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Sabine Gabrysch

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Gabrysch S, Nesbitt RC, Schoeps A, Hurt L, Soremekun S, Edmond K, Manu A, Lohela TJ, Danso S, Tomlin K, Kirkwood B, Campbell OMR. (2019): Does facility birth reduce maternal and perinatal mortality? A secondary analysis of two RCTs including 119,244 pregnancies in Brong Ahafo, Ghana. The Lancet Global Health, 7(8): e1074–87; https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30165-2

Lohela TJ, Nesbitt RC, Pekkanen J, Gabrysch S. (2019): Comparing socioeconomic inequalities between early neonatal mortality and facility delivery: Cross-sectional data from 72 low- and middle-income countries. Scientific Reports, 9(1):9786. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45148-5.

Waid JL, Sinharoy SS, Ali M, Stormer AE, Thilsted SH, Gabrysch S. (2018): Dietary Patterns and Determinants of Changing Diets in Bangladesh from 1985 to 2010. Current Developments in Nutrition, Nov 21;3(4):nzy091. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzy091.  

Cresswell JA, Owolabi OO, Chelwa N, Dennis ML, Gabrysch S, Vwalika B, Mbizvo M, Filippi V, Campbell OMR (2018): Does supportive legislation guarantee access to pregnancy termination and postabortion care services? Findings from a facility census in Central Province, Zambia. BMJ Global Health, 3:e000897. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000897.  

Moxon S, Guenther T, Gabrysch S, Enweronu-Laryea C, Ram P, Niermeyer S, Kerber K, Tann C, Russell N, Kak L, Bailey P, Wilson S, Wang W, Winter R, Carvajal-Aguirre L, Blencowe H, Campbell O, Lawn J (2018): Service readiness for inpatient care of small and sick newborns: What do we need and what can we measure now? Journal of Global Health, 8(1): 010702. doi: 10.7189/jogh.08.010702. 

Schoeps A, van Ewijk R, Kynast-Wolf G, Nebié E, Zabré P, Sié A, Gabrysch S. (2018): Ramadan exposure in utero and child mortality in Burkina Faso: Analysis of a population-based cohort including 41,025 children. Am J Epidemiol.; 187(10):2085-2092. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwy091

Waid J, Ali MM, Thilsted SH, Gabrysch S. (2018): Dietary change in Bangladesh from 1985 to 2010. Global Food Security; 17:221–232 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.09.003

Sparling TM, Nesbitt RC, Henschke N, Gabrysch S. (2017): Nutrients and perinatal depression: a systematic review. Journal of Nutritional Sciences; 6:e61; doi:10.1017/jns.2017.58

Hanson C, Gabrysch S, Mbaruku G, Cox J, Mkumbo E, Manzi F, Schellenberg J, Ronsmans C. (2017): Access to maternal health services: geographic inequalities, United Republic of Tanzania. Bulletin of the World Health Organization; 95:810–820; doi: dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.194126

Sinharoy S, Waid JL, Haardörfer R, Wendt A, Gabrysch S*, Yount KM*. (2017): Women’s dietary diversity in rural Bangladesh: Pathways through women’s empowerment. Maternal & Child Nutrition, doi:10.1111/mcn.12489. (* equal contribution)

Lorenz, E, Gabrysch, S. (2017): Covariate-constrained randomization routine for achieving baseline balance in cluster-randomized trials, The Stata Journal, 17(2):503-510

Montagu D, Sudhinaraset M, Diamond-Smith N, Campbell O, Gabrysch S, Freedman L, Kruk ME, Donnay F. (2017): Where women go to deliver: understanding the changing landscape of childbirth in Africa and Asia. Health Policy Plan, 2017 czx060. doi:10.1093/heapol/czx060

Sparling TM, Henschke N, Nesbitt RC, Gabrysch S. (2017): The role of diet and nutritional supplementation in perinatal depression: a systematic review. Matern Child Nutr., 2017;13:e12235. doi:10.1111/mcn.12235.

