Submissions from 2019
A mixed method multi-Country assessment of barriers to implementing pediatric inpatient care guidelines, Kirkby D. Tickell, Dorothy I. Mangale, Stephanie N. Tornberg-Belanger, Celine Bourdon, Johnstone Thitiri, Molline Timbwa, Jenala Njirammadzi, Wieger Voskuijl, Ali Faisal Saleem, and Zaubina Kazi
Women and children living in areas of armed conflict in Africa: a geospatial analysis of mortality and orphanhood, Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft-Neal, Paul H. Wise, Robert E. Black, Marshall Burke, Ties Boerma, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Eran Bendavid
Back to the root causes of war: food shortages - Authors' reply, Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft Neal, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Robert Black E, Marshall Burke, and Eran Bendavid
Short and midterm outcome of fallot’s tetralogy repair in infancy: A single center experience in a developing country, Muhammad Kamran Younis Memon, Saleem Akhtar, Muhammad Mohsin, Waris Ahmad, Aleena Arshad, and Mehnaz Atiq Ahmed
Ceftriaxone-resistant salmonella typhi outbreak in hyderabad city of sindh, Pakistan: High time for the introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccine, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Farah Qamar, Sadia Shakoor, Khalid Saleem, Heeramani Lohana, Sultan Karim, Aneeta Hotwani, Shahida Qureshi, Naveed Masood, Mudasir Rauf, Jamshed Ahmed Khanzada, Abdul Momin Kazi, and Rumina Hasan
Development and validation of parental vaccine attitudes scale for use in low-income setting, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Atif Riaz, Saad B. Omer, Sara Husain, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Waheed Mahesar, Danyal Omar Imam, Aaron Wallace, and Syed Asad Ali
Inherited metabolic disorders presenting as hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: A case series of patients presenting at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Maya Zahid, Aysha Habib, Zabedah Md Yunus, Bee Chin Chen, Beat Steinmann, Haberle Johannes, and Bushra Afroze
Health systems changes after decentralisation: Progress, challenges and dynamics in Pakistan, Shehla Zaidi, Maryam Bigdeli, Etienne V. Langlois, Atif Riaz, David W. Orr, Nasir Idrees, and Jesse B. Bump
Submissions from 2018
Using misoprostol to treat postpartum hemorrhage in home deliveries attended by traditional birth attendants, Dina F. Abbas, Nusrat Jehan, Ayisha Diop, Jill Durocher, Meagan E. Byrne, Nadeem F. Zuberi, Zafar Ahmed, Gijs Walraven, and Beverly Winikoff
Spectrum of complications of severe DKA in children in pediatric intensive care unit, Qalab Abbas, Saba Arbab, Anwarul Haque, and Khadija Nuzhat Humayun
Training pediatric mechanical ventilation to front line pediatric physicians, Qalab Abbas, Lubaina Ehsan, Humaira Jurair, and Anwarul Haque
Brown-vialetto-van laere syndrome: A novel diagnosis to a common presentation, Qalab Abbas, Sidra Kaleem Jafri, Sidra Ishaque, and Arshalooz Rahman
Advancing universal health coverage in South Asian cities: A framework, Alayne M. Adams, Devaki Nambiar, Sameen Siddiqi, Bushra Binte Alam, and Srinath Reddy
Childhood-Onset systemic lupus erythematosus: a cohort study, Shakeel Ahmed, Syed Rehan Ali, Farida Karim, Sidra Ishaque, Iman Qaiser, Kanwal Nayani, and Ayesha Ahmed
Geospatial inequalities and determinants of nutritional status among women and children in Afghanistan: An observational study, Nadia Akseer, Zaid Ahmad Bhatti, Taufiq Mashal, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Rahim Moineddin, Robert E Black MD, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Status and drivers of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in the Islamic world: a comparative analysis, Nadia Akseer, Mahdis Kamali, Nour Bakhache, Maaz Mirza, Seema Mehta, Sara Al-Gashm, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Prevalence of prediabetes, diabetes, and Its associated risk factors among males in Saudi Arabia: A population-based survey, Khaled K. Aldossari, Abdulrahman Aldiab, Jamaan M. Al-Zahrani, Sameer H. Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed Abdelrazik, Mohammed Ali Batais, Sundas Javad, Shanila Nooruddin, Hira Abdul Razzak, and Ashraf El-Metwally
