Rajiv Bahl

Biographic Data

ID3928247
NAMERajiv Bahl
GIVEN NAMESRajiv
FAMILY NAMEBahl
SIGNATUREBAHL R
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Characteristics and outcomes of children 2–23 months of age with prolonged diarrhoea

    Open AccessIrin Parvin, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Approximately 12% of all diarrhoeal episodes last for 7-13 days. As such, they are termed prolonged diarrhoea, and are associated with over two-thirds of all diarrhoeal deaths. Due to a lack of robust data, we aimed to evaluate a comparative background characteristics of young children with acute and prolonged diarrhoea, and their outcomes at day 90 follow-up. Methods: We performed a secondary analysis of data from the Antibiotics for…

  • Cost of treating sick young infants (0-59 days) with Possible Serious Bacterial Infection in resource-constrained outpatient primary care facilities

    Open AccessCharu C Garg, Rupak Mukopadhyay et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2023

    Background: Information on the average and incremental costs of implementing alternative strategies for treating young infants 0-59 days old in primary health facilities with signs of possible serious bacterial infection (PSBI) when a referral is not feasible is limited but valuable for policymakers. Methods: Direct activity costs were calculated for outpatient treatment of PSBI and pneumonia in two districts of India: Palwal, Haryana and Lucknow…

  • Preconception and periconception interventions to prevent low birth weight, small for gestational age and preterm birth

    Open AccessUttara Partap, Ranadip Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Prevalence and risk factors of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 infection in women and children in peri-urban communities in Pakistan

    Open AccessNadia Ansari, Muhammad Imran Nisar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Population-based seroepidemiological surveys provide accurate estimates of disease burden. We compare the COVID-19 prevalence estimates from two serial serological surveys and the associated risk factors among women and children in a peri-urban area of Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: The AMANHI-COVID-19 study enrolled women and children between November 2020 and March 2021. Blood samples were collected from March to June 2021 (baseline) a…

  • Sero-prevalence and risk factors for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 infection in women and children in a rural district of Bangladesh

    Open AccessRasheda Khanam, Shafiqul Islam et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Bangladesh reported its first COVID-19 case on March 8, 2020. Despite lockdowns and promoting behavioural interventions, as of December 31, 2021, Bangladesh reported 1.5 million confirmed cases and 27 904 COVID-19-related deaths. To understand the course of the pandemic and identify risk factors for SARs-Cov-2 infection, we conducted a cohort study from November 2020 to December 2021 in rural Bangladesh. Methods: After obtaining infor…

  • Machine learning prediction of gestational age from metabolic screening markers resistant to ambient temperature transportation

    Open AccessSunil Sazawal, Sayan Das et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Knowledge of gestational age is critical for guiding preterm neonatal care. In the last decade, metabolic gestational dating approaches emerged in response to a global health need; because in most of the developing world, accurate antenatal gestational age estimates are not feasible. These methods initially developed in North America have now been externally validated in two studies in developing countries, however, require shipment o…

  • Effect of community‐initiated kangaroo mother care on breastfeeding performance in low birthweight infants

    Open AccessBireshwar Sinha, Halvor Sommerfelt et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    This individually randomized trial was conducted to estimate the effect of promoting community-initiated kangaroo mother care (ciKMC) in low birthweight (LBW) infants on infant breastfeeding performance. It was designed as a substudy within a larger primary trial on ciKMC and infant survival. Five hundred fifty stable LBW mother-infant dyads (1500-2250 g) who provided consent, were consecutively enroled for breastfeeding performance assessment. T…

  • Using Amanhi-ACT cohorts for external validation of Iowa new-born metabolic profiles based models for postnatal gestational age estimation

    Open AccessSunil Sazawal, Kelli K Ryckman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Globally, 15 million infants are born preterm and another 23.2 million infants are born small for gestational age (SGA). Determining burden of preterm and SGA births, is essential for effective planning, modification of health policies and targeting interventions for reducing these outcomes for which accurate estimation of gestational age (GA) is crucial. Early pregnancy ultrasound measurements, last menstrual period and post-natal ne…

  • Gestational weight gain and pregnancy outcomes

    Open AccessRanadip Chowdhury, Nitika Nitika et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Despite the high prevalence of inadequate gestational weight gain (GWG) and adverse pregnancy outcomes, very few studies have addressed the association between GWG and pregnancy outcomes in South Asia. Our objectives were to estimate the prevalence of GWG during the second and third trimesters within, below and above the Institute of Medicine (IOM) guidelines, and to estimate the effect of the rate and adequacy of GWG on gestational age at the ti…

  • Health equity impact of community-initiated kangaroo mother care

    Open AccessTarun Shankar Choudhary, Sarmila Mazumder et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2021

    ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02653534 . Registered January 12, 2016-Retrospectively registered

  • Predictors of recovery in children aged 6–59 months with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition

    Open AccessSam Marconi David, Sam Marconi et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To identify predictors of recovery in children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Design: This is a secondary data analysis from an individual randomised controlled trial, where children with uncomplicated SAM were randomised to three feeding regimens, namely ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) sourced from Compact India, locally prepared RUTF or augmented home-prepared foods, under two age strata (6–17 months and 18–…

