Dr. Robert Black III, MD

• Anesthesiology

• Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

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• Johns Hopkins University

  Fellowship Hospital

• Maine Medical Center

  Residency Hospital

• Maine Medical Center

  Internship Hospital

• University Of Texas Health Sciences Center At San Antonio Long School Of Medicine

  Medical School, 2007

• Rotavirus Surveillance at a WHO-Coordinated Invasive Bacterial Disease Surveillance Site in Bangladesh: A Feasibility Study to Integrate Two Surveillance Systems, 2016-04-20

• Adherence to zinc supplementation guidelines for the treatment of diarrhea among children under-five in Uttar Pradesh, India, 2015-12-01

• Using propensity scores to estimate the effectiveness of maternal and newborn interventions to reduce neonatal mortality in Nigeria, 2020-09-14

• Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000-19: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals, 2022-02-01

• Iodine Status of Brazilian School-Age Children: A National Cross-Sectional Survey, 2020-04-13

• Zinc Supplementation with or without Additional Micronutrients Does Not Affect Peripheral Blood Gene Expression or Serum Cytokine Level in Bangladeshi Children, 2021-10-07

• Anthropometric deficits and the associated risk of death by age and sex in children aged 6-59 months: A meta-analysis, 2022-09-27

• Understanding Misclassification between Neonatal Deaths and Stillbirths: Empirical Evidence from Malawi, 2016-12-28

• How do children with severe underweight and wasting respond to treatment? A pooled secondary data analysis to inform future intervention studies, 2022-10-19

• Time trends in socio-economic inequalities in stunting prevalence: analyses of repeated national surveys Socio-economic inequalities in stunting, 2014-12-18

• Verbal/social autopsy study helps explain the lack of decrease in neonatal mortality in Niger, 2007-2010, 2016-06-01

• Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025, 2016-06-01

• Systematic review of probiotics for the treatment of community-acquired acute diarrhea in children, 2013-09-17

• Operational Issues and Trends Associated with the Pilot Introduction of Zinc for Childhood Diarrhoea in Bougouni District, Mali, 2008-06-01

• Setting health research priorities using the CHNRI method: VII. A review of the first 50 applications of the CHNRI method, 2017-06-01

• Exchangeable Zinc Pool Size Reflects Form of Zinc Supplementation in Young Children and Is Not Associated with Markers of Inflammation, 2022-01-22

• Effect of 4 % chlorhexidine on cord colonization among hospital and community births in India: a randomized controlled study, 2016-08-02

• Global Causes of Diarrheal Disease Mortality in Children <5 Years of Age: A Systematic Review, 2013-09-04

• Rotavirus vaccine and diarrhea mortality: quantifying regional variation in effect size, 2011-04-13

• Trends in Use of Referral Hospital Services for Care of Sick Newborns in a Community-based Intervention in Tangail District, Bangladesh, 2006-12-01

• Micronutrient Fortified Milk Improves Iron Status, Anemia and Growth among Children 1-4 Years: A Double Masked, Randomized, Controlled Trial, 2010-08-13

• Impact of 4.0% chlorhexidine cleansing of the umbilical cord on mortality and omphalitis among newborns of Sylhet, Bangladesh: design of a community-based cluster randomized trial, 2009-10-21

• Beyond causes of death: The social determinants of mortality among children aged 1-59 months in Nigeria from 2009 to 2013, 2017-05-31

• Prebiotic and Probiotic Fortified Milk in Prevention of Morbidities among Children: Community-Based, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial, 2010-08-13

• Setting priorities in child health research in India for 2016-2025: a CHNRI exercise undertaken by the Indian Council for Medical Research and INCLEN Trust, 2019-12-01

• Prevention of child wasting: Results of a Child Health & Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) prioritisation exercise, 2020-02-12

• PRIME-IPD SERIES Part 1. The PRIME-IPD tool promoted verification and standardization of study datasets retrieved for IPD meta-analysis, 2021-08-01

• Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 8. summary and recommendations of the Expert Panel, 2017-06-01

• National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis, 2019-05-15

• National and subnational all-cause and cause-specific child mortality in China, 1996-2015: a systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals, 2016-12-20