Prevalence of overweight and obesity based on the body mass index; a cross-sectional study in Alkharj, Saudi Arabia, Sameer Al-Ghamdi, Mamdouh M. Shubair, Abdulrahman Aldiab, Jamaan M. Al-Zahrani, Khaled K. Aldossari, Mowafa Househ, Shanila Nooruddin, Hira Abdul Razzak, and Ashraf El-Metwally
Accuracy of echocardiography in diagnosing total anomalous pulmonary venous return, Fatima Ali, Sonia Qureshi, Muneer Amanullah, and Mehnaz Atiq
Global trends in typhoidal salmonellosis: A systematic review, Daina Als, Amruta Radhakrishnan, Paul Arora, Michelle F. Gaffey, Susan Campisi, Russanthy Velummailum, Farhana Zareef, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Integrating facility-based surveillance with healthcare utilization surveys to estimate enteric fever incidence: Methods and challenges, Jason R. Andrews, Caitlin Barkume, Alexander T. Yu, Samir K. Saha, Farah Qamar, Denise Garrett, and Stephen P. Luby
Extensively drug-resistant typhoid — are conjugate vaccines arriving just in time?, Jason R. Andrews, Farah Qamar, Richelle C. Charles, and Edward T. Ryan
Exchangeable zinc pool size at birth in Pakistani small for gestational age and appropriate for gestational age infants do not differ but are lower than in US infants, Shabina Ariff, Nancy F. Krebs, Jamie E. Westcott, K Michael Hambidge, Leland V. Miller, Arjumand Rizvi, Sajid Bashir Soofi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Dietary practices of school children in Sindh, Pakistan, Ayesha Aziz, Mehak Pervaiz, Ayesha Khalid, Ayesha Zahid Khan, and Ghazala Rafique
Persistent diarrhoea: Current knowledge and novel concepts, Robert H. J. Bandsma, Kamran Sadiq, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Phase I of the surveillance for enteric fever in Asia project (SEAP): An overview and lessons learned, Caitlin Barkume, Kashmira Date, Samir K. Saha, Farah Qamar, Dipika Sur, Jason R. Andrews, Stephen P. Luby, M Imran Khan, Alex Freeman, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, and Denise Garret
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 Bashir Soofi, Zamir Suhag, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
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 Bashir Soofi, Zamir Suhag, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
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 Bashir Soofi, Zamir Suhag, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Multiple-micronutrient supplementation: Evidence from large-scale prenatal programmes on coverage, compliance and impact, Cristiana Berti, Michelle F. Gaffey, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Irene Cetin
The dolphin trials: Nutritional supplementation for neonates and infants at risk, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Alma Ata and primary healthcare: Back to the future, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rifat Atun, Navjoyt Ladher, and Kamran Abbasi
Reducing typhoid burden within a generation, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Anita K. M. Zaidi, and Tikki Pangestu
Partnerships for child health: capitalising on links between the sustainable development goals, Yulia Blomstedt, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Johan Dahlstrand, Peter Friberg, Lawrence O. Gostin, Måns Nilsson, Nelson K. Sewankambo, Göran Tomson, and Tobias Alfvén
Preparing for safety monitoring after rotavirus vaccine introduction – Assessment of baseline epidemiology of intussusception among children <2 years of age in four Asian>countries, Eleanor Burnett, Nguyen Van Trang, Ajit Rayamajhi, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Syed M. Satter, Dang Duc Anh, Anupama Thapa, Saqib Hamid Qazi, James D. Heffelfinger, and Syed Asad Ali
