Submissions from 2025
Community acceptance of services and effectiveness of health camps in high-risk areas of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, 2021, Fayaz Hussain Abbasi, Jaishri Mehraj, Azeem Khowaja, Irshad Ali Sodhar, Shoukat Ali Chandio, Shumaila Rasool, Asif Ali Zardari, Imtiaz Hussain, Altaf Bosan, Erin M. Stuckey, and Ahmed Ali Shaikh
Preoperative nutrition status in children with congenital heart disease and its impact on postoperative outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Qalab Abbas, Haider Ali, Akash Kumar Ahuja, Omaima Anis Bhatti, Shamila Ladak, Iraj Khan, Abdul Rehman, Ibrahim Shah, Aneela Ilyas, and Laila Ladak
Framework for the comprehensive screening for endocrine disorders in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia in low-resource settings, Saadia Abbas, Muhammad Osama Khan, Aahan Arif, Hafsa Majid, Lena Jafri, Aisha Shaikh, Khadija N Humayun, Aysha Habib, and Bushra Moiz
A qualitative study of how maternal morbidities impact women's quality of life during pregnancy and postpartum in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, Martha Abdulai, Priyanka Adhikary, Sasha G. Baumann, Muslima Ejaz, Jenifer Oviya Priya, M Bridget Spelke, Victor Akelo, Kwaku Poku Asante, Bitanya M. Berhane, Shruti Bisht, Ellen Boamah -Kaali, Gabriela Diaz- Guzman, Anne George Cherian, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Margaret P. Kasaro, Amna Khan, Janae Kuttamperoor, Dorothy Lall, Gifta Priya Manohari, Sarmila Mazumder, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Kennedy Ochola, and Charlotte Tawiah
Salbutamol in the management of congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS) and associated IgA and IgG deficiency, Abia Abdullah, Sana Ashraf, and Prem Chand
Preliminary psychometric properties of the autism classification system of functioning: Social communication (ACSF: SC) in urdu-speaking children, Gul Afshan, Sonila Ali, Nadia Mazhar, Sadia Parkar, Misbah Jindani, and Sidra Kaleem Jafri
Determining the cause of death through mortality surveillance using verbal autopsy in Karachi, Pakistan, Raheel Allana, Inci Yildirim, Shabina Ariff, Sameer M. Belgaum, Nazia Ahsan, Sabeen Umair, Sehrish Amir Ali, Tehreem Maqsood, Mohammad Iqbal, and Abdul Momin Kazi
Household food insecurity, growth and development of preschool children: Evidence from rural Pakistan, Alya Alsager, Emily Franchett, Saima Siyal, Shelina Bhamani, Aisha K. Yousafzai, and Christopher R. Sudfeld
Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury in the paediatric intensive care unit: Frequency and outcomes, Anosha Muhammad Aslam, Wasif Ilyas Vohra, Ariba Siddiqui, Ezza Riaz, Qalab Abbas, and Sajid Bashir Soofi
Comparing global initiative for asthma guideline approaches to asthma control in adolescents aged 12 and above, Danish Abdul Aziz and werdah viquar
Expression of multidrug efflux pump gene acrAB in Escherichia coli: A systematic review and meta analysis, Saleh Salem Bahaj, Mohammed Saleh Al-Dhubaibi, Aref Noman, Sarosh Sher Ali, Haaris Mehmood, Waleed Yahya Alkassar, Ahmed Mohammed Al-Dhubaibi, Ghada Farouk Mohammed, and Ahmed Ibrahim Abd Elneam
Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation in rural Pakistan increased some milk micronutrient concentrations, but not infant growth, at three-months postpartum: A randomized controlled trial substudy, Jo-Anna B. Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Allison I. Daniel, Kehkashan Begum, Amjad Hussain, Junaid Iqbal, Susanne Aufreiter, Megan R. Beggs, Lauren Duan, Adrianna Greco, Carolina Huang, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Robert HJ Bandsma, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Deborah L. O’Connor