• Impact of vitamin A supplementation on infant and childhood mortality, 2011-04-13

• Available studies fail to provide strong evidence of increased risk of diarrhea mortality due to measles in the period 4-26 weeks after measles rash onset, 2017-11-07

• Investigating the delivery of health and nutrition interventions for women and children in conflict settings: a collection of case studies from the BRANCH Consortium, 2020-05-27

• Sub-Saharan Africa's Mothers, Newborns, and Children: How Many Lives Could Be Saved with Targeted Health Interventions?, 2010-06-21

• Antenatal multiple micronutrient supplements versus iron-folic acid supplements and birth outcomes: Analysis by gestational age assessment method, 2023-03-31

• Anthropometric criteria for best-identifying children at high risk of mortality: a pooled analysis of twelve cohorts, 2023-04-01

• Quantifying the Association betweenCampylobacterInfection and Guillain-Barre Syndrome: A Systematic Review, 2010-12-01

• Benefits of supplementation with multiple micronutrients in pregnancy Benefits of MMS in pregnancy, 2019-04-29

• Estimating Diarrhea Mortality among Young Children in Low and Middle Income Countries, 2012-01-03

• Streptococcus pneumoniaeSerotype-2 Childhood Meningitis in Bangladesh: A Newly Recognized Pneumococcal Infection Threat, 2012-03-30

• Revisiting maternal and child undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries: variable progress towards an unfinished agenda, 2021-03-07

• Systematic review of diarrhea duration and severity in children and adults in low- and middle-income countries, 2012-04-06

• Effectiveness of Dietary Management for Moderate Wasting among Children > 6 Months of Age-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Exploring Different Types, Quantities, and Durations, 2023-02-21

• Zinc Cream and Reliability of Tuberculosis Skin Testing, 2007-07-01

• Oral Zinc Supplementation for the Treatment of Acute Diarrhea in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2013-11-21

• Factors associated with the decline in under five diarrhea mortality in Tanzania from 1980-2015, 2019-12-01

• Deriving causes of child mortality by re-analyzing national verbal autopsy data applying a standardized computer algorithm in Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana, 2015-06-01

• Estimates of burden and consequences of infants born small for gestational age in low and middle income countries with INTERGROWTH-21ststandard: analysis of CHERG datasets, 2017-08-17

• 2500-g Low Birth Weight Cutoff: History and Implications for Future Research and Policy, 2016-07-23

• Validation of Visual Estimation of Portion Size Consumed as a Method for Estimating Food Intake by Young Indian Children, 2007-03-01

• Causes of death in children younger than five years in China in 2015: an updated analysis, 2016-12-01

• Determining Gestational Age in a Low-resource Setting: Validity of Last Menstrual Period, 2009-06-01

• Appropriate Management of Acute Diarrhea in Children Among Public and Private Providers in Gujarat, India: A Cross-Sectional Survey, 2015-05-07

• "Real-Time” Monitoring of Under-Five Mortality: Lessons for Strengthened Vital Statistics Systems, 2016-01-25

• Scaling Up Diarrhea Prevention and Treatment Interventions: A Lives Saved Tool Analysis, 2011-03-22

• Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries, 2013-08-06

• Evaluation of a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Package of Community-Based Maternal and Newborn Interventions in Mirzapur, Bangladesh, 2010-03-24

• Effects of Child and Maternal Histo-Blood Group Antigen Status on Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Enteric Infections in Early Childhood, 2019-02-15

• Protocol for the economic evaluation of the diarrhea alleviation through zinc and oral rehydration salt therapy at scale through private and public providers in rural Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India, 2014-11-19

• Etiology of Diarrhea in Older Children, Adolescents and Adults: A Systematic Review, 2010-08-03

• Global Update and Trends of Hidden Hunger, 1995-2011: The Hidden Hunger Index, 2015-12-16

• Pharmacokinetics of a single oral dose of vitamin D3 (70,000 IU) in pregnant and non-pregnant women, 2012-12-27

