Ashish KC
Forskare vid Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa; Centrum för hälsa och hållbarhet
- E-post:
- ashish.kc@uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 14B, 1 tr
75237 Uppsala - Postadress:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
- Akademiska meriter:
- Docent i global hälsa med inriktning pediatrik
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Kort presentation
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Dr. K.C. has a wide experience in academic, research and global health program with different academic universities. He has been a technical advisor to Save the Children, Population Services International and UNICEF for more than 15 years. He has led and supported three hospital based randomized clinical trial and two large scale multi-centered quality improvement trials in Nepal. He has been the principal investigator for multi-country study for improving measurements for mothers and newborns.
Biografi
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Dr. Ashish KC is Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is a perinatal epidemiologist with doctoral degree in global health. He has been a keen researcher to generate evidence on perinatal depression, neonatal resuscitation and improving experience of care of women and children.
Forskning
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1. Evaluation of implementing Helping Babies Breathe Quality Improvement cycle in a tertiary hospital of Nepal (2012-2013)
2. Effect of delayed versus early cord clamping on healthy late preterm and term neonates on iron deficiency anemia and developmental outcome at 8 and 12 months-A randomized clinical trial (2015-2019),
3. Effect of delayed versus early cord clamping on healthy neonates on heart rate, oxygen saturation and breathing within first 10 minutes-A randomized clinical trial (2016-2017),
4. Effect of delayed versus early cord clamping on depressed neonates requiring resuscitation on immediate birth outcome (2016-2017),
5. Evaluation of implementing Nepal Perinatal Quality Improvement projects in 12 hospitals of Nepal (2017-2019),
6. Scaling up quality improvement for safer birth in public facilities of Nepal (2019-2020),
7. Effect of Safer Birth Bundle in improving newborn resuscitation for better newborn survival (2018-2020)
Publikationer
Senaste publikationer
- Implementation barriers and facilitators of Moyo foetal heart rate monitor during labour in public hospitals in Nepal (2024)
- 'We did everything by phone' (2024)
- NeuroMotion Smartphone Application for Remote General Movements Assessment (2024)
- Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries (2023)
- Facilitators and barriers for implementation of a novel resuscitation quality improvement package in public referral hospitals of Nepal (2023)
Alla publikationer
Artiklar
- Implementation barriers and facilitators of Moyo foetal heart rate monitor during labour in public hospitals in Nepal (2024)
- 'We did everything by phone' (2024)
- NeuroMotion Smartphone Application for Remote General Movements Assessment (2024)
- Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries (2023)
- Facilitators and barriers for implementation of a novel resuscitation quality improvement package in public referral hospitals of Nepal (2023)
- Association of disrespectful care after childbirth and COVID-19 exposure with postpartum depression symptoms (2023)
- Association between usage of household cooking fuel and congenital birth defects-18 months multi-centric cohort study in Nepal (2023)
- Increased risk of bradycardia in vigorous infants receiving early as compared to delayed cord clamping at birth (2023)
- Recent Progress in Neonatal Global Health Quality Improvement (2023)
- Improved obstetric management after implementation of a scaled-up quality improvement intervention (2023)
- The contribution of community health systems to resilience (2023)
- Editorial (2023)
- Implementing quality improvement intervention to improve intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring during COVID-19 pandemic- observational study (2022)
- Effect of a perinatal care quality improvement package on patient satisfaction (2022)
- Service readiness and availability of perinatal care in public hospitals - a multi-centric baseline study in Nepal (2022)
- Factors associated with poor adherence to intrapartum fetal heart monitoring in relationship to intrapartum related death (2022)
- Mistreatment during childbirth and postnatal period reported by women in Nepal -a multicentric prevalence study (2022)
- Antibiotic use before, during and after seeking care for acute febrile illness at a hospital outpatient department (2022)
- Measuring coverage and quality of supportive care for inpatient neonatal infections (2022)
