Nafis Faizi

Biographic Data

ID8948047
NAMENafis Faizi
GIVEN NAMESNafis
FAMILY NAMEFaizi
SIGNATUREFAIZI N
AFFILIATIONSJawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital
ORCID0000-0002-4634-6790
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT12
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Updates to the EU Directives on Professional Qualifications must align with global standards

    Open AccessLia Brigante, Anna af Ugglas et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    The European Union (EU) Directive on Minimum Professional Qualifications: Midwife is under review as part of an ongoing regulatory update. This revision presents a critical opportunity to modernise the regulation of midwifery education and practice across the EU and EEA, having implications that extend beyond the region, given the EU’s role in influencing professional regulation globally. We argue that updates to the Directive must be aligned wit…

  • Predictive and concurrent validity of caregiver reported early childhood development assessments

    Open AccessJonathan Seiden, Dana Charles Mccoy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Many directly assessed and caregiver-reported measures of early childhood development (ECD) are used to monitor outcomes and evaluate interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Many assessments of ECD for children 0–3 years old have robust psychometric properties, but relatively little is known about their ability to predict later developmental and learning outcomes. To address questions about predictive and concurrent validity, w…

  • Using a quality improvement approach to improve reporting of malaria deaths in Namutumba District, Eastern Uganda, 2022–2023

    Open AccessMarie Gorreti Zalwango, Richard Migisha et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Background Reporting malaria deaths is critical for assessing prevention and case management interventions. In Uganda, malaria mortality is recorded in inpatient registers and reported through weekly and monthly surveillance reports. During a data quality assessment in Namutumba District in October 2022, we found more malaria deaths in health facility registers than were reported. We conducted a continuous quality improvement initiative to improv…

  • The Dialogic Health Systems Research Framework (DHSRF)

    Open AccessRitu Priya, Sayan Das et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Health Systems Research (HSR) has witnessed significant progress in theory, methodology and practice over the last two decades. The complexity of health systems has allowed for diverse lenses for HSR. However, given the absence of dialogue between the different streams of HSR, the diversity of this field, perhaps its greatest strength, is turning out to be quite the challenge. Without a common language that enables researcher interaction and crit…

  • Change in confidence in public health entities among US adults between 2020–2024

    Open AccessHannah Melchinger, Saad B Omer et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The COVID-19 pandemic introduced significant uncertainty among Americans, and eroded trust in US health entities and institutions. This study describes a longitudinal assessment of Americans’ change in confidence in these public health entities from 2020 to 2024. We conducted four surveys assessing confidence in public health entities among US adults conducted between February 2020 and October 2024. Surveys were hosted by CloudResearch and admini…

  • Assessment of infrastructure, behaviours, and user satisfaction of guardian waiting shelters for secondary level hospitals in southern Malawi

    Open AccessMindy Panulo, Jennifer Lamb et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Guardian Waiting Shelters (GWSs) are an essential component of the Malawi’s health care system as they serve as a temporary home for patient guardians while taking care of their relatives admitted to the hospital, and expectant mothers. Although GWSs play a crucial role in Malawi’s healthcare system, past studies have primarily concentrated on maternity waiting homes, neglecting the role and importance of GWSs. The study examines GWS management s…

  • Household costs and care seeking patterns associated with Covid-19 in Blantyre, Malawi

    Open AccessJobiba Chinkhumba, Samuel Mpinganjira et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Economic consequences of COVID-19 illness and healthcare use for households in low income countries are not well known. We estimated costs associated with COVID-19 care-seeking and treatment from a household perspective and assessed determinants of treatment costs. A cross-sectional household survey was conducted between December 2020 and November 2021 in urban and peri-urban areas of Blantyre district. Adults (age ≥18 years) with confirmed COVID…

  • Governing therapeutic pluralism

    Open AccessNadine Ijaz, Heather Carrie et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The World Health Organization has called on nation-states to statutorily govern, and integrate into state-funded healthcare systems, practitioners of traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) (whose therapeutic approaches that fall outside the boundaries of conventional biomedicine). To date, however, there exist few rigorous reports of the degree to which individual nations have responded to this call. This study, an environmental scan, comp…

  • Availability of priority maternal and newborn health indicators

    Open AccessMark Kabue, Francesca Palestra et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Data from national health information systems are essential for routinely tracking progress, programmatic decision-making and to improve quality of services. Understanding the data elements captured in patient registers which are building blocks of national HMIS indicators, enables us to standardize data collection and measurement of key indicators for tracking progress towards achieving maternal and newborn health goals. This analysis was done t…

  • Rural-urban differentials in early childhood education and child development

    Open AccessMartin Wiredu Agyekum, Sylvia Boamah Yeboah et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Children’s early development is a key component that affects their wellbeing and health as they age. In recent times, scholars’ interest in Early Childhood Education (ECE) and Early Child Development (ECD) has grown exponentially. However, rural-urban differentials in early childhood development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and particularly in Ghana are unknown. This study examined the rural-urban differentials in Early Childhood Education (ECE) a…

  • Assessment of quality of essential medicines in public health care facilities of Nepal

    Open AccessNeelam Dhakal, Pradip Gyanwali et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Essential medicines are those medicines that satisfy the primary health care needs of the citizens. Poor quality of essential medicines can have serious impact on public health. Thus, this study is aimed to assess the quality of essential medicines available in public health care facilities of Nepal. A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out in 62 health facilities across 21 districts, representing all seven provinces of Nepal and selec…

  • The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Covid-19 response across the Global South

    Open AccessAdam C Levine, Anna Park et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Despite receiving less attention than high-income countries, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experienced more than 85% of global excess deaths during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the unprecedented speed and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, which placed large demands on government capacity, many LMICs relied on civil society organizations (CSOs) to assist in implementing COVID-19 response programs. Yet few studies h…

  • Vaccination coverage and breakthrough infections of Covid-19 during the second wave among staff of selected medical institutions in India

    Open AccessManju Rahi, Chander Prakash Yadav et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    India experienced the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection from April 3 to June 10, 2021. During the second wave, Delta variant B.1617.2 emerged as the predominant strain, spiking cases from 12.5 million to 29.3 million (cumulative) by the end of the surge in India. Vaccines against COVID-19 are a potent tool to control and end the pandemic in addition to other control measures. India rolled out its vaccination programme on January 16, 2021, initi…

  • India may need an additional metric to assess the endemicity of malaria in low surveillance districts

    Open AccessChander Prakash Yadav, Sanjeev Gupta et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    India’s National Framework for malaria elimination is essentially dependent on Annual Parasite Incidence (API). API is the primary criterion for classifying states and districts into different categories: intensified control, pre-elimination, elimination, prevention and re-establishment of malaria. However, API’s validity is critically dependent on multiple factors, one such important factor is Annual Blood Examination Rate (ABER) and is often co…

  • Pathologizing normal height or identifying chronic malnutrition

    Open AccessNafis Faizi, Mohd Yasir Zubair et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2022

  • Existence of Rule of Halves in Hypertension

    Nafis Faizi, Anees Ahmad et al.ARTICLEMateria Socio Medica2016

    INTRODUCTION: India is a country in transition, the population is graying and the non communicable diseases are rising. In the rural areas of India, the detection of hypertension is poor because of limited healthcare facilities and poor awareness among the people. In one such village, Mirzapur, adopted by the Aligarh Muslim University, there is a planned project to control hypertension in the villages through some innovative approaches. This stud…