Publications

International Peer-Reviewed Journals

Minckas N, Medvedev MM, Adejuyigbe EA, Brotherton H, Chellani H, Estifanos AS, Ezeaka C, Gobezayehu AG, Irimu G, Kawaza K, Kumar V, Massawe A, Mazumder S, Mambule I, Medhanyie AA, Molyneux EM, Newton S, Salim N, Tadele H, Tann CJ, Yoshida S, Bahl R, Rao SPN, Lawn JE; COVID-19 Small and Sick Newborn Care Collaborative Group. 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. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Feb 15:100733

Rao SPN, Minckas N, Medvedev MM, Gathara D, Y N P, Seifu Estifanos A, Silitonga AC, Jadaun AS, Adejuyigbe EA, Brotherton H, Arya S, Gera R, Ezeaka CV, Gai A, Gobezayehu AG, Dube Q, Kumar A, Naburi H, Chiume M, Tumukunde V, Medhanyie AA, Plange-Rhule G, Shabini J, Ohuma EO, Tadele H, W/Gebriel F, Hadgu A, Alamineh L, Mehta R, Molyneux E, Lawn JE; COVID-19 Small and Sick Newborn Care Collaborative Group.Small and sick newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic: global survey and thematic analysis of healthcare providers’ voices and experiences. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Mar;6(3):e004347

Taneja S, Upadhyay RP, Chowdhury R, Kurpad AV, Bhardwaj H, Kumar T, Dwarkanath P, Bose B, Devi S, Kumar G, Kaur B, Bahl R, Bhandari N. Impact of nutritional interventions among lactating mothers on the growth of their infants in the first 6 months of life: a randomized controlled trial in Delhi, India. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Feb 10;nqaa383

Goyal N, Rongsen-Chandola T, Sood M, Sinha B, Kumar A, Qazi SA, Aboubaker S, Nisar YB, Bahl R, Bhan MK, Bhandari N. Management of possible serious bacterial infection in young infants closer to home when referral is not feasible: Lessons from implementation research in Himachal Pradesh, India. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 22;15(12):e0243724.

Sunita Taneja, Ranadip Chowdhury, Neeta Dhabhai, Sarmila Mazumder, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, Sitanshi Sharma, Rupali Dewan, Pratima Mittal, Harish Chellani, Rajiv Bahl, Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Nita Bhandari, Women and Infants Integrated Growth Study (WINGS) Group. Impact of an integrated nutrition, health, water sanitation and hygiene, psychosocial care and support intervention package delivered during the pre- and peri-conception period and/or during pregnancy and early childhood on linear growth of infants in the first two years of life, birth outcomes and nutritional status of mothers: study protocol of a factorial, individually randomized controlled trial in India. Trials. 2020 Jan 31;21(1):127

Mehta RV, Sreenivasa MA, Mathew M, Girard AW, Taneja S, Ranjan S, Ramakrishnan U, Martorell R, Ryan PB, Young MF. A mixed-methods study of pesticide exposures in Breastmilk and Community & Lactating Women’s perspectives from Haryana, India. BMC Public Health. 2020 Dec 7;20(1):1877

David SM, Ragasudha PN, Taneja S, Mohan SB, Iyengar SD, Pricilla RA, Martines J, Sachdev HS, Suhalka V, Mohan VR, Mazumder S, Chowdhury R, Bahl R, Bose A. Predictors of recovery in children aged 6-59 months with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: a multicentre study. Public Health Nutr. 2020 Nov 23;1-9

Mehta RV, Wenndt AJ, Girard AW, Taneja S, Ranjan S, Ramakrishnan U, Martorell R, Ryan PB, Rangiah K, Young MF. Risk of dietary and breastmilk exposure to mycotoxins among lactating women and infants 2-4 months in northern India. Matern Child Nutr. 2021 Apr;17(2):e13100

Enhanced Management of Pneumonia in Community (EMPIC) Study Group, Mothabbir G, Rana S, Baqui AH, Ahmed S, Ahmed AN, Taneja S, Mundra S, Bhandari N, Dalpath S, Tigabu Z, Andargie G, Teklu A, Tazebew A, Alemu K, Awoke T, Gebeyehu A, Jenda G, Nsona H, Mathanga D, Nisar YB, Bahl R, Sadruddin S, Muhe L, Moschovis P, Aboubaker S, Qazi S. Management of fast breathing pneumonia in young infants aged 7 to 59 days by community level health workers: protocol for a multi-centre cluster randomized controlled trial. Int J Clin Trials . Apr-Jun 2020;7(2):83-93

Schwinger C, Chowdhury R, Sharma S, Bhandari N, Taneja S, Ueland PM, Strand TA. Association of Plasma Total Cysteine and Anthropometric Status in 6-30 Months Old Indian Children. Nutrients. 2020 Oct 15;12(10):3146

Aneja S, Kumar P, Choudhary TS, Srivastava A, Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bhandari N, Daniel A, Menon P, Chellani H, Bahl R, Bhan MK. Growth faltering in early infancy: highlights from a two-day scientific consultation. BMC Proc. 2020 Sep 15;14(Suppl 12):12

Brahmawar Mohan S, Sommerfelt H, Frøen JF, Taneja S, Kumar T, Bhatia K, vander Merwe L, Bahl R, Martines JC, Mazumder S, Bhandari N. Antenatal Uterotonics as a Risk Factor for Intrapartum Stillbirth and First-day Death in Haryana, India: A Nested Case-control Study. Epidemiology. 2020 Sep;31(5):668-676

Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Kvestad I, Hysing M, Bhandari N, Strand TA. Vitamin D status in early childhood is not associated with cognitive development and linear growth at 6-9 years of age in North Indian children: a cohort study. Nutr J. 2020 Feb 10;19(1):14

Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Dhabhai N, Mazumder S, Upadhyay RP, Sharma S, Tupaki-Sreepurna A, Dewan R, Mittal P, Chellani H, Bahl R, Bhan MK, Bhandari N. Burden of preconception morbidity in women of reproductive age from an urban setting in North India. PLoS One. 2020 Jun 18;15(6):e0234768

Taneja S, Sinha B, Upadhyay RP, Mazumder S, Sommerfelt H, Martines J, Dalpath SK, Gupta R, Kariger P, Bahl R, Bhandari N, Dua T; ciKMC development study group. Community initiated kangaroo mother care and early child development in low birth weight infants in India-a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatr. 2020 Apr 4;20(1):150

