The effects of a large-scale home visiting programme for child development on use of health services in Brazil.
Viegas da Silva E, Hartwig FP, Yousafzai A, Bertoldi AD, Murray J.
Health Policy Plan. 2024 Apr 10. 39(4):344-354. PMID: 38491997
Dr. Yousafzai's work focuses on:
• Developing new interventions and approaches to promote early child development with a particular interest in how to strengthen child and caregiving related outcomes through existing health, nutrition and education systems.
• Understanding the implementation structures and processes for early childhood interventions to achieve sustainable impact at-scale.
• Promoting capacity development in local communities, services and systems for the effective delivery of interventions to promote early child development.
She has extensive experience in evaluating early childhood interventions in south Asia, east Africa, and in central and east Europe. One of Dr. Yousafzai’s most significant studies is the Pakistan Early Child Development Scale-Up (PEDS) trial, a cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating responsive stimulation and nutrition interventions to strengthen early child development and growth outcomes. The PEDS trial cohort is currently being followed-up at age 8 years old to investigate early intervention effects at school-age. This is one of the few studies to test the effects of integrating a psychosocial stimulation intervention in a large-scale community health service and to examine the long-term intervention effects on development and growth in a low- and middle-income population. She is also the PI of a randomized controlled trial in Pakistan investigating the impacts of community youth leaders delivering early childhood care and learning interventions on a host of early childhood and community outcomes. Dr. Yousafzai has written extensively about early childhood interventions in low- and middle-income countries including recent articles in Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Lancet, Lancet Global Health, and Pediatrics.
Viegas da Silva E, Hartwig FP, Yousafzai A, Bertoldi AD, Murray J.
Health Policy Plan. 2024 Apr 10. 39(4):344-354. PMID: 38491997
Ahun MN, Ali NB, Hentschel E, Jeong J, Franchett E, Yousafzai AK.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2024 Mar. 1533(1):99-144. PMID: 38354095
Ali NB, Yousafzai AK, Siyal S, Bhamani S, Sudfeld CR.
J Nutr. 2024 Feb. 154(2):755-764. PMID: 38072156
Jeong J, Ahun MN, Gunaratna NS, Ambikapathi R, Mapendo F, Galvin L, Kieffer MP, Mwanyika-Sando M, Mosha D, O'Malley SF, Verissimo CK, PrayGod G, Yousafzai AK.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2023 Oct 06. PMID: 37800367
Jeong J, Domonko V, Mendile T, Yousafzai AK.
Pediatrics. 2023 10 01. 152(4). PMID: 37777643
Jegathesan T, Yousafzai A, Mantel M, Sereni V, Armstrong RW, Minhas RS.
Front Public Health. 2023. 11:1110578. PMID: 37680273
Vieira-Meyer APGF, Forte FDS, Guimarães JMX, Farias SF, Oliveira ALS, Dias MSA, Monteiro CFS, Guedes da Silva Júnior FJ, Morais APP, Moreira MRC, Castro MC, Yousafzai AK.
Cad Saude Publica. 2023. 39(7):e00007223. PMID: 37585900
Chatterjee P, Chen J, Yousafzai A, Kawachi I, Subramanian SV.
Int J Equity Health. 2023 06 14. 22(1):115. PMID: 37316862
Chatterjee P, Chen J, Yousafzai A, Kawachi I, Subramanian SV.
Confl Health. 2023 May 07. 17(1):23. PMID: 37150814
Vieira-Meyer APGF, Farias SF, Forte FDS, Costa MS, Guimarães JMX, Morais APP, Oliveira ALS, Silva Júnior FJGD, Nascimento EFD, Vasconcelos MIO, Dias MSA, Oliveira FP, Machado MFAS, Castro MC, Yousafzai AK.
Cien Saude Colet. 2023 Aug. 28(8):2363-2376. PMID: 37531544
A new Lancet series focuses on building a holistic global health agenda for improving child and adolescent health and development from before conception to adulthood, and to reduce inequities in access and quality of care.
Aisha Yousafzai is principal investigator of two large randomized controlled trials focused on early childhood development in Pakistan, and works to create equity for children throughout the world.
Aisha Yousafzai, Sonia Hernandez Diaz, Karen Emmons were honored at the annual Alice Hamilton Award lecture.
Aisha Yousafzai, associate professor of global health, is the principal investigator of two large randomized controlled trials focused on early childhood development in Pakistan—Pakistan Early Child Development Scale-Up (PEDS) and Youth Leaders for Early Childhood Assuring Children are…