Quick Fixes, Lasting Problems: Rethinking Obesity Management Through a Public Health Lens Beyond Pharmacological Solutions. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 2025.
Cuschieri A. and Cuschieri S. From Uncertainty to Confidence: Peer-Led Research and the Formation of Medical Academic Identity. International Medical Education. 2025; 4, 22
Cuschieri A, Ryan BL, Cuschieri S. Integrating multimorbidity education into undergraduate medical curriculum: A systematic review. Future Healthcare Journal. 2025; 12: 100252
Cuschieri S. Small countries, big insights: The role of small states in shaping global public health. Small States & Territories 2025; 8(1): 37-40.
Caruana C, Grech S, Cuschieri S. Low Back Pain: The Forgotten Public Health Epidemic. Future Healthcare Journal 2025; 12(2)
Grech V, Cuschieri S, Gatt M, Cordina C, Scherb H, Calleja N. The influence of Migration on Malta’s Demographic Transition: An Observational Study. Xjenza Online 2025; 12(2): 152 – 161 DOI: 10.7423/XJENZA.2024.3.05
Zhang N, Cardona S, Galea K, Cuschieri S. Unlocking food labels: exploring front-of-pack labelling to promote healthier choices in Malta. International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition. 2025: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637486.2025.2565341
Makovski TT, Cuschieri S, Valderas JM, Guldner L, et al. Preventing multimorbidity: moving beyond the single-disease lens. International Journal of Public Health. 2025; 70. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608880
Chen-Xu J, Grad D, … Cuschieri S, et al. The role of burden of disease estimates in European Union health policymaking: a systematic analysis of EU legislation. Health Policy. 2025; 159: 105387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105387
Cuschieri S, Stranges S, Makovski TT. The different definitions of multimorbidity and their implications for research, surveillance and policy. European Journal of Public Health 2024;
Wilk P and Cuschieri S. Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of middle-aged and older Europeans. Scientific reports 2024; 14, 25796
Cuschieri S, Cuschieri A. An Introduction to Health Research: From Idea to Publication. Journal of Medical Education Research, 2024 DOI:
Cuschieri S, Cuschieri A, Grech E, Coleiro A, Carabott A, Tonna A. et al. Exploring the diabesity characteristics and associated all-cause mortality at a population level: results from a small European island state. Journal of Public Health (Berl.). 2024
Cuschieri S. Exploring the determinants associated with adult mortality in Malta: a cohort study between 2014 and 2022. Public Health in Practice 2024; 7: 10050
Cuschieri S, Wilk P. Does Pre-existing Diabetes Correlate with Long COVID-19 in Europe? Evidence from the Analysis of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe’s Corona Surveys. Journal of Diabetes Research. 2024,
Wilk P, Stranges S, Cuschieri S.Does sex modify the effect of pre-pandemic body mass index on the risk of Long COVID? Evidence from the longitudinal analysis of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. International Journal of Obesity. 2024;
Cuschieri S, Bejko D, Stranges S. No country is safe from a pandemic: insights into small countries’ COVID-19 experiences. European Journal of Public Health 2023;
Cuschieri S, Grech S, Grech V. A glimpse into Long COVID characteristics and the mental health impact within a highly vaccinated population: A Malta observational study. Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanita’. 2023; 59(2): 101 – 107.
Cuschieri S, Agius S, Souness J, Brincat A, Grech V. A population-based paediatric COVID-19 vaccination progress and outcomes: The Malta case. Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health. 2023; 28: 100901
Cuschieri S, Grech, E. Insight into the impact of COVID-19 on Malta's future medical workforce - A Call to Action? Int J Epidemiol Health Sci 2023;4: e48.
Cuschieri, A. and Cuschieri, S. Analysing the Impact of an Elective Research Experience on Medical Students’ Research Perceptions. Medical Science Educator.
Cuschieri S, Grech E, Gatt Adrienne et al. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Mediterranean region over 18 months: bridging the health outcomes and sustainable development goals. African Health Sciences. 2022; 22(4): 551 – 564.