Hemimegalencephaly: Seizure outcome in an infant after hemispherectomy, Prem Chand, Pooja Manglani, and Qalab Abbas
The feasibility of task-sharing the identification, emergency treatment, and referral for women with pre-eclampsia by community health workers in India, Umesh Charanthimath, Marianne Vidler, Geetanjali Katageri, Umesh Ramadurg, Chandrashekhar Karadiguddi, Avinash Kavi, Anjali Joshi, Geetanjali Mungarwadi, Rahat Qureshi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Seasonality and within-subject clustering of rotavirus infections in an eight-site birth cohort study, J. M. Colston, A. M. S. Ahmed, Sajid Bashir Soofi, E. Svensen, R. Haque, J. Shrestha, R. Nshama, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, I. F. N. Lima, and A. Samie
Slaying little dragons: the impact of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program on dracunculiasis disability averted from 1990 to 2016, Elizabeth A. Cromwell, Sharon Roy, Dieudonne P. Sankara, Adam Weiss, Jeffrey Stanaway, Ellen Goldberg, David M. Pigott, Heidi Larson, Stein Emil Vollset, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Scaling up primary health services for improving reproductive, maternal, and child health: a multisectoral collaboration in the conflict setting of Afghanistan, Jai K. Das, Nadia Akseer, Shafiq Mirzazada, Omarwalid Noorzada, Corinne E. Armstrong, Kashif Mukhtar, Ahmed Jan Naeem, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Fly control to prevent diarrhoea in children, Jai K. Das, Yousaf Bashir Hadi, Rehana Salam, Mehar Hoda, Zohra S. Lassi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Lipid‐based nutrient supplements for maternal, birth, and infant developmental outcomes, Jai K. Das, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Rehana Salam, Afsah Zulfiqar Bhutta, Nancy G. Valenzuela‐Rubio, Zita Weise Prinzo, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Nutrition for the next generation: older children and adolescents, Jai K. Das, Zohra S. Lassi, Zahra Hoodbhoy, and Rehana Salam
Novel public-private partnerships to address the double burden of malnutrition, Adam Drewnowski, Benjamin Caballero, Jai K. Das, Jeff French, Andrew M. Prentice, Lisa R. Fries, Tessa M van Koperen, Petra Klassen-Wigger, and Barbara J. Rolls
What’s coming for health science and policy in 2018? global experts look ahead in their field, The PLOS Medicine Editors, Soumya Swaminathan, Robin S. Room, Louise C. Ivers, Graham Hillis, Rebecca F. Grais, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Peter Byass
Clinical utility of endocrine markers predicting myocardial siderosis in transfusion dependent thalassemia major, Lubaina Ehsan, Mariam Rashid, Najveen Alvi, Khadija Awais, Omair Nadeem, Aleezay Asghar, Fatimah Sajjad, Malika Fatima, Sadaf Altaf, Babar Hasan, and Salman Kirmani
Measuring and understanding social-emotional behaviors in preschoolers from rural Pakistan, Jenna E. Finch, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, Muneera Rasheed, and Jelena Obradović
Oral ondansetron administration to nondehydrated children with diarrhea and associated vomiting in emergency departments in Pakistan: A randomized controlled trial, Stephen B. Freedman, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Andrew R. Willan, Sarah Williamson Urquhart, Noshad Ali, Jianling Xie, Fady Dawoud, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Intergenerational burden and risks of NCDs: need to promote maternal and child health, Mark Hanson, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Katie Dain, Carlos Fuchtner, and Moshe Hod
Outcome of traumatic brain injury in children by using rotterdam score on computed tomography, Anwarul Haque, Zehra Dhanani, Amin Ali, Basit Salam, Qalab Abbas, Gohar Javed, and Humaira Jurair
Impact of pharmacist-led antibiotic stewardship program in a PICU of low/middle-income country, Anwarul Haque, Kashif Hussain, Romesa Ibrahim, Qalab Abbas, Shah Ali Ahmed, Humaira Jurair, and Syed Asad Ali
