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Mother & Child Health Research & Training Centre, Matiari

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2023

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Standard RUTF vs. locally-made RUSF for acutely malnourished children: A quasi-experimental comparison of the impact on growth and compliance in a rural community of Pakistan	Azza Sarfraz, Sheraz Ahmed, Sajid Muhammad, Najeeb Rehman, Sanam Iram Soomro, Khaliq Qureshi, Sadaf Jakhro, Fayaz Umrani, Adam Greene, Sana Syed, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali	PLoS One. 2023 Jul 12;18(7):e0287962
2	Impact of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection on environmental enteric dysfunction and growth of malnourished children in Pakistan: a longitudinal cohort study	Azza Sarfraz, Zehra Jamil, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani, Abdul Khaliq Qureshi, Sadaf Jakhro, Muhammad Sajid, Najeeb Rahman, Arjumand Rizvi, Jennie Z Ma, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Najeeha T Iqbal, Sana Syed, Junaid Iqbal, Kamran Sadiq, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali	Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2023 Jun 7;15:100212
3	Drivers of malnutrition among late adolescent and young women in rural Pakistan: a cross-sectional assessment of the MaPPS trial	Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Amjad Hussain, Sajid B Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	BMJ Open. 2023 May 23;13(5):e063734
4	Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency Associates with Growth Faltering and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction in Children	Monica Narvaez-Rivas, Kenneth D R Setchell, Stephanie L Galandi, Xueheng Zhao, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Sheraz Ahmed, Junaid Iqbal, Sana Syed, Syed Asad Ali, Sean R Moore	Metabolites. 2023 Mar 29;13(4):489
5	Community and Health Care Provider Perspectives on Barriers to and Enablers of Family Planning Use in Rural Sindh, Pakistan: Qualitative Exploratory Study	Zahid Ali Memon, Abeer Mian, Sophie Reale, Rachael Spencer, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Hora Soltani	JMIR Form Res. 2023 Mar 10;7:e43494
6	Longitudinal Analysis of the Intestinal Microbiota among a Cohort of Children in Rural and Urban Areas of Pakistan	Veeraraghavan Balaji, Duy M Dinh, Anne V Kane, Sajid Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Arjumand Rizvi, Meera Chatterjee, Sudhir Babji, Joanne Duara, Joy Moy, Elena N Naumova, Christine A Wanke, Honorine D Ward, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Nutrients. 2023 Feb 28;15(5):1213
7	Impact of enteropathogens on faltering growth in a resource-limited setting	Furqan Kabir, Junaid Iqbal, Zehra Jamil, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Fatima Aziz, Adil Kalam, Sahrish Muneer, Aneeta Hotwani, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani, Sana Syed, Kamran Sadiq, Jennie Z Ma, Sean R Moore, Asad Ali	Front Nutr. 2023 Jan 10;9:1081833

