Christopher Duggan

Dados Biográficos

ID3786442
NOMEChristopher Duggan
PRENOMESChristopher
SOBRENOMEDuggan
ASSINATURADUGGAN C
AFILIAÇÕESBoston Children's Hospital
ORCID0000-0001-8083-8193
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES16
TOTAL COMO AUTOR58
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1990
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Is rotavirus aetiology in young children with acute diarrhoea associated with sociodemographic and clinical factors, including rotavirus vaccination status? A secondary cross-sectional analysis of the…

    Open AccessSarah Somji, Christopher R Sudfeld et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: One of the leading causes of global child mortality continues to be diarrhoea where rotavirus contributed to about 24% of deaths among all diarrhoeal deaths, mostly in low-income and middle-income countries. Rotavirus vaccination programmes have contributed to the reduction of mortality from 24% to 19% in rotavirus infections among hospitalised children, but the burden of rotaviral diarrhoea remains high, especially in settings with…

  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and perinatal outcomes

    Open AccessAndrea Pembe, Pratibha Dwarkanath et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) have been linked with increased risk for maternal and offspring complications in high-income settings. However, in resource-limited settings, studies with robust measurement of HDP, including severity and timing, and perinatal outcomes are limited. METHODS: We analysed data from two prospective cohorts of nulliparous women in India (n=10 570 pregnancies) and Tanzania (n=10 299 pregnancies) w…

  • Systematic review of risk assessment tools for post-discharge mortality among children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRamya Ginjupalli, Kaitlin Cole et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Post-discharge mortality is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to the high burden of childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurate identification of children at risk for post-discharge mortality is critically important to inform interventions to reduce deaths following hospital discharge. Our objective was to describe the current state of development, validation, or implementation for risk assessment tools for post-hospital disc…

  • 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…

  • Experiences, acceptability and barriers to calcium supplementation during pregnancy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Open AccessEmmy Metta, Emmy O Metta et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Calcium supplementation in pregnancy is recommended in contexts with low dietary calcium intake to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and its complications. The World Health Organisation suggested high-dose calcium supplementation (1500-2000 mg/day), divided into three doses and taken at different times from daily iron-folic supplements. We conducted a mixed methods evaluation study to assess experiences, acceptability and barriers to high-dose cal…

  • Facility-based care for moderately low birthweight infants in India, Malawi, and Tanzania

    Open AccessKatherine E A Semrau, Rana R Mokhtar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Globally, increasing rates of facility-based childbirth enable early intervention for small vulnerable newborns. We describe health system-level inputs, current feeding, and discharge practices for moderately low birthweight (MLBW) infants (1500- 10% less than their birthweight; 18.8% of infants were discharged with weights below facility-specific policy [1800g in India, 1500g in Malawi, and 2000g in Tanzania]. Based on descriptive analysis, we f…

  • Safe infant feeding in healthcare facilities

    Open AccessBrooke A Caruso, Uriel Paniagua et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Infants need to receive care in environments that limit their exposure to pathogens. Inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) environments and suboptimal infection prevention and control practices in healthcare settings contribute to the burden of healthcare-associated infections, which are particularly high in low-income settings. Specific research is needed to understand infant feeding preparation in healthcare settings, a task involvin…

  • Associations Between Social Support and Symptoms of Antenatal Depression with Infant Growth and Development Among Mothers Living with HIV in Tanzania

    Open AccessArvin Saleh, Nandita Perumal et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

  • Cost-effectiveness of zinc supplementation for prevention of childhood diarrhoea in Tanzania

    Open AccessHappiness Pius Saronga, Karim Manji et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of prophylactic Zn supplementation for preventing diarrhoea in young children in Tanzania. Design: Cost-effectiveness analysis using decision-analytic modelling. Cost-effectiveness ratios were calculated as the incremental cost (2019 USD) per disability-adjusted life year (DALY) averted, from a societal perspective, and with a 3 % discount rate applied to future outcomes. Sensitivity analyses were perfo…

  • Where there is no local author

    Open AccessChris A Rees, Mohsin Ali et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Authorship parasitism (ie, no authors affiliated with the country in which the study took place) occurs frequently in research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries, despite published recommendations defining authorship criteria. The objective was to compare characteristics of articles exhibiting authorship parasitism in sub-Saharan Africa to articles with author representation from sub-Saharan African countries. METHO…

  • Prenatal dietary diversity may influence underweight in infants in a Ugandan birth‐cohort

    Open AccessIsabel Madzorera, Shibani Ghosh et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Growth faltering in early childhood is prevalent in many low resource countries. Poor maternal dietary diversity during pregnancy has been linked with increased risk of fetal growth failure and adverse birth outcomes but may also influence subsequent infant growth. Our aim is to assess the role of prenatal maternal dietary diversity in infant growth in rural Uganda. Data from 3291 women and infant pairs enrolled in a birth cohort from 2014 to 201…