  • Severe wasting among Indian infants <6 months

    Open AccessTarun Shankar Choudhary, Akanksha Srivastava et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Burden and risk factors for wasting in the first 6 months of life among Indian children are not well documented. We used data from India's National Family Health Survey 4 to estimate the prevalence of severe wasting (weight for length < ‐3 SD ) among 18,898 infants under 6 months of age. We also examined the association of severe wasting with household, maternal, and child‐related factors using multivariable logistic regression analysis. Prevalen…

  • Kangaroo mother care

    Open AccessSarmila Mazumder, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Trial registration number CTRI/2015/10/006267 . Name of Registry: Clinical Trials Registry - India. URL of Registry: http://ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/login.php Date of Registration: 15/10/2015. Date of enrolment of the first participant to the trial: 18/04/2015

  • Setting research priorities for maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition in India by engaging experts from 256 indigenous institutions contributing over 4000 research ideas

    Open AccessNarendra K Arora, Archisman Mohapatra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Health research in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) is often driven by donor priorities rather than by the needs of the countries where the research takes place. This lack of alignment of donor's priorities with local research need may be one of the reasons why countries fail to achieve set goals for population health and nutrition. India has a high burden of morbidity and mortality in women, children and infants. In order to…

  • Understanding biological mechanisms underlying adverse birth outcomes in developing countries

    Open AccessAbdulla H Baqui, Abdullah H Baqui et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    OBJECTIVES: The AMANHI study aims to seek for biomarkers as predictors of important pregnancy-related outcomes, and establish a biobank in developing countries for future research as new methods and technologies become available. METHODS: AMANHI is using harmonised protocols to enrol 3000 women in early pregnancies (8-19 weeks of gestation) for population-based follow-up in pregnancy up to 42 days postpartum in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Tanzania, …

  • Setting health research priorities using the CHNRI method

    Open AccessIgor Rudan, Sachiyo Yoshida et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Several recent reviews of the methods used to set research priorities have identified the CHNRI method (acronym derived from the "Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative") as an approach that clearly became popular and widely used over the past decade. In this paper we review the first 50 examples of application of the CHNRI method, published between 2007 and 2016, and summarize the most important messages that emerged from tho…

  • Development and validation of a simplified algorithm for neonatal gestational age assessment – protocol for the Alliance for Maternal Newborn Health Improvement (Amanhi) prospective cohort study

    Open AccessAbdulla H Baqui, Abdullah Baqui et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of the Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement (AMANHI) gestational age study is to develop and validate a programmatically feasible and simple approach to accurately assess gestational age of babies after they are born. The study will provide accurate, population-based rates of preterm birth in different settings and quantify the risks of neonatal mortality and morbidity by gestational age and birth weight i…

  • Immunization practices in low birth weight infants from rural Haryana, India

    Open AccessRavi Prakash Upadhyay, Ranadip Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Low birth weight (LBW) infants constitute a vulnerable subset of infants with impaired immunity in early life. In India, there is scarcity of studies that focus on immunization practices in such infants. This analysis aimed to examine immunization practices in LBW infants with the intention to identify areas requiring intervention. METHODS: Data on immunization status of LBW infants enrolled in an individually randomized, double-maske…

  • Breastfeeding in the 21st century

    Open AccessCesar G Victora, Roy Bahl et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

    The importance of breastfeeding in low-income and middle-income countries is well recognised, but less consensus exists about its importance in high-income countries. In low-income and middle-income countries, only 37% of children younger than 6 months of age are exclusively breastfed. With few exceptions, breastfeeding duration is shorter in high-income countries than in those that are resource-poor. Our meta-analyses indicate protection against…

  • Setting health research priorities using the CHNRI method

    Open AccessIgor Rudan, Sachiyo Yoshida et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2016

    In 2007 and 2008, the World Health Organization's Department for Child and Adolescent Health and Development commissioned five large research priority setting exercises using the CHNRI (Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative) method. The aim was to define research priorities related to the five major causes of child deaths for the period up to the year 2015. The selected causes were childhood pneumonia, diarrhoea, birth asphyxia, neonatal…

  • Optimal breastfeeding practices and infant and child mortality

    Open AccessMari Jeeva Sankar, Bireshwar Sinha et al.ARTICLEActa Paediatrica2015

  • Breastfeeding and maternal health outcomes

    Open AccessRanadip Chowdhury, Bireshwar Sinha et al.ARTICLEActa Paediatrica2015

  • Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost?

    Open AccessZulfiqar A Bhutta, Jai K Das et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2014

  • Community health workers

    Open AccessSamira Aboubaker, Shamim Qazi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2014

    There is ample evidence from research and implementation to show that community health workers, when appropriately trained, supplied, supported and supervised, can identify and correctly treat most children for pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria. Community management of childhood illness is an important contribution to the remarkable progress in reducing child mortality. Globally, the rate of under–five mortality has decreased by nearly half, from …

  • Moving beyond essential interventions for reduction of maternal mortality (the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health)

    Open AccessJuliano P Souza, João Paulo Souza et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2013