2022

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Perpetuation of gender discrimination in Pakistani society: results from a scoping review and qualitative study conducted in three provinces of Pakistan	Tazeen Saeed Ali, Shahnaz Shahid Ali, Sanober Nadeem, Zahid Memon, Sajid Soofi, Falak Madhani, Yasmin Karim, Shah Mohammad, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta	BMC Women's Health. 2022 Dec 22;22(1):540
2	Psychometric properties of the Sindhi version of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) in a sample of early adolescents living in rural Pakistan	Janavi Shetty, Florence Perquier, Susan C Campisi, Yaqub Wasan, Madison Aitken, Daphne J Korczak, Suneeta Monga, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Peter Szatmari, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	PLOS Global Public Health. 2022 Nov 17;2(11):e0000968
3	Nutritional deficiency in an intestine-on-a-chip recapitulates injury hallmarks associated with environmental enteric dysfunction	Amir Bein, Cicely W Fadel, Ben Swenor, Wuji Cao, Rani K Powers, Diogo M Camacho, Arash Naziripour, Andrew Parsons, Nina LoGrande, Sanjay Sharma, Seongmin Kim, Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad, Jennifer Grant, David T Breault, Junaid Iqbal, Asad Ali, Lee A Denson, Sean R Moore, Rachelle Prantil-Baun, Girija Goyal, Donald E Ingber	Nature Biomedical Engineering. 2022 Nov;6(11):1236-1247
4	Practices and predictors of menstrual hygiene management material use among adolescent and young women in rural Pakistan: A cross-sectional assessment	Yaqub Wasan, Jo-Anna B Baxter, Arjumand Rizvi, Fariha Shaheen, Qamaruddin Junejo, Mansoor A Abro, Amjad Hussain, Imran Ahmed, Sajid B Soofi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Journal of Global Health. 2022 Aug 10;12:04059
5	Pneumococcal Carriage in Infants Post-PCV10 Introduction in Pakistan: Results from Serial Cross-Sectional Surveys	Shahira Shahid, Amala Khan, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Farah Khalid, Muhammad Farrukh Qazi, Sheraz Ahmed, Furqan Kabir, Aneeta Hotwani, Sahrish Muneer, Syed Asad Ali, Cynthia G Whitney, Anita K M Zaidi, Fyezah Jehan	Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Jun 18;10(6):971
6	Effects of Integrating Family Planning With Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services on Uptake of Voluntary Modern Contraceptive Methods in Rural Pakistan: Protocol for a Quasi-experimental Study	Zahid Ali Memon, Sophie Reale, Wardah Ahmed, Rachael Spencer, Talib Hussain Lashari, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Hora Soltani	JMIR Research Protocols. 2022 Mar 8;11(3):e35291
7	Impact of local terminology on the design of a community-based diagnostic and management algorithm for postpartum sepsis: findings of formative research	Shabina Ariff, Fatima Mir, Wafa Aftab, Farrukh Raza, Shujaat Zaidi, Sheraz Memon, Amnesty LeFevre, Linda A Bartlett, Peter Winch, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	International Health. 2022 Mar 2;14(2):189-194
8	Serotype-specific effectiveness against pneumococcal carriage and serotype replacement after ten-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV10) introduction in Pakistan	Muhammad Imran Nisar, Fyezah Jehan, Shahira Shahid, Sheraz Ahmed, Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Aneeta Hotwani, Sahrish Muneer, Farah Khalid, Sajid Muhammad, Benjamin M Althouse, Hao Hu, Cynthia G Whitney, Asad Ali, Anita K M Zaidi, Saad B Omer, Najeeha Iqbal	PLOS One. 2022 Jan 21;17(1):e0262466
9	Dietary diversity and social determinants of nutrition among late adolescent girls in rural Pakistan	Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Muhammad Islam, Simon Cousens, Sajid B Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Daniel W Sellen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2022 Jan;18(1):e13265

