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, 2022, 'Protocol for process evaluation of SMART Mental Health cluster randomised control trial: an intervention for management of common mental disorders in India', BMJ Open, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058669
, 2022, 'How do diverse low-income and middle-income countries implement primary healthcare team integration to support the delivery of comprehensive primary health care? A mixed-methods study protocol from India, Mexico and Uganda', BMJ Open, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055218
, 2022, 'Integrated Management of Diabetes and Tuberculosis in Rural India – Results From a Pilot Study', Frontiers in Public Health, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.766847
, 2022, 'Cost-Effectiveness of Population Screening Programs for Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review', Frontiers in Public Health, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.820750
, 2022, 'Health care seeking behaviour and financial protection of patients with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in rural West Bengal, India', Plos One, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264314
, 2022, 'Effects of a Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Deterioration in Glycemic Status among South Asian Women with Recent Gestational Diabetes: A Randomized Clinical Trial', JAMA Network Open, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0773
, 2022, 'Going digital: opportunities and barriers in the use of technology for health research', Salud Publica De Mexico, 64, pp. 22 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.21149/12977
, 2022, 'The value of process evaluation for public health interventions: field-case studies for non-communicable disease prevention and management in five countries', Salud Publica De Mexico, 64, pp. 56 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.21149/12853
, 2021, 'An integrated community and primary healthcare worker intervention to reduce stigma and improve management of common mental disorders in rural India: protocol for the SMART Mental Health programme', Trials, 22, pp. 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05136-5
, 2021, 'Subclinical COVID-19 with Transient Ischemic Attack Presentation – A Case Report', Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science, pp. 162 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v20i5.55408
, 2021, 'The role of colour and summary indicators in influencing front-of-pack food label effectiveness across seven countries', Public Health Nutrition, 24, pp. 3566 - 3570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020004966
, 2021, 'Why do strategies to strengthen primary health care succeed in some places and fail in others? Exploring local variation in the effectiveness of a community health worker managed digital health intervention in rural India', BMJ Global Health, 6, pp. e005003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005003
, 2021, 'Effects of a reduced-sodium added-potassium salt substitute on blood pressure in rural Indian hypertensive patients: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial', American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 114, pp. 185 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqab054
, 2021, 'Cost-effectiveness of a mobile technology-enabled primary care intervention for cardiovascular disease risk management in rural Indonesia', Health Policy and Planning, 36, pp. 435 - 443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab025
, 2021, 'SMARThealth Pregnancy: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Complex Intervention for High-Risk Pregnant Women in Rural India: Protocol for a Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial', Frontiers in Global Women S Health, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2021.620759
, 2021, 'The Effects of a Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Deterioration in Glycaemic Status Among South Asian Women with Recent Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomised Control Trial', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3905922
, 2021, 'Strengthening primary health care in the COVID-19 era', WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, 10, pp. s6 - s25, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2224-3151.309867
, 2020, 'Lifestyle InterVention in Gestational diabetes (LIVING) in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: Protocol for process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial', BMJ Open, 10, pp. e037774, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037774
, 2020, 'Task shifting to frontline community health workers for improved diabetes care in low-resource settings in India: a phase II non-randomized controlled clinical trial', Journal of Global Health Reports, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.29392/001c.17609
, 2020, 'Protecting Indian health workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 9, pp. 4541 - 4546, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_925_20
, 2020, 'Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of the Salt Substitute in India Study (SSiIS): The protocol for a double-blinded, randomized-controlled trial', Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 22, pp. 1504 - 1512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jch.13947
, 2020, 'Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pregnancy and Implications for Long-Term Health: Identifying the Research Priorities for Low-Resource Settings', Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2020.00040
, 2020, 'Feasibility of a Lifestyle Intervention Program for Prevention of Diabetes Among Women With Prior Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (LIVING Study) in South Asia: A Formative Research Study', Frontiers in Global Women S Health, 1, pp. 587607, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2020.587607
, 2019, 'Strategic, Successful, and Sustained Synergy: The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Hypertension Program', Global Heart, 14, pp. 391 - 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2019.09.003
