Publication

2010 – 2014 Search Publications

2014
Liu L, Oza S, Hogan D, Perin J, Rudan I, Lawn JE, Cousens S, Mathers C, Black RE.  Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000-12, with projections to inform post-2015 priorities: an updated systematic analysis.  Lancet. 2014 Sept 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Fischer Walker CL and Walker N. The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) as a model for diarrhea mortality reduction. BMC Medicine 2014, 12:70. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-12-70

Fottrell E, Högberg U, Ronsmans C, Osrin D, Azad K, Nair N, Meda N, Ganaba R, Goufodji S, Byass P and Filippi V. A probabilistic method to estimate the burden of maternal morbidity in resource-poor settings: preliminary development and evaluation. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2014, 11:3  doi:10.1186/1742-7622-11-3.

2013
Adler AJ, Ronsmans C, Calvert C, Filippi V. Estimating the prevalence of obstetric fistula: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2013 Dec 30;13:246. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-13-246.

Calvert C, Ronsmans C. HIV and the Risk of Direct Obstetric Complications: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 4;8(10):e74848. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074848.

Walker, N. (Ed.) 2013. The Lives Saved Tool in 2013: new capabilities and applications. BMC Public Health. Volume 13, Supplement 3.

Lanata CF, Fischer-Walker CL, Olascoaga AC, Torres CX, Aryee MJ, Black RE, Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Global causes of diarrheal disease mortality in children <5 years of age: a systematic review. PLoS One 2013 Sept 4:8(9):e72788. Web appendix of studies

Fischer Walker CL, Perin J, Liu JL, et al. Does comorbidity increase the risk of mortality among children under 3 years of age? BMJ Open 2013;3:e003457. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003457  

Katz J, Lee AC, Kozuki N, Lawn JE, Cousens S, Blencowe H, Ezzati M, et al. Mortality risk in preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants in low-income and middle-income countries: a pooled country analysis. Lancet. 2013 Jun 5. pii: S0140-6736(13)60993-9. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60993-9. [Epub ahead of print]

Lee ACC, Katz J, Blencowe H, Cousens S, Kozuki N, Vogel JP, Adair L, et al. Born Too Small:  National and Regional Estimates of Term and Preterm Small-for-Gestational-Age in 138 Low-Middle Income Countries in 2010. Lancet Global Health. The Lancet Global Health, Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages e26 – e36, July 2013.

Fischer Walker CL, Perin J, Katz J, Tielsch JM,Black RE. Diarrhea as a risk factor for acute lower respiratory tract infections among young children in low income settings. Journal of Global Health. 2013; 3(1): 010402 

Cresswell JA, Ronsmans C, Calvert C, Filippi V. Prevalence of placenta praevia by world region: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Trop Med Int Health. 2013 Jun;18(6):712-24. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12100. Epub 2013 Apr 1.

Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. PLOS Med. 2013 May. A PLOS Med Collection.

2012 

Feng XL, Theodoratou E, Liu L, Chan KY, Hipgrave D, Scherpbier R, Brixi H, Guo S, Chunmei W, Chopra M, Black RE, Campbell H, Rudan I, Guo Y. (2012). Social, economic, political and health system and program determinants of child mortality reduction in China between 1990 and 2006: A systematic analysis. J Glob Health. 2 (1): 010405. 

Adler AJ, Filippi V, Thomas SL, Ronsmans C. Quantifying the global burden of morbidity due to unsafe abortion: magnitude in hospital-based studies and methodological issues. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2012 Sep;118 Suppl 2:S65-77. doi: 10.1016/S0020-7292(12)60003-4.

Ahmed S, Li Q, Liu L, Tsui AO. Maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use: an analysis of 172 countries.  Lancet. 2012.  380(9837):111-25.

Andersson M, Karumbunathan V, Zimmermann MB. Global iodine status in 2011 and trends over the past decade. Journal of Nutrition. 2012 Apr; 142(4):744-50.

Cleland J, Conde-Agudelo A, Peterson H, Ross J, Tsui A.  Contraception and Health. Lancet. 2012. 380(9837); 149-156.