2021

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Characteristics of mobile phone access and usage among caregivers in Pakistan - A mHealth survey of urban and rural population	Abdul Momin Kazi, Nazia Ahsan, Saima Jamal, Ayub Khan, Waliyah Mughis, Raheel Allana, Abdul Nafey Kazi, Hussain Kalimuddin, Syed Asad Ali, William McKellin, Jean-Paul Collet	Int J Med Inform. 2021 Dec;156:104600. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104600. Epub 2021 Sep 28.
2	Validation of community health worker identification of maternal puerperal sepsis using a clinical diagnostic algorithm in Bangladesh and Pakistan	Amnesty E LeFevre, Fatima Mir, Dipak K Mitra, Shabina Ariff, Diwakar Mohan, Imran Ahmed, Shazia Sultana, Peter J Winch, Sadia Shakoor, Nicholas E Connor, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Shams El-Arifeen, M A Quaiyum, Abdullah H Baqui, Michael G Gravett, Mathuram Santosham, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Anita Zaidi, Samir K Saha, Saifuddin Ahmed, Sajid Soofi, Linda A Bartlett	J Glob Health. 2021 Nov 27;11:04039. doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.04039. eCollection 2021.
3	Impact of pulse oximetry on hospital referral acceptance in children under 5 with severe pneumonia in rural Pakistan (district Jamshoro): protocol for a cluster randomised trial	Fatima Mir, Apsara Ali Nathwani, Suhail Chanar, Amjad Hussain, Arjumand Rizvi, Imran Ahmed, Zahid Ali Memon, Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta	BMJ Open. 2021 Sep 17;11(9):e046158. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046158.
4	Gut integrity and duodenal enteropathogen burden in undernourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction	Zehra Jamil, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Romana Idress, Zubair Ahmed, Kamran Sadiq, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Junaid Iqbal, Sana Syed, Aneeta Hotwani, Furqan Kabir, Kumail Ahmed, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani, Jennie Z Ma, Fatima Aziz, Adil Kalam, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali	PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Jul 15;15(7):e0009584. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009584. eCollection 2021 Jul.
5	Mucosal Genomics Implicate Lymphocyte Activation and Lipid Metabolism in Refractory Environmental Enteric Dysfunction	Yael Haberman, Najeeha T Iqbal, Sudhir Ghandikota, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Tzipi Braun, Phillip J Dexheimer, Najeeb Rahman, Rotem Hadar, Kamran Sadiq, Zubair Ahmad, Romana Idress, Junaid Iqbal, Sheraz Ahmed, Aneeta Hotwani, Fayyaz Umrani, Lubaina Ehsan, Greg Medlock, Sana Syed, Chris Moskaluk, Jennie Z Ma, Anil G Jegga, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali, Lee A Denson	Gastroenterology. 2021 May;160(6):2055-2071.e0. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.01.221. Epub 2021 Jan 29.
6	The relationship between pubertal timing and under-nutrition in rural Pakistan	Susan C Campisi, Khadija N Humayun, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid B Soofi, Muhammad Islam, Amjad Hussain, Agha Shakeel, Ashley Vandermorris, Olle Söder, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	J Adolesc. 2021 Apr;88:58-66. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.02.002. Epub 2021 Feb 19.
7	Characterizing Micronutrient Status and Risk Factors among Late Adolescent and Young Women in Rural Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Assessment of the MaPPS Trial	Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Amjad Hussain, Sajid B Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Nutrients. 2021 Apr 9;13(4):1237. doi: 10.3390/nu13041237.
8	Direct and indirect effect of 10 valent pneumococcal vaccine on nasopharyngeal carriage in children under 2 years of age in Matiari, Pakistan	Muhammad Imran Nisar, Sheraz Ahmed, Fyezah Jehan, Shahira Shahid, Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Aneeta Hotwani, Sahrish Munir, Sajid Muhammad, Farah Khalid, Benjamin Althouse, Hao Hu, Cynthia Whitney, Asad Ali, Anita K M Zaidi, Saad B Omer, Najeeha Iqbal	Vaccine. 2021 Feb 22;39(8):1319-1327. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.12.066. Epub 2021 Jan 6.

2020

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Community level interventions for pre-eclampsia (CLIP) in India: A cluster randomised controlled trial	Mrutunjaya B Bellad, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Ashalata A Mallapur, Sumedha Sharma, Jeffrey Bone, Umesh S Charantimath, Geetanjali M Katageri, Umesh Y Ramadurg, J Mark Ansermino, Richard J Derman, Dustin T Dunsmuir, Narayan V Honnungar, Chandrashekhar Karadiguddi, Avinash J Kavi, Bhalachandra S Kodkany, Tang Lee, Jing Li, Hannah L Nathan, Beth A Payne, Amit P Revankar, Andrew H Shennan, Joel Singer, Domena K Tu, Marianne Vidler, Hubert Wong, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Laura A Magee, Peter von Dadelszen	Pregnancy Hypertens. 2020 Jul;21:166-175. doi: 10.1016/j.preghy.2020.05.008. Epub 2020 May 19.