Rotavirus vaccine response correlates with the infant gut microbiota composition in Pakistan, Vanessa Harris, Syed Asad Ali, Susana Fuentes, Abdul Momin Kazi, Jacqueline Tate, Umesh Parashar, W. Joost Wiersinga, Carlo Giaquinto, Carolina De Weerth, and Willem M. De Vos
Emergence of an extensively drug-resistant salmonella enterica serovar typhi clone harboring a promiscuous plasmid encoding resistance to fluoroquinolones and third-generation cephalosporins, Rumina Hasan, Sadia Shakoor, Farah Naz Farid, Dania Khalid Saeed, Ghazala Shaheen, Shahida Qureshi, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Muhammad Khalid Salim, Zahra Hasan, Elizabeth J. Klemma, Andrew J. Page, Kim Judge, Vanessa K. Wong, Timothy J. Dallman, Satheesh Nair, Stephen Baker, and Gordon Dougan
Machine learning from fetal flow waveforms to predict adverse perinatal outcomes: A study protocol, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Babar Hasan, Fyezah Jehan, Bart Bijnens, and Devyani Chowdhury
Impact of pre-eclampsia on the cardiovascular health of the offspring: a cohort study protocol, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Babar Hasan, Nuruddin Badruddin Mohammed, and Devyani Chowdhury
Household chores as the main source of physical activity: Perspectives of pregnant Pakistani women, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Rahat Qureshi, Romaina Iqbal, and Qamarunissa Muhabat
Seroprevalence of anti-polio antibodies in children from polio high risk area of Afghanistan: A cross sectional survey 2017, Imtiaz Hussain, Ondrej Mach, Nasir A. Hamid, Zaid Bhatti, Deborah D. Moore, Shahid Khan, Hasan Khan, William C. Weldon, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Sajid Bashir Soofi
Impact of maternally derived pertussis antibody titers on infant whole-cell pertussis vaccine response in a low income setting, Romesa Ibrahim, Syed Asad Ali, Abdul Momin Kazi, Arjumand Rizvi, L. Beryl Guterman, Robert A. Bednarczyk, Ellie Kim, SoHee Park, Simon Paulos, and Amilia Jeyachandran
CBS mutations and MTFHR SNPs causative of hyperhomocysteinemia in Pakistani children, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Saadia Maqbool, Maleeha Azam, Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal, and Raheel Qamar
Epidemiology of patients presenting to a pediatric emergency department in Karachi, Pakistan, Nadir Ijaz, Matthew Strehlow, N. Ewen Wang, Elizabeth Pirrotta, Areeba Tariq, Naseeruddin Mahmood, and Swaminatha Mahadevan
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 Rehman, Shahida Qureshi, and Syed Asad Ali
Rapid intravenous rehydration of children with acute gastroenteritis and dehydration: a systematic review and meta-analysis, M. A. Iro, T. Sell, N. Brown, and K. Maitland
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis – Current perspectives, Sidra K. Jafri, Raman Kumar, and Shahnaz H. Ibrahim
His mind will work better with both of us”: a qualitative study on fathers’ roles and coparenting of young children in rural Pakistan, Joshua Jeong, Saima Siyal, Günther Fink, Dana Charles McCoy, and Aisha K. Yousafzai
“His mind will work better with both of us”: A qualitative study on fathers’ roles and coparenting of young children in rural Pakistan, Joshua Jeong, Saima Siyal, Günther Fink, Dana Charles McCoy, and Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
A comparison of three diagnostic platforms for the detection of influenza A and B in children, Furqan Kabir, Marvi Tariq, Fatima Aziz, Syed Imran Rizvi, Shahida Qureshi, Syed Asad Ali, and Najeeha Talat Iqbal
Comparison of neonatal outcomes between category-1 and non-category-1 primary emergency cesarean section: A retrospective record review in a tertiary care hospital, Dureshahwar Kanwar, Iffat Ahmed, Azra Amerjee, and Zahra Hoodbhoy
Effect of mobile phone text message reminders on routine immunization uptake in Pakistan: randomized controlled trial, Abdul Momin Kazi, Murtaza Ali, Khurram Zubair, Hussain Kalimuddin, Abdul Nafey Kazi, Saleem Perwaiz Iqbal, Jean-Paul Collet, and Syed Asad Ali