Impact of household food insecurity and nutrition on depression and anxiety symptoms among adolescents living in rural Pakistan, Susan Campisi, Florence Perquier, Suneeta Monga, Peter Szatmari, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid Bashir Soofi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Association of clinical signs of possible serious bacterial infections identified by community health workers with mortality of young infants in South Asia: A prospective, observational cohort study, Gary L. Darmstadt, Saifuddin Ahmed, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Safa Abdalla, Shams El Arifeen, Melissa L. Arvay, Abdullah H. Baqui, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Anuradha Bose, Nicholas E. Connor, Belal Hossain, Rita Isaac, Arif Mahmud, Dipak K. Mitra, Luke C. Mullany, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Kalpana Panigrahi, Pinaki Panigrahi, Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman, Senjuti Saha, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Nardos Solomon, Mathuram Santosham, Stephanie J. Schrag, Shamim A. Qazi, and Samir K. Saha
Evaluation of community-based heat adaptation interventions: A systematic review, Jai K. Das, Bhavita Kumari, Abdur Rahman, Maha Azhar, Sara Khan, Ujala Masood, Deepna Karan, Rahima Yasin, Christopher Burman, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
An innovative community mobilisation and community incentivisation for child health in rural Pakistan (CoMIC): A cluster-randomised, controlled trial, Jai K. Das, Rehana A Salam A. Salam, Zahra Ali Padhani, Arjumand Rizvi, Mushtaq Mirani, Muhammad Khan Jamali, Sana Khatoon, Anjum Naqvi, Fariha Shaheen, Rafey Ali, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Who protects the children and women of Sudan?, Georgia B. Dominguez, Naeha Sharma, Lamia Mahmoud, Maysoon Dahab, Nafisa Bedri, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Clinical and risk analytics associations with extubation failure in children following congenital cardiac surgery: A multicenter retrospective cohort study, 2017-2020, Daniel L. Hames, Qalab Abbas, Ahmed Asfari, Santiago Borasino, J Wesley Diddle, Yuanyuan Fu, Avihu Z. Gazit, Stuart Lipsitz, Amanda M. Marshall, and Katherine Reise
The impact of the central Asia stunting initiative on stunting among children under five years old in Gilgit Baltistan and Chitral, Pakistan, Imtiaz Hussain, Atif Habib, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Shabina Ariff, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Mushtaq Hassan, Asma A. Sattar, Sanober Nadeem, Aminah Jahangir, and Muhammad Umer
Making a difference: Bridging the gap in quality healthcare access for school children from urban slums in Karachi, Pakistan, Romesa Ibrahim, Adina Sajjad, Kishwar Enam, and Fyezah Jehan
Chronic inflammation in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 modulates gut microbiome: A review of literature on COVID-19 sequelae and gut dysbiosis, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Hana Khan, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Nosheen Nasir, Iffat Khanum, Aqsa Khalid, Isadora de de Siqueira, and Wes Van Voorhis
Host-microbiome determinants of ready-to-use supplemental food efficacy in acute childhood malnutrition, Zehra Jamil, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Sheraz Ahmed, Furqan Kabir, Fayyaz Umrani, Kamran Sadiq, Kumail Ahmed, Fatima Aziz, Syed Asad Ali, and Junaid Iqbal
Antiviral efficacy of fluoxetine in early symptomatic COVID-19: An open-label, randomised, controlled, adaptive platform trial (PLATCOV), Podjanee Jittamala, Simon Boyd, William H.K. Schilling, James A. Watson, Thundon Ngamprasertchai, Tanaya Siripoon, Viravarn Luvira, Elizabeth M. Batty, Phrutsamon Wongnak, Lisia M. Esper, Pedro J. Almeida, Cintia Cruz, Fernando R. Ascencao, Renato S. Aguiar, Najia K. Ghanchi, James J. Callery, Shivani Singh, Farah Qamar, Varaporn Kruabkontho, Thatsanun Ngernseng, Abdul Momin Kazi, M Asim Beg, Jaruwan Tubprasert, and Nicholas J. White
Evaluating the burden of respiratory tract infections among mortality cases in Karachi, Pakistan: A post-pandemic surveillance analysis, Furqan Kabir, Raheel Allana, Inci Yildirim, Aneeta Hotwani, Fatima Aziz, Saima Jamal, Nazia Ahsan, Zahra Hasan, Shabina Ariff, and Abdul Momin Kazi