2019

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Study of Environmental Enteropathy and Malnutrition (SEEM) in Pakistan: protocols for biopsy based biomarker discovery and validation	Najeeha T Iqbal, Sana Syed, Kamran Sadiq, Marium N Khan, Junaid Iqbal, Jennie Z Ma, Fayaz Umrani, Sheraz Ahmed, Elizabeth A Maier, Lee A Denson, Yael Haberman, Monica M McNeal, Kenneth D R Setchell, Xueheng Zhao, Shahida Qureshi, Lanlan Shen, Christopher A Moskaluk, Ta-Chiang Liu, Omer Yilmaz, Donald E Brown, Michael J Barratt, Vanderlene L Kung, Jeffrey I Gordon, Sean R Moore, S Asad Ali	BMC Pediatr. 2019 Jul 22;19(1):247. doi: 10.1186/s12887-019-1564-x.
2	Nash-wo-Numa (childhood growth & development) study protocol: factors that impact linear growth in children 9 to 15 years of age in Matiari, Pakistan	Susan C Campisi, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid Soofi, Suneeta Monga, Daphne J Korczak, Wendy Lou, Olle Soder, Ashley Vandermorris, Khadija N Humayun, Ayesha Mian, Peter Szatmari, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	BMJ Open. 2019 Jun 12;9(6):e028343. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028343.
3	Personalized Text Messages and Automated Calls for Improving Vaccine Coverage Among Children in Pakistan: Protocol for a Community-Based Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial	Abdul Momin Kazi 1 2, Nazia Ahsan 1, Ayub Khan 1, Saima Jamal 1, Hussain Kalimuddin 1, Naveera Ghulamhussain 1, Zabin Wajidali 1, Abdul Muqeet 3, Fabiha Zaidi 3, Meraj Subzlani 3, William McKellin 4, Asad Ali 1, Jean-Paul Collet 2 5	JMIR Res Protoc. 2019 May 30;8(5):e12851. doi: 10.2196/12851.

2018

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Population-based rates, timing, and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country prospective cohort study	Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement (AMANHI) mortality study group	Lancet Glob Health. 2018 Dec;6(12):e1297-e1308. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30385-1. Epub 2018 Oct 22.
2	Causes and incidence of community-acquired serious infections among young children in south Asia (ANISA): an observational cohort study	Samir K Saha, Stephanie J Schrag, Shams El Arifeen, Luke C Mullany, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Nong Shang, Shamim A Qazi, Anita K M Zaidi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Anuradha Bose, Pinaki Panigrahi, Sajid B Soofi, Nicholas E Connor, Dipak K Mitra, Rita Isaac, Jonas M Winchell, Melissa L Arvay, Maksuda Islam, Yasir Shafiq, Imran Nisar, Benazir Baloch, Furqan Kabir, Murtaza Ali, Maureen H Diaz, Radhanath Satpathy, Pritish Nanda, Bijaya K Padhi, Sailajanandan Parida, Aneeta Hotwani, M Hasanuzzaman, Sheraz Ahmed, Mohammad Belal Hossain, Shabina Ariff, Imran Ahmed, Syed Mamun Ibne Moin, Arif Mahmud, Jessica L Waller, Iftekhar Rafiqullah, Mohammad A Quaiyum, Nazma Begum, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Jasmin Halen, A S M Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Martin W Weber, Davidson H Hamer, Patricia L Hibberd, Qazi Sadeq-Ur Rahman, Venkat Raghava Mogan, Tanvir Hossain, Lesley McGee, Shalini Anandan, Anran Liu, Kalpana Panigrahi, Asha Mary Abraham, Abdullah H Baqui	Lancet. 2018 Jul 14;392(10142):145-159. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31127-9. Epub 2018 Jul 6.
3	Effect of life skills building education and micronutrient supplements provided from preconception versus the standard of care on low birth weight births among adolescent and young Pakistani women (15-24 years): a prospective, population-based cluster-randomized trial	Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid B Soofi, Zamir Suhag, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Reprod Health. 2018 May 31;15(1):104. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0545-0.
4	Feasibility and effect of life skills building education and multiple micronutrient supplements versus the standard of care on anemia among non-pregnant adolescent and young Pakistani women (15-24 years): a prospective, population-based cluster-randomized trial	Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid B Soofi, Zamir Suhag, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Reprod Health. 2018 May 30;15(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0547-y.
5	Promising Biomarkers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction: A Prospective Cohort study in Pakistani Children	Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Kamran Sadiq, Sana Syed, Tauseefullah Akhund, Fayyaz Umrani, Sheraz Ahmed, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Najeeb Rahman, Shahida Qureshi, Wenjun Xin, Jennie Z Ma, Molly Hughes, Syed Asad Ali	Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 14;8(1):2966. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21319-8.