- Association Between Violent Discipline at Home and Risk of Illness and Injury in Children (2022)
- Usability, acceptability and feasibility of a novel technology with visual guidance with video and audio recording during newborn resuscitation (2022)
- Complex medical intervention does not imply effectiveness (2022)
- Incidence and outcomes of intrapartum-related neonatal encephalopathy in low-income and middle-income countries (2022)
- Working Memory During Late Pregnancy (2022)
- Relationship between moderate to late preterm, diet types and developmental delay in less-developed rural China (2022)
- Survey of women's report for 33 maternal and newborn indicators (2021)
- Effect of Delayed Cord Clamping on Neurodevelopment at 3 Years (2021)
- Effect of a scaled-up quality improvement intervention on health workers' competence on neonatal resuscitation in simulated settings in public hospitals (2021)
- Performance of health workers on neonatal resuscitation care following scaled-up quality improvement interventions in public hospitals of Nepal-a prospective observational study (2021)
- Assessment of the validity of the measurement of newborn and maternal health-care coverage in hospitals (EN-BIRTH) (2021)
- Association of iron supplementation and deworming with early childhood development (2021)
- Housing environment and early childhood development in sub-Saharan Africa (2021)
- Respectful maternal and newborn care (2021)
- Predictors for timely initiation of breastfeeding after birth in the hospitals of Nepal (2021)
- Neurodevelopmental outcomes of a randomised trial of intact cord resuscitation (2021)
- Impact of stimulation among non-crying neonates with intact cord versus clamped cord on birth outcomes (2021)
- Effect of COVID-19 on maternal and neonatal services - Authors' reply (2021)
- Mistreatment of newborns after childbirth in health facilities in Nepal (2021)
- Payment mechanism for institutional births in Nepal (2021)
- Neonatal resuscitation (2021)
- The perfect storm (2021)
- Birthweight (2021)
- Augmentation of labor with oxytocin and its association with delivery outcomes (2021)
- Burden and consequence of birth defects in Nepal-evidence from prospective cohort study (2021)
- Stillbirths including intrapartum timing (2021)
- Antibiotic use for inpatient newborn care with suspected infection (2021)
- Kangaroo mother care (2021)
- Barriers and enablers to routine register data collection for newborns and mothers (2021)
- Impact of free newborn care service package on out of pocket expenditure-evidence from a multicentric study in Nepal (2021)
- A multicenter study of incidence, risk factors and outcomes of babies with birth asphyxia in Nepal (2021)
- EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study (2021)
- Chlorhexidine for facility-based umbilical cord care (2021)
- Stunting Among Under 5-Year-Olds in Nepal (2020)
- Epidemiology of neonatal infections in hospitals of Nepal (2020)
- The Association of Childhood Pneumonia with Household Air Pollution in Nepal (2020)
- Labour and delivery ward register data availability, quality, and utility-Every Newborn-birth indicators research tracking in hospitals (EN-BIRTH) study baseline analysis in three countries (2020)
- Helping Babies Survive Programs as an Impetus for Quality Improvement. (2020)
- Adherence to World Health Organisation guidelines for treatment of early onset neonatal sepsis in low-income settings (2020)
- Inequality in measles vaccination coverage in the "big six" countries of the WHO South-East Asia region (2020)
- Prevalence, risk factors and consequences of newborns born small for gestational age (2020)
- The Association of Women's Empowerment with Stillbirths in Nepal (2020)
- Incidence, risk factors and consequences of preterm birth - findings from a multi-centric observational study for 14 months in Nepal (2020)
- REFINE (Rapid Feedback for quality Improvement in Neonatal rEsuscitation) (2020)
- The burden of adolescent motherhood and health consequences in Nepal (2020)
- Not Crying After Birth as a Predictor of Not Breathing (2020)
- The burden of and factors associated with misclassification of intrapartum stillbirth (2020)
- Lessons from the field (2020)
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal (2020)
- Trends for Neonatal Deaths in Nepal (2001-2016) to Project Progress Towards the SDG Target in 2030, and Risk Factor Analyses to Focus Action (2020)
- Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health in Health Facilities in Nepal (2020)
- Usability and acceptability of an automated respiratory rate counter to assess childhood pneumonia in Nepal (2020)
- Learning from Nepal's Progress to Inform the Path to the Sustainable Development Goals for Health, Leaving No-One Behind. (2020)
- Disclosing suboptimal indications for emergency caesarean sections due to fetal distress and prolonged labor (2020)