Prevalence, trends, and determinants of double burden of malnutrition among the mother-child dyads of Pakistan, Asif Khaliq, Muhammad Salman Godil, Shafaq Taseen, Izzan Ahmed Usmani, and Tasin Safwath Chowdhury
Cognitive impairment in essential tremor patients, Saad Khan, Maryam Adnan, Junaid Imran, Fatima Sohail, and Hiba Thasleem
Identification of differentially expressed non-coding RNAs in the plasma of women with preterm birth, Waqasuddin Khan, Samiah Kanwar, Mohammad Mohsin Mannan, Furqan Kabir, Naveed Iqbal, Mehdia Nadeem Rajab Ali, Syeda Rehana Zia, Sharmeen Mian, Fatima Aziz, Sahrish Muneer, Adil Kalam, Akram Hussain, Iqra Javed, Muhammad Farrukh Qazi, Javairia Khalid, Muhammad Imran Nisar, and Fyezah Jehan
What makes an effective chief of pediatric cardiology: Insights from chiefs of programs globally, Michael E. Kim, Lars Idorn, Sandra S. Mattos, Worakan Promphan, Anne Dubin, Michael Cheung, Francesca Raimondi, John Lawrenson, Damien Kenny, and Babar Hasan
Personalized azithromycin treatment rules for children with watery diarrhea using machine learning, Sara S. Kim, Allison Codi, James A. Platts-Mills, Patricia B. Pavlinac, Karim Manji, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Christopher P. Duggan, Queen Dube, Naor Bar-Zeev, Karen Kotloff, Samba O. Sow, Sunil Sazawal, Benson O. Singa, Judd Walson, Farah Qamar, Tahmeed Ahmed, Ayesha De Costa, David Benkeser, and Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade
Modeling the initial impact and predicted future benefits of TCV from two Pakistani provinces, Alicia NM Kraay, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Sonia Qureshi, and Farah Qamar
Women in science: Bridging gaps in basic sciences, Bhavita Kumari, Narjis Fatima Hussain, Stephen H. Kennedy, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Jai K. Das, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Serocalculator, an R package for estimating seroincidence from cross-sectional serological data, Kristina W. Lai, Chris Orwa, Jessica C. Seidman, Denise O. Garrett, Samir K. Saha, Dipesh Tamrakar, Farah Naz Qamar, Richelle C. Charles, Jason R. Andrews, and Kristen Aiemjoy
Integrating phylodynamics and historical records reveals decades-old introductions of PRRSV into Costa Rica via international swine trade, Bernal León, Samiah Kanwar, Olga Aguilar, Idania Chacón, Gisela Cháves Cháves, David j. Spiro, and Nidia S. Trovao
Assessing candidacy for fetal intervention in congenital lower urinary tract obstruction: A comprehensive review, Hajra Malik, Brian A. Burnett, Hiba J. Mustafa, and Ahmed A. Nassr
Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn: A review of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management, Hajram Malik, E J T Joanne Verweij Joanne Verweij, and Hiba j. Mustafa
Mapping neonatal vulnerability using the small vulnerable newborn (SVN) framework-secondary analysis of PRISMA Pakistan study, Hajra Malik, Nida Yazdani, Sameeta Kumari, Sheikh Asad Jamal, Muhammad Kashif, Azqa Mazhar, and Zahra Hoodbhoy
From paper to pixels: EMR as the solution to prescription errors in Pakistan, Areeba Memon, Minahil Memon, and Dua Mahfooz Memon
Factors influencing glycaemic control in adolescents with type I diabetes: Cross-sectional analysis of individual and parental factors, Fozia Memon, Muzna Arif, Maryam Haider, Muhammad Farrukh Qazi, Muhammad Imran Nisar, and Khadija Humayun
TANGO-2: A rare genetic condition with severe clinical presentation of encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis, and cardiac rhythm disorders in 2 children, Khairunnisa Mukhtiar, Shahnaz Ibrahim, and Qurat ul-Ain Khalid
Outcomes of continuous and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in neonates, Rabia Munir, Nimra Chohan, Aiman Ali Brohi, Hafiz Muhammad Aamir Yousuf, and Muhammad Sohail Salat
Wastewater surveillance for early pathogen detection in Asia, Junxiong Pang, Judith Chui Ching Wong, Suci Melati Wulandari, Martin Tay, Erik Albert Karlsson, Vicka Oktaria, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Munirul Alam, Indah Kartika Murni, and Afreenish Amir
