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Overview

Shams El Arifeen is affiliated with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Epidemiology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to global health, with particular emphasis on Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shams El Arifeen include Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Anisuddin Ahmed, Aniqa Tasnim Hossain, Emily S. Gurley, and Sabrina Jabeen.

The scientist has contributed articles to multiple publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Global Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Shams El Arifeen are:

  • Global burden of respiratory infections associated with seasonal influenza in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • The effect of COVID-19 on maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) services in Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Africa: call for a contextualised pandemic response in LMICs, 2021, International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Initial findings from a novel population-based child mortality surveillance approach: a descriptive study, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • COVID-19 reinfections among naturally infected and vaccinated individuals, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Assessment of the validity of the measurement of newborn and maternal health-care coverage in hospitals (EN-BIRTH): an observational study, 2020, The Lancet Global Health

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of maternal influenza immunization in mothers and infants.

    K. Zaman;Eliza Roy;Shams E. Arifeen;Mahbubur Rahman

  • Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis

    Harish Nair;Harish Nair;Eric Af Simões;Igor Rudan;Bradford D Gessner

  • Exclusive breastfeeding reduces acute respiratory infection and diarrhea deaths among infants in Dhaka slums.

    Shams Arifeen;Robert E. Black;Gretchen Antelman;Abdullah Baqui

  • Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries

    Parul Christian;Sun Eun Lee;Moira Donahue Angel;Linda S. Adair

  • Reducing child mortality: Can public health deliver?

    Jennifer Bryce;Shams El Arifeen;George Pariyo;Claudio F. Lanata

  • Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

    Ties Boerma;Jennifer Requejo;Cesar G Victora;Agbessi Amouzou

  • Effect of zinc supplementation started during diarrhoea on morbidity and mortality in Bangladeshi children: community randomised trial

    Abdullah H Baqui;Robert E Black;Shams El Arifeen;Mohammad Yunus

  • Iron and zinc supplementation promote motor development and exploratory behavior among Bangladeshi infants

    Maureen M. Black;Abdullah H. Baqui;K. Zaman;Lars Ake Persson

  • Effect of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy on childhood mortality and nutrition in a rural area in Bangladesh: a cluster randomised trial.

    Shams E. Arifeen;DM Emdadul Hoque;Tasnima Akter;Muntasirur Rahman

  • Arsenic Exposure During Pregnancy and Size at Birth: A Prospective Cohort Study in Bangladesh

    Anisur Rahman;Marie Vahter;Allan H. Smith;Barbro Nermell

  • Community-based approaches and partnerships: innovations in health-service delivery in Bangladesh.

    Shams El Arifeen;Aliki Christou;Laura Reichenbach;Ferdous Arfina Osman

  • Appropriate infant feeding practices result in better growth of infants and young children in rural Bangladesh

    Kuntal K Saha;Edward A Frongillo;Dewan S Alam;Shams E Arifeen

  • Influenza Immunization in Pregnancy — Antibody Responses in Mothers and Infants

    Mark C. Steinhoff;Saad B. Omer;Eliza Roy;Shams E. Arifeen

  • Causes of childhood deaths in Bangladesh : results of a nationwide verbal autopsy study

    Abdullah H. Baqui;Robert E. Black;S. E. Arifeen;Kenneth Hill

  • Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Bangladesh: early findings from a cluster-randomised study.

    Shams El Arifeen;Lauren S Blum;D M Emdadul Hoque;Enayet K Chowdhury

  • Effects of prenatal micronutrient and early food supplementation on maternal hemoglobin, birth weight, and infant mortality among children in Bangladesh: the MINIMat randomized trial.

    Lars Åke Persson;Shams Arifeen;Eva-Charlotte Ekström;Kathleen M. Rasmussen

  • Urinary arsenic concentration adjustment factors and malnutrition.

    Barbro Nermell;Anna-Lena Lindberg;Mahfuzar Rahman;Marika Berglund

  • Effects of in utero arsenic exposure on child immunity and morbidity in rural Bangladesh.

    Rubhana Raqib;Sultan Ahmed;Rokeya Sultana;Yukiko Wagatsuma

  • 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

  • The effect of cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: a community-based, cluster-randomised trial

    Shams El Arifeen;Luke C Mullany;Rasheduzzaman Shah;Ishtiaq Mannan;Ishtiaq Mannan

Frequent Co-Authors

Abdullah H. Baqui
Abdullah H. Baqui Johns Hopkins University
Robert E Black
Robert E Black Johns Hopkins University
Lars Åke Persson
Lars Åke Persson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Gary L. Darmstadt
Gary L. Darmstadt Stanford University
Mathuram Santosham
Mathuram Santosham Johns Hopkins University
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Rubhana Raqib
Rubhana Raqib International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Robert F. Breiman
Robert F. Breiman Emory University
Peter J. Winch
Peter J. Winch Johns Hopkins University
Marie Vahter
Marie Vahter Karolinska Institute

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