Gernand A, Berhane Y, Bhandari N,Chowdhury R, Jehan F, Khatry S, Kolsteren P, Lee ACC, Muhammad A, Shafiq Y,Taneja S,Tielsch J,Taylor L, Gallagher K,Christian P, Yan J and Roskosky M.Harmonization of Maternal Nutrition Trials – Finding and Creating Similarities in Protocols and Outcomes

Upadhyay RP, Naik G, Choudhary TS, Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bhandari N, Martines JC, Bahl R, Bhan MK. Cognitive and motor outcomes in children born low birth weight: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from South Asia. BMC Pediatr. 2019 Jan 29;19(1):35

Kumar G, Choudhary TS, Srivastava A, Upadhyay RP, Taneja S, Bahl R, Martines J, Bhan MK, Bhandari N, Mazumder S. Utilisation, equity and determinants of full antenatal care in India: analysis from the National Family Health Survey 4. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2019 Sep 5;19(1):327

Sania A, Sudfeld CR, Danaei G, Fink G, McCoy DC, Zhu Z, Fawzi MCS, Akman M, Arifeen SE, Barros AJD, Bellinger D, Black MM, Bogale A, Braun JM, van den Broek N, Carrara V, Duazo P, Duggan C, Fernald LCH, Gladstone M, Hamadani J, Handal AJ, 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 TA, Taneja S, Tellez-Rojo MM, Tofail F, Yousafzai AK, 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 Oct 3;9(10):e026449.

Choudhary TS, Sinha B, Khera A, Bhandari N, Chu Y, Jackson B, Walker N, Black RE, Merson M, Bhan MK. Factors associated with the decline in under-five diarrhea mortality in India: a LiST analysis. J Glob Health. 2019
Dec;9(2):020804.

Kangaroo Mother Care implementation research to develop models for accelerating scale-up in India and Ethiopia: study protocol for an adequacy evaluation

Pareek S, Kurakawa T, Das B, Motooka D, Nakaya S, Rongsen-Chandola T, Goyal N, Kayama H, Dodd D, Okumura R, Maeda Y, Fujimoto K, Nii T, Ogawa T, Iida T, Bhandari N, Kida T, Nakamura S, Nair GB, Takeda K. Comparison of Japanese and Indian intestinal microbiota shows diet-dependent interaction between bacteria and fungi. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2019 Dec 20;5(1):37

Choudhary TS, Srivastava A, Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bahl R, Martines J, Bhan MK, Bhandari N. Severe wasting among Indian infants <6 months: Findings from the National Family Health Survey 4. Matern Child Nutr. 2019 Oct;15(4):e12866

Upadhyay RP, Chandyo RK, Kvestad I, Hysing M, Ulak M, Ranjitkar S, Shrestha M, Shrestha L, Strand TA. Parental height modifies the association between linear growth and neurodevelopment in infancy. Acta Paediatr. 2019 Oct;108(10):1825-1832

Mazumder S, Lee A, Dube B, Mehra D, Khaing P, Taneja S, Yan B, Chillrud SN, Bhandari N, D’Armiento JM. A clean fuel cookstove is associated with improved lung function: Effect modification by age and secondhand tobacco smoke exposure. Sci Rep. 2019 Feb 21;9(1):2487

Taneja S, Dalpath S, Bhandari N, Kaur J, Mazumder S, Chowdhury R, Mundra S, Bhan MK. Operationalising integrated community case management of childhood illnesses by community health workers in rural Haryana. Acta Paediatr. 2018 Dec;107 Suppl 471:80-88

Neonatal Vitamin A Supplementation Evidence group. Early neonatal vitamin A supplementation and infant mortality: An individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Arch Dis Child. 2019 Mar; 104(3): 217–226.

Praharaj I, Platts-Mills JA, Taneja S, Antony K, Yuhas K, Flores J, Cho I, Bhandari N, Revathy R, Bavdekar A, Rongsen-Chandola T, McMurry T, Houpt ER, Kang G. Diarrheal Etiology and Impact of Coinfections on Rotavirus Vaccine Efficacy Estimates in a Clinical Trial of a Monovalent Human-Bovine (116E) Oral Rotavirus Vaccine, Rotavac, India. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Jul 2;69(2):243-250

The Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement (AMANHI) mortality study group. 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. Lancet Glob Health. 2018 Dec; 6(12): e1297–e1308.

Ravi Prakash Upadhyay , Sunita Taneja , Ranadip Chowdhury , Tor A Strand , Nita Bhandari . Effect of prebiotic and probiotic supplementation on neurodevelopment in preterm very low birth weight infants: findings from a meta-analysis. Pediatr Res. 2020 Apr;87(5):811-822

Vitamin D deficiency and mild to moderate anemia in young North Indian children: A secondary data analysis

Upadhyay RP, Martines JC, Taneja S, Mazumder S, Bahl R, Bhandari N, Dalpath S, Bhan MK. Risk of postneonatal mortality, hospitalisation and suboptimal breast feeding practices in low birthweight infants from rural Haryana, India:
findings from a secondary data analysis. BMJ Open. 2018 Jun 22;8(6):e020384

Taneja S, Rongsen-Chandola T, Mohan SB, Mazumder S, Bhandari N, Kaur J, Arya N, Chowdhury R, Martines JC, Bahl R, Bhan MK. Mid upper arm circumference as a predictor of risk of mortality in children in a low resource setting in India. PLoS One. 2018 Jun 1;13(6):e0197832

Garg CC, Mazumder S, Taneja S, Shekhar M, Mohan SB, Bose A, Iyengar SD, Bahl R, Martines J, Bhandari N. Costing of three feeding regimens for home-based management of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition from a randomised trial in India. BMJ Glob Health. 2018 Mar 6;3(2):e000702.

Sarmila Mazumder, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, Zelee Hill, Sunita Taneja, Brinda Dube, Jasmine Kaur, Medha Shekhar, Runa Ghosh, Shruti Bisht, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, Halvor Sommerfelt, Nita Bhandari. Kangaroo mother care: using formative research to design an acceptable community intervention. BMC Public Health. 2018; 18: 307

Brita Askeland Winje, Ingrid Kvestad, Srinivasan Krishnamachari , Karim Manji, Sunita Taneja , David C Bellinger , Nita Bhandari , Shruti Bisht , Anne Marie Darling , Christopher P Duggan , Wafaie Fawzi , Mari Hysing , Tivendra Kumar , Anura V Kurpad , Christopher R Sudfeld , Erling Svensen , Susan Thomas , Tor A Strand. Does early vitamin B(12) supplementation improve neurodevelopment and cognitive function in childhood and into school age: a study protocol for extended follow-ups from randomised controlled trials in India and Tanzania. BMJ Open. 2018 Feb 22;8(2):e018962.

