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Population-based rates, timing, and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country prospective cohort study by Ahmed, Imran, Ali, Said Mohammed, Amenga-Etego, Seeba, Ariff, Shabina, Bahl, Rajiv, Baqui, Abdullah H, Begum, Nazma, Bhandari, Nita, Bhatia, Kiran, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Biemba, Godfrey, Deb, Saikat, Dhingra, Usha, Dube, Brinda, Dutta, Arup, Edmond, Karen, Esamai, Fabian, Fawzi, Wafaie, Ghosh, Amit Kumar, Gisore, Peter, Grogan, Caroline, Hamer, Davidson H, Herlihy, Julie, Hurt, Lisa, Ilyas, Muhammad, Jehan, Fyezah, Kalonji, Michel, Kaur, Jasmine, Khanam, Rasheda, Kirkwood, Betty, Kumar, Aarti, Kumar, Alok, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Manu, Alexander, Marete, Irene, Masanja, Honorati, Mazumder, Sarmila, Mehmood, Usma, Mishra, Shambhavi, Mitra, Dipak K, Mlay, Erick, Mohan, Sanjana Brahmawar, Moin, Mamun Ibne, Muhammad, Karim, Muhihi, Alfa, Newton, Samuel, Ngaima, Serge, Nguwo, Andre, Nisar, Imran, O'Leary, Maureen, Otomba, John, Patil, Pawankumar, Quaiyum, Mohammad Abdul, Rahman, Mohammed Hefzur, Sazawal, Sunil, Semrau, Katherine EA, Shannon, Caitlin, Smith, Emily R, Soofi, Sajid, Soremekun, Seyi, Sunday, Venantius, Taneja, Sunita, Tshefu, Antoinette, Wasan, Yaqub, Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo, Yoshida, Sachiyo, Zaidi, Anita

“…Modelled mortality estimates have been useful for health programmes in low-income and middle-income countries. However, these estimates are often based on…”
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A Spatiotemporal Assessment of the Precipitation Variability and Pattern and an Evaluation of the Predictive Reliability of Global Climate Models over Bihar by Rashiq, Ahmad, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Prakash, Om

“…Climate change is significantly altering precipitation patterns, leading to spatiotemporal changes throughout the world. In particular, the increased frequency…”
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Effect of community-based behaviour change management on neonatal mortality in Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial by Kumar, Vishwajeet, MPH, Mohanty, Saroj, MPhil, Kumar, Aarti, MS, Misra, Rajendra P, MA, Santosham, Mathuram, Prof, Awasthi, Shally, Prof, Baqui, Abdullah H, DrPH, Singh, Pramod, MSW, Singh, Vivek, MSW, Ahuja, Ramesh C, Prof, Singh, Jai Vir, Prof, Malik, Gyanendra Kumar, Prof, Ahmed, Saifuddin, PhD, Black, Robert E, Prof, Bhandari, Mahendra, Prof, Darmstadt, Gary L, MD

“…Summary Background In rural India, most births take place in the home, where high-risk care practices are common. We developed an intervention of behaviour…”
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Effect of sunflower seed oil emollient therapy on newborn infant survival in Uttar Pradesh, India: A community-based, cluster randomized, open-label controlled trial by Kumar, Aarti, Mishra, Shambhavi, Singh, Shambhavi, Ashraf, Sana, Kan, Peiyi, Ghosh, Amit Kumar, Kumar, Alok, Krishna, Raghav, Stevenson, David K, Tian, Lu, Elias, Peter M, Darmstadt, Gary L, Kumar, Vishwajeet

“…Hospitalized preterm infants with compromised skin barrier function treated topically with sunflower seed oil (SSO) have shown reductions in sepsis and…”
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Variational Student: Learning Compact and Sparser Networks In Knowledge Distillation Framework by Hegde, Srinidhi, Prasad, Ranjitha, Hebbalaguppe, Ramya, Kumar, Vishwajeet

