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2012

• Johnson O, Bailey S L, Willott C, Crocker-Buque T, Jessop V, Birch M, Ward H, Yudkin J S. Global health learning outcomes for medical students in the UK. The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9831, Pages 2033 - 2035, 2 June 2012.
• Willott C, Blum N, Burch W, Page B, Rowson M. The Global Doctor. Published by UCL Institute for Global Health and Development Education Research Centre, Institute of Education.
• Mistry N, Tolani M, Osrin D.  Drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai, India: An agenda for operations research. Operations Research for Health Care Volume 1, Issues 2–3, June–September 2012, Pages 45–53.
• Dill Y, Strachan D, Cairncross S, Seidu Korkor S, Hill Z.  Motivations and Challenges of Community-Based Surveillance Volunteers in the Northern Region of Ghana. J Comm Health. 2012 [Epub ahead of print].
• Kraft JM, Hill Z, Membe I, Zhang Y, Meassick EO, Monsour M, Maumbi M, Ndubani P, Manengu JM, Mwinga A. Effects of the Gama Cuulu Radio Serial Drama on HIV-Related Behavior Change in Zambia.  J Health Commun. 2012  [Epub ahead of print].
• Osrin D, Hill ZE. Chlorhexidine cord cleansing to reduce neonatal mortality: Commentary. Lancet. 2012; 379(9820): 984-6.
• Edmond K, Hurt L, Fenty J, Amenga-Etego S, Zandoh C, Hurt C, Danso S, Tawiah C, Hill Z, Ten Asbroek AH, Owusu-Agyei S, Campbell O, Kirkwood BR. Effect of vitamin A supplementation in women of reproductive age on cause-specific early and late infant mortality in rural Ghana: ObaapaVitA double-blind, cluster-randomised, placebo-controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2012; 2(1):e000658.
• Neena Shah More, Ujwala Bapat, Sushmita Das, Glyn Alcock, Sarita Patil, Maya Porel, Leena Vaidya, Armida Fernandez, Wasundhara Joshi, David Osrin.  Community Mobilization in Mumbai Slums to Improve Perinatal Care and Outcomes: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.  PLoS Med 9(7): e1001257. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001257.
• Seward N, Osrin D, Li L, Costello A, Pulkki-Brännström AM, Houweling TA, Morrison J, Nair N, Tripathy P, Azad K, Manandhar D, Prost A.  Association between clean delivery kit use, clean delivery practices, and neonatal survival: pooled analysis of data from three sites in South Asia.   PLoS Med. 2012 Feb;9(2):e1001180. Epub 2012 Feb 28.
• Younes, L, Houweling TAJ, Azad K, Costello A, Fottrell E. Estimating coverage of a women's group intervention among a population of pregnant women in rural Bangladesh.  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012, 12:60.
• Dibari F, Diop EH, Collins S, and Seal A. Low-Cost, Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods Can Be Designed Using Locally Available Commodities with the Aid of Linear Programming. J. Nutr 2012 doi: 10.3945/jn.111.156943
• McMichael T, Montgomery H. and Costello A.  Health risks, present and future, from global climate change.  BMJ 2012;344:e1359

2011

• Beran, D. Improving access to insulin: what can be done? Diabetes Management, 2011, 1(1):67-76.
• de Pee S,Spiegel P,Kraemer K,Wilkinson C,Bilukha O,Seal A,Macias K,Oman A,Fall AB,Yip R,West K,Zlotkin S,Bloem MW. Assessing the impact of micronutrient intervention programs implemented under special circumstances-Meeting report. Food Nutr Bull 2011, 32: 256-263
  
• Boutros S, Skordis J.  HIV/AIDS surveillance in Egypt: current status and future challenges.  East Mediterr Health J. 2010 Mar;16(3):251-8.
• Byass P, Kathleen Kahn, Edward Fottrell, Paul Mee, Mark A Collinson, Stephen M Tollman. Using verbal autopsy to track epidemic dynamics: the case of HIV-related mortality in South Africa.  Population Health Metrics 2011, 9:46. 
• Costello A, Maslin M, Montgomery H, Johnson A and Ekins P.  Global health and climate change:  moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action.  Philosophical Transactions 2011:369;1866-1882.
• Crowe S, Utley M, Costello A, Pagel C. How many births in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will not be attended by a skilled birth attendant between 2011 and 2015? BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2012, 12:4
• Dibari F, Bahwere P, Le Gall I, Guerrero S, Mwaniki D, Seal A.  A qualitative investigation of adherence to nutritional therapy in malnourished adult AIDS patients in Kenya.  Public Health Nutr. 2011 Feb 4:1-8. [Epub ahead of print]
• Ellis M, Azad K, Banerjee B, Shaha SK, Prost A, Rego AR, Barua S, Costello A, Barnett S. Intrapartum-related stillbirths and neonatal deaths in rural bangladesh: a prospective, community-based cohort study.  Pediatrics. 2011 May;127(5): e1182-90. Epub 2011 Apr 18.
• Fottrell E.  Advances in verbal autopsy:  pragmatic optimism or sptimistic theory?  Population Health Metrics 2011;9:13-14.
  
• Gill GV, Yudkin JS, Keen H, Beran D.  The insulin dilemma in resource-limited countries. A way forward?  Diabetologia. 2011 Jan;54(1):19-24. 
• Houweling, Tanja, Kishwar Azad, Layla Younes, Abdul Kuddus, Sanjit Shaha, Bedowra Haq, Tasmin Nahar, James Beard, Edward F Fottrell, Audrey Prost, Anthony Costello and the PCP study team. The effect of participatory women's groups on birth outcomes in Bangladesh: does coverage matter? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.  Trials 2011, 12:208.
• Kerac M, Blencowe H, Grijalva-Eternod C, McGrath M, Shoham J, Cole TJ, Seal A.  Prevalence of wasting among under 6-month-old infants in developing countries and implications of new case definitions using WHO growth standards: a secondary data analysis.  Arch Dis Child. 2011 96:1008-13
  
• Kerac, M. (2011) Improving the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in childhood: a randomized controlled trial of synbiotic-enhanced therapeutic food with long term follow-up of post-treatment mortality and morbidity. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
• Morrison, Joanna, Kirti Man Tumbahangphe, Bharat Budhathoki, Rishi Neupane, Aman Sen, Kunta Dahal, Rita Thapa, Reema Manandhar, Dharma Manandhar, Anthony Costello and David Osrin.  Community mobilisation and health management committee strengthening to increase birth attendance by trained health workers in rural Makwanpur, Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.  Trials 2011, 12:128.
• Osrin, David, Sushmita Das, Ujwala Bapat, Glyn A. Alcock, Wasundhara Joshi, and Neena Shah More. A Rapid Assessment Scorecard to Identify Informal
  Settlements at Higher Maternal and Child Health Risk in Mumbai.  Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine.  2011 Apr 13.
• Pagel Christina, Audrey Prost, Sonia Lewycka, Sushmita Das, Tim Colbourn, Rajendra Mahapatra,, Kishwar Azad, Anthony Costello and David Osrin.  Intracluster correlation coefficients and coefficients of variation for perinatal outcomes from five cluster-randomised controlled trials in low and middle-income countries: results and methodological implications.  Trials 2011, 12:151 doi:10.1186/1745-6215-12-151
• Skordis-Worrall J, Hanson K and Mills A. Estimating the demand for health services in four poor districts of Cape Town, South Africa.  International Health 2011.
• Skordis-Worrall J, Noemi Pace, Ujwala Bapat, Sushmita Das, Neena S More, Wasundhara Joshi, Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brannstrom and David Osrin. Maternal and neonatal health expenditure in mumbai slums (India): A cross sectional study. BMC Public Health 2011, 11:150.
• Vergnano S, Fottrell E, Osrin D, Kazembe PN, Mwansambo C, Manandhar DS, Mujanja SP, Byass P, Lewycka S, Costello A.  Adaptation of a probablistic method (InterVA) of verbal autopsy to improve the interpretation of cause of stillbirth and neonatal death in Malawi, Nepal and Zimbabwe.  Population Health Metrics 2011;9:246-254.
  
