Diet and development among children aged 36-59 months in low-income countries.
Bliznashka L, Perumal N, Yousafzai A, Sudfeld C.
Arch Dis Child. 2021 Dec 24. PMID: 34952837
Primary Faculty
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
Child diet and mother-child interactions mediate intervention effects on child growth and development.
Bliznashka L, McCoy DC, Siyal S, Sudfeld CR, Fawzi WW, Yousafzai AK.
Matern Child Nutr. 2021 Dec 14. e13308. PMID: 34905648
An evaluation of a combined psychological and parenting intervention for HIV-positive women depressed in the perinatal period, to enhance child development and reduce maternal depression: study protocol for the Insika Yomama cluster randomised controlled trial.
Rochat TJ, Dube S, Herbst K, Hoegfeldt CA, Redinger S, Khoza T, Bland RM, Richter L, Linsell L, Desmond C, Yousafzai AK, Craske M, Juszczak E, Abas M, Edwards T, Ekers D, Stein A.
Trials. 2021 Dec 13. 22(1):914. PMID: 34903257
A pilot to promote early child development within health systems in Mozambique: a qualitative evaluation.
Jeong J, Bliznashka L, Ahun MN, Karuskina-Drivdale S, Picolo M, Lalwani T, Pinto J, Frey M, Velthauz D, Donco R, Yousafzai AK.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2021 Dec 02. PMID: 34859451
Associations between women's empowerment and child development, growth, and nurturing care practices in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional analysis of demographic and health survey data.
Bliznashka L, Udo IE, Sudfeld CR, Fawzi WW, Yousafzai AK.
PLoS Med. 2021 09. 18(9):e1003781. PMID: 34529666
Barriers and facilitators to father involvement in early child health services: A qualitative study in rural Mozambique.
Jeong J, Ahun MN, Bliznashka L, Velthausz D, Donco R, Yousafzai AK.
Soc Sci Med. 2021 10. 287:114363. PMID: 34500322
Evaluating implementation of LEAPS, a youth-led early childhood care and education intervention in rural Pakistan: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster-randomized trial.
Yousafzai AK, Sudfeld CR, Franchett EE, Siyal S, Rehmani K, Bhamani S, Dai Q, Reyes CR, Fink G, Ponguta LA.
Trials. 2021 Aug 17. 22(1):542. PMID: 34404454
Early and concurrent home stimulation: Unique and indirect links with fine motor skills among 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan.
Armstrong-Carter E, Sulik MJ, Siyal S, Yousafzai AK, Obradovic J.
Dev Psychol. 2021 Jun. 57(6):888-899. PMID: 34424007
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
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
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…