Arora NK, Swaminathan S, Mohapatra A, Gopalan HS, Katoch VM, Bhan MK, Rasaily R, Shekhar C, Thavaraj V, Roy M, Das MK, Wazny K, Kumar R, Khera A, Bhatla N, Jain V, Laxmaiah A, Nair MKC, Paul VK, Ramachandran P, Ramji S, Vaidya U, Verma IC, Shah D, Bahl R, Qazi S, Rudan I, Black RE; ICMR INCLEN Research Priority Setting Network; National Steering Group; Research Sub-Committee; Nation-wide Network. Research priorities in Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health & Nutrition for India: An Indian Council of Medical Research-INCLEN Initiative. Indian J Med Res. 2017 May;145(5):611-622

Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bhandari N, Sinha B, Upadhyay RP, Bhan MK, Strand TA. Vitamin-D deficiency predicts infections in young north Indian children: A secondary data analysis. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 8;12(3):e0170509. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0170509.

Kulkarni PS, Desai S, Tewari T, Kawade A, Goyal N, Garg BS, Kumar D, Kanungo S, Kamat V, Kang G, Bavdekar A, Babji S, Juvekar S, Manna B, Dutta S, Angurana R, Dewan D, Dharmadhikari A, Zade JK, Dhere RM, Fix A, Power M, Uprety V, Parulekar V, Cho I, Chandola TR, Kedia VK, Raut A, Flores J; SII BRV-PV author group. A randomized Phase III clinical trial to assess the efficacy of a bovine- human reassortant pentavalent rotavirus vaccine in Indian infants. Vaccine. 2017 Oct 27;35(45):6228-6237

Smith ER, Hurt L, Chowdhury R, Sinha B, Fawzi W, Edmond KM; Neovita Study Group. Delayed breastfeeding initiation and infant survival: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 2017 Jul 26;12(7):e0180722

Shillcutt SD, LeFevre AE, Fischer-Walker CL, Taneja S, Black RE, Mazumder S. Cost-effectiveness analysis of the diarrhea alleviation through zinc and oral rehydration therapy (DAZT) program in rural Gujarat India: an application of the net-benefit regression framework. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2017 Jun 8;15:9

Temsunaro Rongsen Chandola 1 2, Sunita Taneja 1 2, Nidhi Goyal 1 2, Kalpana Antony 3, Kiran Bhatia 1 2, Deepak More 3 1, Nita Bhandari 1 2, Iksung Cho 4, Krishna Mohan 5, Sai Prasad 5, Gvja Harshavardhan 5, Tataji Surender Rao 6 7, Sudhanshu Vrati 8, Maharaj Kishan Bhan 9. ROTAVAC® does not interfere with the immune response to childhood vaccines in Indian infants: A randomized placebo controlled trial. Heliyon. 2017 May 16;3(5):e00302

Upadhyay RP, Chowdhury R, Mazumder S, Taneja S, Sinha B, Martines J, Bahl R, Bhandari N, Bhan MK. Immunization practices in low birth weight infants from rural Haryana, India: Findings from secondary data analysis. J Glob Health. 2017 Dec;7(2):020415.

Ranadip Chowdhury, Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Ingrid Kvestad, Tor A. Strand, Maharaj Kishan Bhan. Vitamin-D status and neurodevelopment and growth in young north Indian children: a secondary data analysis. Nutr J. 2017; 16: 59

Sinha B, Taneja S, Chowdhury R, Mazumder S, Rongsen-Chandola T, Upadhyay RP, Martines J, Bhandari N, Bhan MK. Low-birthweight infants born to short-stature mothers are at additional risk of stunting and poor growth velocity: Evidence from secondary data analyses. Matern Child Nutr. 2018 Jan;14(1):e12504

Ranadip Chowdhury, Sunita Taneja, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Tor A Strand. Gender differences in infant survival: a secondary data analysis in rural North India. BMJ Open. 2017; 7(8): e014179

Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Suresh Kumar Dalpath, Rakesh Gupta, Brinda Dube, Bireshwar Sinha, Kiran Bhatia, Sachiyo Yoshida, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Rajiv Bahl, Halvor Sommerfelt, Nita Bhandari, Jose Martines. Impact of community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care on survival of low birth weight infants: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2017; 18: 262.

LeFevre AE, Mohan D, Mazumder S, Lamberti LL, Taneja S, Black RE, Fischer- Walker CL. Diarrhea no more: does zinc help the poor? Evidence on the effectiveness of programmatic efforts to reach poorest in delivering zinc and
ORS at scale in UP and Gujarat, India. J Glob Health. 2016 Dec;6(2):021001

Bhandari N, Mohan SB, Bose A, Iyengar SD, Taneja S, Mazumder S, Pricilla RA, Iyengar K, Sachdev HS, Mohan VR, Suhalka V, Yoshida S, Martines J, Bahl R. Efficacy of three feeding regimens for home-based management of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: a randomised trial in India. BMJ Glob Health. 2016 Dec 30;1(4):e000144

Abdullah H Baqui, Dipak K Mitra , Nazma Begum , Lisa Hurt , Seyi Soremekun , Karen Edmond , Betty Kirkwood , Nita Bhandari , Sunita Taneja , Sarmila Mazumder , Muhammad Imran Nisar , Fyezah Jehan , Muhammad Ilyas , Murtaza Ali , Imran Ahmed , Shabina Ariff , Sajid B Soofi , Sunil Sazawal , Usha Dhingra , Arup Dutta , Said M Ali , Shaali M Ame 8, Katherine Semrau , Fern M Hamomba , Caroline Grogan , Davidson H Hamer , Rajiv Bahl , Sachiyo Yoshida , Alexander Manu . Neonatal mortality within 24 hours of birth in six low- and lower-middle-income countries. Bull World Health Organ. 2016 Oct 1;94(10):752-758B

Kumar T, Taneja S, Sachdev HPS, Refsum H, Yajnik CS, Bhandari N, Strand TA; Study Group. Supplementation of vitamin B12 or folic acid on hemoglobin concentration in children 6-36 months of age: A randomized placebo controlled
trial. Clin Nutr. 2017 Aug;36(4):986-991.