  

2010

• Azad K, Barnett S, Banerjee B, Shaha S, Khan K, Rego AR, Barua S, Flatman D, Pagel C, Prost A, Ellis M, Costello A.  Effect of scaling up women's groups on birth outcomes in three rural districts in Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.  Lancet. 2010 Apr 3;375(9721):1193-202
• Behague, D, Tawiah, C,  Rosato, M, Some, T, Morrison, J. Evidence-based policy-making: The implications of globally-applicable research for context-specific problem-solving in developing countries.  Social Science & Medicine, Volume 69(10), November 2009, 1539-1546.
• Beran, David, Yudkin John S.  Looking beyond the issue of access to insulin: What is needed for proper diabetes care in resource poor settings.  Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2010;88:217-221.
• Chilenje Infant Growth, Nutrition and Infection (CIGNIS) Study Team.   Micronutrient fortification to improve growth and health of maternally HIV-unexposed and exposed Zambian infants: a randomised controlled trial. PLoS One. 2010 Jun 17;5(6).
• Costello, A. and D. Osrin, Vitamin A supplementation and maternal mortality. Lancet, 2010. 375(9727): p. 1675-1677.
• Das, Sushmita, Ujwala Bapat, Neena Shah More, Latika Chordhekar and David Osrin.  Prospective study of determinants and costs of home births in Mumbai slums.  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2010, 10:38.
• Gill GV, Yudkin JS, Keen H, Beran D.  The insulin dilemma in resource-limited countries. A way forward? Diabetologia. 2010 Sep 12.
• Hertzman C, Siddiqi A, Hertzman E, Irwin LG, Vaghri Z, Houweling TA, Bell R, Tinajero A, Marmot M.  Bucking the inequality gradient through early child development.  BMJ. 2010 Feb 9;340:c468. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c468.

• Hesketh, Therese, Zhen Yan, Lu, Li, Dong, Zu Shou, Jun, Zu Ye, Zing, Wei Zhi.  Stress and psychosomatic symptoms in Chinese schoolchildren:  a cross-sectional survey.  Archives of Disease in Childhood 2010;95(2):136-140.
• Houweling TA, Tripathy P, Nair N, Costello A, Prost A.  Cause-of-death data to support MDG 4 progress. Lancet. 2010 Sep 4;376(9743):770-1
• Lewycka, S, Mwansambo C, Kazembe P, Phiri T, Mganga A, Rosato M, Chapota H, Malamba F, Vergnano S, Newell ML, Osrin D, Costello A.  A cluster randomised controlled trial of the community effectiveness of two interventions in rural Malawi to improve health care and to reduce maternal, newborn and infant mortality.  Trials 2010;11:88.
  

• Matthews, Zoe, Amos Channon, Sarah Neal, David Osrin, Nyovani Madise, William Stone.  Examining the ‘‘Urban Advantage’’ in Maternal Health Care in Developing Countries. PLOS Medicine, 2010, 7(9).
  
• McCoy, D, K. Storeng, V. Filippi, C. Ronsmans, D. Osrin, B. Matthias, O.M. Campbell, R. Wolfe, A. Prost, Z. Hill, A. Costello, K. Azad, C. Mwansambo, D.S. Manandhar.  Maternal, neonatal and child health interventions and services: moving from knowledge of what works to systems that deliver.  International Health 2010:2(2);87-98. 
• More, NS, Alcock, G, Das, S, Bapat, U, Joshi, W and Osrin, D.  Spoilt for choice? Cross-sectional study of care-seeking for health problems
  during pregnancy in Mumbai slums. Glob Public Health, October 2010, 1 - 14.
  
• Morrison, J. Thapa, R, Sen, A, Neupane, R, Borghi, J, Tumbahangphe, K., Osrin, D, Manandhar DS, and Costello A.  Utilisation and management of maternal and child health funds in rural Nepal.  Community Development Journal 2010;45:75-89.
  
• Morrison J, R. Thapa, S. Hartley, D. Osrin, M. Manandhar, K. Tumbahangphe, R. Neupane, B. Budhathoki, A. Sen, N. Pace, D.S. Manandhar, A. Costello. Understanding how women's groups improve maternal and newborn health in Makwanpur, Nepal: a qualitative study. International Health, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 25-35. 
  
• Nair N, Tripathy P, Prost A, Costello A, Osrin D.  Improving newborn survival in low-income countries: community-bpreviewased approaches and lessons from South Asia. PLoS Med, 2010. 7(4): p. e1000246.
• Osrin, D. The implications of late-preterm birth for global child survival. Int J Epidemiol, 2010. 39(3): p. 645-649.
• Pringle I, Rosato M, Simbi C.  Community learning:  perspectives on the role of media in non-formal education with a case study from Mchinji District, Malawi.  In Commonwealth Education Partnerships 2009/10.  Commonwealth Secretariat, Nexus Strategic Partnerships:  Cambridge UK
• Rath, Suchitra, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta K Tripathy, Sarah Barnett, Shibanand Rath, Rajendra Mahapatra, Rajkumar Gope, Aparna Bajpai, Rajesh Sinha, Anthony Costello and Audrey Prost. Explaining the impact of a women's group led community mobilisation intervention on maternal and newborn health outcomes: the Ekjut trial process evaluation. BMC International Health and Human Rights 2010, 10:25.
• Rosato M, Mwansambo C, Lewycka S, Kazembe P, Phiri T, Malamba F, Newell ML, Osrin D and Costello A. MaiMwana women’s groups: a community mobilisation intervention to improve mother and child health and reduce mortality in rural Malawi. Malawi Medical Journal December 2010; 22(4): 112–119 .
  
• Semple, Sean, Delan Devakumar, Duncan G. Fullerton, Peter S. Thorne, Nervana Metwali, Anthony Costello, Stephen B. Gordon, Dharma S. Manandhar, and Jon G. Ayres.  Airborne Endotoxin Concentrations in Homes Burning Biomass Fuel.  Environmental Health Perspectives 2010:118(7);988-991.
• Skordis-Worrall J, Hanson K, Mills A.  Confusion, caring and tuberculosis diagnostic delay in Cape Town, South Africa. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2010 Feb;14(2):171-80.
• Skovdal M, Mwasiaji W, Webale A, Tomkins A.  Building orphan competent communities: experiences from a community-based capital cash transfer initiative in Kenya.  Health Policy Plan. 2010 Aug 30.

• Sikorski, Catherine, Kerac M, Fikremariam M, Seal A.  Preliminary evaluation of the Moyo chart - a novel, low-cost, weight-for-height slide chart for the improved assessment of nutritional status in children.  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (in press)
• Talley, L., Woodruff, B. A., Seal, A., Tripp, K., Mselle, L. S., Abdalla, F., Bhatia, R., & Mirghani, Z. Evaluation of the effectiveness of stainless steel cooking pots in reducing iron-deficiency anaemia in food aid-dependent populations. Public Health Nutr. 2010 1: 107-115.

• Thayyil, Sudhin, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Siddarth Ramji, Anthony M. Costello, Nicola J. Robertson.  Global application of therapeutic hypothermia to treat perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy.  International Health 2010:2(2);79-81.

• Thayyil S, Chandrasekaran M, Chitty LS, Wade A, Skordis-Worrall J, Bennett-Britton I, Cohen M, Withby E, Sebire NJ, Robertson NJ, Taylor AM.  Diagnostic accuracy of post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging in fetuses, children and adults: a systematic review.  Eur J Radiol. 2010 Jul;75(1):e142-8

• Tripathy P, Nair N, Barnett S, Mahapatra R, Borghi J, Rath S, Rath S, Gope R, Mahto D, Sinha R, Lakshminarayana R, Patel V, Pagel C, Prost A, Costello A.  Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes and maternal depression in Jharkhand and Orissa, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.  Lancet. 2010:3;375(9721):1182-92.

