2022

WHO KMC Scale Up Study Group. Incremental costs of scaling-up Kangaroo Mother Care: results from implementation research in Ethiopia and India. Acta Paediatrica. 2022;00:1–9. doi:10.1111/apa.16490.

Carvalho MJ*, Sands K*, Thomson K, Portal E, Mathias J, Milton R, Gillespie D, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Boostrom I, Hogan P, Saif H, Ferreira A, Nieto M, Hender T, Hood K, Andrews R, Watkins JW, Hassan B, Chan GJ, Bekele D, Solomon S, Metaferia G, Basu S, Naha S, Sinha A, Chakravorty P, Mukherjee S, Iregbu K, Modibbo F, Uwaezuoke S, Audu L, Edwin CP, Yusuf AH, Adeleye A, Mukkadas AS, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Muhammad A, Ullah S, Jan MH, Akif S, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, Roberts L, BARNARDS Group, Walsh TR. Antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of mothers and linked neonates with or without sepsis from low- and middle-income countries. Nature Microbiology. 2022. doi:10.1038/s41564-022-01184-y. PMID: 35927336.

Sands K, Carvalho MJ, Spiller OB, Portal EA, Thomson K, Watkins WJ, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Andrews R, Ferreira A, Hender T, Milton R, Neito M, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Muhammad A, Akif S, Jan MH, Iregbu K, Modibbo F, Uwaezouke S, Chan GJ, Bekele D, Solomon S, Basu S, Nandy RK, Naha S, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, BARNARDS Group, Walsh TR. Characterisation of Staphylococci species from neonatal blood cultures in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Infectious Diseases July 2022, 22,593. doi:10.1186/s12879-022-07541-w

Estifanos AS, Hailemariam D, Fikre A, Kote M, Tariku A, Chan GJ. Implementation science to design, test, and scale-up effective Kangaroo Mother Care in Oromia region, Ethiopia. Acta Paediatrica. June 2022. doi:10.1111/apa.16413

Bekele C, Bekele D, Hunegnaw BM, Van Wickle K, Ashenafi F, Korte M, Tedijanto C, Taddesse L, Chan GJ. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Utilization of Facility-Based Essential Maternal and Child Health Services from March to August 2020 Compared to Pre-Pandemic March to August 2019: a Mixed Method Study in North Shewa Zone, Ethiopia. BMJ Open 2022; 12:e059408. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059408

Chan GJ, Goddard FGB, Hunegnaw BM, Mohammed Y, Hunegnaw M, Haneuse S, Bekele C, Bekele D. Estimates of Stillbirths, Neonatal Mortality, and Medically Vulnerable Live Births in Amhara, Ethiopia. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(6):e2218534. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.18534.

Milton R, Gillespie D, Dyer C, Taiyari K, Carvalho MJ, Thomson K, Sands K, Portal EAR, Hood K, Ferreira A, Hender T, Kirby N, Mathias J, Nieto M, Watkins WJ, Bekele D, Abayneh M, Solomon S, Basu S, Nandy RK, Saha B,  Iregbu K, Modibbo F, Uwaezuoke S, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Najeeb S, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, Walsh TR, BARNARDS Group, Chan GJ. Neonatal sepsis and mortality in low- and middle-income countries from a facility-based birth cohort: an international multi-site prospective observational study. Lancet Global Health. May 2022;10(5):e661-e672. doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00043-2. PMID 35427523