Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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

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

  21882
  Citations

• 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

  15115
  Citations

• 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

  10283
  Citations

• 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

  9564
  Citations

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

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

  8717
  Citations

• 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

  8465
  Citations

• 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

  7377
  Citations

• 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

  6792
  Citations

• 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

  6635
  Citations

• 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

  6634
  Citations

• 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

  6285
  Citations

• 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

  5889
  Citations

• 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

  5734
  Citations

• 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

  5376
  Citations

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

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

  4208
  Citations

• 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

  3944
  Citations

• 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

  3787
  Citations

• 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

  3458
  Citations

• 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

  3408
  Citations

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

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

  2932
  Citations