Zulfiqar Bhutta

Biographic Data

ID2007385
NAMEZulfiqar Bhutta
GIVEN NAMESZulfiqar
FAMILY NAMEBhutta
SIGNATUREBHUTTA Z
AFFILIATIONSAga Khan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Policy in practice

    Open AccessSylvain Landry Faye, Georgette Helene Coumba Sow et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    BACKGROUND: Senegal has made significant progress in family planning (FP), with the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) increasing from 12% in 2010 to 26% in 2023, along with a sharp decline in unmet need. Once among West Africa's lowest performers, Senegal now stands out for its advancements in FP access and equity. OBJECTIVES: This study examines the main factors driving Senegal's FP progress-including policy leadership, financing mecha…

  • Evaluating the perceived outcome and impact of an integrated knowledge translation approach in the development of an equity reporting guideline

    Open AccessJessica Brown, Omar Dewidar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) involves active engagement of knowledge users in co-producing research, ensuring their perspectives shape study design, analysis, and reporting. This can strengthen justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) considerations. We adopted an IKT approach in developing STROBE-Equity, an equity-focused reporting guidelin extension. The perceived value of embedding JEDI principles in reporting guideline devel…

  • Exploring perspectives of knowledge users about reporting on health equity in observational studies

    Open AccessDana Simpson, Omar Dewidar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2026

    BACKGROUND: Health inequities arising from systemic factors and contextual conditions result in avoidable and unjust differences in health outcomes, with profound social and economic implications. Health inequities can frequently go unreported in observational studies. Observational studies can uniquely inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through collecting, reporting and analyzing health equity factors using 'inclus…

  • Impact of integrating family planning with maternal and child health on uptake of contraception

    Open AccessZahid Memon, Wardah Ahmed et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    This study aimed to evaluate the impact of integrating family planning with maternal and child health (FP-MCH) on the uptake of modern contraceptive methods (MCMs) and related health outcomes in two rural districts of Sindh, Pakistan using a quasi-experimental control before-after study design. Intervention package integrated FP with MCH in the existing public sector at facility and community levels. This included capacity building of health care…

  • Predictors of voluntary uptake of modern contraceptive methods in rural Sindh, Pakistan

    Open AccessZahid Memon, Abeer Mian et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The use of modern contraceptive methods (MCMs) has been stagnant for the last decade in Pakistan. The second most populous province, Sindh reports 25% of MCMs use. Various factors including demographics and health services utilization are associated with the uptake of family planning services. This research aimed to identify and assess specific predictors of MCMs among women aged 15–49 in two districts of Sindh-Matiari and Badin. A cross-sectiona…

  • Reporting of equity in observational epidemiology

    Open AccessOmar Dewidar, Ali Al-Zubaidi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Observational studies can inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through the collection, reporting and analysis of health equity factors. However, the extent to which the analysis and reporting of equity-relevant aspects in observational research are generally unknown. Thus, we aimed to systematically evaluate how equity-relevant observational studies reported equity considerations in the study design and an…

  • Women’s health and well-being in five birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessFernando Pires Hartwig, Anushka Ataullahjan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Women's health and well-being (WHW) have been receiving growing attention, but limited progress has been made on how to measure its different domains in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We used data from five long-term birth cohorts in Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines and South Africa to explore different domains of adult WHW, and how these domains relate to early life exposures. Methods: Based upon an a priori conceptualis…

  • Micronutrient deficiencies among preschool-aged children and women of reproductive age worldwide

    Open AccessG A Stevens, Ty Beal et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Micronutrient deficiencies compromise immune systems, hinder child growth and development, and affect human potential worldwide. Yet, to our knowledge, the only existing estimate of the global prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies is from over 30 years ago and is based only on the prevalence of anaemia. We aimed to estimate the global and regional prevalence of deficiency in at least one of three micronutrients among preschool-aged…

  • Predictive algorithm to stratify newborns at-risk for child undernutrition in India

    Open AccessApurv Soni, Nisha Fahey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: India is at the epicentre of global child undernutrition. Strategies to identify at-risk populations are needed in the context of limited resources. Methods: Data from children under the age of five surveyed in the 2015-2016 National Family Health Survey were used. Child undernutrition was assessed using anthropometric measurements. Predictor variables were identified from the extant literature and included if they could be measured a…

  • Covid-19, nutrition, and gender

    Open AccessAnna Kalbarczyk, Noora-Lisa Aberman et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022References: 42

  • The effects of armed conflict on the health of women and children

    Open AccessEran Bendavid, Ties Boerma et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

  • Validation of community health worker identification of maternal puerperal sepsis using a clinical diagnostic algorithm in Bangladesh and Pakistan

    Open AccessAmnesty LeFevre, Amnesty E LeFevre et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Puerperal sepsis (PP sepsis) is a leading cause of maternal mortality globally. The majority of maternal sepsis cases and deaths occur at home and remain undiagnosed and under-reported. In this paper, we present findings from a nested case-control study in Bangladesh and Pakistan which sought to assess the validity of community health worker (CHW) identification of PP sepsis using a clinical diagnostic algorithm with physician assessm…

  • The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission

    Open AccessGene Bukhman, Ana Olga Mocumbi et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • The epidemiological burden of obesity in childhood

    Open AccessMariachiara Di Cesare, Maroje Sorić et al.ARTICLEBMC Medicine2019

  • The State of US Health, 1990-2016

    The US Burden of Disease Collaborators, Ali H Mokdad et al.ARTICLEJAMA2018

    Introduction: Several studies have measured health outcomes in the United States, but none have provided a comprehensive assessment of patterns of health by state. Objective: To use the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) to report trends in the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors at the state level from 1990 to 2016. Design and Setting: A systematic analysis of published studies and available data sources estimates the…

  • Thank You to Reviewers 2017

    Open AccessMatilda Aberese-Ako, Gilbert Abotisem et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018

  • Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases for 10 Causes, 1990 to 2015

    Open AccessGregory A Roth, Catherine Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American College…2017

    BACKGROUND: The burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains unclear in many regions of the world. OBJECTIVES: The GBD (Global Burden of Disease) 2015 study integrated data on disease incidence, prevalence, and mortality to produce consistent, up-to-date estimates for cardiovascular burden. METHODS: CVD mortality was estimated from vital registration and verbal autopsy data. CVD prevalence was estimated using modeling software and data from h…

  • Modelling stunting in LiST

    Open AccessSimon Cousen, Simon Cousens et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Smoothing of children's measured lengths/heights increased the strength of the association between stunting at a given age and stunting at an earlier age. Using odds ratios based on smoothed lengths/heights in LiST resulted in a small reduction in the attenuation of intervention effects with age and thus some increase in the estimated benefits, and may better reflect the true benefits of early nutritional interventions

  • Countdown to 2015

    Open AccessCesar G Victora, Jennifer Harris Requejo et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

  • Our future

    Open AccessGeorge C Patton, George Patton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013

    Open AccessTheo Vos, Ryan M Barber et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013

    Open AccessNicholas J Kassebaum, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2014

  • Every Newborn

    Open AccessJoy Elizabeth Lawn, Hannah Blencowe et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2014

  • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013

    Open AccessHaidong Wang, Chelsea A Liddell et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2014

    BACKGROUND: Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in under-5 mortality are important to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target of reduction of child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, and to identify models of success. METHODS: We generated updated estimates of child mortality i…

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013

    Open AccessMarie Ng, Tom Fleming et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2014