• Tripp K, Mackeith N, Woodruff BA, Talley L, Mselle L, Mirghani Z, Abdalla F, Bhatia R, & Seal AJ Acceptability and use of iron and iron-alloy cooking pots: implications for anaemia control programmes. Public Health Nutr. 2010 1: 123-130.
• Yoder PS, Rosato M, Riad M, Rahman F, Fort A, Armstrong A, Rubayet S.  Women's recall of delivery and neontal care:  a study of terms, concepts and survey questions.  Macro International:  Calverton, Maryland, USA, 2010.

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2009

• Alcock GA, More NS, Patil S, Porel M, Vaidya L, Osrin D.  Community-based health programmes: role perceptions and experiences of female peer facilitators in Mumbai's urban slums.  Health Educ Res. 2009 Aug 3.
• Blencowe H, Kerac M, Molyneux E. Safety, effectiveness and barriers to follow-up using an “Early Discharge” Kangaroo Care Policy in a resource poor setting. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2009; doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmn116
• Bunn J, Thindwa M, Kerac M. Features associated with underlying HIV infection in severe acute childhood malnutrition: a cross sectional study. Malawi Medical Journal 2009 Vol 21, Issue 3, p 108
• Costello A, Abbas M, Allen A, Ball S, Bell S, Bellamy R, Friel S, Groce N, Johnson A, Kett M, Lee M, Levy C, Maslin M, McCoy D, McGuire B, Montgomery H, Napier D, Pagel C, Patel J, de Oliveira JA, Redclift N, Rees H, Rogger D, Scott J, Stephenson J, Twigg J, Wolff J, Patterson C.  Managing the health effects of climate change: Lancet and University College London Institute for Global Health Commission.  Lancet. 2009 May 16;373(9676):1693-733.
• Darmstadt GL, Lee AC, Cousens S, Sibley L, Bhutta ZA, Donnay F, Osrin D, Bang A, Kumar V, Wall SN, Baqui A, Lawn JE. 60 million non-facility births: who can deliver in community settings to reduce intrapartum-related deaths? International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2009. 107: p. S89-S112.
• Daruwalla Nayreen, Armida Fernandez, Jenny Salam, Nikhat Shaikh, David Osrin.  Conflict, Crisis, and Abuse in Dharavi, Mumbai: Experiences from Six Years at a Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children. PLoS Med 2009, 6(7).
• Fergusson, P and Tomkins A HIV prevalence and mortality among children undergoing treatment for severe acute malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 009;103:541-548.
• Fergusson, P Chinkhumba, J, Grijalva-Eternod, C, Banda, T, Mkangama C and Tomkins, A.  Nutritional recovery in HIV infected and uninfected children with severe acute malnutrition. Archives of Diseases of Childhood 2009 Jul;94(7):512-6.
• Fergusson P, Tomkins A, Kerac M. Improving the management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in HIV prevalent settings. (in press, International Health, accepted February 2009)
• Grigulis, A., A. Prost, and D. Osrin, The lives of Malawian nurses: the stories behind the statistics. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2009.
• Hill ZE, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Kirkwood B: The context of informal abortions in rural Ghana.  J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2009 Dec; 18(12):2017-22.
• Hughes, SM, Beatrice Amadi, Mwiya Mwiya, Hope Nkamba, Andrew Tomkins and David Goldblatt.  Dendritic Cell Anergy Results from Endotoxemia in Severe Malnutrition.  Journal of Immunology 2009 Aug 15;183(4):2818-26.
• Hughes, SM, Amadi, B, Mwiya, M, Mkamba, H, Mulundu, G, Tomkins, A and Goldblatt, D.  CD4 counts decline despite nutritional recovery in HIV-infected Zambian children with severe malnutrition. Pediatrics 2009 123(2) 347-351.
• Kembhavi G and Wirz S.  Engaging adolescents with disabilities in research.  Alter - European Journal of Disability Research.  Revue europeenne de recherche sur le handicap.  Accepted for publication May 2009.
• Kerac, M; Egan R; Mayer, S; Walsh A; Seal A. New WHO Growth Standards: rollout needs more resources. The Lancet (Commentary), Vol 374, Issue 9684, p 136 to 144, 11th July 2009.
• Kerac M, Bunn J, Seal A, Thindwa M, Tomkins A, Sadler K, Bahwere P, Collins S. Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) using probiotic/prebiotic-enhanced therapeutic food in a HIV prevalent setting PRONUT Study): A double-blind efficacy RCT in Malawi. The Lancet, Vol 374, Issue 9684, p 136 to 144, 11th July 2009.
• Kerac M, Seal A, Blencowe H, Bunn J. (2009) Improved assessment of child nutritional status using target weights and a novel, low-cost, weight-for-height slide chart. Trop.Doct. 39: 23-26.
• Lee AC, Lawn JE, Cousens S, Kumar V, Osrin D, Bhutta ZA, Wall SN, Nandakumar AK, Syed U, Darmstadt GL. Linking families and facilities for care at birth: what works to avert intrapartum-related deaths. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2009. 107: p. S65-S88.
• McCoy David, Gayatri Kembhavi, Jinesh Patel, Akish Luintel (2009). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's grant-making programme for global health.  Lancet 373;1645-1653.
• More, Neena Shah, Glyn Alcock, Ujwala Bapat, Sushmita Das, Wasundhara Joshi, David Osrin.  Tracing pathways from antenatal to delivery care for women in Mumbai, India: cross-sectional study of maternity in low-income areas. International Health (2009) 1, 71—77.
• More NS, Bapat U, Das S, Barnett S, Costello A, Fernandez A, Osrin D. Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes: one-year surveillance of births in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai.  Int J Equity Health. 2009 Jun 5;8(1):21.
• Myatt M, Duffield A, Seal A, Pasteur F. (2009) The effect of body shape on weight-for-height and mid-upper arm circumference based case definitions of acute malnutrition in Ethiopian children. Annals of Human Biology 36: 5-20.
• Olusanya BO, Emokpae A, Renner J, Wirz SL (2009)  Costs and performance of early hearing detection programmes in lagos, Nigeria.  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 103, 179-186.
• Osrin, D., et al., Ethical challenges in cluster randomized controlled trials: experiences from public health interventions in Asia and Africa. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009. 87(10): p. 772-779.
• Pagel C, Lewycka S, Colbourn T, Mwansambo C, Meguid T, Chiudzu G, Utley M, Costello AM.  Estimation of potential effects of improved community-based drug provision, to augment health-facility strengthening, on maternal mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage and sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: an equity-effectiveness model.  Lancet. 2009 Sep 22
• Powell-Jackson Timothy, Joanna Morrison, Suresh Tiwari, Basu Dev Neupane and Anthony M Costello. The experiences of districts in implementing a national incentive programme to promote safe delivery in Nepal. BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:97 (09 Jun 2009).
• Rosato M, Lewycka S, Mwansambo C, Kazembe P, Costello A.  Women's groups' perceptions of neontal and infant health problems in rural Malawi.  Malawi Medical Journal 2009;21(4):168-173
• Ronsmans C, Fisher DJ, Osmond C, Margetts BM, Fall CH; Maternal Micronutrient Supplementation Study Group.  Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy in low-income countries: a meta-analysis of effects on stillbirths and on early and late neonatal mortality.   Food Nutr Bull. 2009 Dec;30(4 Suppl):S547-55.
• Skordis-Worrall, J & Kerac, M. Localized or centralized control of food production for treating severe acute malnutrition: echoes of a past child survival revolution? Maternal and Child Nutrition (Editorial), 2009, Vol 5(3) 195-198
• Thayyil S, Costello A, Shankaran S, Robertson NJ.  Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy Implications for Neonatal Units in India.  Indian Pediatr. 2009 Apr 7;46(4):283-289.
• Wells JC, Williams JE, Chomtho S, Darch T, Grijalva-Eternod C, Kennedy K, Haroun D, Wilson C, Cole TJ, Fewtrell MS. Pediatric reference data for lean tissue properties: density and hydration from age 5 to 20 y. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print]