Campbell OMR, Calvert C, Testa A, Strehlow M, Benova L, Keyes E, Donnay F, Macleod D, Gabrysch S, Rong L, Ronsmans C, Sadruddin S, Koblinsky M, Bailey P. (2016): The scale, scope, coverage, and capability of childbirth care. The Lancet, 2016; 388:2193-208, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31528-8

Nesbitt RC, Lohela TJ, Soremekun S, Vesel L, Manu A, Okyere E, Grundy C, Amenga-Etego S, Owusu-Agyei S, Kirkwood B, Gabrysch S. (2016): The influence of distance and quality of care on place of delivery in rural Ghana. Scientific Reports, 6, 30291; doi:10.1038/srep30291.

Lohela TJ, Nesbitt RC, Manu A, Vesel L, Okyere E, Kirkwood B, Gabrysch S. (2016): Competence of health workers in emergency obstetric care: an assessment using clinical vignettes in Brong Ahafo region, Ghana. BMJ Open,  16:105; 6:e010963. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010963.

Campbell OMR, Aquino EM, Vwalika B, Gabrysch S. (2016): Signal functions for measuring the ability of health facilities to provide abortion services: an illustrative analysis using a health facility census in Zambia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16:105; doi:10.1186/s12884-016-0872-5.

Gabrysch S, McMahon SA, Siling K, Kenward MG, Campbell OMR. (2016): Autonomy dimensions and care seeking for delivery in Zambia; the prevailing importance of cluster-level measurement. Scientific Reports, 6, 22578; doi:10.1038/srep22578.

Becher H, Müller O, Dambach P, Gabrysch S, Niamba L, Sankoh O, Simboro S, Schoeps A, Stieglbauer G, Yé Y, Sié A. (2016): Decreasing child mortality, spatial clustering, and decreasing disparity in north-western Burkina Faso. Trop Med Int Health. 2016;21(4):546-555, doi:10.1111/tmi.12673.

Hanson C, Cox J, Mbaruku G, Manzi F, Gabrysch S, Schellenberg D, Tanner M, Ronsmans C, Schellenberg J. (2015): Maternal and perinatal mortality in resource-limited  settings - Authors' reply. Lancet Glob Health, 3(7):e387-95, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00048-0.

Hanson C, Cox J, Mbaruku G, Manzi F, Gabrysch S, Schellenberg D, Tanner M, Ronsmans C, Schellenberg J. (2015): Maternal mortality and distance to facility-based obstetric care in rural southern Tanzania: a secondary analysis of census data in 226,000 households. Lancet Global Health, published online May 22, 2015, doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00048-0.

Brenner S, De Allegri M, Gabrysch S, Chinkhumba J, Sarker M, Muula AS. (2015): The quality of clinical maternal and neonatal healthcare – a strategy for identifying ‘routine care signal functions’. PLoS One 10(4):e0123968. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123968.

Nesbitt RC, Gabrysch S, Laub A, Soremekun S, Manu A, Kirkwood BR, Amenga-Etego S, Wiru K, Höfle B, Grundy C. (2014): Methods to measure potential spatial access to delivery care in low- and middle-income countries: a case study in rural Ghana. International Journal of Health Geographics, 13:25.

Nesbitt RC, Lohela TJ, Manu A, Vesel L, Okyere E, Edmond K, Owusu-Agyei S, Kirkwood B, Gabrysch S.  (2013): Quality along the continuum: A health facility assessment of intrapartum and postnatal care in Ghana. PLoS One, 8(11): e81089. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081089.

Zanger P, Gabrysch S. (2013): Leishmaniasis in the era of tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonist therapy – a research agenda for Europe. Eurosurveillance, 18(30): pii=20542. 

Bozorgmehr K, Gabrysch S, Müller O, Neuhann F, Jordan I,  Knipper M, Razum O. (2013): Relationship between financial speculation and food prices or price volatility: Applying the principles of evidence-based medicine to current debates in Germany. Globalization and Health, 9:44.