Edmond, K; Scott, S; Korczak, V; Ward, C; Sanderson, C; Theodoratou, E; Clark, A; Griffiths, U; Rudan, I; Campbell, H. Long term sequelae from childhood pneumonia; systematic review and meta-analysis PLoS ONE, 2012 vol. 7(2) pp. e31239

Eisele TP, Larsen DA, Anglewicz PA, Keating J, Yukich J, Bennett A, Hutchinson P, Steketee RW. Malaria prevention in pregnancy, birthweight, and neonatal mortality: a meta-analysis of 32 national cross-sectional datasets in Africa. Lancet Infect Dis. 2012 Sep 17. pii: S1473-3099(12)70222-0. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(12)70222-0. [Epub ahead of print]

Eisele TP, Larsen DA, Walker N, Cibulskis RE, Yukich JO, Zikusooka CM, Steketee RW. Estimates of child deaths prevented from malaria prevention scale-up in Africa 2001-2010. Malar J. 2012 Mar 28;11:93.

Fischer Walker CL, Aryee M, Boschi-Pinto C, Black RE. Estimating diarrhea mortality among young children in low and middle-income countries. PLoS One. 2012; 7 (1): e29151. 

Fischer Walker C, Lamberti L, Adair L, Guerrant RL, Lescano AG, Martorell R, Pinkerton RC, Black RE. Does Childhood Diarrhea Influence Cognition Beyond the Diarrhea-Stunting Pathway? PLoS One. 2012. 7(10): e47908.

Fischer Walker CL, Perin J, Aryee MJ, Boschi-Pinto C, Black RE. Diarrhea incidence in low- and middle-income countries in 1990 and 2010: a systematic review. BMC Public Health. 2012 Mar 21;12:220. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-220.

Hsiao M, Morris SK, Bassani DG, Montgomery AL, Thakur JS, Jha P. Factors associated with physician agreement on verbal autopsy of over 11,500 injury deaths in India. PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e30336.

Jagnoor J, Suraweera W, Keay L, Ivers RQ, Thakur J, Jha P. Unintentional injury mortality in India, 2005: Nationally representative mortality survey of 1.1 million homes. BMC Public Health. 2012 Jun 28;12(1):487.

Lawn JE, Kinney MV, Black RE, Pitt C, Cousens S, Kerber K, Corbett E, Moran AC, Morrissey CS, Oestergaard MZ. Newborn survival: a multi-country analysis of a decade of change. Health Policy Plan. 2012 Jul;27 Suppl 3:iii6-28. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czs053.

Lamberti LM, Fischer Walker CL, Black RE. Correction: Systematic review of diarrhea duration and severity in children and adults in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Public Health. 2012 Sep 28;12(1):832. [Epub ahead of print]

Montgomery AL, Morris SK, Bassani DG, Kumar R, Jotkar R, Jha P. Factors associated with physician agreement and coding choices of cause of death using verbal autopsies for 1130 maternal deaths in India. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33075.

Tunçalp O, Hindin MJ, Souza JP, Chou D, Say L. The prevalence of maternal near miss: a systematic review. BJOG. 2012 May;119(6):653-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2012.03294.x. 

Wu LA, Katz J, Mullany LC, Khatry SK, Darmstadt GL, LeClerq SC, Tielsch JM. The association of preterm birth and small birthweight for gestational age on childhood disability screening using the Ten Questions Plus tool in rural Sarlahi district, southern Nepal. Child Care Health Dev. 2012 May;38(3):332-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2011.01221.x. Epub 2011 Mar 6.

Marchant T, Willey B, Katz J, Clarke S, Kariuki S, et al. (2012) Neonatal Mortality Risk Associated with Preterm Birth in East Africa, Adjusted by Weight for Gestational Age: Individual Participant Level Meta-Analysis. PLoS Med 9(8): e1001292. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001292

Calvert C, Thomas SL, Ronsmans C, Wagner KS, Adler AJ, et al. Identifying Regional Variation in the Prevalence of Postpartum Haemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 2012; 7(7): e41114. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041114  

Lamberti LM, Fischer Walker CL, Black RE. Systematic review of diarrhea duration and severity in children and adults in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Public Health. 2012 Apr 6;12:276.

Monasta L, Ronfani L, Marchetti F, Montico M, Vecchi Brumatti L, Bavcar A, Grasso D, Barbiero C, Tamburlini G. Burden of disease caused by otitis media: systematic review and global estimates. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e36226. Epub 2012 Apr 30. 