Cuschieri S, Grech S, Grech V. A cross鈥恠ectional study exploring the Covid鈥�19 vaccination landscape in Malta through social media: An insight into experiences, attitudes, and perspectives. Health Science Reports. 2022; 27(1): e1014
Cuschieri A, Sant D, Vella SL […]Cuschieri S. Allied Health Professional Students’ Perceptions on Research: A Multi-disciplinary Mixed-Methods Study. Medical Science Educator (2022).
Cuschieri S. Are Medical Students Interested in Conducting Research? A Case Study on the Recruitment Outcome of an Elective Research Summer Opportunity. Medical Science Educator. 2022;
Cuschieri S, Grech S, Grech V. Assessing the impact of the four COVID-19 variants and the vaccine coverage on mortality in Malta over 2 years: An observational case study. Frontiers Public Health. 2022; 10:1018505
Cuschieri S, Gauci C, Agius S, Grech V. Vaccine hesitancy among Maltese Healthcare workers vis-à-vis influenza and COVID-19 vaccination. Malta Medical Journal. 2022; 34(3): 39 - 49
Cuschieri S, Carabott A, Caruana R, Farrugia M, Ferrigi A, Grech E, et al. Making the case for cross-border public health strategies: A comparative assessment of Covid-19 epidemiological trends in the Balkan Countries across 17 months. Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. 2022; 8(2): 181 – 194
Cuschieri S, Cuschieri A, Farrugia E, Diacono E, Balzan E, Grupetta M. et al. A case for cross-border governance? A comparative trend assessment of COVID-19 transmission, vaccination, and outcomes among 35 nations in Europe across 18 months. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2022: 1-49.
Cuschieri S, Grech S, Grech V. A year of Covid-19 pandemic roller-coaster: the Malta experience, lessons learnt and the future. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2022: 1- 28.
Cuschieri S. Living in the Era of Multiple Epidemics – A Malta Perspective. Xjenza online: Science Journal of the Malta Chamber of Science. 2022; 10(2): 15 – 20
Cuschieri S, Mallia TA, Piscopo E, Pace A, Chatlani D et al. The COVID-19 tale of the six European Microstates: How did these “overlooked” microstates fare? International Journal of Epidemiology and Health Sciences. 2022; 3(4): e31
Krueger T, Gogolewski K, Bodych M, Gambin A, Giordano G, Cuschieri S et al. Risk assessment of COVID-19 epidemic resurgence in relation to SARS-CoV-2 variants and vaccination passes. Communications medicine. 2022; 2:23
Mohamed K, Rzymski P, Islam MS, Makuku R, Mushtaq A, Khan a, Ivanobska M, Makka D, Hashem F, Marquez L, Cseprekal O, Mickael E, Ling I, Godana Arero A, Cuschieri S et al. Covid-19 vaccinations: The unknowns, challenges and hopes. Journal of Medical Virology. 2022; 94:1336-1349
Cuschieri S, Borg D, Agius S, Scherb H, Grech V. COVID-19 and vaccination induces changes in hospital activity in Malta, Q1 2020 to Q1 2021: a population-based study. Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association. 2022; 97:7
Cuschieri S, Falzon C, Janulova L, Agius S, Busuttil W, Psaila N, Farrugia K, Debono J, Grech V. The journey of Malta’s public healthcare service during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Malta Medical Journal. 2022; 34(021): 35- 42
Cuschieri S, Hatziyianni A, Kantaris M, Kontemeniotis A, Theodorou M, Pallari E. Same Pandemic Yet Different COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out rates in two small European Islands: A comparison between Cyprus and Malta. Healthcare. 2022; 10 (2): 222.
Grech V, Cuschieri S, Grech P, Fabri S. COVID-19 more than an ill-health: combined supply-side and demand-side shocks. Xjenza Online: Science Journal of the Malta Chamber of Scientists. 2022; 9:64-70
Cuschieri S, Grech S, Cuschieri A. An observational study of the Covid-19 situation following the first pan-European mass sports event. European Journal of Clinical Investigations. 2022; 52:e13743.
