Lange CL, Alli AS, Kyeremateng KA, Holmes JF, Nimo J, Dery N, Anku P, Adzrakor L, Kotoka GK, Oppong P, Kumah J, Asante-Poku A, Brauer M, Agyei-Mensah S, Clark SN, Spencer RMC, Oulhote Y, Hughes AF, Ezzati M,, Arku RE.

The Accra School Health and Environment Study (ASHES): A study of the urban environment and child health and development in Accra

Environmental Research: Communications, vol. 8, no. 035012, 2026, ISSN: 2515-7620.

Lange CL, Clark SN, Alli AS, Nimo J, Kyeremateng KA, Agyei-Mensah S, Oulhote Y, Hughes AF, Ezzati M, Arku RE.

Characterizing air and noise pollution and their determinants in elementary schools in Accra, Ghana

Environmental Research: Health, vol. 3, iss. 4, no. 041002, 2025, ISSN: 2752-5309.

Song X, Zhou B, Baird S, Lu C, Song Z, Zhang Y, Wang R, Jiang J, Chen L, Liu J, Yuan W, Liu Y, Dang J, Hu P, Ma J, Dong Y, Song Y, Ezzati M, Sawyer SM.

Trends and predictions to 2030 in demographic structures and metabolic health for children and adolescents in China: analysis of national school health surveys from 2000 to 2019

The Lancet child and Adolescent Health, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 530-543, 2025.

Amouzou A, Barros AJD, Requejo J, Faye C, Akseer N, Bendavid E, Blumenberg C, Borghi J, El Baz S, Federspiel F, Ferreira LZ, Hazel E, Heft-Neal S, Hellwig F, Liu L, Maïga A, Munos M, Pitt C, Shawar YR, Shiffman J, Tam Y, Walker N, Akilimali P, Alkema L, Behanzin P, Binyaruka P, Bhutta Z, Blanchard A, Blencowe H, Bradley E, Brikci N, Caicedo-Velásquez B, Costello A, Dotse-Gborgbortsi W, El Arifeen S, Ezzati M, Freedman LP, Guillot M, Hanson C, Heidkamp R, Huicho L, Izugbara C, Jiwani SS, Kabiru C, Kiarie H, Kinney M, Kirakoya-Samadoulougou F, Lawn J, Madise N, Mady GRM, Masquelier B, Melesse D, Nilsen K, Perin J, Ram U, Romanello M, Saad GE, Sharma S, Sidze EM, Spiegel P, Tappis H, Tatem AJ, Temmerman M, Victora CG, Villavicencio F, Wado Y, Waiswa P, Wakefield J, Walton S, You D, Chopra M, Black RE, Boerma T.

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health: tracking progress on health and nutrition

Lancet, vol. 405, iss. 10488, pp. 1505-1554, 2025, ISSN: 0140-6736.

Xinli Song, Bin Zhou, Sarah Baird, Chunling Lu, Majid Ezzati, Li Chen

Trends and inequalities in thinness and obesity among Chinese children and adolescents: evidence from seven national school surveys between 1985 and 2019

The Lancet Public Health, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. E1025-E1036, 2024.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults

Lancet, vol. 403, no. 10431, pp. 1027-1050, 2024.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development

Nature, no. 615, pp. 874–883, 2023.

Paalanen L, Levälahti E, Mäki P, Tolonen H, Sassi F, Ezzati M, Laatikainen T

Association of socioeconomic position and childhood obesity in Finland: a registry-based study

BMJ Open , vol. 12, no. 12, pp. e068748, 2022.

Lelijveld N, Benedict RK, Wrottesley SV, Bhutta ZA, Borghi E, Cole TJ, Croft T, Frongillo EA, Hayashi C, Namaste S, Sharma D, Tumilowicz A, Wells JC, Ezzati M, Patton GC, Mates E

Towards standardised and valid anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in middle childhood and adolescence

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 738-746, 2022.

Stevens GA, Paciorek CJ, Flores-Urrutia MC, Borghi E, Namaste S, Wirth JP, Suchdev PS, Ezzati M, Rohner F, Flaxman SR, Rogers LM

National, regional, and global estimates of anaemia by severity in women and children for 2000-19: a pooled analysis of population-representative data

Lancet Global Health, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 627-639, 2022.

Black RE, Liu L, Hartwig FP, Villavicencio F, Rodriguez-Martinez A, Vidaletti LP, Perin J, Black MM, Blencowe H, You D, Hug L, Masquelier B, Cousens S, Gove A, Vaivada T, Yeung D, Behrman J, Martorell R, Osmond C, Stein AD, Adair LS, Fall CHD, Horta B, Menezes AMB, Ramirez-Zea M, Richter LM, Patton GC, Bendavid E, Ezzati M, Bhutta ZA, Lawn JE, Victora CG.

Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital

Lancet, vol. 399, no. 10336, pp. 1730-1740, 2022.

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

The Lancet, vol. 396, no. 10261, pp. 1511-1524, 2020.

Black RE, Liu L, Hartwig FP, Villavicencio F, Rodriguez-Martinez A, Vidaletti LP, Perin J, Black MM, Blencowe H, You D, Hug L, Masquelier B, Cousens S, Gove A, Vaivada T, Yeung D, Behrman J, Martorell R, Osmond C, Stein AD, Adair LS, Fall CHD, Horta B, Menezes AMB, Ramirez-Zea M, Richter LM, Patton GC, Bendavid E, Ezzati M, Bhutta ZA, Lawn JE, Victora CG

Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital

Lancet, vol. 399, no. 10336, pp. 1730-1740, 2020.

Smith Fawzi MC, Andrews KG, Fink G, Danaei G, McCoy DC, Sudfeld CR, Peet ED, Cho J, Liu Y, Finlay JE, Ezzati M, Kaaya SF, Fawzi WW

Lifetime economic impact of the burden of childhood stunting attributable to maternal psychosocial risk factors in 137 low/middle-income countries

BMJ Global Health, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. e001144, 2019.

Lee AC, Kozuki N, Cousens S, Stevens GA, Blencowe H, Silveira MF, Sania A, Rosen HE, Schmiegelow C, Adair LS, Baqui AH, Barros FC, Bhutta ZA, Caulfield LE, Christian P, Clarke SE, Fawzi W, Gonzalez R, Humphrey J, Huybregts L, Kariuki S, Kolsteren P, Lusingu J, Manandhar D, Mongkolchati A, Mullany LC, Ndyomugyenyi R, Nien JK, Roberfroid D, Saville N, Terlouw DJ, Tielsch JM, Victora CG, Velaphi SC, Watson-Jones D, Willey BA, Ezzati M, Lawn JE, Black RE, Katz J

Estimates of burden and consequences of infants born small for gestational age in low and middle income countries with INTERGROWTH-21st standard: analysis of CHERG datasets

BMJ, vol. 358, pp. j3677, 2017.