Blencowe H, Cousens S, Oestergaard MZ, Chou D, Moller AB, Narwal R, Adler A, Vera Garcia C, Rohde S, Say L, Lawn JE. National, regional, and worldwide estimates of preterm birth rates in the year 2010 with time trends since 1990 for selected countries: a systematic analysis and implications. Lancet. 2012 Jun 9;379(9832):2162-72. 

Li Liu, Hope L Johnson, Simon Cousens, Jamie Perin, Susana Scott, Joy E Lawn, Igor Rudan, Prof Harry Campbell, Richard Cibulskis, Mengying Li, Colin Mathers, Prof Robert E Black, for the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF. Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 11 May 2012. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60560-1

Edmond KM, Kortsalioudaki C, Scott S, Schrag SJ, Zaidi AK, Cousens S, Heath PT. Group B streptococcal disease in infants aged younger than 3 months: systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet. 2012 Feb 11;379(9815):547-56. Epub 2012 Jan 4. 

Mwaniki MK, Atieno M, Lawn JE, Newton CRJC (2012). Long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes after intrauterine and neonatal insults: a systematic review. Lancet 2012; 379: 445–52.

Waiswa P, Kalter HD, Jakob R, Black RE for the Social Autopsy Working Group.Increased use of social autopsy is needed to improve maternal, neoantal and child health programmes in low-income countries. Bull World Health Organ (editorial) 2012;90:403-403A.

Zhang JSF. Efficacy and effectiveness of 20 child health interventions in China: systematic review of Chinese literature. J Global Health 2011. 1(1): 87-95.

Zimmermann MB, Andersson M. Update on iodine status worldwide. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2012 Oct;19(5):382-7

2011

Hipgrave, David (2011). Communicable disease control in China: From Mao to now. J Glob Health. 1 (2): 224–238. 

Adler AJ, Filippi V, Thomas SL, Ronsmans C. Incidence of severe acute maternal morbidity associated with abortion: a systematic review. Trop Med Int Health. 2012 Feb;17(2):177-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02896.x. Epub 2011 Oct 31

Kalter HD, Mohan P, Mishra A, Gaonkar N, Biswas AB, Balakrishnan S, Arya G, Babille M. Maternal death inquiry and response in India–the impact of contextual factors on defining an optimal model to help meet critical maternal health policy objectives. Health Res Policy Syst. 2011 Nov 30;9:41.

Kalter HD, Salgado R, Babille M, Koffi AK, Black RE. Social autopsy for maternal and child deaths: a comprehensive literature review to examine the concept and the development of the method. Popul Health Metr. 2011 Aug 5;9:45.

BMC Public Health special issue: Technical inputs, enhancements and applications of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). BMC Public Health, 11(Suppl 3). 13 April 2011.  

Acuin, Cecilia S, Geok Lin Khor,Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, Endang L Achadi,Thein Thein Htay, Rebecca Firestone, Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Maternal, neonatal, and child health in southeast Asia: towards greater regional collaboration. The Lancet. 377(9764): 516-525.

Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Joy E Lawn, Arjumand Rizvi, Ingrid K Friberg, Eva Weissman, Eckhart Buchmann, Robert L Goldenberg, for the Stillbirths Series steering committee (2011). Stillbirths: what difference can we make and at what cost? The Lancet. 377(9776): 1523-1538.

Blencowe, Hannah, Simon Cousens, Mary Kamb, Stuart Berman and Joy E Lawn (2011). Lives Saved Tool supplement detection and treatment of syphilis in pregnancy to reduce syphilis related stillbirths and neonatal mortality. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S9.

Blencowe, Hannah, Simon Cousens, Luke C Mullany, Anne CC Lee, Kate Kerber, Steve Wall, Gary L Darmstadt and Joy E Lawn (2011). Clean birth and postnatal care practices to reduce neonatal deaths from sepsis and tetanus: a systematic review and Delphi estimation of mortality effect. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S11.

Catto, Alastair G, Lina Zgaga, Evropi Theodoratou, Tanvir Huda, Harish Nair, Shams El Arifeen, Igor Rudan, Trevor Duke and Harry Campbell (2011).  An evaluation of oxygen systems for treatment of childhood pneumonia.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S28.

Chen, Wei-Ju (2011). Comparison of LiST measles mortality model and WHO/IVB measles model. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S33.