Rollins NC, Bhandari N, Hajeebhoy N, Horton S, Lutter CK, Martines JC, Piwoz EG, Richter LM, Victora CG; Lancet Breastfeeding Series Group. Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? Lancet. 2016 Jan
30;387(10017):491-504

Prinja S, Bahuguna P, Mohan P, Mazumder S, Taneja S, Bhandari N, van den Hombergh H, Kumar R. Cost Effectiveness of Implementing Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses Program in District Faridabad, India. PLoS One. 2016 Jan 4;11(1):e0145043

Laura M Lamberti , Christa L Fischer Walker , Sunita Taneja , Sarmila Mazumder , Robert E Black . Adherence to zinc supplementation guidelines for the treatment of diarrhea among children under–five in Uttar Pradesh, India. J Glob Health. 2015 Dec;5(2):020410

Laura M Lamberti, Christa L Fischer Walker, Sunita Taneja, Sarmila Mazumder, Robert E Black. The Influence of Episode Severity on Caregiver Recall, Care-seeking, and Treatment of Diarrhea among Children 2–59 Months of Age in Bihar, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh, India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Aug;93(2):250-256

Christa L Fischer Walker , Sunita Taneja , Laura M Lamberti , Robert E Black , Sarmila Mazumder . Public sector scale–up of zinc and ORS improves coverage in selected districts in Bihar, India. J Glob Health
. 2015 Dec;5(2):020408

Laura M Lamberti , Christa L Fischer Walker , Sunita Taneja , Sarmila Mazumder , Robert E Black .The Association between Provider Practice and Knowledge of ORS and Zinc Supplementation for the Treatment of Childhood Diarrhea in Bihar, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India: A Multi-Site Cross-Sectional Study. PLoS One
. 2015 Jun 22;10(6):e0130845

Adelheid W Onyango , Elaine Borghi , Mercedes de Onis , Edward A Frongillo , Cesar G Victora , Kathryn G Dewey , Anna Lartey , Nita Bhandari , Anne Baerug , Cutberto Garza , WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Successive 1-Month Weight Increments in Infancy Can Be Used to Screen for Faltering Linear Growth. J Nutr. 2015 Dec;145(12):2725-31

Sankar MJ, Sinha B, Chowdhury R, Bhandari N, Taneja S, Martines J, Bahl R. Optimal breastfeeding practices and infant and child mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Paediatr. 2015 Dec;104(467):3-13

Sinha B, Chowdhury R, Sankar MJ, Martines J, Taneja S, Mazumder S, Rollins N, Bahl R, Bhandari N. Interventions to improve breastfeeding outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Paediatr. 2015 Dec;104(467):114-34.

Ranadip Chowdhury , Bireshwar Sinha , Mari Jeeva Sankar , Sunita Taneja , Nita Bhandari , Nigel Rollins , Rajiv Bahl , Jose Martines . Breastfeeding and Maternal Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Acta Paediatr
. 2015 Dec;104(467):96-113

Ingrid Kvestad , Sunita Taneja , Mari Hysing , Tivendra Kumar , Nita Bhandari , Tor A Strand . Diarrhea, stimulation and growth predict neurodevelopment in young north Indian children. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 31;10(3):e0121743

Strand TA, Taneja S, Kumar T, Manger MS, Refsum H, Yajnik CS, Bhandari N. Vitamin B-12, folic acid, and growth in 6- to 30-month-old children: a randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2015 Apr;135(4):e918-26

Sunita Taneja, Shikhar Bahl, Sarmila Mazumder, Jose Martines , Nita Bhandari , Maharaj Kishan Bhan.Impact on inequities in health indicators: Effect of implementing the integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness programme in Haryana, India. J Glob Health. 2015 Jun;5(1):010401

Samuel D Shillcutt, Amnesty E LeFevre, Christa L Fischer Walker, Robert E Black, Sarmila Mazumder. Protocol for the economic evaluation of the diarrhea alleviation through zinc and oral rehydration salt therapy at scale through private and public providers in rural Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India. Implement Sci. 2014 Nov 19;9:164

Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Kiran Bhatia, Sachiyo Yoshida, Jasmine Kaur, Brinda Dube, G S Toteja, Rajiv Bahl , Olivier Fontaine, Jose Martines , Nita Bhandari 5, Neovita India Study Group.Efficacy of early neonatal supplementation with vitamin A to reduce mortality in infancy in Haryana, India (Neovita): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2015 Apr 4;385(9975):1333-42

Mazumder S, Taneja S, Bahl R, Mohan P, Strand TA, Sommerfelt H, Kirkwood BR, Goyal N, Van Den Hombergh H, Martines J, Bhandari N; Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness Evaluation Study Group. Effect of implementation of integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness programme on treatment seeking practices for morbidities in infants: cluster randomised trial. BMJ. 2014 Aug 29;349:g4988.

Nita Bhandari , Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola , Ashish Bavdekar , Jacob John , Kalpana Antony , Sunita Taneja , Nidhi Goyal , Anand Kawade , Gagandeep Kang , Sudeep Singh Rathore , Sanjay Juvekar , Jayaprakash Muliyil , Alok Arya, Hanif Shaikh , Vinod Abraham, Sudhanshu Vrati, Michael Proschan, Robert Kohberger, Georges Thiry, Roger Glass , Harry B Greenberg, George Curlin , Krishna Mohan, G V J A Harshavardhan , Sai Prasad , T S Rao , John Boslego , Maharaj Kishan Bhan , India Rotavirus Vaccine Group. Efficacy of monovalent human-bovine (116E) rotavirus vaccine in Indian children in the second year of life. Vaccine. 2014 Aug 11;32 Suppl 1:A110-6

Jacob John, Rajiv Sarkar, Jayaprakash Muliyil, Nita Bhandari, Maharaj K Bhan, Gagandeep Kang . Rotavirus gastroenteritis in India, 2011-2013: Revised estimates of disease burden and potential impact of vaccines. Vaccine. 2014 Aug 11;32 Suppl 1:A5-9

Jacob John, Anand Kawade, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Ashish Bavdekar, Nita Bhandari, Sunita Taneja, Kalpana Antony, Veereshwar Bhatnagar, Arun Gupta, Madhulika Kabra, Gagandeep Kang. Active surveillance for intussusceptions in a phase III efficacy trial of an oral monovalent rotavirus vaccine in India. Vaccine
. 2014 Aug 11;32 Suppl 1:A104-9

Rongsen-Chandola T, Strand TA, Goyal N, Flem E, Rathore SS, Arya A, Winje BA, Lazarus R, Shanmugasundaram E, Babji S, Sommerfelt H, Vainio K, Kang G,Bhandari N. Effect of withholding breastfeeding on the immune response to a live oral rotavirus vaccine in North Indian infants. Vaccine. 2014 Aug 11;32Suppl1:A134-9.doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.078. PMID: 25091668.

