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Peter J. Winch is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research contributes primarily to the field of Medicine, with a focus on areas including Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter J. Winch are:

  • Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh, 2022, Science
  • The Impact Of Community Masking On COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial In Bangladesh, 2021, PubMed
  • Salinity and food security in southwest coastal Bangladesh: impacts on household food production and strategies for adaptation, 2021, Food Security
  • The multi-sectorial emergency response to a cholera outbreak in Internally Displaced Persons camps in Borno State, Nigeria, 2017, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Effect of Improved Water Quality, Sanitation, Hygiene and Nutrition Interventions on Respiratory Illness in Young Children in Rural Bangladesh: A Multi-Arm Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial, 2020, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Frequent co-authors associated with Winch's work include:

  • Stephen P. Luby
  • Mahbubur Rahman
  • Leanne Unicomb
  • Tarique Md. Nurul Huda
  • Jesmin Sultana

Publications by Peter J. Winch often appear in these scientific venues:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • BMJ Global Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Neurology

Best Publications

  • The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy

    Peter Winch

  • Culture and Value

    Ludwig Wittgenstein;Heikki Nymam;Peter Winch

  • Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

    Abdullah H Baqui;Abdullah H Baqui;Shams El-Arifeen;Gary L Darmstadt;Saifuddin Ahmed

  • The Idea of a Social Science

    Peter Winch

  • Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Stephen P Luby;Mahbubur Rahman;Benjamin F Arnold;Leanne Unicomb

  • Understanding a Primitive Society

    Peter Winch

  • Community health worker incentives and disincentives: how they affect motivation retention and sustainability.

    Bhattacharyya K;Winch P;LeBan K;Tien M

  • 'The girl with her period is the one to hang her head' Reflections on menstrual management among schoolgirls in rural Kenya

    Shannon A McMahon;Shannon A McMahon;Peter J Winch;Bethany A Caruso;Alfredo F Obure

  • The WASH Benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea

    Amy J Pickering;Clair Null;Peter J Winch;Goldberg Mangwadu

  • Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh

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  • The Integrated Behavioural Model for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: a systematic review of behavioural models and a framework for designing and evaluating behaviour change interventions in infrastructure-restricted settings

    Robert Dreibelbis;Peter J Winch;Elli Leontsini;Kristyna R S Hulland

  • Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale.

    Benjamin F. Arnold;Clair Null;Clair Null;Stephen Patrick Luby;Leanne Unicomb

  • Die Idee der Sozialwissenschaft und ihr Verhältnis zur Philosophie

    Peter Winch

  • Experiences of and responses to disrespectful maternity care and abuse during childbirth; a qualitative study with women and men in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

    Shannon A. McMahon;Asha S. George;Joy J. Chebet;Idda H. Mosha

  • Sources of community health worker motivation: a qualitative study in Morogoro Region, Tanzania

    Jesse A Greenspan;Shannon A McMahon;Joy J Chebet;Maurus Mpunga

  • Local understandings of vulnerability and protection during the neonatal period in Sylhet district Bangladesh: a qualitative study.

    Peter J Winch;M Ashraful Alam;Afsana Akther;Dilara Afroz

  • Systematic debriefing after qualitative encounters: an essential analysis step in applied qualitative research.

    Shannon A McMahon;Peter J Winch

  • Community-based dengue prevention programs in Puerto Rico: impact on knowledge, behavior, and residential mosquito infestation.

    Peter J Winch;Elli Leontsini;José G Rigau-Pérez;Mervin Ruiz-Pérez

  • National policy-makers speak out: Are researchers giving them what they need?

    Adnan A. Hyder;Adrijana Corluka;Peter J. Winch;Azza El-Shinnawy

  • Local terminology for febrile illnesses in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania and its impact on the design of a community-based malaria control programme

    P.J. Winch;P.J. Winch;A.M. Makemba;S.R. Kamazima;M. Lurie

  • Topically applied sunflower seed oil prevents invasive bacterial infections in preterm infants in Egypt: a randomized, controlled clinical trial.

    Gary L. Darmstadt;F. Nadia Badrawi;Paul A. Law;Saifuddin Ahmed

  • Factors affecting recruitment and retention of community health workers in a newborn care intervention in Bangladesh

    Syed Moshfiqur Rahman;Nabeel Ashraf Ali;Larissa Jennings;M Habibur R Seraji;M Habibur R Seraji

  • The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.

    Rollo Handy;Peter Winch

  • The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy

    Leon J. Goldstein;Peter Winch

Frequent Co-Authors

Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape
Pamela J. Surkan
Pamela J. Surkan Johns Hopkins University
Caitlin E. Kennedy
Caitlin E. Kennedy Johns Hopkins University
Lia C. H. Fernald
Lia C. H. Fernald University of California, Berkeley
Robert H. Gilman
Robert H. Gilman Johns Hopkins University
David A. Sack
David A. Sack Johns Hopkins University
Alejandro Cravioto
Alejandro Cravioto National Autonomous University of Mexico
Carl Kendall
Carl Kendall Tulane University
Hae Ra Han
Hae Ra Han Johns Hopkins University
Judith K. Bass
Judith K. Bass Johns Hopkins University

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