“…The holy grail in deep neural network research is porting the memory- and computation-intensive network models on embedded platforms with a minimal compromise…”
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Direct maternal morbidity and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: A population-based prospective cohort study in 8 countries by Aftab, Fahad, Ahmed, Imran, Ahmed, Salahuddin, Ali, Said Mohammed, Amenga-Etego, Seeba, Ariff, Shabina, Bahl, Rajiv, Baqui, Abdullah H, Begum, Nazma, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Biemba, Godfrey, Cousens, Simon, Das, Vinita, Deb, Saikat, Dhingra, Usha, Dutta, Arup, Edmond, Karen, Esamai, Fabian, Ghosh, Amit Kumar, Gisore, Peter, Grogan, Caroline, Hamer, Davidson H, Herlihy, Julie, Hurt, Lisa, Ilyas, Muhammad, Jehan, Fyezah, Juma, Mohammed Hamad, Kalonji, Michel, Khanam, Rasheda, Kirkwood, Betty R, Kumar, Aarti, Kumar, Alok, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Manu, Alexander, Marete, Irene, Mehmood, Usma, Minckas, Nicole, Mishra, Shambhavi, Mitra, Dipak K, Moin, Mamun Ibne, Muhammad, Karim, Newton, Sam, Ngaima, Serge, Nguwo, Andre, Nisar, Muhammad Imran, Otomba, John, Quaiyum, Mohammad Abdul, Sarrassat, Sophie, Sazawal, Sunil, Semrau, Katherine E, Shannon, Caitlin, Singh, Vinay Pratap, Soofi, Sajid, Soremekun, Seyi, Suleiman, Atifa Mohammed, Sunday, Venantius, Dilip, Thandassery R, Tshefu, Antoinette, Wasan, Yaqub, Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo, Yoshida, Sachiyo, Zaidi, Anita K

“…Maternal morbidity occurs several times more frequently than mortality, yet data on morbidity burden and its effect on maternal, foetal, and newborn outcomes…”
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Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods by Murray, Christopher J L, Lozano, Rafael, Flaxman, Abraham D, Serina, Peter, Phillips, David, Stewart, Andrea, James, Spencer L, Vahdatpour, Alireza, Atkinson, Charles, Freeman, Michael K, Ohno, Summer Lockett, Black, Robert, Ali, Said Mohammed, Baqui, Abdullah H, Dandona, Lalit, Dantzer, Emily, Darmstadt, Gary L, Das, Vinita, Dhingra, Usha, Dutta, Arup, Fawzi, Wafaie, Gómez, Sara, Hernández, Bernardo, Joshi, Rohina, Kalter, Henry D, Kumar, Aarti, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Lucero, Marilla, Mehta, Saurabh, Neal, Bruce, Praveen, Devarsetty, Premji, Zul, Ramírez-Villalobos, Dolores, Remolador, Hazel, Riley, Ian, Romero, Minerva, Said, Mwanaidi, Sanvictores, Diozele, Sazawal, Sunil, Tallo, Veronica, Lopez, Alan D

“…Monitoring progress with disease and injury reduction in many populations will require widespread use of verbal autopsy (VA). Multiple methods have been…”
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Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies by Serina, Peter, Riley, Ian, Stewart, Andrea, James, Spencer L, Flaxman, Abraham D, Lozano, Rafael, Hernandez, Bernardo, Mooney, Meghan D, Luning, Richard, Black, Robert, Ahuja, Ramesh, Alam, Nurul, Alam, Sayed Saidul, Ali, Said Mohammed, Atkinson, Charles, Baqui, Abdulla H, Chowdhury, Hafizur R, Dandona, Lalit, Dandona, Rakhi, Dantzer, Emily, Darmstadt, Gary L, Das, Vinita, Dhingra, Usha, Dutta, Arup, Fawzi, Wafaie, Freeman, Michael, Gomez, Sara, Gouda, Hebe N, Joshi, Rohina, Kalter, Henry D, Kumar, Aarti, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Lucero, Marilla, Maraga, Seri, Mehta, Saurabh, Neal, Bruce, Ohno, Summer Lockett, Phillips, David, Pierce, Kelsey, Prasad, Rajendra, Praveen, Devarsatee, Premji, Zul, Ramirez-Villalobos, Dolores, Rarau, Patricia, Remolador, Hazel, Romero, Minerva, Said, Mwanaidi, Sanvictores, Diozele, Sazawal, Sunil, Streatfield, Peter K, Tallo, Veronica, Vadhatpour, Alireza, Vano, Miriam, Murray, Christopher J L, Lopez, Alan D