Choudhuri, Debajeet, Tanvir Huda, Evropi Theodoratou, Harish Nair, Lina Zgaga, Rachel Falconer, Ivana Luksic, Hope L Johnson, Jian Shayne F Zhang1, Shams El Arifeen, Christopher Nelson, Ray Borrow, Harry Campbell and Igor Rudan (2011).An evaluation of emerging vaccines for childhood meningococcal disease. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S29.

Cousens, Simon, Hannah Blencowe, Cynthia Stanton, Doris Chou, Saifuddin Ahmed, Laura Steinhardt, Andreea A Creanga, Özge Tunçalp, Zohra Patel Balsara, Shivam Gupta, Lale Say, Joy E Lawn (2011).
National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates in 2009 with trends since 1995: a systematic analysis. Lancet. 377(9774): 1319-30.

Fischer Walker, Christa L and Robert E Black (2011). Rotavirus vaccine and diarrhea mortality: quantifying regional variation in effect size.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S16.

Fischer-Walker CL, Ingrid K Friberg, Nancy Binkin, Mark Young, Neff Walker, Olivier Fontaine, Eva Weissman, Akanksha Gupta, Robert E Black (2011). Scaling up diarrhea prevention and treatment interventions: A Lives Saved Tool analysis. PLoS Medicine. 8(3): 1-10.  

Fox, Monica J, Reynaldo Martorell, Nynke van den Broek and Neff Walker (2011).  Assumptions and methods in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST).  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): I1.

Jagnoor, Jagnoor, Diego G Bassani, Lisa Keay, Rebecca Q Ivers, JS Thakur, G Gururaj, Prabhat Jha, for the Million Death Study Collaborators (2011). Unintentional injury deaths among children younger than 5 Years of age in India: a nationally representative study.  Inj Prev. 17(3): 151-155.

Haider, Batool Azra, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Effect of multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy on maternal and birth outcomes. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S19.

Higginson, Daisy, Evropi Theodoratou, Harish Nair, Tanvir Huda, Lina Zgaga, Suresh S Jadhav, Saad B Omer, Igor Rudan and Harry Campbell (2011).  An evaluation of respiratory administration of measles vaccine for prevention of acute lower respiratory infections in children.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S31.

Huda, Tanvir, Harish Nair, Evropi Theodoratou, Lina Zgaga, Ali Fattom, Shams El Arifeen, Craig Rubens, Harry Campbell and Igor Rudan (2011). An evaluation of the emerging vaccines and immunotherapy against staphylococcal pneumonia in children.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S27.

Hussain, Arwa Abbas, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Aamer Imdad and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Elective induction for pregnancies at or beyond 41 weeks of gestation and its impact on stillbirths: a systematic review with meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S5.

Imdad, Aamer and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Effect of balanced protein energy supplementation during pregnancy on birth outcomes.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S17.

Imdad, Aamer and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Effect of preventive zinc supplementation on linear growth in children under 5 years of age in developing countries: a meta-analysis of studies for input to the lives saved tool. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S22.

Imdad, Aamer, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). The effect of folic acid, protein energy and multiple micronutrient supplements in pregnancy on stillbirths.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S4.

Imdad, Aamer, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Impact of maternal education about complementary feeding and provision of complementary foods on child growth in developing countries. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S25.

Imdad, Aamer, Afshan Jabeen and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Role of calcium supplementation during pregnancy in reducing risk of developing gestational hypertensive disorders: a meta-analysis of studies from developing countries. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S18.

Imdad, Aamer, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011).  Effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on breastfeeding rates, with special focus on developing countries.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S24.

Imdad, Aamer, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Saad Siddiqui and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta (2011). Screening and triage of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) in general population and high risk pregnancies: a systematic review with a focus on reduction of IUGR related stillbirths.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S1.

Imdad, Aamer, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Christopher Sudfeld, Batool A Haider, Robert E Black and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Impact of vitamin A supplementation on infant and childhood mortality. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S20.

Ishaque, Sidra Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Aamer Imdad, Robert L Goldenberg, Thomas P Eisele and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Effectiveness of interventions to screen and manage infections during pregnancy on reducing stillbirths: a review. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S3.