Calero Valdex A, Iftekhar EN, Oliu-Barton M, Bohm R, Cuschieri S et al. Europe must come together to confront omicron. BMJ 2022; 376:o90
Cuschieri S, Pallari E, Hatziyianni A, Sigurvinsdottir R, Sigfusdottir I, Siguroardottir A. A year of COVID-19: Experiences and lessons learnt by small European islands states: Cyprus, Iceland and Malta. European Journal of Public Health. 2022; 32 (2): 316-321
Czypionka T, Iftekhar EN, Prainsack B, Priesemann V, Bauer S, Calero Valdez A, Cuschieri S. et al. The benefits, costs, and feasibility of low incidence COVID-19 strategy. The Lancet Regional Health Europe. 2022; 13: 100294
Cuschieri S, Pallari E, Hatziyianni A, Sigurvinsdottir R, Sigfusdottir I, Siguroardottir A. Mortality comparisons of Covid-19 with all-cause and non-communicable diseases in Cyprus, Iceland, and Malta: lessons learnt and forward planning. Public Health. 2022; 202: 52-57
Cuschieri S. COVID-19: the transition towards a new normal – experiences from the European country of Malta. Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice. 2022; 30: 2641 – 2648
Cuschieri S. COVID-19 panic, solidarity and equity – the Malta exemplary experience. Journal of Public Health (Berl.) 2022; 30: 459- 464
Saliba K and Cuschieri S. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic childhood obesity is still an epidemic - Spotlight on obesity’s multifactorial determinants. Health Science Review.
Cuschieri S, Grech S, Grech V. Insight into the Attitudes and Experiences of Adults with Non-Communicable Diseases a Year into the COVID-19 pandemic: The Malta Experience. Dubai Medical Journal. 2021; 12: 1 – 7.
Cuschieri S and Mamo J. Taking care of the ordinary in extraordinary times – delayed routine care means more morbidity and pre-mature mortality. European Journal of Public Health. 2021; 31 (Suppl. 4): iv27-iv30
Cuschieri S, Calleja N, Devleesschauwer B, Wyper GMA. Estimating the direct COVID-19 disability-adjusted life years impact on the Malta population for the first full year. BMC Public Health. 2021; 21:1827
Cuschieri A and Cuschieri S. Medical Students’ Perceptions on Research: Results from a Small European Island State. Medical Science Educator. 2021;
Cuschieri S, Agius S, Souness J, Brincat A, Grech V. The fastest national COVID vaccination in Europe – Malta’s strategies. Health Sciences Review. 2021: 1: 100001
Cuschieri S and Grech S. Insight into the occurrence of common non-communicable diseases at a population level and the potential impact during the coronavirus pandemic – a need for a syndemic healthcare approach? SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine. 2021; (online), 1-8.
Cuschieri S and Grech V. Protecting our vulnerable in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learnt from Malta. Public Health. 2021; 198: 270 – 272
Priesemann V, Balling R, Bauer S, Beutels P, Calero Valdex A, Cuschieri S. et al. Towards a European strategy to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet. 2021;
Iftekhar E, Priesemann V, Balling R, Bauer S, Beutels P, Calero Valdex A, Cuschieri S. et al. A look into the future of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: an expert consultation. The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. 2021; 8: 10185
Cuschieri S, Borg M, Agius S, Souness J, Brincat A, Grech V. Adverse reactions to Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination of healthcare workers at Malta’s state hospital. The International Journal of Clinical Practice. 2021; 75:e14605
Grech S, Borg JN, Cuschieri S. Back pain: An aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic? A Malta perspective. Musculoskeletal Care 2021; 1 – 6.
Cuschieri S and Grech V. A comparative assessment of attitudes and hesitancy for influenza vis-à-vis COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare students and professionals in Malta. Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice.
Cuschieri S, Balzan M, Gauci C, Agius S, Grech V. Mass Events Trigger Malta’s Second Peak After Initial Successful Pandemic Suppression. Journal of Community Health 2021; 46:618-625
Cuschieri S and Grech S. At risk population for COVID-19: Multimorbidity characteristics of European Small Island State. Public Health 2021; 192: 33-36
Cuschieri S, Falzon C, Janulova L, Agius S, Busuttil W, Psaila N, Farrugia K, Debona J, Grech V. Malta’s only acute public hospital service during COVID-19: a diary of events from the first wave to transition phase. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2021; 33(01).