Tahmeed Ahmed, Muttaquina Hossain, Mustafa Mahfuz, Nuzhat Choudhury, Mir Mobarak Hossain, Nita Bhandari, Maung Maung Lin, Prakash Chandra Joshi, Mirak Raj Angdembe, V Pujitha Wickramasinghe, S M Moazzem Hossain, Mohammad Shahjahan, Sugeng Eko Irianto, Sajid Soofi, Zulfiqar Bhutta. Severe acute malnutrition in Asia. Food Nutr Bull. 2014 Jun;35(2 Suppl):S14-26.

Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Brita Askeland Winje, Nidhi Goyal, Sudeep Singh Rathore, Madhu Mahesh, Rajat Ranjan, Alok Arya, Farhana Afzal Rafiqi, Nita Bhandari, Tor A Strand. Compliance of mothers following recommendations to breastfeed or withhold breast milk during rotavirus vaccination in North India: a randomized clinical trial. Trials. 2014 Jun 28;15:256.

Nita Bhandari, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Ashish Bavdekar, Jacob John, Kalpana Antony, Sunita Taneja, Nidhi Goyal, Anand Kawade, Gagandeep Kang, Sudeep Singh Rathore, Sanjay Juvekar, Jayaprakash Muliyil , Alok Arya , Hanif Shaikh , Vinod Abraham , Sudhanshu Vrati , Michael Proschan , Robert Kohberger , Georges Thiry , Roger Glass , Harry B Greenberg , George Curlin , Krishna Mohan, G V J A Harshavardhan , Sai Prasad , T S Rao, John Boslego, Maharaj Kishan Bhan , India Rotavirus Vaccine Group. Efficacy of a Monovalent Human-Bovine (116E) Rotavirus Vaccine in Indian Infants: A Randomised Double Blind Placebo Controlled Trial. Lancet. 2014 Jun 21;383(9935):2136-43

Maharaj K Bhan, Roger I Glass, Krishna M Ella, Nita Bhandari, John Boslego, Harry B Greenberg, Krishna Mohan, George Curlin, T S Rao. Team science and the creation of a novel rotavirus vaccine in India: a new framework for vaccine development. Lancet. 2014 Jun 21;383(9935):2180-3.

Mohan Babu Appaiahgari, Roger Glass, Shakti Singh, Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Nita Bhandari, Sukhdev Mishra, Sudhanshu Vrati . Transplacental rotavirus IgG interferes with immune response to live oral rotavirus vaccine ORV-116E in Indian infants. Vaccine. 2014 Feb 3;32(6):651-6.

Cutberto Garza, Elaine Borghi, Adelheid W Onyango, Mercedes de Onis, WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Parental height and child growth from birth to 2 years in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Matern Child Nutr. 2013 Sep;9 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):58-68.

Sunita Taneja, Tor A Strand, Tivendra Kumar, Madhu Mahesh, Sanjana Mohan, Mari S Manger, Helga Refsum, Chittaranjan S Yajnik, Nita Bhandari. Folic acid and vitamin B-12 supplementation and common infections in 6-30-mo-old children in India: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Sep;98(3):731-7.

Shankar Prinja, Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Pankaj Bahuguna, Nita Bhandari, Pavitra Mohan, Henri Hombergh, Rajesh Kumar. Cost of Delivering Child Health Care Through Community Level Health Workers: How Much Extra Does IMNCI Program Cost?. J Trop Pediatr. 2013 Dec;59(6):489-95.

Ingrid Kvestad, Sunita Taneja, Tivendra Kumar, Nita Bhandari, Tor A Strand, Mari Hysing, Study Group. The assessment of developmental status using the Ages and Stages questionnaire-3 in nutritional research in north Indian young children. Nutr J. 2013 Apr 23;12:50

Tor A Strand, Sunita Taneja, Per M Ueland, Helga Refsum, Rajiv Bahl, Joern Schneede, Halvor Sommerfelt, Nita Bhandari. Cobalamin and folate status predicts mental development scores in North Indian children 12-18 mo of age. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Feb;97(2):310-7.

T R Chandola, S Taneja, N Goyal, S S Rathore, M B Appaiahgari, A Mishra, S Singh, S Vrati, N Bhandari. Descriptive epidemiology of rotavirus infection in a community in North India. Epidemiol Infect. 2013 Oct; 141(10):2094-100

Rajiv Bahl, Jose Martines, Nita Bhandari, Zrinka Biloglav, Karen Edmond, Sharad Iyengar, Michael Kramer, Joy E Lawn, D S Manandhar, Rintaro Mori, Kathleen M Rasmussen, H P S Sachdev, Nalini Singhal, Mark Tomlinson, Cesar Victora, Anthony F Williams, Kit Yee Chan, Igor Rudan. Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from preterm birth and low birth weight by 2015. J Glob Health
. 2012 Jun;2(1):010403

Nita Bhandari, Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Halvor Sommerfelt, Tor A Strand, IMNCI Evaluation Study Group. Effect of implementation of Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) programme on neonatal and infant mortality: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2012 Mar 21;344:e1634

Sudha Basnet, Prakash S Shrestha, Arun Sharma, Maria Mathisen, Renu Prasai, Nita Bhandari, Ramesh K Adhikari, Halvor Sommerfelt, Palle Valentiner-Branth, Tor A Strand, Zinc Severe Pneumonia Study Group. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Zinc as Adjuvant Therapy for Severe Pneumonia in Young Children. Pediatrics
. 2012 Apr;129(4):701-8

NEOVITA Study Author Group; Rajiv Bahl, Nita Bhandari, Brinda Dube, Karen Edmond, Wafaie Fawzi, Olivier Fontaine, Jasmine Kaur, Betty R Kirkwood, Jose Martines, Honorati Masanja, Sarmila Mazumder, Salum Msham, Sam Newton, Maureen Oleary, Julia Ruben, Caitlin Shannon, Emily Smith, Sunita Taneja, Sachiyo Yoshida. Efficacy of early neonatal vitamin A supplementation in reducing mortality during infancy in Ghana, India and Tanzania: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2012 Feb 23;13:22.

Mari S Manger, Sunita Taneja, Tor A Strand, Per M Ueland, Helga Refsum, Jørn Schneede, Ottar Nygård, Halvor Sommerfelt, Nita Bhandari. Poor folate status predicts persistent diarrhea in 6- to 30-month-old north Indian children. J Nutr. 2011 Dec;141(12):2226-32.

