Publications

Altafim E.R.P, McCoy D.C, Brentani A, Escobar A.M.U, Grisi Sjfe, Fink G. Measuring early childhood development in Brazil: validation of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI). J Pediatr (Rio J). 2020;96(1):66-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.jped.2018.07.008

Andrews K.G, Martin M.W, Shenberger E, Pereira S, Fink G, McConnell M. Financial support to medicaid-eligible mothers increases caregiving for preterm infants. Matern Child Health J. 2020;24(5):587-600. DOI: 10.1007/s10995-020-02905-7

Bielicki J.A, Fink G. Measuring antibiotic use in children: piecing together the puzzle. Lancet Glob Health. 2020;8(6):e742-e743. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30209-6

Bigoni A, Fink G. Adding to the debate on the influence of temperature on corona virus disease (COVID-19): the case of Brazil. Public Health. 2020;187:74-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.07.040

Brentani A, Ferrer A.P.S, Bessa L, Chang S, Walker S, Powell C, Hamadani J, Grisi S, Fink G. Survive and thrive in Brazil: the Boa Vista Early Childhood program: study protocol of a stepped-wedge, randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2020;21:390. DOI: 10.1186/s13063-020-4217-3

Brentani A, Scoleze Ferrer A.P, Brentani H, Liu C.H, Grisi Sjfe, Valente M.H, Gomes F, de Ulhoa Escobar A.M, Fink G. Cohort profile: São Paulo Western Region Birth Cohort (ROC). Int J Epidemiol. 2020(in press). DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyaa129

Cohen J.L, Leslie H.H, Saran I, Fink G. Quality of clinical management of children diagnosed with malaria: a cross-sectional assessment in 9 sub-Saharan African countries between 2007-2018. PLoS Med. 2020;17(9):e1003254. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003254

De Neve J.W, Karlsson O, Canavan C.R, Chukwu A, Adu-Afarwuah S, Bukenya J, Marie Darling A, Harling G, Moshabela M, Killewo J, Fink G, Fawzi W.W, Berhane Y. Are out-of-school adolescents at higher risk of adverse health outcomes? Evidence from 9 diverse settings in sub-Saharan Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 2020;25(1):70-80. DOI: 10.1111/tmi.13328

Fink G, D'Acremont V, Leslie H.H, Cohen J. Antibiotic exposure among children younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative facility-based and household-based surveys. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020;20(2):179-187. DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30572-9

Fink G, McConnell M, Nguyen B.D. Learn or react? An experimental study of preventive health decision making. Exp Econ. 2020(in press). DOI: s10683-020-09668-6

Fink G, McCoy D.C, Yousafzai A. Contextual and socioeconomic variation in early motor and language development. Arch Dis Child. 2020;105(5):421-427. DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-317849

Khadka A, Fink G, Gromis A, McConnell M. In utero exposure to threat of evictions and preterm birth: evidence from the United States. Health Serv Res. 2020;55 Suppl 2:823-832. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13551

Knoblauch A, Farnham A, Zabré H.R, Owuor M, Archer C, Nduna K, Chisanga M, Zulu L, Musunka G, Utzinger J, Divall M.J, Fink G, Winkler M.S. Community health impacts of the trident copper mine project in Northwestern Zambia: results from repeated cross-sectional surveys. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17(10):3633. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17103633

Liu C.H, Fink G, Brentani H, Brentani A. Caregiver depression is associated with hair cortisol in a low-income sample of preschool-aged children. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2020;117:104675. DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104675

Lu C, Cuartas J, Fink G, McCoy D, Liu K, Li Z, Daelmans B, Richter L. Inequalities in early childhood care and development in low/middle-income countries: 2010-2018. BMJ Glob Health. 2020;5(2):e002314. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002314

Nguyen A.T.B, Nguyen N.T.K, Phan P.H, van Eeuwijk P, Fink G. Parental satisfaction with quality of neonatal care in different level hospitals: evidence from Vietnam. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020;20:238. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-5070-5

Perales N.A, Wei D, Khadka A, Leslie H.H, Hamadou S, Yama G.C, Robyn P.J, Shapira G, Kruk M.E, Fink G. Quality of clinical assessment and child mortality: a three-country cross-sectional study. Health Policy Plan. 2020(in press). DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czaa048

Sahu M, Tediosi F, Noor A.M, Aponte J.J, Fink G. Health systems and global progress towards malaria elimination, 2000-2016. Malar J. 2020;19:141. DOI: 10.1186/s12936-020-03208-6

Salhi C, Beatriz E, McBain R, McCoy D, Sheridan M, Fink G. Physical discipline, deprivation, and differential risk of developmental delay across 17 countries. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2020(in press). DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.02.016

Bayat R, Ashrafi K, Shafiepour Motlagh M, Hassanvand M.S, Daroudi R, Fink G, Künzli N. Health impact and related cost of ambient air pollution in Tehran. Environ Res. 2019;176:108547. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108547

Bliznashka L, Fink G, Flax V, Thakwalakwa C, Jaacks L. Cross-country comparison of dietary patterns and obesity among women of reproductive age in urban sub-Saharan Africa (P10-069-19). Curr Dev Nutr, 2019;3(Suppl 1):832. DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzz034.P10-069-19