Priesemann V, Brinkmann M, Ciesek S, Cuschieri S et al. Correspondence: ‘Calling for Pan-European commitment for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections’. The Lancet 2020.
Cuschieri S and Grech S. Obesity population at risk of COVID-19 complications. Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics. 2020; 5(e6): 1-6.
Cuschieri S and Mamo J. Are normoglycaemic individuals at risk of depression? The depression-dysglycaemic phenotype from a European population-based cross-sectional study. Archives of Public Health. 2020; 78:111
Cuschieri S and Grech S. COVID-19: a one-way ticket to a global childhood obesity crisis? Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders. 2020;
Sciberras, J, Camilleri, LM and Cuschieri, S. The burden of type 2 diabetes pre-and during the COVID-19 pandemic – a review. Journal of Diabetes Metabolic Disorders (2020).
Cuschieri S. The characteristics of an obesogenic small European country: results from a Malta cross-sectional study. Perspectives in Public Health. 2020; 140(6) 327-337
Cuschieri S and Grech S. Assessing impaired fasting blood glucose criteria for high-risk dysglycaemic populations: an experience from a European population state. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders 2020;
Cuschieri S and Grech S. COVID-19 and Diabetes: The why, the what and the how. Journal of Diabetes and it’s complications 2020; 34: 107637
Cuschieri S and Grech S. Public health preventive action to start from the fourth decade of life? Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health 2020; 8:1248-1252 DOI:
Cuschieri S and Mamo J. Conducting a National Representative Cross- Sectional Study with Limited Resources: Lessons Learned from A Study in the Small European State of Malta. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health. Online ISBN: 9781529730548 DOI:
Cuschieri S. The diabetes epidemic in Malta. South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) 2020; Vol. XIII.
Cuschieri S. The genetic side of type 2 diabetes – A review. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews 2019; 13: 2503 – 2506.
Cuschieri S and Grech S. Closing the gap - Is type 2 diabetes awareness enough to prevent the growing epidemic? Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews 2019; 13: 1739 – 1744.
Cuschieri S. Type 2 diabetes – An unresolved disease across centuries contributing to a public health emergency. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews 2019; 13: 450 – 453.
Cuschieri S, Vassallo J, Calleja N, Barbara C, Mamo J. The interaction of dyslipidaemia with glycaemia in an adult population study. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic disorders 2018.
Cuschieri S, Vassallo J, Calleja N, Mamo J. Relationship between Past, Present and Passive smoke to socio-demographic, anthropometric, biochemical and dysglycaemic profiles. Journal of Diabetes 2018;
Cuschieri S, Vassallo J, Calleja N, Pace N, Mamo J. The effects of socioeconomic determinants on hypertension in a cardiometabolic at risk European country. International Journal of Hypertension 2017. Article ID: 7107385
Cuschieri S, Vassallo J, Calleja N, Pace N, Mamo J. The effect of age, gender, TG/HDL-C ratio and behavioural lifestyles on the metabolic syndrome in the high risk Mediterranean Island of Malta. Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Research and Reviews. 2017; 11S: S321 – S327.
Cuschieri S, Vassallo J, Calleja N, Pace N, Abela J, Ali B, Abdullah F, Zahra E, Mamo J. The diabesity health economic crisis – the size of the crisis in a European island state following a cross-sectional study. Archives of Public Health 2016, 74:52
Cuschieri S, Vassallo J, Calleja N, Pace N, Mamo J. Diabetes, pre-diabetes and their risk factors in Malta: a study profile of national cross-section prevalence study. Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics 2016, volume 1 e 21.
Cuschieri S, Vassallo J, Calleja N, Camilleri R, Borg A, Bonnici G, Zhang Y, Pace N, Mamo J. Prevalence of Obesity in Malta. Obesity Science & Practice Open
Cuschieri S and Mamo J. Getting to grips with the obesity epidemic in Europe. SAGE Open Medicine 2016; 4: 1-6