Mari S Manger, Tor A Strand, Sunita Taneja, Helga Refsum, Per M Ueland, Ottar Nygård, Jørn Schneede, Halvor Sommerfelt, Nita Bhandari. Cobalamin status modifies the effect of zinc supplementation on the incidence of prolonged diarrhea in 6- to 30-month-old north Indian children. J Nutr. 2011 Jun;141(6):1108-13.

Vinod Kumar Paul, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Dileep Mavalankar, Prema Ramachandran, Mari Jeeva Sankar, Nita Bhandari, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Thiagarajan Sundararaman, Dipti Govil, David Osrin, Betty Kirkwood. Reproductive health, and child health and nutrition in India: meeting the challenge. Lancet. 2011 Jan 22;377(9762):332-49.

Adelheid W Onyango, Laurie Nommsen-Rivers, Amani Siyam, Elaine Borghi, Mercedes de Onis, Cutberto Garza, Anna Lartey, Anne Baerug, Nita Bhandari, Kathryn G Dewey, Cora Luiza Araújo, Ali Jaffer Mohamed, Jan Van den Broeck, WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Post-partum weight change patterns in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Matern Child Nutr. 2011 Jul;7(3):228-40.

Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Brinda Dube, R C Agarwal, Dilip Mahalanabis, Olivier Fontaine, Robert E Black. Effectiveness of zinc supplementation plus oral rehydration salts for diarrhoea in infants aged less than 6 months in Haryana state, India. Bull World Health Organ. 2010 Oct 1;88(10):754-60.

Palle Valentiner-Branth, Prakash S Shrestha, Ram K Chandyo, Maria Mathisen, Sudha Basnet, Nita Bhandari, Ramesh K Adhikari, Halvor Sommerfelt, Tor A Strand. A randomized controlled trial of the effect of zinc as adjuvant therapy in children 2-35 mo of age with severe or nonsevere pneumonia in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Am J Clin Nutr
. 2010 Jun;91(6):1667-74.

Sunita Taneja , Tor A Strand, Halvor Sommerfelt, Rajiv Bahl, Nita Bhandari. Zinc supplementation for four months does not affect growth in young north Indian children. J Nutr. 2010 Mar;140(3):630-4

Linda Vesel, Rajiv Bahl, Jose Martines, Mary Penny, Nita Bhandari, Betty R Kirkwood, WHO Immunization-linked Vitamin A Supplementation Study Group. Infant malnutrition assessed using new WHO child growth standards and its relationship with mortality and exclusive breastfeeding. Bull World Health Organ. 2010 Jan;88(1):39-48.

Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Dilip Mahalanabis, Olivier Fontaine, Maharaj Kishan Bhan. Impact of Zinc Supplementation on Morbidity and Growth in Hospital Born Low Birth Weight Infants. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Aug;90(2):385-91.

Nita Bhandari, Pooja Sharma, Sunita Taneja, Tivendra Kumar, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Mohan Babu Appaiahgari, Arpita Mishra, Shakti Singh, Sudhanshu Vrati, Rotavirus Vaccine Development Group. A dose escalation safety and immunogenicity study of live attenuated oral rotavirus vaccine 116E in infants: a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial. J Infect Dis. 2009 Aug 1;200(3):421-9

Nita Bhandari, Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Brinda Dube, R C Agarwal, Dilip Mahalanabis, Olivier Fontaine, Robert E Black, Maharaj K Bhan. Effectiveness of zinc supplementation plus oral rehydration salts compared with oral rehydration salts alone as a treatment for acute diarrhea in a primary care setting: a cluster randomized trial. Pediatrics. 2008 May;121(5):e1279-85.

Nita Bhandari, A K M Iqbal Kabir, Mohammed Abdus Salam. Mainstreaming nutrition into maternal and child health programmes: scaling up of exclusive breastfeeding. Matern Child Nutr. 2008 Apr;4 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):5-23.

Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Tor A Strand, Halvor Sommerfelt, Helga Refsum, Per M Ueland, Jörn Schneede, Rajiv Bahl, Maharaj Kishan Bhan. Cobalamin and folate status in infants and young children in a low-to-middle income community in India. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Nov;86(5):1302-9.

Tor A Strand, Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Helga Refsum, Per M Ueland, Håkon K Gjessing, Rajiv Bahl, Joern Schneede, Maharaj K Bhan, Halvor Sommerfelt. Folate, but not vitmain B12 status predicts respiratory morbidity in north Indian children. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Jul;86(1):139-44

Christa L Fischer Walker 1, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Nita Bhandari, Telahun Teka, Farhana Shahid, Sunita Taneja, Robert E Black. Zinc during and in convalescence from diarrhea has no demonstrable effect on subsequent morbidity and anthropometric status among infants <6 mo of age. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Mar;85(3):887-94.

Nita Bhandari, Sunita Taneja, Sarmila Mazumder, Rajiv Bahl, Olivier Fontaine, Maharaj K Bhan, Zinc Study Group. Adding zinc to supplemental iron folic acid does not affect mortality and severe morbidity in young children. J Nutr
. 2007 Jan;137(1):112-7.

Christa L Fischer Walker, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Nita Bhandari, Telahun Teka, Farhana Shahid, Sunita Taneja, Robert E Black, Zinc Study Group. Zinc supplementation for the treatment of diarrhea in infants in Pakistan, India and Ethiopia. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2006 Sep;43(3):357-63.

Nita Bhandari, Pooja Sharma, Roger I Glass, Pratima Ray, Harry Greenberg, Sunita Taneja, Manju Saksena, C Durga Rao, Jon R Gentsch, Umesh Parashar, Yvonne Maldonado, Richard L Ward, M K Bhan. Safety and immunogenicity of two live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine candidates, 116E and I321, in infants: Results of a randomised controlled trial. Vaccine. 2006 Jul 26;24(31-32):5817-23.

Nita Bhandari, Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Brinda Dube, Robert E Black, Olivier Fontaine, Dilip Mahalanabis, Maharaj Kishan Bhan. A Pilot Test of the Addition of Zinc to the Current Case Management Package of Diarrhea in a Primary Healthcare Setting. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2005 Nov;41(5):685-7.

Nita Bhandari, Sarmila Mazumder, Rajiv Bahl, José Martines, Robert E Black, Maharaj K Bhan, Infant Feeding Study Group. Use of Multiple Opportunities for Improving Feeding Practices in Undertwos Within Child Health Programs is Feasible, Effective and Beneficial to the Health System. Health Policy Plan. 2005 Sep;20(5):328-36.