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2008

• Akhter, N, C. Witten, G. Stallkamp, V. Anderson, S. de Pee, and N. HaselowChildren aged 12–59 months missed through the National Vitamin A Capsule Distribution Program in Bangladesh: findings of the Nutritional Surveillance ProjectField. Actions Sci. Rep., 1, 19-25, 2008
• Anwar E, Hesketh T. Child Labour. Student BMJ 2008;16: 248-250.
• Barnett S, Nair N, Tripathy P, Borghi J, Rath S, Costello A.  A prospective key informant surveillance system to measure maternal mortality - findings from indigenous populations in Jharkhand and Orissa, India. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2008 Feb 28;8:6.
• Beran, D, McCabe, A and Yudkin JS. Access to medicines versus access to treatment: the case of type 1 diabetes. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008; 86(8): 648-9.
• Black MM, Walker SP, Wachs TD, Ulkuer N, Gardner JM, Grantham-McGregor S, Lozoff B, Engle PL, de Mello MC. (2008).  Policies to reduce undernutrition include child development. Lancet Feb 9;371(9611):454-5. no abstract available.
• Campbell Ashley A, Andrew Thorne-Lyman, Kai Sun, Saskia de Pee, Klaus Kraemer, Regina Moench-Pfanner, Mayang Sari, Nasima Akhter, Martin W. Bloem, and Richard D. Semba. Greater Household Expenditures on Fruits and Vegetables but Not Animal Source Foods Are Associated with Decreased Risk of Under-Five Child Mortality among Families in Rural Indonesia.  J Nutr 2008;138:2244-2249.
• Chinkhumba J, Tomkins A, Banda T, Mkangama C, Fergusson P (2008).  The impact of HIV on mortality during in-patient rehabilitation of severely malnourished children in Malawi. Trans Roy Soc Trop Med Hyg;102:639-644.
• Costello A, Mark Maslin.  Apocalypse now?  The Lancet - Vol. 372, Issue 9633, 12 July 2008, Pages 105-106
• Costello A, Grant M, Horton R.  The Lancet-UCL Commission: health effects of climate change.  Lancet. 2008 Apr 5;371(9619):1145-7.
• Hansson E, Lloyd B, McCoy D, Ntuli A, Padarath A, Sanders D. (Eds) Global Health Watch 2.  Zed Books, London.  2008, pp.1-386.
• Heikens, GT, Amadi, BC, Manary, M, Rollins, N and Tomkins, A. (2008) Nutrition interventions need improved operational capacity. Lancet Jan 19;371 (9608):181-2.  No abstract available.
• Heikens GT, Bunn J, Amadi B, Manary M, Chhagan M, Berkley JA, Rollins N, Kelly P, Adamczick C, Maitland K, Tomkins A; Blantyre Working Group.   Case management of HIV-infected severely malnourished children: challenges in the area of highest prevalence. Lancet. 2008 Apr 12;371(9620):1305-7. Review.
• Hesketh T. Global population growth – Is it sustainable? Lessons from China.  Science in Parliament Spring 2008: 20-21
• Hesketh T, Ye XJ, Li L, Wang HM. Health status and access to health care of migrant workers in China. Public Health Reports 2008;123(2):189-197
• Hesketh T, Ye XJ, Zhu WX. Syphilis in China: the great comeback.  Emerging Health Threats Journal 2008, 1:e6. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.08.006
• Hesketh T, Xing ZW. Gender disparities in China. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2008;93(8):716
• Hill Z, Manu A, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Gyan T, Turner K, Weobong B, Ten Asbroek AH, Kirkwood BR. How did formative research inform the development of a home-based neonatal care intervention in rural Ghana?  Journal of Perinatology 2008;28:S38-45.
• Hill Z, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Odei-Danso S, Kirkwood B. Informed consent in Ghana: what do participants really understand?  J Med Ethics. 2008 Jan;34(1):48-53.
• Jones KD, Hesketh T, Yudkin J.  Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: an emerging public-health concern. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Mar;102(3):219-24.
• Kelly,P, Katubulushi,M, Todd, J, Banda, R, Yambayamba, V, Pwoloshi,M, Zuli,I, Kafwembe,E, Yavwa,F, Danderson, IR and Tomkins, A . Zambian population of mixed HIV status: a cluster randomized trial. Am J Clin Nutr 2008 88(4) 1010-1017.
• Kuipers P, Wirz S, Hartley S. Systematic synthesis of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) project evaluation reports for evidence-based policy: a proof-of-concept study. BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2008 Mar 6;8:3.
• Lee, Vanessa, Faruk Ahmed, Shoko Wada, Tahmeed Ahmed, AM Shamsir Ahmed, Cadi Parvin Banu and Nasima Akhter.  Extent of vitamin A deficiency among rural pregnant women in Bangladesh.  Public Health Nutrition 2008, Jun 12:1-6.
• McCoy D, Bennett S, Witter S, Pond B, Baker B, Gow J, Chand S, Ensor T, McPake B.  Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet. 2008 Feb 23;371(9613):675-81.
• McCoy D, Mwansambo C, Costello A, Khan A.  Academic partnerships between rich and poor countries.  Lancet. 2008 Mar 29;371(9618):1055-7
• Morrison J, D Osrin, B Shrestha, K M Tumbahangphe, S Tamang, D Shrestha, S Thapa, N Mesko, D S Manandhar, A Costello.  How did formative research inform the development of a women's group intervention in rural Nepal? Journal of Perinatology 28, S14 - S22 (05 Dec 2008)
• Nahar B, Hamadani JD, Ahmed T, Tofail F, Rahman A, Huda SN, Grantham-McGregor SM. Effects of psychosocial stimulation on growth and development of severely malnourished children in a nutrition unit in Bangladesh.  Eur J Clin Nutr. 2008 Sep 3.
• Neonatal Mortality Formative Research Working Group.  Developing community-based intervention strategies to save newborn lives:  lessons learned from formative research in five countries.  Journal of Perinatology 2008;28:S4-8.
• Olusanya BO, Emokpae A, Renner JK, Wirz SL. Costs and performance of early hearing detection programmes in Lagos, Nigeria. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Sep 22.
• Olusanya B, Luxon L, Wirz S (In Press) Ethical Issues in Newborn Hearing Screening for developing Countries.  J Medical Ethics  
• Olusanya BO, Wirz SL, Luxon M.  Community-based infant screening for early detection of permanent hearing loss in Lagos, Nigeria: a cross sectional study.  Bulletin of the World Health Organisation on line publication published 2/10/08
• Olusanya BO, Wirz SL, Luxon LM.Non-hospital delivery and permanent congenital and early-onset hearing loss in a developing country.
  BJOG 2008 Oct;115(11):1419-27.
• Olusanya BO, Wirz SL, Luxon LM.Hospital-based universal newborn hearing screening for early detection of permanent congenital hearing loss in Lagos, Nigeria.
  Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2008 Jul;72(7):991-1001.
• Owino, VO, Amadi, B, Sinkala,M, Filteau,SM and Tomkins, A.   Complementary feeding and nutrient intake from habitual complementary foods of infants and children aged 6-18 months in Lusaka, Zambia.  African Journal of Food Nutrition Agriculture and Development 2008 vol 8 March, 28-47.
• Pace N, Seal A, Costello AM. Food commodity derivatives: a new cause of malnutrition? Lancet 2008 May 17;371(9625):1648-50.
• Poespoprodjo JR, Fobia W, Kenanalem E, Lampah DA, Warikar N, Seal A, McGready R, Sugiarto P, Tjitra E, Anstey NM, Price RN.  Adverse pregnancy outcomes in an area where multidrug-resistant plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infections are endemic. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 May 1;46(9):1374-81. 
• Prost A.  Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change Among Tibetan Refugees in India.  Epistemologies of Health, Volume 2.  Berghahn Books, Oxford.  2008, pp.1-156.
• Prost A, Elford J, Imrie J, Petticrew M, Hart GJ.  Social, Behavioural, and Intervention Research among People of Sub-Saharan African Origin Living with HIV in the UK and Europe: Literature Review and Recommendations for Intervention.  AIDS Behav. 2008 Mar;12(2):170-94.
• Robertson NJ, Nakakeeto M, Hagmann C, Cowan FM, Acolet D, Iwata O, Allen E, Elbourne D, Costello A, Jacobs I. Therapeutic hypothermia for birth asphyxia in low-resource settings: a pilot randomised controlled trial.  Lancet. 2008 Sep 6;372(9641):801-3.
• Rosato, Mikey, Glenn Laverack, Lisa Howard Grabman, Prasanta Tripathy, Nirmala Nair, Charles Mwansambo, Kishwar Azad, Joanna Morrison, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Henry Perry, Susan Rifkin, Anthony Costello.  Community participation: lessons for maternal, newborn, and child health. The Lancet - Vol. 372, Issue 9642, 13 September 2008, Pages 962-971.
• Sadler K, Kerac M, Collins S, Khengere H, Nesbitt A. Improving the Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in an Area of High HIV Prevalence.  Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmn029 (published online May 1st 2008) http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/54/6/364
• Seal A, Kafwembe E, Kassim IA, Hong M, Wesley A, Wood J, Abdalla F, van den Briel T. Maize meal fortification is associated with improved vitamin A and iron status in adolescents and reduced childhood anaemia in a food aid-dependent refugee population.  Public Health Nutr. 2008 11: 720-728 doi: 10.1017/S1368980007001486
  
