Amiya Bhatia

Datos Biográficos

ID3582680
NOMBREAmiya Bhatia
NOMBRESAmiya
APELLIDOBhatia
FIRMABHATIA A
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-8163-2568
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS31
TOTAL DE CITAS19
TOTAL COMO AUTOR31
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2017
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Disentangling the associations between women’s decision-making power dynamics and maternal and child health outcomes in 35 SSA countries

    Open AccessYun-Jung Eom, Hyejun Chi et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • A systematic review and equity analysis of school-based violence prevention interventions evaluated in randomised controlled trials

    Open AccessEmily Eldred, Karen Devries et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Experiencing violence in school is a violation of a child’s rights and can increase school absence, affect academic achievement, employment prospects, and later-life health. Effective school-based violence prevention interventions are crucial, however, most are universally targeted. It is less clear if current interventions to prevent violence in schools ensure subgroups of children benefit equitably. We conducted a systematic review. We drew on …

  • Embedding violence prevention in existing religious and education systems

    Open AccessEmily Eldred, Ellen Turner et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Interventions designed by 'insiders' at institutions such as the Catholic Church, have huge potential for implementation at a large scale due to systems and context expertise, pre-established relationships, and alignment with stakeholder priorities. However, such interventions should be mindful of power hierarchies and provide adequate support to equip actors with violence prevention expertise. Future research on violence prevention interventions…

  • Changing perspectives on corporal punishment in schools

    Open AccessJ Parkes, Daniel Carter et al.ARTICLEChildhood2025Referencias: 6

    This paper contributes to decolonising ways in which corporal punishment has been understood and represented in Africa, through engaging with the complex views of young Ugandans about corporal punishment in schools. Conceptualising time as non-linear, and violence as a web of power, our analysis of longitudinal, mixed method data traces how physical punishment functioned to maintain the generational order, and as a regulatory practice in schools.…

  • Individual- and community-level women's empowerment and complete use of maternal healthcare services

    Open AccessYun-Jung Eom, Hyejun Chi et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Referencias: 56

  • Does disability modify the association between poor mental health and violence victimisation over adolescence? Evidence from the CoVAC cohort study in Uganda

    Open AccessDeborah J Carter, Charlie F M Pitcairn et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    We aimed to estimate the impact of poor mental health in early adolescence on subsequent poor mental health, depression, and violence victimisation in late adolescence and to determine whether young people living with disabilities experienced a stronger relationship between mental health and these outcomes. Data from two waves of a longitudinal cohort study of 2773 Ugandan adolescents were used to assess the impact of mental health difficulties i…

  • Does work modify the relationship between violence and mental health among young people? Evidence from the Violence Against Children Surveys in Uganda, Nigeria and Colombia

    Open AccessJodie Pearlman, HARRIET MORGAN et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Considering the well-established link between experiencing violence in childhood and poor mental health, it is important to understand the role of contextual factors in which young people live, learn, work, and play. Evidence has highlighted the importance of work as a contextual factor in the lives of young people, but it is unclear whether being in work mitigates, entrenches, or exacerbates the association between violence against c…

  • Social Norms About Dating and Relationship Violence and Gender Among Adolescents

    Open AccessRebecca Meiksin, Chris Bonell et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2024

    Adolescent dating and relationship violence (DRV) is widespread and associated with increased risk of subsequent poor mental health outcomes and partner violence. Shifting social norms (i.e., descriptive norms of perceived behavior and injunctive norms of acceptable behavior among a reference group of important others) may be important for reducing DRV. However, few DRV studies assess norms, measurement varies, and evidence on measure quality is …

  • Associations between violence in childhood, depression and suicide attempts in adolescence

    Open AccessRebecca Akunzirwe, Deborah J Carter et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Findings highlight the importance of efforts to prevent violence and improve access to response and support services for violence and mental health for young people. Findings also underscore the important role friends and peer networks can play in mitigating the effects of violence as young people grow up

  • Violence outcomes in later adolescence with the Good School Toolkit-Primary

    Open AccessLouise Knight, Lydia Atuhaire et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01678846, registration date 24 August 2012. Protocol for this paper: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2020/12/e20940

  • Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda

    Open AccessJ Parkes, Simone Datzberger et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2024

    Using a feminist narrative approach, this article explores how unintended pregnancy can rupture young lives, and how young people respond to and navigate these ruptures. We analyse qualitative data from a longitudinal cohort study in Luwero, Uganda, focusing on narratives of a girl and a boy about their recent experiences of unintended and unwanted pregnancy during COVID-19 school closures. We argue that laws, policies and norms relating to educa…

  • Young people’s experiences of informal kinship care in Luwero, Uganda

    Open AccessSimone Datzberger, J Parkes et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2024Referencias: 24

    There is strong evidence that outside parental care, informal kinship care is the most practiced, sustainable and affordable form of childcare in SSA (sub-Saharan Africa). As a longstanding cultural tradition, informal kinship care embraces childcare as the responsibility of all extended family members, and often the wider community. However, over the past decades, informal kinship care has become gradually strained by political, economic and soc…