Beiersmann C, Lorenzo Bermejo J, Bountogo M, Tiendrébeogo J, Gabrysch S, Yé M, Jahn A, Müller O. (2013): Malnutrition determinants in young children from Burkina Faso. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmt037.

Vesel L, Manu A, Lohela TJ, Gabrysch S, Okyere E, Ten Asbroek AH, Hill Z, Agyemang CT, Owusu-Agyei S, Kirkwood BR. (2013): Quality of newborn care: a health facility assessment in rural Ghana using survey, vignette and surveillance data. BMJ Open, 3:e002326. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002326.  

Gabrysch S, Civitelli G, Edmond KM, Mathai M, Ali M, Bhutta ZA, Campbell OMR. (2012): New signal functions to measure the ability of health facilities to provide routine and emergency newborn care. PLoS Medicine, 9(11): e1001340. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001340.

Lohela TJ, Campbell OMR, Gabrysch S. (2012): Distance to care, facility delivery and early neonatal mortality in Malawi and Zambia. PLoS One, 7(12): e52110. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052110.

Kyei NNA, Chansa C, Gabrysch S. (2012): Quality of antenatal care in Zambia: A national assessment. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 12:151: doi:10.1186/1471-2393-12-151.

Kyei NNA, Campbell OMR, Gabrysch S. (2012): The influence of distance and level of service provision on antenatal care use in rural Zambia. PLoS One, 7(10): e46475. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046475.

Zanger P, Nurjadi D, Gaile M, Gabrysch S, Kremsner PG. (2012): Hormonal contraceptive use and persistent Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 55(12):1625-1632.

Beiersmann C, Bountogo M, Tiendrébeogo J, Louis VR, Gabrysch S, Yé M, Jahn A, Müller O. (2012): Malnutrition in young children of rural Burkina Faso: comparison of survey data from 1999 with 2009. Tropical Medicine and International Health,17(6):715-21. 

Collender G, Gabrysch S, Campbell OMR. (2012): Reducing maternal mortality: better monitoring, indicators and benchmarks needed to improve emergency obstetric care. Research summary for policymakers. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 17(6):694-696.

Gabrysch S, Zanger P, Campbell OMR. (2012): Emergency obstetric care availability: A critical assessment of the current indicatorTropical Medicine and International Health, 17(1):2-8.

Schoeps A, Gabrysch S, Niamba L, Sié A, Becher H. (2011): The Effect of Distance to Health-Care Facilities on Childhood Mortality in Rural Burkina Faso. American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(5):492-8.

Zanger P, Kötter I, Kremsner PG, Gabrysch S. (2011): Tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonist drugs and leishmaniasis in Europe. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 18(7):670-676.

Gabrysch S, Simushi V, Campbell OMR. (2011): Availability and distribution of, and geographic access to emergency obstetric care in Zambia. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 114: 174-179.

Gabrysch S, Zanger P, Seneviratne HR, Mbewe R, Campbell OMR. (2011): Tracking progress towards safe motherhood: meeting the benchmark yet missing the goal? An appeal for better use of health-system output indicators with evidence from Zambia and Sri Lanka. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 16(5):627-639.

Gabrysch S, Cousens S, Cox J, Campbell OMR. (2011): The Influence of Distance and Level of Care on Delivery Place in Rural Zambia: A Study of Linked National Data in a Geographic Information System. PLoS Medicine, 8(1): e1000394. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000394. 
  
Zanger P, Holzer J, Schleucher R, Scherbaum MD, Schittek B, Gabrysch S. (2010): Severity of Staphylococcus aureus Infection of the Skin is Associated with Inducibility of Human β-Defensin 3, but not Human β-Defensin 2. Infection and Immunity, 78(7):3112-7.

Scovronick N, Dorey S, Häsler B, Gabrysch S, Salonen L, Alonso S. (2010): An EcoHealth Forum in London: Young Researchers Fill a Training Gap. EcoHealth, DOI: 10.1007/s10393-010-0336-8.

Gabrysch S, Campbell OMR. (2009): Still too far to walk: Literature review of the determinants of delivery service use. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 9(1):34.