Roger I Glass, Maharaj K Bhan, Pratima Ray, Rajiv Bahl, Umesh D Parashar, Harry Greenberg, C Durga Rao, Nita Bhandari, Yvonne Maldonado, Richard L Ward, David I Bernstein, Jon R Gentsch. Development of candidate rotavirus vaccines derived from neonatal strains in India. J Infect Dis. 2005 Sep 1;192 Suppl 1:S30-5.

Rajiv Bahl, Chris Frost, Betty R Kirkwood, Karen Edmond, Jose Martines, Nita Bhandari, Paul Arthur. Infant feeding patterns and risks of death and hospitalization in the first half of infancy: multicentre cohort study. Bull World Health Organ. 2005 Jun;83(6):418-26

Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Maharaj Kishan Bhan. Impact of zinc supplementation on mental and psychomotor development of children aged 12 to 18 months: a randomized double blind trial. J Pediatr
. 2005 Apr;146(4):506-11.

Gautam Bhan, Nita Bhandari, Sunita Taneja, Sarmila Mazumder, Rajiv Bahl, Zinc Study Group. The effect of maternal education on gender bias in careseeking for common childhood illnesses. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Feb;60(4):715-24

Nita Bhandari, Sarmila Mazumder, Rajiv Bahl, Jose Martines, Robert E Black, Maharaj K Bhan, Infant Feeding Study Group. An Educational Intervention to Promote Appropriate Complementary Feeding Improves Child Feeding Practices and Linear Growth in Rural Haryana, India. J Nutr. 2004 Sep;134(9):2342-8

Trudy M Wijnhoven, Mercedes de Onis, Adelheid W Onyango, Tracey Wang, Gunn-Elin A Bjoerneboe, Nita Bhandari, Anna Lartey, Badriya al Rashidi. Assesment of motor development in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Food Nutr Bull. 2004 Mar;25(1 Suppl):S37-45.

Nita Bhandari , Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen, Jyotsna Chetia, Pooja Sharma, Rajiv Bahl, Dharmendra Kumar Kashyap, Maharaj K Bhan. Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in India. Food Nutr Bull
. 2004 Mar;25(1 Suppl):S66-71.

Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Sarmila Mazumdar, Jose Martines, Robert E Black, Maharaj K Bhan, Infant Feeding Study Group. Effect of community based promotion of exclusive breast feeding on diarrheal illnesses and growth: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2003 Apr 26;361(9367):1418-23

Maharaj K Bhan , Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl. Management of the severely malnourished child: perspective from developing countries. BMJ. 2003 Jan 18;326(7381):146-51.

Rajiv Bahl, Nita Bhandari, Manju Saksena, Tor Strand, Geeta T Kumar, Maharaj K Bhan, Halvor Sommerfelt. Efficacy of zinc-fortified oral rehydration solution in 6 to 35 month old children with acute diarrhea. J Pediatr. 2002 Nov;141(5):677-82

Rajiv Bahl, Nita Bhandari, Mohammed A Wahed, Geeta T Kumar, Maharaj K Bhan, WHO/CHD Immunization-Linked Vitamin A Group. Vitamin A supplementation of women postpartum and of their infants at immunization alters breast milk retinal and infant vitamin A status. J Nutr. 2002 Nov;132(11):3243-8.

Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Sunita Taneja, Jose Martines, Maharaj K Bhan. Pathways to infant mortality in urban slums of Delhi, India: Implications for improving the quality of community and hospital based programmes. J Health Popul Nutr. 2002 Jun;20(2):148-55.

Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Sunita Taneja, Tor Strand, Kåre Mølbak, Rune Johan Ulvik, Halvor Sommerfelt, Maharaj K Bhan. Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children 6 months to 3 years: a randomized controlled trial in an urban slum.BMJ. 2002 Jun 8;324(7350):1358.

Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Sunita Taneja, Tor Strand, Kåre Mølbak, Rune Johan Ulvik, Halvor Sommerfelt, Maharaj K Bhan. Substantial reduction in severe diarrheal morbidity by daily zinc supplementation in young north Indian children. Pediatrics. 2002 Jun;109(6):e86. doi: 10.1542/peds.109.6.e86.

Tor Arne Strand, Ram Krisna Chandyo, Rajiv Bahl, Pushpa Raj Sharma, Ramesh Kant Adhikari, Nita Bhandari, Rune Johan Ulvik, Kåre Mølbak, Maharaj Krishan Bhan, Halvor Sommerfelt. Effectiveness and efficacy of zinc for the treatment of acute diarrhea in young children. Pediatrics. 2002 May;109(5):898-903

R Bahl, N Bhandari, S Kant, K Mølbak, E Østergaard, M K Bhan. A administered at Expanded Program on Immunization contacts on antibody response to oral polio vaccine. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2002 Apr;56(4):321-5.

Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Sunita Taneja, Mercedes de Onis, Maharaj K Bhan. Growth performance of affluent Indian children is similar to that in developed countries. Bull World Health Organ. 2002;80(3):189-95.

Supriya Mayank, Rajiv Bahl, Ashok Rattan and Nita Bhandari. Prevalence and correlates of morbidity in pregnant women in an urban slum of New Delhi. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Volume 16, Issue 2, Mar 2001, p. 29 – 44

Nita Bhandari, Rajiv Bahl, Sunita Taneja, Tor Strand, Kåre Mølbak, Rune Johan Ulvik, Halvor Sommerfelt, Maharaj K Bhan. Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: randomised controlled trial in an urban slum. BMJ. 2002 Jun 8;324(7350):1358

Research to support household and community IMCI. Report of a meeting; 2001 January 22-24, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. J Health Popul Nutr. 2001 Jun;19(2):S111-48.

N Bhandari, R Bahl, B Nayyar, P Khokhar, J E Rohde, M K Bhan. Food supplementation with encouragement to feed it to infants from 4 to 12 months of age has a small impact on weight gain. J Nutr. 2001 Jul;131(7):1946-51.

N Bhandari 1, R Bahl, S Taneja. Effect of micronutrient supplementation on linear growth of children. Br J Nutr
. 2001 May;85 Suppl 2:S131-7.

R Bahl, R Kumar, N Bhandari, S Kant, R Srivastava, M K Bhan. Vitamin A administered with measles vaccine to nine month old infants does not reduce vaccine immunogenicity. J Nutr. 1999 Aug;129(8):1569-73

R Bahl, N Bhandari, S Taneja, M K Bhan. The impact of vitamin A supplementation on physical growth of children is dependent on season. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1997 Jan;51(1):26-9.

