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A. Yousafzai

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h-index: 42
Works: 183
Citations: 9,876

Most-cited papers

Parenting interventions to promote early child development in the first three years of life: A global systematic review and meta-analysis
Joshua Jeong, E. Franchett, C. V. Ramos de Oliveira, K. Rehmani +1 more
2021PLoS Medicine842 citations Open access
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Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries
A. Sania, C. Sudfeld, G. Danaei, G. Fink +41 more
2019BMJ Open127 citations Open access
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Improving health and social systems for all children in LMICs: structural innovations to deliver high-quality services.
M. Kruk, Todd P. Lewis, Catherine Arsenault, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta +7 more
2022The Lancet105 citations Open access
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The next 1000 days: building on early investments for the health and development of young children
Catherine E Draper, A. Yousafzai, D. C. McCoy, J. Cuartas +15 more
2024The Lancet88 citations Open access
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Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda
Sarah K. G. Jensen, Matías Placencio-Castro, S. M. Murray, R. T. Brennan +8 more
2021BMJ Global Health76 citations Open access
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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
Lilia Bliznashka, Ifeyinwa E Udo, C. Sudfeld, W. Fawzi +1 more
2021PLoS Medicine59 citations Open access
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Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal and Paternal Parenting, and Early Child Development
Joshua Jeong, Avanti Adhia, Amiya Bhatia, D. McCoy +1 more
2020Pediatrics46 citations Open access
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Implementation of UNICEF and WHO's care for child development package: Lessons from a global review and key informant interviews
Marilyn N. Ahun, F. Aboud, Claire Wamboldt, A. Yousafzai
2023Frontiers in Public Health43 citations Open access
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The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice.
M. Nores, C. Vazquez, Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne +12 more
2024The Lancet39 citations
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Implementation characteristics of father-inclusive interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
Joshua Jeong, Eileen F. Sullivan, Juliet K. McCann, D. McCoy +1 more
2022Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences37 citations Open access
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A meta‐analytic review of the implementation characteristics in parenting interventions to promote early child development
Marilyn N. Ahun, Nazia Binte Ali, Elizabeth Hentschel, Joshua Jeong +2 more
2024Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences35 citations Open access
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Interventions to promote development in the next 1,000 days: a mapping review.
C. Draper, S. Klingberg, S. Wrottesley, K. Milner +3 more
2022Child: Care, Health and Development34 citations Open access
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Effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting and nutrition interventions on early child development and maternal and paternal parenting in Mara, Tanzania: a factorial cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Joshua Jeong, Marilyn N. Ahun, Nilupa S. Gunaratna, Ramya Ambikapathi +9 more
2023Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines33 citations
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Parents’ mental health and the social-emotional development of their children aged between 24 and 59 months in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analyses
T. Honda, T. Tran, Sally Popplestone, C. Draper +3 more
2023SSM - Mental Health32 citations Open access
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Lay-worker Delivered Home Visiting Promotes Early Childhood Development and Reduces Violence in Rwanda: A Randomized Pilot
Dale A. Barnhart, Jordan C. Farrar, S. M. Murray, R. T. Brennan +11 more
2020Journal of Child and Family Studies32 citations
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Effects of engaging fathers and bundling nutrition and parenting interventions on household gender equality and women's empowerment in rural Tanzania: Results from EFFECTS, a five-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Lauren Galvin, Cristiana K. Verissimo, Ramya Ambikapathi, Nilupa S. Gunaratna +12 more
2023Social Science & Medicine (1967)31 citations Open access
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Barriers and facilitators to father involvement in early child health services: A qualitative study in rural Mozambique.
Joshua Jeong, Marilyn N. Ahun, Lilia Bliznashka, D. Velthausz +2 more
2021Social Science & Medicine (1967)31 citations
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Manifesto for new directions in developmental science.
B. Barbot, S. Hein, C. Trentacosta, J. Beckmann +32 more
2020New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development31 citations Open access
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Depression and Viral Suppression Among Adults Living with HIV in Tanzania
M. Regan, A. Muhihi, Tumaini J. Nagu, S. Aboud +9 more
2021Aids and Behavior28 citations Open access
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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
C. R. D. de Oliveira, Muneera A. Rasheed, A. Yousafzai
2019Frontiers in Psychiatry28 citations Open access
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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
C. Sudfeld, Lilia Bliznashka, Geofrey Ashery, A. Yousafzai +1 more
2021BMJ Global Health25 citations Open access
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Integrating social protection and early childhood development: open trial of a family home-visiting intervention, Sugira Muryango
T. Betancourt, E. Franchett, Catherine M. Kirk, R. T. Brennan +9 more
202024 citations
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Effects of a community health worker delivered intervention on maternal depressive symptoms in rural Tanzania
Lilia Bliznashka, A. Yousafzai, Geofrey Asheri, H. Masanja +1 more
2020Health Policy and Planning23 citations Open access
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Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era: a CHNRI exercise
M. Tomlinson, G. Darmstadt, A. Yousafzai, B. Daelmans +4 more
2019Journal of Global Health22 citations Open access
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Contextual and socioeconomic variation in early motor and language development
G. Fink, D. McCoy, A. Yousafzai
2019Archives of Disease in Childhood21 citations Open access
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Effects of COVID-19 on Child Health Services Utilisation and Delivery in Rural Mozambique: A Qualitative Study
Lilia Bliznashka, Marilyn N. Ahun, D. Velthausz, R. Donco +4 more