• Vitamin D Status of Infants in Northeastern Rural Bangladesh: Preliminary Observations and a Review of Potential Determinants, 2010-10-01

• An external evaluation of the Diarrhea Alleviation through Zinc and ORS Treatment (DAZT) program in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India, 2015-12-01

• Direct estimates of cause-specific mortality fractions and rates of under-five deaths in the northern and southern regions of Nigeria by verbal autopsy interview, 2017-05-31

• Multiple micronutrient supplements versus iron-folic acid supplements and maternal anemia outcomes: an iron dose analysis Iron dose in prenatal micronutrient supplements, 2022-02-25

• A Population-based Study of Hospital Admission Incidence Rate and Bacterial Aetiology of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections in Children Aged Less Than Five Years in Bangladesh, 2007-06-01

• Effect of Iron/Folic Acid Supplementation on the Outcome of Malaria Episodes Treated with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine, 2014-01-19

• Use of earth observation-derived hydrometeorological variables to model and predict rotavirus infection (MAL-ED): a multisite cohort study, 2019-06-01

• Diarrhea no more: does zinc help the poor? Evidence on the effectiveness of programmatic efforts to reach poorest in delivering zinc and ORS at scale in UP and Gujarat, India, 2016-12-01

• Estimating Diarrheal Illness and Deaths Attributable toShigellaeand EnterotoxigenicEscherichia coliamong Older Children, Adolescents, and Adults in South Asia and Africa, 2014-02-13

• Effect of multiple micronutrient supplementsv. iron and folic acid supplements on neonatal mortality: a reanalysis by iron dose, 2022-08-01

• Bangladesh: a success case in combating childhood diarrhoea, 2019-12-01

• Aetiology-Specific Estimates of the Global and Regional Incidence and Mortality of Diarrhoeal Diseases Commonly Transmitted through Food, 2015-12-03

• Global, regional, and national estimates of pneumonia morbidity and mortality in children younger than 5 years between 2000 and 2015: a systematic analysis, 2018-11-26

• National, regional, and state-level all-cause and cause-specific under-5 mortality in India in 2000-15: a systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals, 2019-05-13

• Maternal and child nutrition in the Lives Saved Tool: Results of a recent update, 2022-12-30

• Time trends in socioeconomic inequalities in stunting prevalence: analyses of repeated national surveys, 2014-12-18

• Modelling stunting in LiST: the effect of applying smoothing to linear growth data, 2017-11-07

• Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Pneumonia by 2015, 2011-09-27

• Epidemiologic Differences Between Cyclosporiasis and Cryptosporidiosis in Peruvian Children, 2002-06-01

• Direct estimates of national neonatal and child cause-specific mortality proportions in Niger by expert algorithm and physician-coded analysis of verbal autopsy interviews, 2015-06-01

• Diarrhoeal disease in children due to contaminated food Contaminated food and diarrhoeal disease, 2016-11-25

• How fast did newborns die in Nigeria from 2009-2013: a time-to-death analysis using Verbal /Social Autopsy data, 2019-12-01

• Effect of Zinc Added to Multivitamin Supplementation Containing Low-dose Vitamin A on Plasma Retinol Level in Children-A Double-blind Randomized, Controlled Trial, 2007-03-01

• A systematic review on estimating population attributable fraction for risk factors for small-for-gestational-age births in 81 low- and middle-income countries, 2022-03-26

• Does Childhood Diarrhea Influence Cognition Beyond the Diarrhea-Stunting Pathway?, 2012-10-31

• Mortality risk in preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants in low-income and middle-income countries: a pooled country analysis, 2013-06-06

• Correction: Systematic review of diarrhea duration and severity in children and adults in low- and middle-income countries, 2012-09-28

• The associations of birth intervals with small-for-gestational-age, preterm, and neonatal and infant mortality: a meta-analysis, 2013-09-17

• The Global Hidden Hunger Indices and Maps: An Advocacy Tool for Action, 2013-06-12

• Completeness and Factors Affecting Community Workers' Reporting of Births and Deaths in the Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action in Mozambique, 2023-04-10