Boggs D, Milner K.M, Chandna J, Black M, Cavallera V, Dua T, Fink G, Kc A, Grantham-McGregor S, Hamadani J, Hughes R, Manji K, McCoy D.C, Tann C, Lawn J.E. Rating early child development outcome measurement tools for routine health programme use. Arch Dis Child. 2019;104(Suppl 1):S22-S33. DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315431

Clarke-Deelder E, Shapira G, Samaha H, Fritsche G.B, Fink G. Quality of care for children with severe disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. BMC Public Health. 2019;19:1608. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7853-3

Efevbera Y, Bhabha J, Farmer P, Fink G. Girl child marriage, socioeconomic status, and undernutrition: evidence from 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Med. 2019;17:55. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-019-1279-8

Fink G, Cohen J. Delivering quality: safe childbirth requires more than facilities. Lancet Glob Health. 2019;7(8):e990-e991. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30193-7

Jeong J, Obradovic J, Rasheed M, McCoy D.C, Fink G, Yousafzai A.K. Maternal and paternal stimulation: mediators of parenting intervention effects on preschoolers' development. J Appl Dev Psychol. 2019;60:105-118. DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2018.12.001

Karra M, Fink G. Long run height and education implications of early life growth faltering: a synthetic panel analysis of 425 birth cohorts in 21 low- and middle-income countries. BMC Public Health. 2019;19:876. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7203-5

Khadka A, Perales N.A, Wei D.J, Gage A.D, Haber N, Verguet S, Patenaude B, Fink G. Correction to: Malaria control across borders: quasi-experimental evidence from the Trans-Kunene malaria initiative (TKMI). Malar J. 2019;18:365. DOI: 10.1186/s12936-019-2997-2

Koné S, Bonfoh B, Dao D, Koné I, Fink G. Heckman-type selection models to obtain unbiased estimates with missing measures outcome: theoretical considerations and an application to missing birth weight data. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2019;19:231. DOI: 10.1186/s12874-019-0840-7

Lewis T.P, Andrews K.G, Shenberger E, Betancourt T.S, Fink G, Pereira S, McConnell M. Caregiving can be costly: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to conducting kangaroo mother care in a US tertiary hospital neonatal intensive care unit. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2019;19:227. DOI: 10.1186/s12884-019-2363-y

McCoy D.C, Cuartas J, Waldman M, Fink G. Contextual variation in young children's acquisition of social-emotional skills. PLoS One. 2019;14(11):e0223056. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223056

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults. Nature. 2019;569(7755):260-264. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x

Nguyen T.B.A, Hoang P.M, Phan M.H, van Eeuwijk P, Fink G. Medical cost and out-of-pocket expenditure for preterm infants: evidence from Vietnam. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2019;50(6):1155-1168. DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.11600/v1

Richter L, Black M, Britto P, Daelmans B, Desmond C, Devercelli A, Dua T, Fink G, Heymann J, Lombardi J, Lu C, Naicker S, Vargas-Baron E. Early childhood development: an imperative for action and measurement at scale. BMJ Glob Health. 2019;4(Suppl. 4):e001302. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001302

Sania A, Sudfeld C.R, Danaei G, Fink G, McCoy D.C, Zhu Z, Fawzi M.C.S, Akman M, Arifeen S.E, Barros A.J.D, Bellinger D, Black M.M, Bogale A, Braun J.M, van den Broek N, Carrara V, Duazo P, Duggan C, Fernald L.C.H, Gladstone M, Hamadani J, Handal A.J, Harlow S, Hidrobo M, Kuzawa C, Kvestad I, Locks L, Manji K, Masanja H, Matijasevich A, McDonald C, McGready R, Rizvi A, Santos D, Santos L, Save D, Shapiro R, Stoecker B, Strand T.A, Taneja S, Tellez-Rojo M.M, Tofail F, Yousafzai A.K, Ezzati M, Fawzi W. Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries. BMJ Open. 2019;9(10):e026449. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026449

Smith Fawzi M.C, Andrews K.G, Fink G, Danaei G, McCoy D.C, Sudfeld C.R, Peet E.D, Cho J, Liu Y, Finlay J.E, Ezzati M, Kaaya S.F, Fawzi W.W. Lifetime economic impact of the burden of childhood stunting attributable to maternal psychosocial risk factors in 137 low/middle-income countries. BMJ Glob Health. 2019;4(1):e001144. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001144

Usemann J, Ledergerber M, Fink G, Ritz N. Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis screening for migrant children in a low-incidence country. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019;23(5):579-586. DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.18.0356

Wei D, Brigell R, Khadka A, Perales N, Fink G. Comprehensive school-based health programs to improve child and adolescent health: evidence from Zambia. PLoS One. 2019;14(5):e0217893. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217893

Werner L.K, Jabbarian J, Kagone M, McMahon S, Lemp J, Souares A, Fink G, De Neve J.W. "Because at school, you can become somebody" - the perceived health and economic returns on secondary schooling in rural Burkina Faso. PLoS One. 2019;14(12):e0226911. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226911

Akachi Y, Steenland M, Fink G. Associations between key intervention coverage and child mortality: an analysis of 241 sub-national regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Epidemiol. 2018;47(3):740-751. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx262