Depression and Viral Suppression Among Adults Living with HIV in Tanzania.
Regan M, Muhihi A, Nagu T, Aboud S, Ulenga N, Kaaya S, Fawzi MCS, Yousafzai AK, Mugusi F, Fawzi WW, Saxena S, Koenen K, Sudfeld CR.
AIDS Behav. 2021 Feb 17. PMID: 33598866
Associate Professor
Aisha Yousafzai
Overview
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.
Bibliography
Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda.
Jensen SK, Placencio-Castro M, Murray SM, Brennan RT, Goshev S, Farrar J, Yousafzai A, Rawlings LB, Wilson B, Habyarimana E, Sezibera V, Betancourt TS.
BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Jan. 6(1). PMID: 33514591
Effects of a community health worker delivered intervention on maternal depressive symptoms in rural Tanzania.
Bliznashka L, Yousafzai AK, Asheri G, Masanja H, Sudfeld CR.
Health Policy Plan. 2020 Dec 13. PMID: 33313814
Manifesto for new directions in developmental science.
Barbot B, Hein S, Trentacosta C, Beckmann JF, Bick J, Crocetti E, Liu Y, Rao SF, Liew J, Overbeek G, Ponguta LA, Scheithauer H, Super C, Arnett J, Bukowski W, Cook TD, Côté J, Eccles JS, Eid M, Hiraki K, Johnson M, Juang L, Landi N, Leckman J, McCardle P, Mulvey KL, Piquero AR, Preiss DD, Siegler R, Soenens B, Yousafzai AK, Bornstein MH, Cooper CR, Goossens L, Harkness S, van IJzendoorn MH.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2020 Jul. 2020(172):135-149. PMID: 32960503
If not now, then when? The importance of intervening early to provide family-based environments for all children.
Yousafzai AK.
Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020 08. 4(8):565-566. PMID: 32589872
Biological sensitivity to context in Pakistani preschoolers: Hair cortisol and family wealth are interactively associated with girls' cognitive skills.
Armstrong-Carter E, Finch JE, Siyal S, Yousafzai AK, Obradovic J.
Dev Psychobiol. 2020 12. 62(8):1046-1061. PMID: 32458442
Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal and Paternal Parenting, and Early Child Development.
Jeong J, Adhia A, Bhatia A, McCoy DC, Yousafzai AK.
Pediatrics. 2020 06. 145(6). PMID: 32424076
Promoting parent-child relationships and preventing violence via home-visiting: a pre-post cluster randomised trial among Rwandan families linked to social protection programmes.
Betancourt TS, Jensen SKG, Barnhart DA, Brennan RT, Murray SM, Yousafzai AK, Farrar J, Godfroid K, Bazubagira SM, Rawlings LB, Wilson B, Sezibera V, Kamurase A.
BMC Public Health. 2020 May 06. 20(1):621. PMID: 32375840
Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era: a CHNRI exercise.
Tomlinson M, Darmstadt GL, Yousafzai AK, Daelmans B, Britto P, Gordon SL, Tablante E, Dua T.
J Glob Health. 2019 Dec. 9(3):020703. PMID: 31673352
Chronic Maternal Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Reduced Socio-Emotional Development in Children at 2 Years of Age: Analysis of Data From an Intervention Cohort in Rural Pakistan.
De Oliveira CVR, Rasheed M, Yousafzai AK.
Front Psychiatry. 2019. 10:859. PMID: 31824356