Jabeen, Mehnaz, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Aamer Imdad and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Impact of interventions to prevent and manage preeclampsia and eclampsia on stillbirths. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S6.

Kozuki, Naoko, Anne C. Lee, Joanne Katz, and on behalf of the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group. (2011). Moderate to Severe, but Not Mild, Maternal Anemia, Is Associated with Increased Risk of Small-for-Gestational-Age Outcome. J. Nutr. January 1, 2012 jn.111.149237 [Epub ahead of print].

Lamberti, Laura M, Christa L Fischer Walker, Adi Noiman, Cesar Victora and Robert E Black (2011). Breastfeeding and the risk for diarrhea morbidity and mortality.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S15.

Larsen, David A, Ingrid K Friberg and Thomas P Eisele (2011). Comparison of Lives Saved Tool model child mortality estimates against measured data from vector control studies in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S34.

Lawn, Joy E, Hannah Blencowe, Robert Pattinson, Simon Cousens, Rajesh Kumar, Ibinabo Ibiebele, Jason Gardosi, Louise T Day, Cynthia Stanton (2011). Stillbirths: Where? When? Why? How to make the data count? Lancet. 23; 377(9775): 1448-63.

Lee, Anne CC, Simon Cousens, Gary L Darmstadt, Hannah Blencowe, Robert Pattinson, Neil F Moran, G Justus Hofmeyr, Rachel A Haws, Shereen Zulfiqar Bhutta and Joy E Lawn (2011).  Care during labor and birth for the prevention of intrapartum-related neonatal deaths: a systematic review and Delphi estimation of mortality effect.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S10.

Lee, Anne CC, Simon Cousens, Stephen N Wall, Susan Niermeyer, Gary L Darmstadt, Waldemar A Carlo, William J Keenan, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Christopher Gill and Joy E Lawn (2011). Neonatal resuscitation and immediate newborn assessment and stimulation for the prevention of neonatal deaths: a systematic review, meta-analysis and Delphi estimation of mortality effect.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S12.

Liu L, Li Q, Lee RA, Friberg IK, Perin J, Walker N Black RE.  Trends in causes of death among children under 5 in Bangladesh, 1993-2004: an exercise applying a standardized computer algorithm to assign causes of death using verbal autopsy data. (2011). Population Health Metrics, 9:43.

Meddings, David (2011). Child injury prevention and child survival.  Inj Prev. 17(3): 145-6.

Montgomery, Ann L, Shaun K Morris, Rajesh Kumar, Raju Jotkar, Prem Mony, Diego G Bassani, Prabhat Jha (2011). Capturing the context of maternal deaths from verbal autopsies: a reliability study of the maternal data extraction tool (M-DET). PLoS One. 6(2): e14637.

Morris, Shaun K, Diego G Bassani, Shally Awasthi, Rajesh Kumar, Anita Shet, Wilson Suraweera, Prabhat Jha, for the MDS Collaborators (2011). Diarrhea, Pneumonia, and Infectious Disease Mortality in Children Aged 5 to 14 Years in India. PLoS ONE 6(5): e20119.

Nair H, Brooks WA, et al. Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet. 2011 Dec 3;378(9807):1917-30.

Nair, Harish, Vasundhara R Verma, Evropi Theodoratou, Lina Zgaga, Tanvir Huda, Eric AF Simões, Peter F Wright, Igor Rudan and Harry Campbell (2011). An evaluation of the emerging interventions against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-associated acute lower respiratory infections in children.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S30.

Oestergaard MZ, Inoue M, Yoshida S, Mahanani WR, Gore FM, et al. (2011). Neonatal Mortality Levels for 193 Countries in 2009 with Trends since 1990: A Systematic Analysis of Progress, Projections, and Priorities. PLoS Med 8(8): e1001080. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001080

Ozawa S, Stack ML, Bishai DM, Mirelman A, Friberg IK, Neissen L, Walker D, Levine O. (2011) During the ‘Decade of Vaccines,’ the lives of 6.4 million children valued at $230 billion could be saved. Health Affairs 30(6):1010-1020.

Pattinson, Robert, Kate Kerber, Eckhart Buchmann, Ingrid K Friberg, Maria Belizan, Sonia Lansky, Eva Weissman, Matthews Mathai, Igor Rudan, Neff Walker, Joy E Lawn, for the Stillbirths Series steering committee (2011). Stillbirths: how can health systems deliver for mothers and babies? The Lancet.  377(9777): 1610-1623.

