Aisha Yousafzai

Biographic Data

ID8520246
NAMEAisha Yousafzai
GIVEN NAMESAisha
FAMILY NAMEYousafzai
SIGNATUREYOUSAFZAI A
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Do early childhood education, stimulation, and caregiver distress associate with child development outcomes differentially by gender? A household survey in Pakistan

    Open AccessEmily Franchett, Amer Hasan et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2026

  • Optimising adolescents and young adults’ utilisation of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Chad

    Open AccessEsias Bedingar, Ferdinan Paningar et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) aged 15-24 years account for nearly half of all new HIV infections globally, with over 80% residing in sub-Saharan Africa, where AIDS is a leading cause of death. In Chad, HIV/AIDS significantly impacts AYA, despite a reduction in national prevalence from 1.6% in 2010 to 1.0% in 2022. AYA still contribute to 26.3% of new infections, with young women facing four times the risk compared with young men.…

  • Predictors of early child development for screening pregnant women most in need of support in Brazil

    Open AccessEduardo Viegas da Silva, Fernando Pires Hartwig et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Home visiting programmes can support child development and reduce inequalities, but failure to identify the most vulnerable families can undermine such efforts. We examined whether there are strong predictors of poor child development that could be used to screen pregnant women in primary health care settings to target early interventions in a Brazilian population. Considering selected predictors, we assessed coverage and focus of a l…

  • The effects of a large-scale home visiting programme for child development on use of health services in Brazil

    Open AccessEduardo Viegas da Silva, Fernando Pires Hartwig et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Partnership between early childhood development interventions and primary health care services can help catalyse health care uptake by socially vulnerable families. This study aimed to assess the real-life effects of a large-scale home visiting programme [Primeira Infância Melhor (PIM)] in Brazil on the use of preventive (prenatal visits, well child visits, dentist visits and vaccination) and recovery (emergency room visits and hospitalization) h…

  • Informal settlements and the care of children 0–3 years of age

    Open AccessThivia Jegathesan, Aisha K Yousafzai et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: There is a rapid increase in urbanization with a high percentage of people living in poverty in urban informal settlements. These families, including single parents, are requiring accessible and affordable childcare. In Mlolongo, an informal settlement in Machakos County in Nairobi metropolitan area, Kenya, childcare centres, referred to as 'babycares' are increasing in number. They are being provided by local community members withou…

  • Hygiene Practices and Early Childhood Development in the East Asia-Pacific Region

    Open AccessFanny Petermann-Rocha, Nirmala Rao et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Poor hygiene might be a risk factor for early childhood development (ECD). This study investigated the associations of three hygiene practices ('wash hands before a meal,' 'wash hands after going to the toilet,' and 'brush teeth'), separately and combined, with ECD. Six thousand six hundred ninety-seven children (4 [0.8] years) from the East Asia-Pacific Early Child Development Scales validation study were included in this cross-sectional analysi…

  • When social identities intersect

    Open AccessPritha Chatterjee, Jarvis T Chen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2023

    Hindu children had the highest advantages over Muslim children when they belonged to the most privileged castes. Muslim forward caste children were also disadvantaged compared to Hindu children from deprived castes (Hindu OBCs and Hindu SCs), in the case of stunting. Thus, disadvantages from a socially underprivileged religious identity, seemed to override relative social advantages of forward caste identity for Muslim children. Disadvantages bor…

  • Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence

    Open AccessSarah K G Jensen, Sarah KG Jensen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Families living in extreme poverty require interventions to support early-childhood development (ECD) due to broad risks. This longitudinal cluster randomised trial examines the effectiveness of Sugira Muryango (SM), a home-visiting intervention linked to Rwanda's social protection system to promote ECD and reduce violence compared with usual care (UC). METHODS: Families with children aged 6-36 months were recruited in 284 geographi…

  • Influences on catch-up growth using relative versus absolute metrics

    Open AccessStephanie A Richard, Benjamin J J Mccormick et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The study children demonstrated improved growth from 24 to 60 months of age, but only a subset had positive changes in HAD and WAD. The same environmental factors were associated with growth from 24 to 60 months regardless of metric used (change in HAZ or HAD, or WAZ and WAD)

  • Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessPatrice L Engle, Lia C H Fernald et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2011