, 2019, 'What do Accredited Social Health Activists need to provide comprehensive care that incorporates non-communicable diseases? Findings from a qualitative study in Andhra Pradesh, India', Human Resources for Health, 17, pp. 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0418-9
, 2019, 'Association of Multifaceted Mobile Technology-Enabled Primary Care Intervention with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management in Rural Indonesia', JAMA Cardiology, 4, pp. 978 - 986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2019.2974
, 2019, 'Barriers and Facilitators to the Use of Cardiovascular Fixed-Dose Combination Medication (Polypills) in Andhra Pradesh, India: A Mixed-Methods Study', Global Heart, 14, pp. 303 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2019.07.002
, 2019, 'Women's and healthcare providers’ perceptions of long-term complications associated with hypertension and diabetes in pregnancy: a qualitative study', BJOG an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 126, pp. 34 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.15847
, 2019, 'Combatting the Global Crisis of Cardiovascular Disease', Heart Lung and Circulation, 28, pp. 981 - 983, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2019.05.001
, 2019, 'The development of an Android platform to undertake a discrete choice experiment in a low resource setting', Archives of Public Health, 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-019-0346-0
, 2019, 'Cardiovascular disease risk factor prevalence and estimated 10-year cardiovascular risk scores in Indonesia: The SMARThealth Extend study', Plos One, 14, pp. e0215219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215219
, 2019, 'The role of context in implementation research for non-communicable diseases: Answering the 'how-to' dilemma', Plos One, 14, pp. e0214454, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214454
, 2019, 'Smarthealth India: A stepped-wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial of a community health worker managed mobile health intervention for people assessed at high cardiovascular disease risk in rural India', Plos One, 14, pp. e0213708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213708
, 2019, 'A lifestyle intervention programme for the prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus among South Asian women with gestational diabetes mellitus [LIVING study]: protocol for a randomized trial', Diabetic Medicine, 36, pp. 243 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dme.13850
, 2019, 'Lifestyle intervention programme for Indian women with history of gestational diabetes mellitus', Global Health Epidemiology and Genomics, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2018.18
, 2019, 'Process evaluation in the field: Global learnings from seven implementation research hypertension projects in low-and middle-income countries', BMC Public Health, 19, pp. 953, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7261-8
, 2018, 'Cardiovascular disease risk and comparison of different strategies for blood pressure management in rural India', BMC Public Health, 18, pp. 1264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6142-x
, 2018, 'Task-shifting for cardiovascular risk factor management: lessons from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases', BMJ Global Health, 3, pp. e001092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001092
, 2018, 'Current status and future directions of mhealth interventions for health system strengthening in India: Systematic review', Jmir Mhealth and Uhealth, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/11440
, 2018, 'Gaps in guidelines for the management of diabetes in low- and middle-income versus high-income countriesda systematic review', Diabetes Care, 41, pp. 1097 - 1105, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc17-1795
, 2018, 'A mixed methods evaluation of yoga as a fall prevention strategy for older people in India', Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4, pp. 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0264-x
, 2017, 'Effectiveness of community health worker training programmes for cardiovascular disease management in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review', BMJ Open, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015529
, 2017, 'Implementing the PHMRC shortened questionnaire: Survey duration of open and closed questions in three sites', Plos One, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178085
, 2017, 'Conversion of gestational diabetes mellitus to future Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the predictive value of HbA1c in an Indian cohort', Diabetic Medicine, 34, pp. 37 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dme.13102
, 2017, 'Mean population salt consumption in India: A systematic review', Journal of Hypertension, 35, pp. 3 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000001141
, 2017, 'Developing consensus measures for global programs: lessons from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Hypertension research program', Globalization and health, 13, pp. 17 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-017-0242-8
, 2017, 'Innovative approaches to hypertension control in low-and middle-income countries', Cardiology clinics, 35, pp. 99 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccl.2016.08.010
, 2016, 'Prevalence of dysglycaemia in rural Andhra Pradesh: 2005, 2010, and 2014', Journal of Diabetes, 8, pp. 816 - 823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.12362
, 2016, 'The paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: Symptom question unreliability but predictive accuracy', Population Health Metrics, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0104-2
, 2016, 'What is the optimal recall period for verbal autopsies? Validation study based on repeat interviews in three populations', Population Health Metrics, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0105-1