• Scrutton C, Aloki-Olaunah C, Namugwanya M, Tomkins A.  Farm Africa Working Paper No.12.  Goat's milk:  A viable contribution in the challenge to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV in the Mbale Region, Uganda?  pp.1-48.
• Skovdal, M, Mwasiaji, W, Morrison, J and Tomkins, A. Community-based capital cash transfer to support orphans in Western Kenya: A consumer perspective.  Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies 2008 Vol 3 Issue 1 pp 1-15.
• Tawiah-Agyemang C, Kirkwood BR, Edmond K, Bazzano A, Hill Z.  Early initiation of breastfeeding in Ghana.  Barriers and facilitators.  Journal of Perinatology 2008;28:S46-52.
• Thurstans S, Kerac M, Maleta K, Banda T, Nesbitt A. HIV prevalence in severely malnourished children admitted to nutrition rehabilitation units in Malawi: Geographical & seasonal variations, a cross sectional study. BMC Paediatrics 2008, 8:22 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-8-22
• Tofail F, Persson LA, El Arifeen S, Hamadani JD, Mehrin F, Ridout D, Ekström EC, Huda SN, Grantham-McGregor SM. Effects of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementation on infant development: a randomized trial from the Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions, Matlab (MINIMat) study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Mar;87(3):704-11.
• Tofail Fahmida, Marie Vahter, Jena D. Hamadani, Barbro Nermell, Syed N. Huda, Mohammad Yunus, Mahfuzar Rahman and Sally M. Grantham-McGregor (2008). Effect of Arsenic Exposure During Pregnancy on Infant Development at Seven Months in Rural Matlab, Bangladesh.
• Tomkins AM.  Nutrition.  Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Tropical medicine.  Eds Eddleston M, Davidson R, Brent A and Wilkinson R.  Third Edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-920409-0, pp.621-663.
  
• Vaidya A, Saville N, Shrestha BP, Costello AM, Manandhar DS, Osrin D.  Effects of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on children's weight and size at 2 years of age in Nepal: follow-up of a double-blind randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2008 Feb 9;371(9611):492-9.
• Wickenden M (2008) ‘Disability, culture and Cleft Lip and Palate’ in Cleft Lip and Palate Management in the Developing World. Mars M, Sell D and Habel A (Eds).
• Ye XJ, Mei WH, Li L, Hesketh T.  Risk behaviours in migrant workers in Zhejiang Province.  Health Studies 2008; 39(3):244-6  [in Chinese]

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2007

• Collins S, Sadler K, Bahwere P, Hallam A (2007) Management of severe acute malnutrition in children - Authors' reply. Lancet 369 (9563): 741.
• Creeke PI, Dibari F, Cheung E, van den Briel T, Kyroussis E, Seal AJ (2007) Whole blood NAD and NADP concentrations are not depressed in subjects with clinical pellagra. J. Nutr. 137: 2013-2017.
• Engle P, Black M, Behrman JR, Cabral de Mello M, Gertler PJ, Kapiiri L, Martorell R, Young ME and the International Child Development Steering Group.  Child development in developing countries 2. (2007) Child development:  Risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries. Lancet 369:145-157.
• Gamlin J, Diaz Romo P, Hesketh T. (2007) Exposure of young children working on Mexican tobacco plantations to organophosphorous and carbamic pesticides, indicated by cholinesterase depression. Child Care Health Dev. May;33(3):246-8.
• Grantham-McGregor S; International Child Development Committee. (2007) Early child development in developing countries. Lancet Mar 10;369(9564):824. no abstract available.
• Grantham-McGregor S, Cheung YB, Cueto S, Glewwe P, Richter L, Strupp B; International Child Development Steering Group. (2007) Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. Lancet Jan 6;369(9555):60-70.
• Hesketh T (2007) HIV/AIDS in China: the numbers problem. Lancet 369 (9562): 621–3.
• Hesketh T, Wang H, Ye X, Li L (2007) Smoking, cessation and expediture in low income Chinese: cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health 7 (1): 29.
• Hill Z, Kirkwood B, Kendall C, Adjei E, Arthur P, Agyemang CT.  Factors that affect the adoption and maintenance of weekly vitamin A supplementation among women in Ghana. Public Health Nutr. 2007 Aug;10(8):827-33.
• Huggett JF, Taylor MS, Kocjan G, Evans HE, Morris-Jones S, Gant V, Novak T, Costello AM, Zumla A, Miller RF.  Development and evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of HIV-infected patients. Thorax. 2008 Feb;63(2):154-9. Epub 2007 Aug 10.
• Karaolis N, Jackson D, Ashworth A, Sanders D, Sogaula N, McCoy D, Chopra M, Schofield C.  WHO guidelines for severe malnutrition: are they feasible in rural African hospitals?  Arch Dis Child. 2007 Mar;92(3):198-204.
• Kett M, Rowson M.  Drivers of violent conflict.  J R Soc Med. 2007 Sep;100(9): 403-6. Review. No abstract available.
• Li L, Wang HM, Ye XJ, Jiang MM, Lou QY, Hesketh T.  The mental health status of Chinese rural-urban migrant workers : comparison with permanent urban and rural dwellers. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2007 Sep;42(9):716-22. Epub 2007 Jun 27.
• McCoy D.  The World Bank's new health strategy: reason for alarm? Lancet. 2007 May 5;369(9572):1499-501. No abstract available.
• McCoy D, Sanders D, Kvåle G.  Broader vision required for the new child survival revolution. J Trop Pediatr. 2007 Feb;53(1):1-3. No abstract available.
• McNally LM, Jeena PM, Gajee K, Thula SA, Sturm AW, Cassol S, Tomkins AM, Coovadia HM, Goldblatt D. Effect of age, polymicrobial disease, and maternal HIV status on treatment response and cause of severe pneumonia in South African children: a prospective descriptive study. Lancet. 2007 Apr 28;369(9571): 1440-51.
• Meeks Gardner JM, Powell CA, Grantham-McGregor SM.  Determinants of aggressive and prosocial behaviour among Jamaican schoolboys. West Indian Med J. 2007 Jan;56(1):34-41.
• Nkonki LL, Doherty TM, Hill Z, Chopra M, Schaay N, Kendall C.  Missed opportunities for participation in prevention of mother to child transmission programmes: Simplicity of nevirapine does not necessarily lead to optimal uptake, a qualitative study. AIDS Res Ther. 2007 Nov 22;4:27.
• Owino VO, Kasonka LM, Sinkala MM, Wells JK, Eaton S, Darch T, Coward A, Tomkins AM, Filteau SM.  Fortified complementary foods with or without alpha-amylase treatment increase hemoglobin but do not reduce breast milk intake of 9-mo-old Zambian infants. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Oct;86(4):1094-103.
• Prost A, Sseruma WS, Fakoya I, Arthur G, Taegtmeyer M, Njeri A, Fakoya A, Imrie J.  HIV voluntary counselling and testing for African communities in London: learning from experiences in Kenya.  Sex Transm Infect. 2007 Dec;83(7):547-51.
• Prost A, Chopin M, McOwan A, Elam G, Dodds J, Macdonald N, Imrie J.  "There is such a thing as asking for trouble": taking rapid HIV testing to gay venues is fraught with challenges. Sex Transm Infect. 2007 Jun;83(3):185-8.
• Quizphe A, Benos A, Lloyd B, Narayan R, Schuftan C, McCoy D, de la Paz D, Legge D, Mashal J, Smith L, Kagis M, Issa G, Baum F, Shukrallah A, Serag H, John P, Chowdury Z, Sanders D, Shannon S, Peng KK; People's Health Movement.  Reed Elsevier and the arms trade revisited. Lancet. 2007 Mar 24;369(9566):988; discussion 989-90. No abstract available.
• Roy SK, Tomkins AM, Akramuzzaman SM, Chakraborty B, Ara G, Biswas R, Islam KE, Khatun W, Jolly SP. (2007) Impact of zinc supplementation on subsequent morbidity and growth in Bangladeshi children with persistent diarrhoea. J Health Popul Nutr. Mar;25(1):67-74.
• Sadler K, Myatt M, Feleke T, Collins S. (2007) A comparison of the programme coverage of two therapeutic feeding interventions implemented in neighbouring districts of Malawi. Public Health Nutr. Sep;10(9):907-13.
• Scrutton, C, Aloki-Olaunah, C, Namugwanya, M and Tomkins, A.  (2007) Goat’s Milk: a viable contribution in the challenge to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV in the Mbale Region, Uganda?  Farm Africa Working Paper No 12. Pp1-48.
• Seal A, Kerac M, (2007) Operational implications of using 2006 World Health Organization growth standards in nutrition programmes: secondary data analysis. BMJ 334: 733-735.
• Seal AJ, Creeke PI, Dibari F, Cheung E, Kyroussis E, Semedo P, van den Briel T (2007) Low and deficient niacin status and pellagra are endemic in postwar Angola. Am J Clin Nutr 85 (1): 218–24.
• Walker SP, Chang SM, Powell CA, Simonoff E, Grantham-McGregor SM.  Early childhood stunting is associated with poor psychological functioning in late adolescence and effects are reduced by psychosocial stimulation. J Nutr. 2007 Nov;137(11):2464-9.