Ricca, Jim, Debra Prosnitz, Henry Perry, Anbrasi Edward, Melanie Morrow, Pieter Ernst and Leo Ryan (2011). Comparing estimates of child mortality reduction modelled in LiST with pregnancy history survey data for a community-based NGO project in Mozambique. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S35.

Ronsmans, Carine and Oona Campbell (2011). Quantifying the fall in mortality associated with interventions related to hypertensive diseases of pregnancy. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S8.

Syed, Madiha, Hasan Javed, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011).Effect of screening and management of diabetes during pregnancy on stillbirths. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S2.

Theodoratou, Evropi, Jian Shayne F. Zhang, Ivana Kolcic, Andrew M Davis, Sunil Bhopal, Harish Nair, Kit Yee Chan, Li Liu, Hope Johnson, Igor Rudan and Harry Campbell. Estimating pneumonia deaths of post-neonatal children in countries of low or no death certification in 2008. PLoS ONE . 2011; 6(9).

Thwing, Julie, Thomas P Eisele and Richard W Steketee (2011). Protective efficacy of malaria case management for preventing malaria mortality in children: a systematic review for the Lives Saved Tool.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S14.

Wagner KS, Ronsmans C, Thomas SL, Calvert C, Adler A, Ganaba R, Goufodji S, Filippi V. Women who experience obstetric haemorrhage are at higher risk of anaemia, in both rich and poor countries.Trop Med Int Health. 2011 Sep 29. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02883.x.

Webster, Julia, Evropi Theodoratou, Harish Nair, Ang Choon Seong, Lina Zgaga, Tanvir Huda, Hope L Johnson, Shabir Madhi, Craig Rubens, Jian Shayne F Zhang, Shams El Arifeen, Ryoko Krause, Troy A Jacobs, Abdullah W Brooks, Harry Campbell and Igor Rudan (2011). An evaluation of emerging vaccines for childhood pneumococcal pneumonia.  BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S26.

Winfrey, William, Robert McKinnon and John Stover (2011). Methods used in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S32.

Yakoob, Mohammad Yawar, Mahrukh Ayesha Ali, Mohammad Usman Ali, Aamer Imdad, Joy E Lawn, Nynke Van Den Broek and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). The effect of providing skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care in preventing stillbirths. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S7.

Yakoob, Mohammad Yawar and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Effect of routine iron supplementation with or without folic acid on anemia during pregnancy. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S21.

Yakoob, Mohammad Yawar, Evropi Theodoratou, Afshan Jabeen, Aamer Imdad, Thomas P Eisele, Joy Ferguson, Arnoupe Jhass, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell, Robert E Black and Zulfiqar A Bhutta (2011). Preventive zinc supplementation in developing countries: impact on mortality and morbidity due to diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S23.

Zaidi, Anita K M, Hammad A Ganatra, Sana Syed, Simon Cousens, Anne CC Lee, Robert Black, Zulfiqar A Bhutta and Joy E Lawn (2011). Effect of case management on neonatal mortality due to sepsis and pneumonia. BMC Public Health. 11 (Suppl 3): S13.

Zimmermann, Michael B and M Andersson (2011). Prevalence of iodine deficieince in Europe in 2010. Annales d’ Endocrinologie (Paris).  72(2): 164-166.

2010 
Amouzou, Agbessi, Stephanie A Richard, Ingrid K Friberg, Jennifer Bryce, Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen, Neff Walker (2010). How well does LiST capture mortality by wealth quintile? A comparison of measured versus modelled mortality rates among children under-five in Bangladesh. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i186-i192.

Black, Robert E , Simon Cousens, Hope L Johnson, Joy E Lawn, Igor Rudan, Diego G Bassani, Prabhat Jha, Harry Campbell, Christa Fischer Walker, Richard Cibulskis, Thomas Eisele, Li Liu, Colin Mathers, for the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF (2010). Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis. Lancet. 375 (9730): 1969 – 1987. Related: PowerPoint Presentation, Global Child Mortality: Status in 2008.

Blencowe, Hannah, Simon Cousens, Bernadette Modell, Joy Lawn (2010). Folic acid to reduce neonatal mortality from neural tube disorders. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i110-i121.