- Meconium aspiration syndrome (2020)
- Socio-emotional challenges and development of children left behind by migrant mothers (2020)
- Delayed cord clamping was not associated with an increased risk of hyperbilirubinaemia on the day of birth or jaundice in the first 4 weeks (2020)
- Out of Pocket Expenditure for Sick Newborn Care in Referral Hospitals of Nepal. (2020)
- Equity and Coverage in the Continuum of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Services in Nepal-Projecting the Estimates on Death Averted Using the LiST Tool (2020)
- Intact cord resuscitation versus early cord clamping in the treatment of depressed newborn infants during the first 10 minutes of birth (Nepcord III) - (2019)
- Coverage, associated factors, and impact of companionship during labor (2019)
- Rating early child development outcome measurement tools for routine health programme use (2019)
- Does the Helping Babies Breathe Programme impact on neonatal resuscitation care practices? (2019)
- "Every Newborn-BIRTH" protocol (2019)
- Effectiveness and Acceptability of Bag-and-mask Ventilation with Visual Monitor for Improving Neonatal Resuscitation in Simulated Setting in Six Hospitals of Nepal (2019)
- Effect of skill drills on neonatal ventilation performance in a simulated setting-observation study in Nepal (2019)
- Scaling Up Safer Birth Bundle Through Quality Improvement in Nepal (SUSTAIN) - a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial in public hospitals (2019)
- The burden of misclassification of antepartum stillbirth in Nepal (2019)
- Study protocol (2019)
- Effect of a scaled-up neonatal resuscitation quality improvement package on intrapartum-related mortality in Nepal (2019)
- Effect of early versus delayed cord clamping in neonate on heart rate, breathing and oxygen saturation during first 10 minutes of birth (2019)
- A Review of eHealth Initiatives (2019)
- Effect of Delayed Cord Clamping of Term Babies on Neurodevelopment at 12 Months (2019)
- High levels of unmet need for family planning in Nepal. (2018)
- Factors associated with timing of umbilical cord clamping in tertiary hospital of Nepal. (2018)
- Successful implementation of Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive programs-An Utstein formula for newborn and maternal survival (2017)
- Neonatal resuscitation in global health settings (2017)
- Scaling up quality improvement intervention for perinatal care in Nepal (NePeriQIP); study protocol of a cluster randomised trial (2017)
- Effects of Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping vs Early Clamping on Anemia in Infants at 8 and 12 Months (2017)
- Evaluation of Helping Babies Breathe Quality Improvement Cycle (HBB-QIC) on retention of neonatal resuscitation skills six months after training in Nepal (2017)
- Essential newborn care after home delivery in Nepal (2017)
- Persistent inequity in maternal health care utilization in Nepal despite impressive overall gains (2017)
- Care seeking for children with fever/cough or diarrhoea in Nepal (2017)
- Improved postnatal care is needed to maintain gains in neonatal survival after the implementation of the Helping Babies Breathe initiative (2017)
- Teamwork among midwives during neonatal resuscitation at a maternity hospital in Nepal (2017)
- Resuscitation practices of low and normal birth weight infants in Nepal (2017)
- Effect of timing of umbilical cord clamping on anaemia at 8 and 12 months and later neurodevelopment in late pre-term and term infants (2016)
- Inadequate fetal heart rate monitoring and poor use of partogram associated with intrapartum stillbirth (2016)
- Reducing perinatal mortality in Nepal using Helping Babies Breathe (2016)
- Incidence of intrapartum stillbirth and associated risk factors in tertiary care setting of Nepal (2016)
- Equity improvements in maternal and newborn care indicators (2016)
- Level of mortality risk for babies born preterm or with a small weight for gestation in a tertiary hospital of Nepal (2015)
- Validation of the foot length measure as an alternative tool to identify low birth weight and preterm babies in a low-resource setting like Nepal (2015)
- Risk factors for antepartum stillbirth (2015)
- Dimensions of Learning Organizations Questionnaire (DLOQ) in a low-resource health care setting in Nepal (2015)
- Poor adherence to neonatal resuscitation guidelines exposed; an observational study using camera surveillance at a tertiary hospital in Nepal (2014)
- State of Midwives in Nepal (2013)
- Implementing a simplified neonatal resuscitation protocol-helping babies breathe at birth (HBB) (2012)
- Effect of a quality improvement package on early essential newborn care in public hospitals of Nepal, a multi-center observational cohort study.
- Effect of delayed cord clamping on risk of hyperbilirubinemia in term newborns