Effects of maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and lactation on infant acute respiratory infections: follow-up of a randomized trial in Bangladesh

July 2021
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

Shaun K. Morris, Lisa G. Pell, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Joy Shi, Tahmeed Ahmed, Michelle C. Dimitris, Jonathan B. Gubbay, M. Munirul Islam, Tahmid Kashem, Farhana K. Keya, Minhazul Mohsin, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Michelle Science, Shaila S. Shanta, Mariya K. Sumiya, Stanley Zlotkin, and Daniel E. Roth

The Maternal Vitamin D Supplementation During Pregnancy and Lactation to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infections (MDARI) study, which assessed the effect of maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and lactation on risk of acute respiratory infection (ARI) among infants up to 6 months of age.

The effect of maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation on female early infant mortality is fully mediated by increased gestation duration and intrauterine growth

February 2020
The Journal of Nutrition

Mary K. Quinn, Emily R. Smith, Paige L. Williams, Willy Urassa, Joy Shi, Gernard Msamanga, Wafaie W. Fawzi, Christopher R. Sudfeld

We assess the extent to which the effect of maternal micronutrient supplementation (MMS) in pregnancy on infant mortality is mediated by birth weight, gestation age and weight-for-gestational age.

Effect of an integrated neonatal care kit on neonatal health outcomes: a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Pakistan

April 2019
BMJ Global Health

Lisa G. Pell, Ali Turab, Diego G. Bassani, Joy Shi, Sajid Soofi, Masawar Hussain, Shabina Ariff, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Shaun K. Morris

We assess the effectiveness of an integrated neonatal care kit (containing clean birth kit, chlorhexidine, sunflower oil, a continuous temperature monitor, a heat reflective blanket and reusable heat pack) on neonatal mortality.

Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy and lactation and infant growth

August 2018
New England Journal of Medicine

Daniel E. Roth, Shaun K. Morris, Stanley Zlotkin, Alison D. Gernand, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shaila S. Shanta, Eszter Papp, Jill Korsiak, Joy Shi, M. Munirul Islam, Ishrat Jahan, Farhana K. Keya, Andrew R. Willan, Rosanna Weksberg, Minhazul Mohsin, Qazi S. Rahman, Prakesh S. Shah, Kellie E. Murphy, Jennifer Stimec, Lisa G. Pell, Huma Qamar, Abdullah Al Mahmud

The Maternal Vitamin D for Infant Growth (MDIG) trial, which assessed the effect of maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and lactation on fetal and infant growth.

New approach for the identification of implausible values and outliers in longitudinal childhood anthropometric data

March 2018
Annals of Epidemiology

Joy Shi, Jill Korsiak, Daniel E. Roth

We propose and demonstrate the use of jackknife residuals to identify biological implausible values and outliers in longitudinal growth data.

Early childhood linear growth faltering in low-income and middle-income countries as a whole-population condition: analysis of 179 Demographic and Health Surveys from 64 countries (1993-2015)

December 2017
Lancet Global Health

Daniel E. Roth, Aditi Krishna, Michael Leung, Joy Shi, Diego G. Bassani, Aluisio J. D. Barros

We examine distributions of height-for-age Z score in low-income and middle-income countries using data from Demographic and Health Surveys.