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2006

• Carter JA, Lees JA, Gona JK, Murira G, Rimba K, Neville BG, Newton CR (2006) Severe falciparum malaria and acquired childhood language disorder. Dev Med Child Neurol 48: 51–7.
• Chitty LS, Greene ND, Burren K, Hesketh T, Copp A (2006) OC126: The PONTI (Prevention of neural tube defects by inositol) clinical trial. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 28 (4): 395.
• Chopra M, Kendall C, Hill Z, Schaay N, Nkonki LL, Doherty TM.  (2006) "Nothing new": responses to the introduction of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa. AIDS Oct 3;20(15):1975-7.
• Collins S, Dent N, Binns P, Bahwere P, Sadler K, Hallam A (2006) Management of severe acute malnutrition in children. Lancet 368 (9551): 1992–2000.
• Collins S, Sadler K, Dent N, Khara T, Guerrero S, Myatt M, Saboya M, Walsh A (2006) Key issues in the success of community-based management of severe malnutrition. Food Nutr Bull 27 (3): S49–82.
• Costello A, Azad K, Barnett S (2006) An alternative strategy to reduce maternal mortality. Lancet 368 (9546): 1477–9.
• Ding QJ, Hesketh T (2006) Family size, fertility preferences, and sex ratio in China in the era of the one child family policy: results from national family planning and reproductive health survey. BMJ 333 (7564): 371–3.
• Ellis M, Manandhar D, Hunt L, Barnett S, Azad K (2006) Touch detection of neonatal hypothermia in Nepal. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 91 (5): F367–8.
• Emond AM, Lira PI, Lima MC, Grantham-McGregor SM, Ashworth A (2006) Development and behaviour of low-birthweight term infants at 8 years in northeast Brazil: a longitudinal study. Acta Paediatr 95 (10): 1249–57.
• Fernandez A, Osrin D (2006) The City Initiative for Newborn Health. PLoS Med 3 (9): e339.
• Filippi V, Ronsmans C, Campbell OM, Graham WJ, Mills A, Borghi J, Koblinsky M, Osrin D (2006) Maternal health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action. Lancet 368 (9546): 1535–41.
• Groce N, Yousafzai A, Dlamini P, Zalud S, Wirz S.HIV/AIDS and disability: a pilot survey of HIV/AIDS knowledge among a deaf population in Swaziland.Int J Rehabil Res. 2006 Dec;29(4): 319-24.
• Hamadani JD, Huda SN, Khatun F, Grantham-McGregor SM (2006) Psychosocial stimulation improves the development of undernourished children in rural Bangladesh. J Nutr 136 (10): 2645–52.
• Hesketh T, Gamlin J, Woodhead M (2006) Policy in child labour. Arch Dis Child 91 (9): 721–3.
• Hesketh T, Li L, Ye X, Wang H, Jiang M, Tomkins A (2006) HIV and syphilis in migrant workers in eastern China. Sex Transm Infect 82 (1): 11–4.
• Hesketh T, Xing ZW (2006) Human rights in China. Lancet 368 (9529): 27.
• Hesketh T, Xing ZW (2006) Abnormal sex ratios in human populations: Causes and consequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103 (36): 13271–5.
• Hindle LJ, Gitau R, Filteau SM, Newens KJ, Osrin D, Costello AM, Tomkins AM, Vaidya A, Mahato RK, Yadav B, Manandhar DS (2006) Effect of multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy on inflammatory markers in Nepalese women. Am J Clin Nutr 84 (5): 1086–92.
• Huggett JF, Miller RF, Taylor MS, Costello AM, Zumla A.  Problems of developing molecular diagnostic tests for opportunistic pathogens: the example of Pneumocystis jirovecii. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2006;53 Suppl 1:S85-6. No abstract available.
• Kasonka L, Makasa M, Marshall T, Chisenga M, Sinkala M, Chintu C, Kaseba C, Kasolo F, Gitau R, Tomkins A, Murray S, Filteau S (2006) Risk factors for subclinical mastitis among HIV-infected and uninfected women in Lusaka, Zambia. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20 (5): 379–91.
• Lietz G, Mulokozi G, Henry JC, Tomkins AM (2006) Xanthophyll and Hydrocarbon Carotenoid Patterns Differ in Plasma and Breast Milk of Women Supplemented with Red Palm Oil during Pregnancy and Lactation. J Nutr 136 (7): 1821–7.
• McCoy D.  Translating words into actions: are governments acting on the advice of the World health report?  Bull World Health Organ. 2006 Apr;84(4): 327-31; discussion 331-2.
• McCoy D, Labonte R, Orbinski J.  Global Health Watch Canada? Mobilizing the Canadian public health community around a global health advocacy agenda. Can J Public Health. 2006 Mar-Apr;97(2):142-4.
• McCoy D, Narayan R, Baum F, Sanders D, Serag H, Salvage J, Rowson M, Schrecker T, Woodward D, Labonte R, Sengupta A, Qizphe A, Schuftan C; People's Health Movement. (2006) A new Director General for WHO - an opportunity for bold and inspirational leadership. Lancet Dec 16;368(9553):2179-83. No abstract available.
• McCoy D, Rowson M, Sanders D.  The Global Health Watch: a global health report with a difference. Scand J Public Health. 2006;34(3):225-7. No abstract available.
• McNally LM, Jeena PM, Gajee K, Sturm AW, Tomkins AM, Coovadia HM, Goldblatt D (2006) Lack of Association between the Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in HIV-1-Infected South African Children. J Infect Dis 194 (3): 385–90.
• Newens K, Filteau S, Tomkins A (2006) Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D does not vary over the course of a malarial infection. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 100: 41–44.
• Olusanya BO, Luxon LM, Wirz SL (2006) Ethical issues in screening for hearing impairment in newborns in developing countries. J Med Ethics 32 (10) 588-91.
• Phiri W, Kasonka L, Collin S, Makasa M, Sinkala M, Chintu C, Kasolo F, Kaseba C, Tomkins AM, Filteau SM (2006) Factors influencing breast milk HIV RNA viral load among Zambian women. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 22 (7): 607–14.
• Olusanyo B. Luxon L. Wirz S. Maternal Views on infant hearing loss in a developing country” Int J Paediatric Otolaryngology 2006;70:619-623
• Rochat TJ, Richter LM, Doll HA, Buthelezi NP, Tomkins A, Stein A (2006) Depression among pregnant rural South African women undergoing HIV testing. JAMA 295 (12): 1376–8.
• Rosa H, Goldani MZ, Scanlon T, da Silva AA, Giugliani EJ, Agranonik M, Tomkins A (2006) Barriers for HIV testing during pregnancy in Southern Brazil. Rev Saude Publica 40 (2): 220–5.
• Rosato M, Mwansambo CW, Kazembe PN, Phiri T, Soko QS, Lewycka S, Kunyenge BE, Vergnano S, Osrin D, Newell ML, Costello AM (2006) Women's groups' perceptions of maternal health issues in rural Malawi. Lancet 368 (9542): 1180–8.
• Roy SK, Tomkins AM, Ara G, Jolly SP, Khatun W, Chowdhury R, Chakrabarty B (2006) Impact of zinc deficiency on vibrio cholerae enterotoxin-stimulated water and electrolyte transport in animal model. J Health Popul Nutr 24 (1): 42–7.
• Sadler K, Bahwere P, Guerrero S, Collins S (2006) Community-based therapeutic care in HIV-affected populations. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 100 (1): 6–9.
• Seal AJ, Creeke PI, Gnat D, Abdalla F, Mirghani Z (2006) Excess dietary iodine intake in long-term African refugees. Public Health Nutr 9 (1): 35–9.
• Tomkins A (2006) Measuring obesity in children: what standards to use?. J Pediatr (Rio J) 82 (4): 246–248.
• Walker SP, Chang SM, Powell CA, Simonoff E, Grantham-McGregor SM (2006) Effects of psychosocial stimulation and dietary supplementation in early childhood on psychosocial functioning in late adolescence: follow-up of randomised controlled trial. BMJ 333 (7566): 472.

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2005

• Baker-Henningham H, Powell C, Walker S, Grantham-McGregor S (2005) The effect of early stimulation on maternal depression: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Arch Dis Child 90: 1230–4.
• Borghi J, Thapa B, Osrin D, Jan S, Morrison J, Tamang S, Shrestha BP, Wade A, Manandhar DS, Costello AM (2005) Economic assessment of a women's group intervention to improve birth outcomes in rural Nepal. Lancet 366 (9500): 1882–4.
• Carter JA, Mung'ala-Odera V, Neville BG, Murira G, Mturi N, Musumba C, Newton CR (2005) Persistent neurocognitive impairments associated with severe falciparum malaria in Kenyan children. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 76: 476–81.
• Carter JA, Ross AJ, Neville BG, Obiero E, Katana K, Mung'ala-Odera V, Lees JA, Newton CR (2005) Developmental impairments following severe falciparum malaria in children. Trop Med Int Health 10: 3–10.
• Chisenga M, Kasonka L, Makasa M, Sinkala M, Chintu C, Kaseba C, Kasolo F, Tomkins A, Murray S, Filteau S (2005) Factors affecting the duration of exclusive breastfeeding among HIV-infected and -uninfected women in Lusaka, Zambia. J Hum Lact 21: 266–75.
• Christian P, Osrin D, Manandhar DS, Khatry SK, de L Costello AM, West KP Jr (2005) Antenatal micronutrient supplements in Nepal. Lancet 366 (9487): 711–2.
• Costello A, Osrin D (2005) The case for a new Global Fund for maternal, neonatal, and child survival. Lancet 366 (9485): 603–5.
• Costello A, Osrin D (2005) Epidemiological transition, medicalisation of childbirth, and neonatal mortality: three Brazilian birth-cohorts. Lancet 365: 825–6.
• Creeke PI, Seal AJ (2005) Quantitation of the niacin metabolites 1-methylnicotinamide and l-methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide in random spot urine samples, by ion-pairing reverse-phase HPLC with UV detection, and the implications for the use of spot urine samples in the assessment of niacin status. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 817: 247–53.
• Gardner JM, Powell CA, Baker-Henningham H, Walker SP, Cole TJ, Grantham-McGregor SM (2005) Zinc supplementation and psychosocial stimulation: effects on the development of undernourished Jamaican children. Am J Clin Nutr 82: 399–405.
• Gitau R, Makasa M, Kasonka L, Sinkala M, Chintu C, Tomkins A, Filteau S (2005) Maternal micronutrient status and decreased growth of Zambian infants born during and after the maize price increases resulting from the southern African drought of 2001-2002. Public Health Nutr 8: 837–43.
• Grantham-McGregor S (2005) Can the provision of breakfast benefit school performance?. Food Nutr Bull 26: S144–58.
• Grantham-McGregor S, Baker-Henningham H (2005) Review of the evidence linking protein and energy to mental development. Public Health Nutr 8: 1191–201.
• Hesketh T, Lu L (2005) HIV and syphilis in Chinese internal migrants. AIDS 19: 1550.
• Hesketh T, Qu JD (2005) Psychological morbidity in Chinese adolescents. Psychological Reports 96: 435–444.
• Hesketh T (2005) The 10/90 report on health research. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 99: 638–640.
• Hesketh T, Lu L, Xing ZW (2005) The effect of China's one-child family policy after 25 years. N Engl J Med 353: 1171–6.
• Hesketh T, Ding QJ (2005) Anxiety and depression in adolescents in urban and rural China. Psychol Rep 96: 435–44.
• Hesketh T, Duo L, Li H, Tomkins AM (2005) Attitudes to HIV and HIV testing in high prevalence areas of China: informing the introduction of voluntary counselling and testing programmes. Sex Transm Infect 81: 108–12.
• Hesketh T, Tang F, Wang ZB, Huang XM, Williams D, Cubitt DW, Tomkins AM (2005) HIV and syphilis in young Chinese adults: implications for spread. Int J STD AIDS 16: 262–6.
• Holdstock D, Rowson M.  Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Lancet. 2005 Mar 19-25;365(9464):1030. No abstract available.
• Knippenberg R, Lawn JE, Darmstadt GL, Begkoyian G, Fogstad H, Walelign N, Paul VK, Lancet Neonatal Survival Steering Team (2005) Systematic scaling up of neonatal care in countries. Lancet 365: 1087–98.
• Lawn J, Shibuya K, Stein C (2005) No cry at birth: global estimates of intrapartum stillbirths and intrapartum-related neonatal deaths. Bull World Health Organ 83: 409–17.
• Lawn JE, Cousens S, Zupan J, Lancet Neonatal Survival Steering Team (2005) 4 million neonatal deaths: when? Where? Why?. Lancet 365: 891–900.
• Lu L, Xing ZW, Jun Z, Hesketh T (2005) Reform of primary care in China. Lancet 366: 120.
• Martines J, Paul VK, Bhutta ZA, Koblinsky M, Soucat A, Walker N, Bahl R, Fogstad H, Costello A, Lancet Neonatal Survival Steering Team (2005) Neonatal survival: a call for action. Lancet 365: 1189–97.
• McCoy D, Chopra M, Loewenson R, Aitken JM, Ngulube T, Muula A, Ray S, Kureyi T, Ijumba P, Rowson M.  Expanding access to antiretroviral therapy in sub-saharan Africa: avoiding the pitfalls and dangers, capitalizing on the opportunities. Am J Public Health. 2005 Jan;95(1):18-22. Review.
• Millward H, Ojwang VP, Carter JA, Hartley S. (2005) International guidelines and the inclusion of disabled people: The Ugandan Story. Disability and Society 20: 153–169.
• Morrison J, Tamang S, Mesko N, Osrin D, Shrestha B, Manandhar M, Manandhar D, Standing H, Costello A (2005) Women's health groups to improve perinatal care in rural Nepal. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 5: 6.
• Myatt M, Feleke T, Sadler K, Collins S (2005) A field trial of a survey method for estimating the coverage of selective feeding programmes. Bull World Health Organ 83 (1): 20–6.
• Olusanya BO, Luxon LM, Wirz SL (2005) Childhood deafness poses problems in developing countries. BMJ 330 (7489) 480-1 No abstract available
• Olusanya BO, Luxon LM, Wirz SL (2005) Screening for early childhood hearing loss in Nigeria. J Med Screen 12 (3) 115-8
• Osrin D, Vaidya A, Shrestha Y, Baniya RB, Manandhar DS, Adhikari RK, Filteau S, Tomkins A, Costello AM (2005) Effects of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on birthweight and gestational duration in Nepal: double-blind, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 365: 955–62.
• Rondo PH, Tomkins A (2005) Maternal overweight/obesity and birthweight of newborn babies. J Trop Pediatr 51: 125–6.
• Rowson M.  Strengthening the health claims of the poor: promoting social inclusion and redistribution in the health sector. Med Confl Surviv. 2005 Apr-Jun;21(2): 152-66. Review.
• Sauvey S, Osrin D, Manandhar DS, Costello AM, Wirz S (2005) Prevalence of Childhood and Adolescent Disabilities in Rural Nepal. Indian Pediatr 42: 697–702.
• Seal AJ, Creeke PI, Mirghani Z, Abdalla F, McBurney RP, Pratt LS, Brookes D, Ruth LJ, Marchand E (2005) Iron and vitamin A deficiency in long-term African refugees. J Nutr 135: 808–13.
• Stein A, Krebs G, Richter L, Tomkins A, Rochat T, Bennish ML (2005) Babies of a pandemic. Arch Dis Child 90: 116–8.
• Tomkins A (2005) UNICEF: suggestions for change. Lancet 365: 289–90.
• Wade A, Osrin D, Shrestha BP, Sen A, Morrison J, Tumbahangphe KM, Manandhar DS, de L Costello AM (2006) Behaviour change in perinatal care practices among rural women exposed to a women's group intervention in Nepal [ISRCTN31137309]. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 6: 20.
• Walker SP, Chang SM, Powell CA, Grantham-McGregor SM (2005) Effects of early childhood psychosocial stimulation and nutritional supplementation on cognition and education in growth-stunted Jamaican children: prospective cohort study. Lancet 366: 1804–7.
• Wirz S, Edwards K, Flower J, Yousafzai A (2005) Field testing of the ACCESS materials: a portfolio of materials to assist health workers to identify children with disabilities and offer simple advice to mothers. Int J Rehabil Res 28: 293–302.

