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Zulfiqar A Bhutta

Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Medicine

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Zulfiqar A Bhutta publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zulfiqar A Bhutta sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

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Zulfiqar A Bhutta D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zulfiqar A Bhutta sits on this spectrum.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Pakistan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Pakistan Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2018 - Distinguished International Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2004 - Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences

Overview

Zulfiqar A Bhutta is affiliated with Aga Khan University in Pakistan. Their primary research field is Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The scientist's research spans several main topics, including:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Zulfiqar A Bhutta has authored numerous publications featured in a variety of scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • The Lancet
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrients
  • BMJ Global Health
  • BMJ Open

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults" (2024) published in The Lancet
  • "Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality Among Pregnant Women With and Without COVID-19 Infection" (2021) published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • "A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission" (2020) published in The Lancet
  • "COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents" (2020) published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Global, regional, and national burden of congenital heart disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017" (2020) published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sajid Soofi
  • Jai K Das
  • Imran Ahmed
  • Robert E. Black
  • Arjumand Rizvi

Throughout their career, Zulfiqar A Bhutta has received several distinctions and honors. These include being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2020, Distinguished International Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in 2018, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2018, and a Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences since 2004.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Marie Ng;Tom P Fleming;Margaret W. Robinson;Blake Thomson

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

    Robert E Black;Cesar G. Victora;Susan P. Walker;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

    Robert E. Black;Lindsay H. Allen;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Laura E. Caulfield

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

    Julio Frenk;Lincoln Chen;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Jordan Cohen

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases for 10 causes, 1990 to 2015

    Gregory A. Roth;Catherine Johnson;Amanuel Abajobir;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

    George C Patton;George C Patton;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;John S Santelli;David A Ross;David A Ross

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: What can be done and at what cost?

    Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Jai K Das;Arjumand Rizvi;Michelle F Gaffey

  • What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival.

    Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Tahmeed Ahmed;Robert E. Black;Simon Cousens

Frequent Co-Authors

Jai K Das
Jai K Das Aga Khan University
Ali H. Mokdad
Ali H. Mokdad University of Washington
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Bach Xuan Tran
Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Benn Sartorius
Benn Sartorius University of Oxford

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