  • Antenatal Depressive Symptoms and Neurodevelopment Outcomes in Children at 30 Months. A Study From South India

    Open AccessSusan Thomas, Emelia Vigil et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    A significant number of women in south India had antenatal depressive symptoms. Findings from this study suggest a possible association between antenatal depressive symptoms and receptive language in children. Larger studies including women with clinical depression are needed to confirm these findings

  • Elimination of diarrheal mortality in children – the last half million

    Open AccessMathuram Santosham, Christopher Duggan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

  • Effects of animal protein supplementation of mothers, preterm infants, and term infants on growth outcomes in childhood

    Open AccessLaura Pimpin, Sarah Kranz et al.ARTICLE2019

  • Iron and infection

    Open AccessA F Dorsey, Amanda L Thompson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2018

    OBJECTIVES: This article explores the optimal iron hypothesis through secondary data analysis of the association between hemoglobin levels and morbidity among children living in Canto Grande, a peri-urban community located on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. METHODS: Risk ratios were used to test whether lower iron status, assessed using the HemoCue B-Hemoglobin System, was associated with an increased relative risk of morbidity symptoms compared to …

  • Maternal aflatoxin exposure during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes in Uganda

    Open AccessJacqueline M Lauer, Christopher Duggan et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2018

    Aflatoxins are toxic metabolites of Aspergillus moulds and are widespread in the food supply, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Both in utero and infant exposure to aflatoxin B 1 (AFB 1 ) have been linked to poor child growth and development. The objective of this prospective cohort study was to investigate the association between maternal aflatoxin exposure during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes, primarily lower birth weight…

  • Effect of Maternal Vitamin B12 Supplementation on Cognitive Outcomes in South Indian Children

    Open AccessSusan Thomas, Tinku Thomas et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2018

  • The effect of daily zinc and/or multivitamin supplements on early childhood development in Tanzania

    Open AccessLindsey M Locks, Karim Manji et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    Impaired childhood development has lifelong consequences for educational attainment and wage-earning potential. Micronutrient supplements have the potential to improve development. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of daily zinc and/or multivitamin (vitamins C, E and B-complex) supplements on development among Tanzanian infants. In this randomized, 2 × 2 factorial, double-blind trial, 2400 infants were randomized to zinc (Zn…

  • Nutritional status and complementary feeding among HIV‐exposed infants

    Open AccessPili Kamenju, Enju Liu et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    Complementary feeding is crucial for improving child survival and promoting growth and development, particularly among HIV-exposed children who have higher risk of morbidity and mortality than their un-exposed peers. This prospective study employed an infant and child feeding index (ICFI) to measure complementary feeding and determine its association with nutritional status among 2092 HIV-exposed infants followed from 6 to 24 months of age in Dar…

  • Effects of maternal vitamin B12 supplementation on early infant neurocognitive outcomes

    Open AccessKrishnamachari Srinivasan, Tinku Thomas et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    Maternal nutritional status during pregnancy impacts fetal brain development. Vitamin B12 plays a vital role in neuronal development. However, findings from studies on the association between maternal B12 status and child cognitive functions have been inconsistent. We performed a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of oral B12 supplementation (50 μg) beginning at <14 weeks of gestation through a 6-week post-partum. In the present study,…

  • Paul Corner, The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy

    Open AccessChristopher DugganARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2014

  • A Concise History of Italy

    Open AccessChristopher DugganBOOKConcise History of Italy2013

    Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present day and surveys the difficulties Italy has faced during the last two centuries in forging a nation state. Duggan successfully weaves together political, economic, so…

  • Global action plan for childhood diarrhoea

    Open AccessAlvin Zipursky, Kerri Wazny et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2013

    BACKGROUND: Childhood diarrhoea remains a major public health problem responsible for the deaths of approximately 800 000 children annually, worldwide. The present study was undertaken to further define research priorities for the prevention and treatment of diarrhoea in low and middle income countries. We used the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) process for defining research priorities. This provided a transparent, systema…

  • Nutritional Factors Associated with Antenatal Depressive Symptoms in the Early Stage of Pregnancy Among Urban South Indian Women

    Open AccessAmmu Lukose, Asha Ramthal et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2013

  • Correlates of anaemia in pregnant urban South Indian women

    Open AccessTinu Mary Samuel, Tinku Thomas et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2013

    Objective To identify correlates of anaemia during the first trimester of pregnancy among 366 urban South Indian pregnant women. Design Cross-sectional study evaluating demographic, socio-economic, anthropometric and dietary intake data on haematological outcomes. Setting A government maternity health-care centre catering predominantly to the needs of pregnant women from the lower socio-economic strata of urban Bangalore. Subjects Pregnant women …