• Compliance with Home-based Fortification Strategies for Delivery of Iron and Zinc: Its Effect on Haematological and Growth Markers among 6-24 months Old Children in North India, 2014-06-01

• Characteristics and birth outcomes of pregnant adolescents compared to older women: An analysis of individual level data from 140,000 mothers from 20 RCTs, 2022-02-26

• Factors associated with the decline in under-five diarrhea mortality in India: a LiST analysis, 2019-12-01

• Integration of enteric fever surveillance into the WHO-coordinated Invasive Bacterial-Vaccine Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD) platform: A low cost approach to track an increasingly important disease, 2017-10-26

• Demographic, socio-economic, obstetric, and behavioral factors associated with small-and large-for-gestational-age from a prospective, population-based pregnancy cohort in rural Nepal: a secondary data analysis, 2022-08-19

• Social, economic, political and health system and program determinants of child mortality reduction in China between 1990 and 2006: A systematic analysis, 2012-06-01

• The effect of umbilical cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on omphalitis and neonatal mortality in community settings in developing countries: a meta-analysis, 2013-09-17

• Trial of improved practices approach to explore the acceptability and feasibility of different modes of chlorhexidine application for neonatal cord care in Pemba, Tanzania, 2015-12-28

• Systematic Review of Management of Moderate Wasting in Children over 6 Months of Age, 2023-08-30

• Diarrhea as a risk factor for acute lower respiratory tract infections among young children in low income settings, 2013-06-01

• Water and sanitation infrastructure for health: The impact of foreign aid, 2010-07-29

• National, regional, and global causes of mortality in 5-19-year-olds from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis, 2022-02-15

• Effects of Different Doses, Forms, and Frequencies of Zinc Supplementation on Biomarkers of Iron and Zinc Status among Young Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2022-12-15

• Typhoid Fever: Way Forward, 2018-07-25

• Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia in 2010: estimates of incidence, severe morbidity, mortality, underlying risk factors and causative pathogens for 192 countries, 2013-06-01

• Injury Deaths among People with Epilepsy in Rural Bangladesh A Retrospective Population-Based Study, 2012-02-16

• Women and children living in areas of armed conflict in Africa: a geospatial analysis of mortality and orphanhood, 2019-10-24

• Associations of Suboptimal Growth with All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Children under Five Years: A Pooled Analysis of Ten Prospective Studies, 2013-05-29

• Breastfeeding and the risk for diarrhea morbidity and mortality, 2011-04-13

• Setting priorities for development of emerging interventions against childhood diarrhoea, 2013-06-01

• A common evaluation framework for the African Health Initiative, 2013-05-31

• The Association between Provider Practice and Knowledge of ORS and Zinc Supplementation for the Treatment of Childhood Diarrhea in Bihar, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India: A Multi-Site Cross-Sectional Study, 2015-06-22

• Population-Based Incidence and Etiology of Community-Acquired Neonatal Bacteremia in Mirzapur, Bangladesh: An Observational Study, 2009-09-15

• Setting research priorities for maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition in India by engaging experts from 256 indigenous institutions contributing over 4000 research ideas: a CHNRI exercise by ICMR and INCLEN, 2017-06-01

• Making the health system work for the delivery of nutrition interventions, 2020-07-20

• Population attributable fractions for risk factors for spontaneous preterm births in 81 low- and middle-income countries: A systematic analysis, 2022-03-26

• Cost-effectiveness analysis of the diarrhea alleviation through zinc and oral rehydration therapy (DAZT) program in rural Gujarat India: an application of the net-benefit regression framework, 2017-06-08

• Breastfeeding for reducing the risk of pneumonia morbidity and mortality in children under two: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis, 2013-09-17

• Implications of acquired environmental enteric dysfunction for growth and stunting in infants and children living in low- and middle-income countries, 2015-10-23

• The effects of armed conflict on the health of women and children, 2021-01-24

• Measuring Coverage in MNCH: A Validation Study Linking Population Survey Derived Coverage to Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Care Records in Rural China, 2013-05-07

• Acceptability of Massage with Skin Barrier-enhancing Emollients in Young Neonates in Bangladesh, 2007-06-01