“…Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive…”
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Knowledge, perception and practice towards oxytocin stability and quality: A qualitative study of stakeholders in three resource-limited countries by Oliver, Victoria L, Lambert, Peter A, Than, Kyu Kyu, Mohamed, Yasmin, Luchters, Stanley, Verma, Snigdha, Yadav, Ranjana, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Teklu, Alula M, Tolera, Moti, Minaye, Abebaw, McIntosh, Michelle P

“…Oxytocin is the gold standard drug for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage, but limitations in cold chain systems in resource-constrained settings can…”
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60 million non-facility births: Who can deliver in community settings to reduce intrapartum-related deaths? by Darmstadt, Gary L, Lee, Anne CC, Cousens, Simon, Sibley, Lynn, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Donnay, France, Osrin, Dave, Bang, Abhay, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Wall, Steven N, Baqui, Abdullah, Lawn, Joy E

“…Abstract Background For the world's 60 million non-facility births, addressing who is currently attending these births and what effect they have on birth…”
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Preterm care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative risk analysis of neonatal deaths averted by kangaroo mother care versus mortality due to SARS-CoV-2 infection by Minckas, Nicole, Medvedev, Melissa M., Adejuyigbe, Ebunoluwa A., Brotherton, Helen, Chellani, Harish, Estifanos, Abiy Seifu, Ezeaka, Chinyere, Gobezayehu, Abebe G., Irimu, Grace, Kawaza, Kondwani, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Massawe, Augustine, Mazumder, Sarmila, Mambule, Ivan, Medhanyie, Araya Abrha, Molyneux, Elizabeth M., Newton, Sam, Salim, Nahya, Tadele, Henok, Tann, Cally J., Yoshida, Sachiyo, Bahl, Rajiv, Rao, Suman P.N., Lawn, Joy E.

“…COVID-19 is disrupting health services for mothers and newborns, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Preterm newborns are particularly…”
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Behavior Change for Newborn Survival in Resource-Poor Community Settings: Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Impact by Kumar, Vishwajeet, MBBS, MPH, Kumar, Aarti, MS, Darmstadt, Gary L., MD, MS

“…Despite an established evidence base of simple, affordable, and low-cost interventions to avert neonatal deaths, global progress in reducing neonatal mortality…”
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Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets by Murray, Christopher Jl, Lopez, Alan D, Black, Robert, Ahuja, Ramesh, Ali, Said Mohd, Baqui, Abdullah, Dandona, Lalit, Dantzer, Emily, Das, Vinita, Dhingra, Usha, Dutta, Arup, Fawzi, Wafaie, Flaxman, Abraham D, Gómez, Sara, Hernández, Bernardo, Joshi, Rohina, Kalter, Henry, Kumar, Aarti, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Lozano, Rafael, Lucero, Marilla, Mehta, Saurabh, Neal, Bruce, Ohno, Summer Lockett, Prasad, Rajendra, Praveen, Devarsetty, Premji, Zul, Ramírez-Villalobos, Dolores, Remolador, Hazel, Riley, Ian, Romero, Minerva, Said, Mwanaidi, Sanvictores, Diozele, Sazawal, Sunil, Tallo, Veronica

“…Verbal autopsy methods are critically important for evaluating the leading causes of death in populations without adequate vital registration systems. With a…”
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Scaling up Kangaroo Mother Care in Ethiopia and India: a multi-site implementation research study by Mony, Prem K, Tadele, Henok, Gobezayehu, Abebe Gebremariam, Chan, Grace J, Kumar, Aarti, Mazumder, Sarmila, Beyene, Selemawit Asfaw, Jayanna, Krishnamurthy, Kassa, Dejene Hailu, Mohammed, Hajira Amin, Estifanos, Abiy Seifu, Kumar, Pankaj, Jadaun, Arun Singh, Hailu Abay, Tedros, Washington, Maryann, W/Gebriel, Fitsum, Alamineh, Lamesgin, Fikre, Addisalem, Kumar, Alok, Trikha, Sonia, Ashebir Gebregizabher, Fisseha, Kar, Arin, Bilal, Selamawit Mengesha, Belew, Mulusew Lijalem, Debere, Mesfin Kote, Krishna, Raghav, Dalpath, Suresh Kumar, Amare, Samson Yohannes, Mohan, H L, Brune, Thomas, Sibley, Lynn M, Tariku, Abraham, Sahu, Arti, Kumar, Tarun, Hadush, Marta Yemane, Gowda, Prabhu Deva, Aziz, Khalid, Duguma, Dereje, Singh, Pramod Kumar, Darmstadt, Gary L, Agarwal, Ramesh, Gebremariam, Dawit Seyoum, Martines, Jose, Portela, Anayda, Jaiswal, Harsh Vardhan, Bahl, Rajiv, Rao PN, Suman, Tadesse, Birkneh Tilahun, Cranmer, John N, Hailemariam, Damen, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Bhandari, Nita, Medhanyie, Araya Abrha

