Evaluating motor performance with the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of motor proficiency in impoverished Pakistani children.
Hasan ZH, Shaheen F, Rizvi A, Obradovic J, Yousafzai AK.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2021 Jun. 71(6):1556-1560. PMID: 34111071
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
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. 2021 May 17. 36(4):473-483. PMID: 33313814
Parenting interventions to promote early child development in the first three years of life: A global systematic review and meta-analysis.
Jeong J, Franchett EE, Ramos de Oliveira CV, Rehmani K, Yousafzai AK.
PLoS Med. 2021 May. 18(5):e1003602. PMID: 33970913
Effect of a home-based health, nutrition and responsive stimulation intervention and conditional cash transfers on child development and growth: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Tanzania.
Sudfeld CR, Bliznashka L, Ashery G, Yousafzai AK, Masanja H.
BMJ Glob Health. 2021 04. 6(4). PMID: 33906847
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
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
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
News
Q & A: Closing the childhood equity gap
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.
Helping vulnerable children thrive
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…