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2004

• Ashworth A, Chopra M, McCoy D, Sanders D, Jackson D, Karaolis N, Sogaula N, Schofield C. (2004) WHO guidelines for management of severe malnutrition in rural South African hospitals: effect on case fatality and the influence of operational factors. Lancet Apr 3;363(9415):1110-5.
• Brown CJ, Chenery SR, Smith B, Mason C, Tomkins A, Roberts GJ, Sserunjogi L, Tiberindwa JV (2004) Environmental influences on the trace element content of teeth - implications for disease and nutritional status. Arch Oral Biol 49: 705–17.
• Carter JA, Neville BG, White S, Ross AJ, Otieno G, Mturi N, Musumba C, Newton CR (2004) Increased prevalence of epilepsy associated with severe falciparum malaria in children. Epilepsia 45: 978–81.
• Costello A, Osrin D, Manandhar D (2004) Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in the poorest communities. BMJ 329: 1166–8.
• Costello A, Osrin D (2004) Open-access publishing. Lancet 364: 25–6.
• Doherty TM, McCoy D, Donohue S. (2005) Health system constraints to optimal coverage of the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme in South Africa: lessons from the implementation of the national pilot programme.  Afr Health Sci. Sep;5(3):213-8.
• Hill Z. Reducing attrition in panel studies in developing countries. Int J Epidemiol. 2004 Jun;33(3):493-8.
• Hill ZE, Cleland J, Ali MM.  Religious affiliation and extramarital sex among men in Brazil.  Int Fam Plan Perspect. 2004 Mar;30(1):20-6.
• Ibe OE, Austin T, Sullivan K, Fabanwo O, Disu E, Costello AM (2004) A comparison of kangaroo mother care and conventional incubator care for thermal regulation of infants < 2000 g in Nigeria using continuous ambulatory temperature monitoring. Ann Trop Paediatr 24: 245–51.
• Lawn JE, Cousens S, Bhutta ZA, Darmstadt GL, Martines J, Paul V, Knippenberg R, Fogstadt H, Shetty P, Horton R (2004) Why are 4 million newborn babies dying each year?. Lancet 364: 399–401.
• Lawn JE, Cousens S, Darmstadt GL, Paul V, Martines J (2004) Why are 4 million newborn babies dying every year?. Lancet 364: 2020.
• Manandhar DS, Osrin D, Shrestha BP, Mesko N, Morrison J, Tumbahangphe KM, Tamang S, Thapa S, Shrestha D, Thapa B, Shrestha JR, Wade A, Borghi J, Standing H, Manandhar M, Costello AM, Members of the MIRA Makwanpur trial team (2004) Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet 364: 970–9.
• McCoy D, Sanders D, Baum F, Narayan T, Legge D.  Pushing the international health research agenda towards equity and effectiveness. Lancet. 2004 Oct 30-Nov 5;364(9445):1630-1. No abstract available.
• Mung'ala-Odera V, Meehan R, Njuguna P, Mturi N, Alcock K, Carter JA, Newton CR (2004) Validity and reliability of the 'Ten Questions' questionnaire for detecting moderate to severe neurological impairment in children aged 6-9 years in rural Kenya. Neuroepidemiology 23: 67–72.
• Olusanya BO, Luxon LM, Wirz SL (2004) Infant hearing screening: route to informed choice. Arch Dis Child 89: 1039–40.
• Olusanya BO, Luxon LM, Wirz SL (2004) Benefits and challenges of newborn hearing screening for developing countries. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 68: 287–305.
• Osrin D, Vergnano S, Costello A (2004) Serious bacterial infections in newborn infants in developing countries. Curr Opin Infect Dis 17: 217–24.
• Powell C, Baker-Henningham H, Walker S, Gernay J, Grantham-McGregor S (2004) Feasibility of integrating early stimulation into primary care for undernourished Jamaican children: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 329: 89.
• Pritchard S, Scanlon TJ (2004) Are general practitioners' assessments of housing applicants' health accurate?. Br J Gen Pract 54: 779–80.
• Puoane T, Sanders D, Ashworth A, Chopra M, Strasser S, McCoy D.  Improving the hospital management of malnourished children by participatory research.  Int J Qual Health Care. 2004 Feb;16(1):31-40.
• Rondo PH, Vaz AJ, Moraes F, Tomkins A (2004) The relationship between salivary cortisol concentrations and anxiety in adolescent and non-adolescent pregnant women. Braz J Med Biol Res 37: 1403–9.
• Rowson M, McCoy D, Sen Gupta A, Negri Filho A.  The global health watch. PLoS Med. 2004 Oct;1(1):e3. Epub 2004 Oct 19. No abstract available.
• Tomkins A, Zumla A, Pasvol G, Curtis C, Wright S (2004) Too hard on tropical medicine?. Lancet 364: 23.
• Walker SP, Chang SM, Powell CA, Grantham-McGregor SM (2004) Psychosocial intervention improves the development of term low-birth-weight infants. J Nutr 134: 1417–23.
• Yousafzai AK, Dlamini PJ, Groce N, Wirz S (2004) Knowledge, personal risk and experiences of HIV/AIDS among people with disabilities in Swaziland. Int J Rehabil Res 27: 247–51.

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