  • Ethical reporting of research on violence against women and children

    Open AccessAmber Peterman, Karen Devries et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Changes in research practice during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates renewed attention to ethical protocols and reporting for data collection on sensitive topics. This review summarises the state of ethical reporting among studies collecting violence data during early stages of the pandemic. We systematically searched for journal publications from the start of the pandemic to November 2021, identifying 75 studies that collected primary data on …

  • Inequities in birth registration, violent discipline, and child labour by disability status and sex

    Open AccessAmiya Bhatia, Calum Davey et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Nearly 240 million children are estimated to have a disability globally. We describe inequities by disability status and sex in birth registration, child labour, and violent discipline outcomes. Data come from Round 6 of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey programme and includes 323,436 children, aged 2–17 years in 24 countries. We estimated non-registration of birth, child labour, and violent discipline, stratified by sex and disability in eac…

  • The association between violence victimization and subsequent unplanned pregnancy among adolescent girls in Uganda

    Open AccessKatherine G Merrill, Louise Knight et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Violence victimization is a risk factor for adolescent pregnancy in high-income, low violence prevalence countries, but longitudinal data are lacking from settings where violence and adolescent pregnancy are common, including sub-Saharan Africa. We also know little about contextual factors which modify this association. We analyzed data from the Contexts of Violence in Adolescence Cohort (CoVAC) study in Luwero District, Uganda. Primary students …

  • Cross-National Associations between Age at Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence among Young Women

    Open AccessCarolina De Vargas Nunes Coll, Andrea Wendt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    We estimated the associations between age at first marriage and recent intimate partner violence (IPV) among women young women aged 20-24 years using data from demographic and health surveys (DHS) conducted at 48 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We fitted a multilevel logistic regression model controlling for sociodemographic covariates. Our pooled analyses revealed that age at marriage is strongly associated with past year IPV in a non-…

  • Intensified inequities

    Open AccessSimone Datzberger, J Parkes et al.ARTICLEChildren & Society2023

    Uganda had the longest period of school closures worldwide as a response measure during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Drawing on longitudinal qualitative data from the Contexts of Violence in Adolescence Cohort Study (CoVAC) (2018–2023), we examine how this has affected the lives of adolescents in Uganda. Our analysis showcases how intersecting inequities based on socioeconomic circumstances, gender and location have intensified, with detrimental effect…

  • Remote methods for research on violence against women and children

    Open AccessAmiya Bhatia, Ellen Turner et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Collecting data to understand violence against women and children during and after the COVID-19 pandemic is essential to inform violence prevention and response efforts. Although researchers across fields have pivoted to remote rather than in-person data collection, remote research on violence against women, children and young people poses particular challenges. As a group of violence researchers, we reflect on our experiences across eight studie…

  • Navigating family planning access during Covid-19

    Open AccessRukyya Hassan, Rahma Hassan et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2022

    The COVID-19 response has profoundly affected women's access to family planning services in Kenya. While prior studies have shown how the COVID-19 response created barriers to accessing family planning (FP) services, less is known about how the pandemic affected the normative influence that partners, peers, and health providers exert on women's FP choices. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 16 women (aged 18-25 years), 10 men in partnershi…

  • The Epidemiology of Young People’s Work and Experiences of Violence in Nine Countries

    Open AccessAmiya Bhatia, Maryam Parvez et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Globally, 497 million young people (15-24 years) are in the labour force. The current research on work and violence indicates reciprocal links across the life course. This study draws on data from 35,723 young people aged 13-24 years in the Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS) in nine countries to describe the epidemiology of work in order to explore associations between (1) current work and violence and (2) childhood violence and work in a h…

  • Use of digital media for family planning information by women and their social networks in Kenya

    Open AccessAnja Zinke-Allmang, Rukyya Hassan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sociology2022Referencias: 4

    Access to information about family planning (FP) continues to have financial, physical and social barriers among young women living in Kenya. This paper draws on social norms theory to explore how young women and their social networks access FP information on digital media (e.g., WhatsApp, websites). Qualitative phone interviews were conducted with 40 participants - young women, their partners and key influencers - in seven peri-urban wards in Na…

  • Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence

    Open AccessJ Parkes, Amiya Bhatia et al.ARTICLEComparative Education2022Citada por: 3Referencias: 2

    Growing evidence from multiple countries in Africa documents sexual violence in schools. However, when that violence is committed by teachers it is shrouded in secrecy. This article identifies disconnects between quantitative and qualitative research, policy and practice, which have contributed to these silences. We address some of these silences through a dialogical analysis of mixed methods data from the Contexts of Violence in Adolescence Coho…

  • Innovative methods to analyse the impact of gender norms on adolescent health using global health survey data

    Open AccessBen Cislaghi, Anna Margaret Weber et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 39

  • The pitfalls of modelling the effects of Covid-19 on gender-based violence

    Open AccessMichelle Lokot, Amiya Bhatia et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Since early 2020, global stakeholders have highlighted the significant gendered consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including increases in the risk of gender-based violence (GBV). Researchers have sought to inform the pandemic response through a diverse set of methodologies, including early efforts modelling anticipated increases in GBV. For example, in April 2020, a highly cited modelling effort by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) a…

  • Birth registration in India

    Open AccessAmiya Bhatia, Rockli Kim et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2021

    Birth registration is essential for ensuring inclusive population counts of birth and mortality rates. Efforts to reach universal birth registration in India will require a commitment to reducing wealth inequities within states