• Using Health Extension Workers for Monitoring Child Mortality in Real-Time: Validation against Household Survey Data in Rural Ethiopia, 2015-11-25

• World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 22 Foodborne Bacterial, Protozoal, and Viral Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis, 2015-12-03

• Drivers of the progress achieved by Peru in reducing childhood diarrhoea mortality: a country case study, 2019-12-01

• Delivery, immediate newborn and cord care practices in Pemba Tanzania: a qualitative study of community, hospital staff and community level care providers for knowledge, attitudes, belief systems and practices, 2014-05-22

• Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000-15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals, 2016-12-17

• Efficiency of red cell distribution width in identification of children aged 1-3 years with iron deficiency anemia against traditional hematological markers, 2014-01-15

• Assessment of the impact of quality improvement interventions on the quality of sick child care provided by Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia, 2016-12-01

• Sex and Socioeconomic Differentials in Child Health in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from a Baseline Survey for Evaluating Integrated Management of Childhood Illness, 2008-03-01

• Risk of Early-Onset Neonatal Infection with Maternal Infection or Colonization: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2013-08-20

• Social autopsy for maternal and child deaths: a comprehensive literature review to examine the concept and the development of the method, 2011-08-05

• Armed Conflict and Child Mortality in Africa, 2018-08-30

• Enablers and Barriers of Zinc Fortification; Experience from 10 Low- and Middle-Income Countries with Mandatory Large-Scale Food Fortification, 2021-06-15

• Counting Children with Tuberculosis: Why Numbers Matter, 2016-01-05

• A Comparison of Diarrheal Severity Scores in the MAL-ED Multisite Community-Based Cohort Study, 2016-10-24

• Diarrhea incidence in low- and middle-income countries in 1990 and 2010: a systematic review, 2012-03-21

• Impact of micronutrient fortification of yoghurt on micronutrient status markers and growth - a randomized double blind controlled trial among school children in Bangladesh, 2013-05-28

• Assessing the Quality of Sick Child Care Provided by Community Health Workers, 2015-11-09

• National Sample Vital Registration System: A sustainable platform for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases surveillance in low and middle-income countries, 2020-12-01

• Pharmacokinetics of High-Dose Weekly Oral Vitamin D3 Supplementation during the Third Trimester of Pregnancy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2013-03-12

• Using health facility deaths to estimate population causes of neonatal and child mortality in four African countries, 2020-06-12

• The effect of intrapartum antibiotics on early-onset neonatal sepsis in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a propensity score matched analysis, 2014-04-17

• Directing Diarrhoeal Disease Research towards Disease-burden Reduction, 2009-06-01

• The associations of parity and maternal age with small-for-gestational-age, preterm, and neonatal and infant mortality: a meta-analysis, 2013-09-17

• Trends in causes of death among children under 5 in Bangladesh, 1993-2004: an exercise applying a standardized computer algorithm to assign causes of death using verbal autopsy data, 2011-08-05

• Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2014-04-23

• Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Current Indicators for Measuring Coverage of Diarrhea Treatment Interventions and Opportunities for Improvement, 2013-05-07

• Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: progress and challenges, 2013-10-16

• Study Protocol for a Randomized, Double-Blind, Community-Based Efficacy Trial of Various Doses of Zinc in Micronutrient Powders or Tablets in Young Bangladeshi Children, 2018-01-26

• Preventive zinc supplementation in developing countries: impact on mortality and morbidity due to diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria, 2011-04-13

• Using community-based reporting of vital events to monitor child mortality: Lessons from rural Ghana, 2018-01-30

• Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action in Mozambique: Results from a National Sample-Based Vital Statistics System for Mortality and Cause of Death, 2023-04-10

• Levels, timing, and etiology of stillbirths in Sylhet district of Bangladesh, 2011-04-01

• Validating hierarchical verbal autopsy expert algorithms in a large data set with known causes of death, 2016-06-01

• Public sector scale-up of zinc and ORS improves coverage in selected districts in Bihar, India, 2015-12-01

• Feasibility of engaging "Village Doctors” in the Community-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI): experience from rural Bangladesh, 2018-12-01