Overcoming Barriers to scaling up skilled birth attendants’ utilisation in improving maternal, new-born and child health in Nepal  

2011-2013 (Implementation Research)

Supporting Partner: WHO Headquarter, Geneva

This project was aimed at understanding and overcoming barriers to scale-up skilled birth attendant utilisation in improving maternal, newborn and child health in Nepal

Exemplars in global health: Stunting reduction in Under Five children in Nepal

Dec 2017-Aug 2018

Supporting Partner: SickKids-Canada

The objective of the study was to explore stunting distribution and determinants by geographical regions and provincial states, investigate initiatives contributing to stunting reduction in various countries and gain insights from nutrition experts and stakeholders on successful and unsuccessful strategies for reducing stunting in Nepal.

Exemplars in global health: Reducing Under Five mortality in Nepal  

Apr-Aug 2018

Supporting Partner: University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda/Partners in Health (PIH), USA

The aim of the study was to examine Nepal’s policies, strategies, and interventions to reduce causes of under five mortality (U5M) at the national, sub national and community levels. It seeks to understand how these interventions were prioritised, adapted, implemented and sustained. Additionally, the research explores the contextual factors that acted as facilitators or barriers to reducing U5M.The goal is to derive transferable knowledge to be shared with policymakers and implementers in other countries working towards reducing U5M.

Association of Pesticide Exposure during Pregnancy and Low Birth Weight babies in the catchment area of a tertiary care hospital in Chitwan district, Nepal

2019

Supporting Partner:Danish Society for Occupational and Environmental Health (DASAM) and Dialogos

The aim of the study was to identify the association of pesticide exposure in mothers with low birth weight, prematurity, still birth, congenital anomalies and APGAR score of their baby.

Conducting and Evaluating Stigma reduction interventions in Sunsari and Dadeldhura  

Jul 2017-Aug 2018

Supporting Partner: IPAS Nepal

The objective of the study was to assess attitudes and beliefs about abortion and explore the barriers and constraints and; opportunities about abortion among community members, health workers in selected districts of Nepal.

Highly Hazardous Pesticide Poisoning Gathering Requisite Information for Decision- Making (HOPE-GRID). Relationship between Suicide and Pesticide

April 2018 – Sept 2020

Supporting Partner: University of Edinburgh, Center for pesticide suicide prevention

The objectives of the study were to identify the burden of pesticide-related admissions and mortality in Nepalese hospitals. This included examining the types of pesticides responsible for poisoning-related admissions and deaths, as well as studying the range of pesticides available in pesticide shops.