Effect of one prophylactic dose of azithromycin on bifidobacterium infantis colonization in infants from the mumta trial, Aneela Pasha, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Yasir Shafiq, Waqasuddin Khan, Iqbal Azam Syed, Furqan Kabir, Ameer Muhammad, Muhammad Imran Nisar, and Fyezah Jehan
Food acquisition, preparation, and consumption practices in South Asia: A scoping review of assessment tools, Sharvari Patwardhan, Rasmi Avula, Morgan Boncyk, Christine E. Blake, Purnima Menon, Fahmida Akter, Jai K. Das, Renuka Silva, and Samuel Scott
Infections do not play fair: the Charlson-Age Comorbidity Index reveals sex-specific risk in laparotomy patients in an LMIC, Komal Abdul Rahim, Bilal Ahmed Usmani, Iqbal Azam Syed, Saad Bin Zafar Mahmood, Mushyada Ali, Anum Rahim, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Zainab Samad, and Adil H. Haider
A systems-change approach to addressing the mortality surveillance gap in Pakistan, Mohummad Hassan Raza Raja, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Sana Sheikh, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Sameen Siddiqi, Zafar Mirza, Faiza Bashir, Mirza Tayyab Mehmood, and Zainab Samad
Response to Haliloğlu et al, Lettie E. Rawlins, Stuart J. Cannon, Bilal Ahmad Mian, Farhan Bahadar Ali, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Mathias Toft, Ambrin Fatima, Zafar Iqbal, Emma L. Baple, and Andrew H. Crosby
Unveiling pediatric neurosarcoidosis mimicking central nervous system tuberculosis: Diagnostic challenges, Mohammad Raza, Shahnaz Ibrahim, and Isbaah Tejani
Association of iron deficiency anemia with dental caries in the permanent first molars of children aged 7-12 years in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan: Protocol for an analytical cross-sectional study, Syeda Sadaf, Iqbal Azam Syed, Farhan Raza Khan, Ali Faisal Saleem, and Shiyam Sunder Tikmani
Post-vaccination campaign evaluation of systemic and mucosal immunity of trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine in Karachi, Pakistan (2020-2021): A cross-sectional study, Ali Faisal Saleem, Visalakshi Jeyaseelan, Zaubina Kazi, Mahjabeen Zehra, Muhammad Masroor Alam, Grace Macklin, Rocio Lopez Cavestany, Sajid Muhammad, Najeeb Rehman, and Ondrej Mach
A recurrent GNE variant causing GNE myopathy in unrelated patients from Pakistan: A case series, Shafaq Saleem, Fizza Akbar, Salman Kirmani, Ehtesham Khalid, and Sara Khan
Predicting total body water in infants aged 0.5-24 months and the implications for measuring breast milk intake: A secondary analysis of isotope dilution data, Marieke Aj de Sévaux, Pernille Kæstel, Hinke Haisma, Teresa Hm da Costa, Tinku Thomas, Regien Biesma, Rebecca Kuriyan, Grace Munthali, Aly Diana, and Shabina Ariff
Towards rabies elimination in Pakistan: Barriers, facilitators, and the role of one health, Anum Shaikh, Shifa Salman Habib, Ali Faisal Saleem, and Naseem Salahuddin
Protocol for the redefining maternal anemia in pregnancy and postpartum (ReMAPP) study: A multisite, international, population-based cohort study to establish global hemoglobin thresholds for maternal anemia, Emily R. Smith, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Aneeta Hotwani, Fyezah Jehan, Amna Khan, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Nida Yazdani, Santosh Joseph Benjamin, Anne George Cherian, and Venkata Raghava Mohan
Revolutionizing surgical preparedness: Personalized preoperative planning with digital twins of an organ, Abdullah Sohail, Mariyah Zainab Irfan, and Areeba Shaikh
Is rotavirus aetiology in young children with acute diarrhoea associated with sociodemographic and clinical factors, including rotavirus vaccination status? A secondary cross-sectional analysis of the abcd trial, Sarah Somji, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Christopher Duggan, Karim Manji, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Usha Dhingra, Sunil Sazawal, Benson Singa, Judd L. Walson, Patricia B. Pavlinac, Naor Bar-Zeev, Eric Houpt, Queen Dube, Karen L. Kotloff, Samba O. Sow, and Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai
Health related quality of life assessment in children with epilepsy aged 3-11 at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Yusra Tariq, Prem Chand, Farah Qamar, Humaira Ali, Ghazal Peerwani, and Hassan Mirza
The waning of maternal measles antibodies: A multi-country maternal-infant seroprevalence study, Karen S. Tiley, Hinke Ten Hulscher-van Overbeek, Sudha Basnet, Rob van Binnendijk, Ed Clarke, Stephen Cose, Duc Anh Dang, Ha Thi Thu Hoang, Beth Holder, and Abdul Momin Kazi
Clinical and genetic landscape of IGHMBP2 -related disorders: From novel variants to phenotypic insights, Tinatin Tkemaladze, Kakha Bregvadze, Luka Abashishvili, Gocha Chikvinidze, Angelica Maria Delgado Vega, Fizza Akbar, Sara Khan, and Salman Kirmani
Antispike IgG antibody decay after immunisation with fractional versus full booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines: A 6-month longitudinal analysis of the FRACT-COV trial in Brazil, Juliana Barros Verruck, Marco Antonio Moreira Puga, Roberto Dias de Oliveira, Patricia Vieira da Silva, Vivek Charu, Haley Hedlin, Di Lu, Amy Zhang, Victor Ritter, Blake Shaw, Joelle I. Rosser, Jessica Couvillion Seidman, Alice Scott Carter, Farah Qamar, Stephen Luby, Denise Garret, and Julio Croda
Micronutrients associated with anemia in school-age children and adolescents 2005-2018: Biomarkers reflecting inflammation and nutritional determinants of anemia (BRINDA) project, Rochelle Werner, Hanqi Luo, Lei Liu, Yuqing Wang, Jiaxi Geng, Yi-An Ko, Parminder S. Suchdev, Yaw Addo, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Victor Temple
Aflatoxin exposure and mortality in acutely ill children: Results from the CHAIN network cohort, Lei Xia, Hang Wu, Ali Faisal Saleem, Ezekiel Mupere, Christina Lancioni, Hama Diallo, Isabel Potani, Syed Asad Ali, Wieger Voskuijl, and Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
Formulation of quality improvement methodology for risk mitigation in congenital cardiac catheterization, Mary J. Yeh, Fatima Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Sarosh P. Batlivala, Darren Berman, Martin L. Bocks, Kristin Chenault, Thomas Doyle, Todd Gudausky, and Ralf Holzer
Formulation of quality improvement methodology for risk mitigation in congenital cardiac catheterization, Mary J. Yeh, Fatima Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Darren Berman, Martin L. Bocks, Kristin Chenaul, Thomas Doyle, Todd Gudausky, Michael Hainstock, and Ralf Holzer
Association between procedure duration and adverse events in congenital cardiac catheterization, Mary j. Yeh, Lisa Bergersen, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Saleem Akhtar, Sarosh P. Batlivala, Martin L. Bocks, Ralf Holzer, Shabana Shahanavaz, Sara M. Trucco, and Thomas Zellers
Recommendations for addressing suicidal ideation precipitated by levetiracetam in the treatment of Seizure Disorder: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Ishrath Zamani, Misha Khalid Khan, Ann Manzardo, and Naveen Khanzada
Submissions from 2024
UNITY: A low-field magnetic resonance neuroimaging initiative to characterize neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings, F Abate, A Adu-Amankwah, K A Ae-Ngibise, F Agbokey, V A Agyemang, C T Agyemang, C Akgun, J Ametepe, Zahra Hoodbhoy, and Sidra Kaleem Jafri
Facilitators and barriers in acceptance of telemedicine among healthcare providers in Pakistan: A cross-sectional survey, Muhammad Wasi Abbas, Hasan Nawaz Tahir, Nazish Jaffar, Ghana Raza, Syed Aman Ali, and Rawshan Jabeen
Clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C): a systematic review, Qalab Abbas, Haider Ali, Fatima Amjad, Muhammad Zaid Hamid Hussain, Abdu R. Rahman, Maryam Hameed Khan, Fatima Abbas, Danyal Imam, Zuviya Alikhan, Sameer M. Belgaumi, Faiza Sattar, Arsalan Siddiqui, and Jai K. Das
Short- and medium-term longitudinal outcomes of children diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children - Report from a single centre in Pakistan, Qalab Abbas, Fatima Farrukh Shahbaz, Fatima Amjad, Farah Khalid, Nadeem Aslam, and Shazia Mohsin