Blencowe, Hannah, Joy Lawn, Jos Vandelaer, Martha Roper, Simon Cousens (2010). Tetanus toxoid immunization to reduce mortality from neonatal tetanus. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i102-i109.

Boschi-Pinto, Cynthia, Mark Young, Robert E Black (2010).The child health epidemiology reference group reviews of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i3-i6.

Bryce, Jennifer, Ingrid K Friberg, Daniel Kraushaar, Humphreys Nsona, Godwin Yaw Afenyadu, Narcisse Nare, Sardick Kyei-Faried, Neff Walker (2010). LiST as a catalyst in program planning: experiences from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Malawi. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i40-i47.

Carneiro I, Roca-Feltrer A, Griffin J, Smith L, Tanner M, Armstrong Schellenber J, Greenwood B, Schellenberg D (2010). Age-Patterns of Malaria Vary with Severity, Transmission Intensity and Seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis. PLoS One: 5(2): e8988.

Cousens, Simon, Hannah Blencowe, Michael Gravett, Joy E Lawn (2010). Antibiotics for pre-term pre-labour rupture of membranes: prevention of neonatal deaths due to complications of pre-term birth and infection. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i134-i143.

Development and use of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST): A model to estimate the impact of scaling up proven interventions on maternal, neonatal and child mortality. International Journal of Epidemiology.  Volume 39, Supplement 1, April 2010.

Eisele, Thomas P, David Larsen, Richard W Steketee (2010). Protective efficacy of interventions for preventing malaria mortality in children in Plasmodium falciparum endemic areas. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i88-i101. 

Fischer Walker, Christa L, Robert E Black (2010). Diarrhea morbidity and mortality among older children, adolescents, and adults. Epi Infect: 138(9): 1215-1226. 

Fischer Walker, C, Black, RE (2010). Zinc for the treatment of diarrhea: Effect on diarrhea morbidity, mortality, and incidence of future episodes. International Journal of Epidemiology. 39: i63-69.

Fischer Walker, Christa L, David Sack, Robert E Black (2010). Etiology of diarrhea among older children, adolescents, and adults: a systematic review. PLoS  Negl Trop Dis. 4(8): e768.

Friberg, Ingrid K, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Gary L Darmstadt, Abhay Bang, Simon Cousens, Abdullah H Baqui, Vishwajeet Kumar, Neff Walker, Joy E Lawn (2010). Comparing modelled predictions of neonatal mortality impacts using LiST with observed results of community-based intervention trials in South Asia. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i11-i20.

Hazel, Elizabeth, Kate Gilroy, Ingrid Friberg, Robert E Black, Jennifer Bryce, Gareth Jones (2010). Comparing modelled to measured mortality reductions: applying the Lives Saved Tool to evaluation data from the Accelerated Child Survival Programme in West Africa. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i32-i39.

Johnson, Hope L, Li Liu, Christa L Fischer Walker, Robert E Black (2010). Estimating the distribution of causes of child deaths in high mortality counties with incomplete death certification. Int J Epidemiol. 39(4): 1103-14.

Johnson, Hope J, Li Liu, Christa Fischer-Walker, Robert E Black (2010). Estimating the distribution of causes of death among children age 1–59 months in high-mortality countries with incomplete death certification. International Journal of Epidemiology. Advanced Access Edition: June 2, 2010.

Lawn, Joy E, Kate Kerber, Christabel Enweronu-Laryea, Simon Cousens (2010). 3.6 million neonatal deaths – what is progressing and what is not?  Semin Perinatol. 34(6): 371-86.

Lawn, Joy E, Judith Mwansa-Kambafwile , Bernardo L Horta, Fernando C Barros, Simon Cousens (2010). ‘Kangaroo mother care’ to prevent neonatal deaths due to preterm birth complications. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i144-i154.

Lee, Chien-Chang, Nicole A. Middaugh, Stephen R.C. Howie, Majid Ezzati (2010). Association of Secondhand Smoke Exposure with Pediatric Invasive Bacterial Disease and Bacterial Carrieage: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. PLOS Medicine: 7(12) e1000374.

The Million Death Study Collaborators. (2010). Causes of neonatal and child mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey.The Lancet, 376(9755): 1853-1860.   