“…ObjectivesKangaroo Mother Care (KMC), prolonged skin-to-skin care of the low birth weight baby with the mother plus exclusive breastfeeding reduces neonatal…”
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Enculturating science: Community-centric design of behavior change interactions for accelerating health impact by Kumar, Vishwajeet, MBBS, MPH, Kumar, Aarti, MS, Ghosh, Amit Kumar, MS, Samphel, Rigzin, MBA, Yadav, Ranjanaa, MA, Yeung, Diana, BS, Darmstadt, Gary L., MD, MS

“…Abstract Despite significant advancements in the scientific evidence base of interventions to improve newborn survival, we have not yet been able to “bend the…”
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Evaluation of a call center to assess post-discharge maternal and early neonatal outcomes of facility-based childbirth in Uttar Pradesh, India by Gass, Jr, Jonathon D, Semrau, Katherine, Sana, Fatima, Mankar, Anup, Singh, Vinay Pratap, Fisher-Bowman, Jennifer, Neal, Brandon J, Tuller, Danielle E, Kumar, Bharath, Lipsitz, Stuart, Sharma, Narender, Kodkany, Bhala, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Gawande, Atul, Hirschhorn, Lisa R

“…Maternal and neonatal outcomes in the immediate post-delivery period are critical indicators of quality of care. Data on childbirth outcomes in low-income…”
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Is bigger better? Assessment of self-reported and researcher-collected data on maternal health care quality among high-case-load facilities in Uttar Pradesh: a mixed-methods study by Phillips, Beth, Kajal, Fnu, Montagu, Dominic, Kumar, Aarti, Kumar, Vishwajeet

“…India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has the country's second highest maternal mortality ratios, at 285 compared with the national maternal mortality…”
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Opinions, Attitudes, and Prescribing Practices of Oral Contraceptive Pills of General Practitioners and Gynecologists in India by Kumar, Sandeep, Dwivedi, Varsha, Pradeep, Yashodhara, Pakhare, Abhijeet, Agrawal, Girdhar Gopal, Saksena, Anil Kumar, Kumar, Vishwajeet

“…Background To study the prescription behavior of oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) by physicians, gynecologists, and alternative medicine practitioners (AMPs)…”
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Unpacking the null: a post-hoc analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in Uttar Pradesh, India (BetterBirth) by Marx Delaney, Megan, Miller, Kate A, Bobanski, Lauren, Singh, Shambhavi, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Karlage, Ami, Tuller, Danielle E, Gawande, Atul A, Semrau, Katherine E A

“…A coaching-based implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in Uttar Pradesh, India, improved adherence to evidence-based practices, but did not…”
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Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring by Leitao, Jordana, Chandramohan, Daniel, Byass, Peter, Jakob, Robert, Bundhamcharoen, Kanitta, Choprapawon, Chanpen, de Savigny, Don, Fottrell, Edward, França, Elizabeth, Frøen, Frederik, Gewaifel, Gihan, Hodgson, Abraham, Hounton, Sennen, Kahn, Kathleen, Krishnan, Anand, Kumar, Vishwajeet, Masanja, Honorati, Nichols, Erin, Notzon, Francis, Rasooly, Mohammad Hafiz, Sankoh, Osman, Spiegel, Paul, AbouZahr, Carla, Amexo, Marc, Kebede, Derege, Soumbey Alley, William, Marinho, Fatima, Ali, Mohamed, Loyola, Enrique, Chikersal, Jyotsna, Gao, Jun, Annunziata, Giuseppe, Bahl, Rajiv, Bartolomeus, Kidist, Boerma, Ties, Ustun, Bedirhan, Chou, Doris, Muhe, Lulu, Mathai, Matthews

“…Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been…”
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