2016

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Respiratory viruses associated with severe pneumonia in children under 2 years old in a rural community in Pakistan	Asad Ali, Tauseef Akhund, Gohar Javed Warraich, Fatima Aziz, Najeeb Rahman, Fayyaz Ahmed Umrani, Shahida Qureshi, William A Petri Jr, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Anita K M Zaidi, Molly A Hughes	J Med Virol. 2016 Nov;88(11):1882-90. doi: 10.1002/jmv.24557. Epub 2016 May 3.
2	Potential for task-sharing to Lady Health Workers for identification and emergency management of pre-eclampsia at community level in Pakistan	Rehana A Salam, Rahat Najam Qureshi, Sana Sheikh, Asif Raza Khowaja, Diane Sawchuck, Marianne Vidler, Peter von Dadelszen, Shujaat Zaidi, Zulfiqar Bhutta.	Reprod Health. 2016 Sep 30;13(Suppl 2):107. doi: 10.1186/s12978-016-0214-0.
3	Effect of booster doses of poliovirus vaccine in previously vaccinated children, Clinical Trial Results 2013	Muhammad Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Ondrej Mach, Tariq Samejo, Didar Alam, Zaid Bhatti, William C Weldon, Steven M Oberste, Roland Sutter, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Vaccine. 2016 Jul 19;34(33):3803-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.05.065. Epub 2016 Jun 16.
4	Challenges in Implementation of the ANISA Protocol at the Matiari Site, Pakistan	Sheraz Ahmed, Shabina Ariff, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Amjad Hussain, Aneeta Hotwani, Muhammad Yaqoob, Shahida M Qureshi, Imran Ahmed, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Samir K Saha, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 May;35(5 Suppl 1):S65-9. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001110.

2015

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Zinc supplementation fails to increase the immunogenicity of oral poliovirus vaccine: a randomized controlled trial	M A Habib, S Soofi, A Sheraz, Z S Bhatti, H Okayasu, S Z Zaidi, N A Molodecky, M A Pallansch, R W Sutter, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Vaccine. 2015 Feb 4;33(6):819-25. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.001. Epub 2014 Dec 11.

2013

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Effect of provision of daily zinc and iron with several micronutrients on growth and morbidity among young children in Pakistan: a cluster-randomised trial	Sajid Soofi, Simon Cousens, Saleem P Iqbal, Tauseef Akhund, Javed Khan, Imran Ahmed, Anita K M Zaidi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Lancet. 2013 Jul 6;382(9886):29-40. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60437-7. Epub 2013 Apr 18.
2	Effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine on radiologically-confirmed pneumonia in young children in Pakistan	Asif Raza Khowaja, Syed Mohiuddin, Adam L Cohen, Waseem Mirza, Naila Nadeem, Talha Zuberi, Basit Salam, Fatima Mubarak, Bano Rizvi, Yousuf Husen, Khatidja Pardhan, Khalid Mehmood A Khan, Syed Jamal Raza, Hassan Khalid Zuberi, Sultan Mustafa, Salma H Sheikh, Akbar Nizamani, Heermani Lohana, Kim Mulholland, Elizabeth Zell, Rana Hajjeh, Altaf Bosan, Anita K M Zaidi	J Pediatr. 2013 Jul;163(1 Suppl):S79-S85.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.03.034.

2012

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Effectiveness of community case management of severe pneumonia with oral amoxicillin in children aged 2-59 months in Matiari district, rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial	Sajid Soofi, Sheraz Ahmed, Matthew P Fox, William B MacLeod, Donald M Thea, Shamim A Qazi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	Lancet. 2012 Feb 25;379(9817):729-37. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61714-5. Epub 2012 Jan 27.

2011

#	Title	Authors	Citation
1	Improvement of perinatal and newborn care in rural Pakistan through community-based strategies: a cluster-randomised effectiveness trial	Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sajid Soofi, Simon Cousens, Shah Mohammad, Zahid A Memon, Imran Ali, Asher Feroze, Farrukh Raza, Amanullah Khan, Steve Wall, Jose Martines	Lancet. 2011 Jan 29;377(9763):403-12. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62274-X. Epub 2011 Jan 14.