Gabrysch S, Lema C, Bedriñana E, Bautista MA, Malca R, Campbell OMR, Miranda JJ. (2009): Cultural adaptation of health services dramatically increases their use: birthing services in rural Ayacucho, Peru. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 87:724-729.

Howe LD, Hargreaves JR, Gabrysch S, Huttly SR. (2009): Is the wealth index a proxy for consumption expenditure? A systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63(11):871-7.

Zanger P, Holzer J, Schleucher R, Steffen H, Schittek B, Gabrysch S. (2009): Constitutive Expression of the Antimicrobial Peptide RNase 7 is Associated with Staphylococcus aureus Infection of the Skin. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 200(12):1907-15.

Kjellström T, Gabrysch S, Lemke B, Dear K. (2009): The 'Hothaps' programme for assessing climate change impacts on occupational health and productivity: an invitation to carry out field studies. Global Health Action, DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2082.

Gabrysch S, Edwards T, Glynn JR. (2008): The role of context: Neighbourhood characteristics strongly influence HIV risk in young women in Zambia. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 13(2):162-70.

Fillon S, Klingel K, Warntges S, Sauter M, Gabrysch S, Pestel S, Tanneur V, Waldegger S, Zipfel A, Viebahn R, Haussinger D, Broer S, Kandolf R, Lang F. (2002): Expression of the Serine/Threonine Kinase hSGK1 in Chronic Viral Hepatitis. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 12(1):47-54.

Waldegger S, Gabrysch S, Barth P, Fillon S, Lang F. (2000): h-sgk serine-threonine protein kinase as transcriptional target of p38/MAP kinase pathway in HepG2 human hepatoma cells. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 10(4):203-8.

Wendt AS, Sparling TM, Waid JL, Mueller AA, Gabrysch S. (2019): Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM): protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a Homestead Food Production programme on undernutrition in rural Bangladesh. BMJ Open, 9(7):e031037. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031037. 

Schroeder E, Rochford C, Voss M, Gabrysch S. (2019): Beyond representation: Women at Global Health conferences. The Lancet, 393(10177):1200-1201. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32854-X.

Gabrysch S. (2018): Imagination challenges in planetary health: re-conceptualising the human-environment relationship. The Lancet Planetary Health, Sep;2(9):e372-e373. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30169-4.

Müller O, Jahn A, Gabrysch S. (2018): Planetary Health - ein umfassendes Gesundheits­konzept. Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 115(40): A 1751–2.

Meltzer L, Dame J, Gabrysch S. (2017): Nach der Flut: Auswirkungen und Anpassungsmaßnahmen im Huasco-Tal, Chile (After the flood: Impacts and adaptation strategies in the Huasco Valley, Chile). In: UMID: Umwelt und Mensch – Informations­dienst, Heft 2/2017: 54-59.

Gabrysch S, Waid, JL, Wendt AS, Müller AA, Kader A, Gosh U. (2018): Nutritional effects of flooding due to unseasonably early monsoon rainfall in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study in an ongoing cluster-randomised trial. The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol. 2 Suppl. 1, p. S3, doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30088-3

Gabrysch S, Jaehn P. (2018): Commentary: Germany must invest in its global health academic workforce. The Lancet, 391(10121):656-657. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30247-2

Gabrysch S, van Ewijk R. (2018): Authors’ Response to Commentaries, American Journal of Epidemiology, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwy090.

Wendt A., Waid J., Gabrysch S (2017): The Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) trial in Bangladesh. UNSCN News. 2017; 42: 149-50.

Waid JL, Bogard JR, Thilsted SH and Gabrysch S (2017): Estimates of average energy requirements in Bangladesh: Adult Male Equivalent values for use in analyzing household consumption and expenditure surveys. Data in brief;14:101-106. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.07.022

Gabrysch, S. (2015): Der stille Hunger. Nachhaltig gegen Mangelernährung.
Forschungsmagazin Ruperto Carola, Universität Heidelberg. Ausgabe 6, Juni 2015, S. 67-73.