The dietary intake and practices of adolescent girls in low- and middle-Income countries: A systematic review, Emily C. Keats, Aviva I. Rappaport, Shailja Shah, Christina Oh, Reena Jain, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Fungal osteomyelitis in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease: Case report and review of the literature, Muhammad Khalid and Syed Asad Ali
Invasive community acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcal aureus (CA-MRSA) infections in children, Muhammad Khalid, Samina Junejo, and Fatima Mir
Tracheal chondrosarcoma and surgical management, Fazal Wahab Khan, Ibrahim Zahid, Sarosh Moeen, and Sulaiman Bashir Hasan
A comparison of maternal and newborn health services costs in Sindh Pakistan, Asif Raza Khowaja, Craig Mitton, Rahat Qureshi, Stirling Bryan, Laura A. Magee, Peter von Dadelszen, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Infantile Spasms: Clinical profile and treatment outcomes, Shazia Kulsoom, S. H. Ibrahim, Sidra Kaleem Jafri, Khemchand N. Moorani, and Misbah Anjum
Business not as usual: how multisectoral collaboration can promote transformative change for health and sustainable development, Shyama Kuruvilla, Rachael Hinton, Ties Boerma, Ryan Bunney, Nuria Casamitjana, Rafael Cortez, Patrizia Fracassi, Jennifer Franz-Vasdeki, Daniel Helldén, Joanne McManus, and Jai K. Das
Multicentre pilot study evaluation of lung ultrasound for the management of paediatric pneumonia in low-resource settings: a study protocol, Jennifer L. Lenahan, Giovanni Volpicelli, Alessandro Lamorte, Fyezah Jehan, Quique Bassat, and Amy Sarah Ginsburg
Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce pelvic infection in women having miscarriage surgery – The AIMS (Antibiotics in Miscarriage Surgery) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, David Lissauer, Amie Wilson, Jane Daniels, Lee Middleton, Jon Bishop, Catherine Hewitt, Abi Merriel, Rahat Qureshi, Iffat Ahmed, and Humera Ismail
Direct detection of shigella in stool specimens by use of a metagenomic approach, Jie Liu, Mathieu Almeida, Furqan Kabir, Sadia Shakoor, Shahida Qureshi, Anita K. M. Zaidi, Shan Li, Boubou Tamboura, Samba O. Sow, and Inacio Mandomando
Does clinician-reported lipid guideline adoption translate to guideline-adherent care? An evaluation of the patient and provider assessment of lipid management (PALM) registry, Angela Lowenstern, Shuang Li, Ann Marie Navar, Salim S. Virani, L Veronica Lee, and Michael J. Louie
Assessing development across cultures: Invariance of the Bayley-III scales across seven International MAL-ED sites, Pendergast, Laura L; Schaefer, Barbara A; Murray-Kolb, Laura E.; Svensen, Erling; Shrestha, Rita; Rasheed, Muneera A; Scharf, Rebecca J.; Kosek, Margaret; Vasquez, Angel Orbe; and Maphula, Angelina
Assessment of dental maturation on orthopantomograms among children with various dental malocclusions at a tertiary care hospital, Hafiz Taha Mahmood and Mubassar Fida
Diagnostic dilemma of patients with methylmalonic aciduria: Experience from a tertiary care centre in Pakistan, Hafsa Majid, Aysha Habib Khan, Lena Jafri, Azeema Jamil, Nasir Yousufzai, Midhat Fatima, Zeba Zulfiqar Ali, and Bushra Afroze
Reform of primary health care in Pakistan, Sadia M. Malik and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Two-year-old with a limp and suspected nonaccidental injury, Mallika Manyapu, Gohar Warraich, Subra Kugathasan, and Sana Syed
Pathophysiology of environmental enteric dysfunction and its impact on oral vaccine efficacy, Chelsea Marie, Syed Asad Ali, Kanta Chandwe, William Petri Jr A, and Paul Kelly
Core outcome sets for prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage: An international delphi consensus study, Shireen Meher, Anna Cuthbert, Jamie J. Kirkham, Paula Williamson, Edgardo Abalos, Nasreen Aflaifel, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Alina Bishop, Jennifer Blum, and Peter Collins