Publications in paediatric critical care medicine: Trends from Pakistan, Qalab Abbas, Naveed ur Rehman Siddiqu, Zahra Cheema Cheema, Muhammad Shahzad, Abdul Rahim Ahmed, and Anwar Ul Haque
Toxic elements identified in breast milk of mothers residing in water contaminated region of Sindh and their impact on infants’ growth patterns: A case-control study, Nurmeen Adil, Syed Sibt-E- Hassan, Amna Jabbar Siddiqui, Zehra Jamil, Junaid Iqbal, Syed Asad Ali, and Syed Ghulam Musharraf
AI-enabled workflow for automated classification and analysis of feto-placental doppler images, Ainhoa M. Aguado, Guillermo Jimenez- Perez, Josa Prats- Valero, Sergio Sánchez- Martínez, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Devyani Chowdhury, Shazia Mohsin, Roberta Castellani, Fàtima Crispi, Lea Testa, Bart Bijnens, Gabriel Bernardino, and Babar Hasan
The enterics for global health (EFGH) shigella surveillance study in Pakistan, Naveed Ahmed, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, and Farah Qamar
Frequency, risk factors, and outcome of neonatal meningitis in sepsis, Saeed Ahmed, Sundus Akhtar, Aysha Sultan, and Ayaz Ur Rehman
Predictors for poor daily weight gain in preterm neonates exposed to different dose regimens of caffeine in ICU- A retrospective cohort study, Saeed Ahmed, Ayaz Ur Rehman, Zainab Bibi, Sundus Iftikhar, Maleeha Raza, Hafiz Mohammad Amir Yousuf, Fizzah Naz, Wasif Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Sohail Salat, Gul Ambreen, and Kashif Hussain
The Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Biopsy Initiative (EEDBI) consortium: Mucosal investigations of environmental enteric dysfunction, Sheraz Ahmed, Kumail Ahmed, Aneeta Hotwani, Junaid Iqbal, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Sadaf Jakhro, Furqan Kabir, Waheeda Memon, Abdul Khaliq Qureshi, Najeeb Rehman, Kamran Sadiq, and Fayyaz Umrani
Applying the principles for digital development to improve maternal and child health in the Peri-urban areas of Karachi, Pakistan, Hareem Ahmer, Kinza Farooqui, Karim Jivani, Rehan Adamjee, and Zahra Hoodbhoy
Clinical experience of next generation sequencing based expanded carrier screening in high-risk couples from a tertiary healthcare center in Pakistan, Fizza Akbar, Salman Kirmani, Zohra HassaN, Muhammad Farrukh Qazi, Najia Minhas Ali, and Bushra Afroze
Assessing pattern of the Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (PMIS) in children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from the emergency department of tertiary care center of a low-middle-income country, Saleem Akhtar, Iqra Anis, Kumar Nirdosh, Muhammad Ihsan Tayyab Ihsan, Ahmed Raheem Buksh, and Surraiya Bano
Nurturing children and protecting our planet from climate change, Tobias Alfvén and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Atypical presentation of biotinidase deficiency: Masquerading neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, Farhan Ali, Mohammad Raza, Shahnaz Ibrahim, and Khairunnisa Mukhtiar
Editorial: Biorisk management, laboratory acquired infections and clinical containment, volume II, Kashif Ali, Esmeralda Meyer, and Furqan Kabir
The impact of storage, handling, and treatment on nutritional quality and safety of animal milk: A protocol for the systematic review and meta-analysis, Roba Alwasila, Alaina Berg, Tarah Colaizy, Abigail Smith, James Evans, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Aamer Imdad
Association of maternal nutritional status and small for gestational age neonates in peri-urban communities of Karachi, Pakistan: Findings from the PRISMA study, Sobia Ambreen, Nida Yazdani, Abdul Salam Alvi, Muhammad Farrukh Qazi, and Zahra Hoodbhoy
Oral health of chemotherapy patients before and after provision of oral hygiene instructions at a tertiary care hospital: Pre-post design, Mashal Amin, Farhan Raza Khan, Asad Allana, Rubina Barolia, and Iqbal Azam Syed