Morris SK, Bassani DG, Kumar R, Awasthi S, Paul VK, Jha P. Factors associated with physician agreement on verbal autopsy of over 27000 childhood deaths in India. PLoS One. 2010 Mar 8;5(3):e9583.

Munos, Melinda K, Christa L Fischer Walker, Robert E Black (2010). The effect of oral rehydration solution and recommended home fluids on diarrhoea mortality. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i75-i87.

Munos, Melinda K, Christa L Fischer Walker, Robert E Black (2010). The effect of rotavirus vaccine on diarrhoea mortality. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i56-i62.

Mwansa-Kambafwile, Judith, Simon Cousens, Thomas Hansen, Joy E Lawn (2010). Antenatal steroids in preterm labour for the prevention of neonatal deaths due to complications of preterm birth. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i122-i133.

Nair, Harish, James Nokes, Bradford D Gessner , Mukesh Dherani, Shabir A Madhi , Rosalyn J Singleton , Katherine L O'Brien , Anna Roca , Peter F Wright , Nigel Bruce , Aruna Chandran , Evropi Theodoratou , Agustinus Sutanto, Endang R Sedyaningsih , Mwanajuma Ngama , Patrick K Munywoki , Cissy Kartasasmita , Eric AF Simões , Igor Rudan , Martin W Weber , Harry Campbell (2010). Global burden of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet. 375 (9725): 1545-1555.

Poropatich, Kate O, Christa L Fischer Walker, Robert E Black. Quantifying the risk of Campylobacter infection and Guillain-Barre Syndrome: A systematic review (2010). J Health Pop Nutr. 28(6): 545-552.

Rudan I, Chan KY, Zhang JS, Theodoratou E, Feng XL, Salomon JA, Lawn JE, Cousens S, Black RE, Guo Y, Campbell H; on behalf of WHO/UNICEF's CHERG. Causes of deaths in children younger than 5 years in China in 2008. Lancet. 2010 Mar 27;375(9720):1083-9.
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Supplemental Information: List of Studies»

Santosham, Mathuram, Aruna Chandran, Sean Fitzwater, Christa Fischer-Walker, Abdullah H Baqui, and Robert Black. Progress and barriers for the control of diarrhoeal disease. Lancet, 2010, July 3; 376 (9734): 63-67.

Sapkota, Amir, Adam P. Chelikowsky, Keeve E. Nachman, Aaron J. Cohen, and Beate Ritz (2010). Exposure to particulate matter and adverse birth outcomes: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. Air Qual Atmos Health. DOI: 10.1007/s11869-010-0106-3

Stover, John, Robert McKinnon, Bill Winfrey (2010). Spectrum: a model platform for linking maternal and child survival interventions with AIDS, family planning and demographic projections. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i7-i10.

Sudfeld, Christopher R, Ann Marie Navar, Neal A Halsey (2010). Effectiveness of measles vaccination and vitamin A treatment. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i48-i55.

Theodoratou, Evropi, Sarah Al-Jilaihawi, Felicity Woodward, Joy Ferguson, Arnoupe Jhass, Manuela Balliet, Ivana Kolcic, Salim Sadruddin, Trevor Duke, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell (2010). The effect of case management on childhood pneumonia mortality in developing countries. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i155-i171.

Theodoratou, Evropi, Sue Johnson, Arnoupe Jhass, Shabir A Madhi, Andrew Clark, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Sunil Bhopal, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell (2010). The effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on childhood pneumonia incidence, severe morbidity and mortality. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i172-i185.

Traa, Beatrix S, Christa L Fischer Walker, Melinda Munos, Robert E Black (2010). Antibiotics for the treatment of dysentery in children. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i70-i74.

Victora, Cesar G. (2010). Commentary-LiST: using epidemiology to guide child survival policymaking and programming. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i1-i2.

Walker, Neff, Christa Fischer-Walker, Jennifer Bryce, Rajiv Bahl, Simon Cousens, writing for the CHERG Review Groups on Intervention Effects (2010). Standards for CHERG reviews of intervention effects on child survival. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i21-i31.

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Cairncross, Sandy, Caroline Hunt, Sophie Boisson, Kristof Bostoen, Val Curtis, Isaac CH Fung, Wolf-Peter Schmidt (2010). Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoea. Int. J. Epidemiol. 39: i193-i205.

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