Meconium stained liquor and its neonatal outcome, Nadia Mohammad, Hafiz Taha Mahmood, Arjumand Sohaila, and Syed Rehan Ali
Maternal predictors of intrauterine growth retardation, Nadia Mohammad, Arjumand Sohaila, Unaib Rabbani, Sufian Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmed, and Syed Rehan Ali
The state of US health, 1990-2016: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states, Ali H. Mokdad, Katherine Ballestros, Michelle Echko, Scott Glenn, Helen E. Olsen, Erin Mullany, Alex Lee, Abdur Rahman Khan, Alireza Ahmadi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
The state of US health, 1990-2016: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states., Ali H. Mokdad, Katherine Ballestros, Michelle Echko, Scott Glenn, Helen E. Olsen, Erin Mullany, Alex Lee, Abdur Rahman Khan, Alireza Ahmadi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Global mortality from firearms, 1990-2016, Mohsen Naghavi, Laurie B. Marczak, Michael Kutz, Katya Anne, Megha Arora, Molly Miller-Petrie, Miloud Taki, Nadia Akseer, Rajaa M., and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
An Asian multicenter retrospective study on persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn: Incidence, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and outcome, Narongsak Nakwan, Suksham Jain, Kishore Kumar, Shigeharu Hosono, Majeda Hammoud, Yasser Yahia Elsayed, Shabina Ariff, Babar Hasan, Waqar Khowaja, and Poom Woei Bing
The clinical respiratory score predicts paediatric critical care disposition in children with respiratory distress presenting to the emergency department, Kanwal Nayani, Rubaba Naeem, Owais Munir, Naureen Naseer, Asher Feroze, Nick Brown, and Asad Mian
Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children under 5 years of age before introduction of pneumococcal vaccine (PCV10) in urban and rural districts in Pakistan, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Kanwal Nayani, Tauseef Akhund, Atif Riaz, Omer Irfan, Sadia Shakoor, Sehrish Muneer, Sana Muslim, Aneeta Hotwani, Furqan Kabir, Cynthia Whitney, Lindsay Kim, Velusamy Srinivasan, Syed Asad Ali, Anita K. M. Zaidi, and Fyezah Jehan
Early executive functioning in a global context: Developmental continuity and family protective factors, Jelena Obradović, Jenna E. Finch, Ximena A. Portilla, Muneera Rasheed, Nicole Tirado‐Strayer, and Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Adolescence and the next generation, George C. Patton, Craig A. Olsson, Vegard Skirbekk, Richard Saffery, Mary E. Wlodek, Peter S. Azzopardi, Marcin Stonawski, Bruce Rasmussen, Elizabeth Spry, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Development and internal validation of the multivariable CIPHER (Collaborative Integrated Pregnancy High-dependency Estimate of Risk) clinical risk prediction model, Beth A. Payne, Helen Ryan, Jeffrey Bone, Laura A. Magee, Alice B. Aarvold, J. Mark Ansermino, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Mary Bowen, J. Guilherme Cecatti, and Cynthia Chazotte
Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to assess the aetiology, burden, and clinical characteristics of diarrhoea in children in low-resource settings: A reanalysis of the MAL-ED cohort study, James A. Platts-Mills MD, Jie Liu, Elizabeth T. Rogawski, Furqan Kabir, Paphavee Lertsethtakarn, Adil Kalam, Fatima Aziz, Shahida Qureshi, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
A conceptual model for youth-led programs as a promising approach to early childhood care and education, Liliana Angelica Ponguta, Muneera Rasheed, Chin Regina Reyes, and Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
A retrospective study of laboratory-based enteric fever surveillance, Pakistan, 2012-2014, Farah Naz Qamar, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Shazia Sultana, Attaullah Baig, Sadia Shakoor, Farzeen Hirani, Abdul Wassay, Sehrish Khushboo, Junaid Mehmood, and Alexander Freeman