I de Zoysa, N Bhandari, N Akhtari, M K Bhan. Careseeking for illness in young infants in an urban slum in India. Soc Sci Med. 1998 Dec;47(12):2101-11.

Randomized trial to assess the benefits and safety of linking vitamin A supplementation to immunization in early infancy. Lancet. 1998 Oct 17;352(9136):1257-63.

R Bahl, N Bhandari, K M Hambidge, M K Bhan. Plasma zinc as a predictor of diarrheal and respiratory morbidity in children in an urban slum setting. Am J Clin Nutr. 1998 Aug;68(2 Suppl):414S-417S

S Sazawal, R E Black, M K Bhan, S Jalla, A Sinha, N Bhandari. Efficacy of zinc supplementation in reducing the incidence and prevalence of acute diarrhea – a community based, double blind, controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr
. 1997 Aug;66(2):413-8.

R Bahl , N Bhandari, S Taneja, M K Bhan. The impact of vitamin A supplementation on physical growth of children is dependent on season.Eur J Clin Nutr. 1997 Jan;51(1):26-9.

N Bhandari, R Bahl, S Sazawal, M K Bhan. Breast feeding status alters the impact of vitamin A treatment during acute diarrhea in children. J Nutr. 1997 Jan;127(1):59-63.

R Bahl, N Bhandari, M K Bhan, M Saxena, A Bagati. Efficacy of antimicrobial treatment on non-dysenteric persistent diarrhea in a community setting. Acta Paediatr. 1996 Nov;85(11):1290-4.

H Sommerfelt, H Steinsland, H M Grewal, G I Viboud, N Bhandari, W Gaastra, A M Svennerholm, M K Bhan. Colonization factors of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from children: North India. J Infect Dis
. 1996 Oct;174(4):768-76.

N Bhandari, R Bahl, V Bhatnagar, M K Bhan Treating sick young infants in an urban slum setting. Lancet
. 1996 Jun 22;347(9017):1774-5.

N Bhandari, R Bahl, K M Hambidge, M K Bhan. Increased diarrheal and respiratory morbidity in association with zinc deficiency – a preliminary report. Acta Paediatr. 1996 Feb;85(2):148-50.

S Sazawal, R E Black, M K Bhan, S Jalla, N Bhandari, A Sinha, S Majumdar. Zinc supplementation reduces the incidence of persistent diarrhea and dysentery among low socio-economic children in India. J Nutr. 1996 Feb;126(2):443-50.

M J Dibley, T Sadjimin, C L Kjolhede, L H Moulton. Vitamin-A supplementation in preschool children with acute diarrhea. J Nutr. 1996 Feb;126(2):434-42.

S Sazawal, R E Black, M K Bhan, N Bhandari, A Sinha, S Jalla. Zinc supplementation in young children with acute diarrhea in India. N Engl J Med. 1995 Sep 28;333(13):839-44.

N Bhandari, M K Bhan, S Sazawal. Impact of massive dose of vitamin A given to preschool children with acute diarrhea on subsequent respiratory and diarrheal morbidity. BMJ. 1994 Nov 26;309(6966):1404-7.

N Bhandari, M K Bhan, S Sazawal. Mortality associated with acute watery diarrhea, dysentery and persistent diarrhea in rural north India. Acta Paediatr. 1992 Sep;81 Suppl 381:3-6.

S Sazawal, M K Bhan, N Bhandari. Type of milk feeding during acute diarrhea and the risk of persistent diarrhea: A case control study. Acta Paediatr Suppl. 1992 Sep;381:93-7.

S Sazawal, M K Bhan, N Bhandari, J Clemens, S Bhatnagar. Evidence for recent diarrheal morbidity as a risk factor for persistent diarrhea: a case control study. Int J Epidemiol. 1991 Jun;20(2):540-5.

M K Bhan, S Sazawal, S Bhatnagar, N Bhandari, D K Guha, S K Aggarwal. Glycine, Glycyl-Glycine and maltodextrin based oral rehydration solution: Assessment of efficacy and safety in comparison to standard ORS. Acta Paediatr Scand. 1990 May;79(5):518-26.

J Aiyar, M K Bhan, N Bhandari, R Kumar, P Raj, S Sazawal. Rotavirus-specific antibody response in saliva of infants with rotavirus diarrhea. J Infect Dis. 1990 Dec;162(6):1383-4.

M K Bhan, P Raj, M M Levine, J B Kaper, N Bhandari, R Srivastava, R Kumar, S Sazawal. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli associated with persistent diarrhoea in a cohort of rural Indian children. J Infect Dis
. 1989 Jun;159(6):1061-4.

M K Bhan, P Raj, V Khoshoo, N Bhandari, S Sazawal, R Kumar, R Srivastava, N K Arora. Quantitation and properties of fecal and upper small intestinal aerobic microflora in infants and young children with persistent diarrhoea. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 1989 Jul;9(1):40-5.

N Bhandari, M K Bhan, S Sazawal, J D Clemens, S Bhatnagar, V Khoshoo. Association of antecedent malnutrition with persistent diarrhoea. A case control study. BMJ. 1989 May 13;298(6683):1284-7.

M K Bhan, N Bhandari, S Sazawal, J Clemens, P Raj, M M Levine, J B Kaper. Descriptive epidemiology of persistent diarrhoea among young children in rural northern India. Bull World Health Organ. 1989;67(3):281-8.

S Jayashree, M K Bhan, R Kumar, P Raj, R Glass, N Bhandari. Serum and salivary antibodies as indicators of rotavirus infection in neonates. J Infect Dis. 1988 Nov;158(5):1117-20.

M K Bhan, P Raj, N Bhandari, L Svensson, G Stintzing, A K Prasad, S Jayashree, R Srivastava. Role of enteric adenoviruses and rotaviruses in mild and severe acute enteritis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1988 May;7(5):320-3

S Jayashree, M K Bhan, P Raj, R Kumar, L Svensson, G Stintzing, N Bhandari. Neonatal rotavirus infection and its relation to cord blood antibodies. Scand J Infect Dis. 1988;20(3):249-53

S Jayashree, M K Bhan, R Kumar, N Bhandari, S Sazawal. Protection against neonatal rotavirus infection by breast milk antibodies and trypsin inhibitors. J Med Virol. 1988 Nov;26(3):333-8