2022Health Policy and Planning20 citations Open access
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A pilot to promote early child development within health systems in Mozambique: a qualitative evaluation
Joshua Jeong, Lilia Bliznashka, Marilyn N. Ahun, Svetlana Karuskina-Drivdale +7 more
2021Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences20 citations Open access
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Association of Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence With Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Early Childhood Socioemotional Development Among Mothers and Children in Rural Tanzania
C. V. Ramos de Oliveira, C. Sudfeld, A. Muhihi, D. McCoy +3 more
2022JAMA Network Open19 citations Open access
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When social identities intersect: understanding inequities in growth outcomes by religion- caste and religion-tribe as intersecting strata of social hierarchy for Muslim and Hindu children in India
Pritha Chatterjee, Jarvis T. Chen, A. Yousafzai, I. Kawachi +1 more
2023International Journal for Equity in Health17 citations Open access
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Diet and development among children aged 36–59 months in low-income countries
Lilia Bliznashka, N. Perumal, A. Yousafzai, C. Sudfeld
2021Archives of Disease in Childhood16 citations Open access
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Gender and Violence in the Daily Routine of Community Health Workers in Fortaleza, Brazil
A. Vieira-Meyer, Regina Glaucia Lucena Aguiar Ferreira, G. A. Albuquerque, José Maria Ximenes Guimarães +5 more
2023Journal of community health15 citations Open access
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Evaluation of a community health worker home visit intervention to improve child development in South Africa: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
P. Rockers, J. Leppänen, A. Tarullo, L. Coetzee +4 more
2023PLoS Medicine15 citations Open access
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Violence in the neighborhood and mental health of community health workers in a Brazilian metropolis.
A. Vieira-Meyer, A. P. Morais, Helena Paula Guerra Dos Santos, A. Yousafzai +2 more
2023Cadernos de Saúde Pública15 citations Open access
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Scaling up child psychosocial stimulation programmes for young children.
F. Aboud, A. Yousafzai
2019Lancet Global Health15 citations Open access
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Effect of a community health worker delivered health, nutrition and responsive stimulation package and conditional cash transfers on child development and growth in rural Tanzania: protocol for a cluster-randomized trial
C. Sudfeld, Lilia Bliznashka, Geofrey Ashery, A. Yousafzai +1 more
2019BMC Public Health13 citations Open access
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If not now, then when? The importance of intervening early to provide family-based environments for all children
A. Yousafzai
2020The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health12 citations Open access
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Perinatal depression and adverse child growth outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs): A systematic review and meta-analysis
Elizabeth A. Carosella, Shradha M. Chhabria, Hyelee Kim, Aliya Moreira +7 more
2024PLOS Global Public Health10 citations Open access
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Gender similarities and differences in early childhood development in low- and middle-income countries
Catalina Rey-Guerra, A. Yousafzai, Eric Dearing
2023International Journal of Behavioral Development10 citations
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Addressing early childhood development in healthcare: putting theory into practice
I. Ertem, D. Dogan, Roopa Srinivasan, A. Yousafzai +1 more
2022BMJ Paediatrics Open10 citations Open access
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Maternal and paternal perspectives on parenting stress in rural Tanzania: A qualitative study
Marilyn N. Ahun, Joshua Jeong, M. Kieffer, M. Mwanyika-Sando +1 more
2021SSM - Mental Health10 citations Open access
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A qualitative study of maternal and paternal parenting knowledge and practices in rural Mozambique
Marilyn N. Ahun, Lilia Bliznashka, Svetlana Karuskina-Drivdale, Gino Regina +2 more
2024BMC Public Health9 citations Open access
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Community health workers perspective on the COVID-19 impact on primary health care in Northeastern Brazil
A. Vieira-Meyer, F. Forte, José Maria Ximenes Guimarães, Sidney Feitoza Farias +8 more
2023Cadernos de Saúde Pública9 citations Open access
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Priority setting in early childhood development: an analytical framework for economic evaluation of interventions
S. Verguet, Sarah Bolongaita, Anthony Morgan, N. Perumal +3 more
2022BMJ Global Health9 citations Open access
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“The system’s not getting my grandchild”: A qualitative study of temporary caregiver relationship formation for children born to incarcerated mothers
B. Kotlar, A. Yousafzai, Carolyn B. Sufrin, Monik Jimenez +1 more
2025Social Science & Medicine (1967)8 citations Open access
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Best and worst performing health facilities: A positive deviance analysis of perceived drivers of primary care performance in Nepal
Todd P. Lewis, Amit Aryal, S. Mehata, Astha Thapa +2 more
2022Social Science & Medicine (1967)8 citations Open access
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Engaging Fathers for Effective Child Nutrition and Development in Tanzania (EFFECTS): study protocol for a five-arm, cluster-randomized trial
Isaac Lyaatu, Dominic Mosha, Mary Sando, Joshua Jeong +11 more
2024Trials7 citations Open access
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Hygiene Practices and Early Childhood Development in the East Asia-Pacific Region: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Fanny Petermann-Rocha, N. Rao, M. Bala, M. Parshad-Asnani +4 more
2023International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health7 citations Open access
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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
T. Rochat, Samukelisiwe Dube, K. Herbst, Cecilia Hoegfeldt +13 more
2021Trials7 citations Open access
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Experiences of Community Youth Leaders in a Youth-Led Early Childhood Education Program in Rural Pakistan
E. Franchett, A. Yousafzai, Muneera A. Rasheed, Saima Siyal +2 more
2019Zeitschrift für Psychologie7 citations
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Optimising adolescents and young adults’ utilisation of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Chad: a sensemaking approach
E. Bedingar, Ferdinan Paningar, Ngarossorang Bedingar, Eric Mbaidoum +3 more
2025BMJ Global Health6 citations Open access
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