Drivers of anemia reduction among women of reproductive age in the Philippines: A country case study, Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa, Aatekah Owais, Eva A. Goyena, Catherine E. Merritt, Christopher Lee, Preety Rattan, Ma Lynell V. Maniego, Frances Pola S. Arias, Glenda P. Azaña, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Environmental surveillance for COVID-19 using SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration in wastewater - A study in district east, Karachi, Pakistan, Nadia Ansari, Furqan Kabir, Farah Khalid, Usma Mehmood, Abdul Momin Kazi, Hussain Kalimuddin, Samiah Kanwar, Fatima Aziz, Fyezah Jehan, and Muhammad Imran Nisar
Opportunities and challenges for financing women's, children's and adolescents' health in the context of climate change, Blanca Anton, Soledad Cuevas, Mark Hanson, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Etienne V. Langlois, Domenico Gerardo Iaia, Giulia Gasparri, and Josephine Borghi
A research definition and framework for acute paediatric critical illness across resource-variable settings: A modified delphi consensus, Anita V. Arias, Michael Lintner Rivera, Nadeem I. Shafi, Qalab Abbas, Abdelhafeez H. Abdelhafeez, Muhammad Ali, Halaashuor Ammar, Ali I. Anwar, John Adabie Appiah, and Jonah E. Attebery
Effect of maternal and newborn care service package on perinatal and newborn mortality: A cluster randomized clinical trial, Shabina Ariff, Uswa Jiwani, Arjumand Rizvi, Sajid Muhammad, A Hussain, Imran Ahmed, Masawar Hussain, Muhammad Usman, Junaid Iqbal, Zahid Memon, Sajid Bashir Soofi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Microtia and social media: How can we help our patients?, Muhammad Arslan, Chloe Cottone, Erinn Mangona, Andre Rafizadeh, and Marium Mohsin
Navigating autism treatment: Unlocking new frontiers with ChatGPT, Muhammad Moin Ashraf, Ibtehaj Ul Haque, and Navpreet Kaur Sangha
Impact and outcomes of hyperglycemia among post-operative children who underwent repair of congenital cardiac defects in a tertiary care setup of Pakistan, Yumna Muhammad Aslam, Ayaz Ur Rehman, Tarab Zehra, and Noor Ul Ain
Diarrhea case surveillance in the enteric for global health shigella surveillance Study: Epidemiologic methods, Hannah E. Atlas, Bakary Conteh, Md Taufiqul Islam, Khuzwayo C. Jere, Farah Qamar, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Naveed Ahmed, Aneeta Hotwani, Sonia Qureshi, and Shazia Sultana
Oral and topical analgesia in pediatric electrodiagnostic studies, Bisma Aziz, Fazal Ur Rehman, Saadia Sattar, Sajid Hameed, Haris Hakeem, Marib Ghulam Rasool Malik, Safoora Ibraheem Zuberi, and Sara Khan
Evaluation of fecal inflammatory biomarkers to identify bacterial diarrhea episodes: Systematic review and protocol for the enterics for global health shigella surveillance study, Courtney Babb, Henry Badji, Jennifer Cornick, Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Sonia Qureshi, Kehkashan Begum, Mehreen Adnan, Junaid Iqbal, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, and Farah Qamar
Maternal vaccination against COVID-19 and neonatal outcomes during Omicron: INTERCOVID-2022 study, Fernando C. Barros, Robert B. Gunier, Albertina Rego, Loïc Sentilhes, Stephen Rauch, Serena Gandino, Jagjit S. Teji, Jim G. Thornton, Shabina Ariff, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Contemplating the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine introduction in Pakistan: Is now the time?, Rabab Batool
Exploring natural immune responses to shigella exposure using multiplex bead assays on dried blood spots in high burden countries: Protocol from a multisite diarrhea surveillance study, Rabab Batool, Aneeta Hotwani, Sonia Qureshi, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Shazia Sultana, Farah Qamar, Prisca Benedicto Matambo, Lindsay N. Avolio, Henry Badji, and Farhana Khanam
Efficacy of typhoid vaccines against culture-confirmed salmonella typhi in typhoid endemic countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Rabab Batool, Zoya Haq Qamar, Rehana Abdus Salam, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Per Ashorn, and Farah Qamar