SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
- Kucha K, Vaishnav H, Damor P,Yagnik A, Desai G, Maitra N. Utero cutaneous fistula after caesarean section: a case report. Int J Reprod
Contracept Obstet Gynecol 2024;13:3391-4. - Satoiya, N., Vayeda, M., Desai, S. et al. Uptake and Adherence to Using a Menstrual Cup for Managing Menstruation Among Women in Rural Areas of India. J Obstet Gynecol India (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/
s13224-024-01977-7 - Lusk R, Desai T, Modi D, Desai S, Donda JK, Raulji NK, Shah P, Desai G. Characteristics & outcomes of tribal & non-tribal neonates admitted to a special newborn care unit in rural Gujarat, India. Indian J Med Res. 2024 Jan 30. doi: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_3633_21. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38293841.
- Shah, Shobha P.; Desai, Shrey A.; Dave, Kapilkumar J.. Why Some Patients Died at Home Due to COVID-19 in a Rural, Tribal Area of India?. Journal of Integrated Health Sciences 11(2):p 95-98, Jul–Dec 2023. | DOI: 10.4103/jihs.jihs_35_23
- Gayatri Desai, Kapilkumar Dave, Sumeet Devare & Shrey Desai (07 Feb 2024): Ethical and Clinical Considerations in the Use of Hydroxyurea in Pregnant Women with Sickle Cell Disease, Hemoglobin, DOI: 10.1080/03630269.2024.2310283
- Dave K, Desai G, Gupta R, Modi D, Desai S. Effectiveness of a hospital‑based comprehensive sickle cell care program to improve coverage of proven interventions in tribal areas of western India. J Integr Health Sci 2023;11:14-23.
- Maitri V, Tushar D, Dhiren M, Shrey D, Gayatri D. A hospital based study to access the usefulness of using the combination regime of the ferric carboxy maltose, Vitamin B12 and folic acid as a treatment of severe anemia among pregnant women in a rural tribal community of South Gujarat. Indian J Community Med 2022;47:437-40.
- Dave, K., Shah, P., Desai, S. et al. Epidemiology of Infant Deaths in Predominant Tribal Areas of Two Districts of Gujarat.Indian Pediatr. 2022 Mar 15;59(3):230-233. Epub 2022 Jan 9. PMID: 35014619.
- Thaker P, Colah RB, Patel J, Raicha B,Mistry A, Mehta V, Italia Y, Desai S,Dave K, Shanmugam R, Ghosh K and Mukherjee MB (2022) Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease Among Tribal Populations in States of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in India: Evaluation and Outcome Over 6.
- Dave, K., Shah, P., Desai, S. et al. Epidemiology of Infant Deaths in Predominant Tribal Areas of Two Districts of Gujarat: Results of Pregnancy and Mortality Surveillance Program. Indian J Pediatr (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-022- 04123-1 Please click on this link https://rdcu.be/cIYmz
- Maitri Vayeda, Vishal Ghanghar, Shrey Desai, Pankaj Shah, Dhiren Modi, Kapilkumar Dave, Shyam Dave & Shobha Shah (2022) Improving menstrual hygiene management among adolescent girls in tribal areas of Gujarat an evaluation of an implementation model integrating the government service delivery system, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 29:2, 1992199, DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2021.1992199
- Vinayak R. Tripathi, Manish Popli, Ajai Gaur, Spirituality meets science: Impact of founders’ imprint on healthcare practices for marginal communities in India,
Journal of Business Research, Volume 138, 2022, Pages 311-323, ISSN 0148-2963,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.012. - Vinayak R Tripathi, Harsh Kumar Jha, Manish Popli, Pankaj Shah, Gayatri Desai, Clinic, community, and in-between: the influence of space on real-time translation of medical expertise by frontline healthcare professionals in marginal tribal communities, Journal of Professions and Organization, 2021;, joab012, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joab012
- Joy C Liu, Sinchan Banerjee, Anshul Bhagi, Aurobindo Sarkar, Bhrigu Kapuria, Shrey Desai,
Venkatraman Sethuraman, Sumeet Patil, Somalee Banerjee*. Blockchain technology for immunisation documentation in India: findings from a simulation pilot. The Lancet Global Health.2021. Volume 9, Supplement 1, Page S22. Total citation: 0. - Modi, D., Saha, S., Vaghela, P., Dave, K., Anand, A., Desai, S., & Shah, P. (2020). Costing and Cost-Effectiveness of a Mobile Health Intervention (ImTeCHO) in Improving Infant Mortality in Tribal Areas of Gujarat, India: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(10), e17066. https://doi.org/10.2196/17066
- Shah P, Madhiwala N, Shah S, Desai G, Dave K, Dholakia N, Patel S, Desai S, Modi D. High uptake of an innovative mobile phone application among community health workers in rural India: An implementation study. Natl Med J India. 2019 Sep-Oct;32(5):262-269. doi: 10.4103/0970-258X.295956. PMID: 32985439.
- Saha S, Kotwani P, Pandya A, Patel C, Shah K, Saxena D, et al. Addressing comprehensive primary healthcare in Gujarat through mHealth intervention: Early implementation experience with TeCHO+ programme. J Family Med Prim Care 2020;9:340-6
- Modi D, Dholakia N, Gopalan R, Venkatraman S, Dave K, Shah S, et al. (2019) mHealth intervention “ImTeCHO” to improve delivery of maternal, neonatal, and child care services—A cluster-randomized trial in tribal areas of Gujarat, India. PLoS Med 16(10): e1002939.
- Kapilkumar Dave, Palanivel Chinnakali, Pruthu Thekkur, Shrey Desai, Chandrakant Vora and Gayatri Desai.Attrition from Care and Clinical Outcomes in a Cohort of Sickle Cell Disease Patients in a Tribal Area of Western India. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2019, 4,125
- Mukherjee MB, Colah RB, Mehta PR, et al. Multicenter Evaluation of HemoTypeSC as a Point-of-Care Sickle Cell Disease Rapid Diagnostic Test for Newborns and Adults Across India. Am J Clin Pathol. 2020;153(1):82‐87. doi:10.1093/ajcp/aqz108
- Shobha Shah, Aakash Shinde, Ankit Anand, Dhiren Modi, Gayatri Desai, Hardik Bhatt, Ravi Gopalan,Nishith Dholakia, Prakash Vaghela, Shrey Desai, Pankaj Shah. The role of an mHealth intervention in improving knowledge and skills of accredited social health activists in tribal areas of Gujarat, India: a nested study within an implementation research trial. 107(Suppl. 471), pp.72–79107(Suppl. 471), pp.72–79
- Desai G, Anand A, Modi D, Shah S, Shah K, Shah A, et al. (2017) Rates, indications, and outcomes of caesarean section deliveries: A comparison of tribal and non-tribal women in Gujarat, India. PLoS ONE 12(12): e0189260. https://doi.org/10.1371/
journal.pone.0189260 - Gayatri Desai, Ankit Anand, Pankaj Shah, Shobha Shah, Kapilkumar Dave, Hardik Bhatt, Shrey Desai and Dhiren Modi. Sickle cell disease and pregnancy outcomes: a study of the community-based hospital in a tribal block of Gujarat, India. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (2017) 36:3. DOI 10.1186/s41043-017-0079-z
- Dhiren Modi, Shrey Desai, Kapilkumar Dave, Shobha Shah, Gayatri Desai, Nishith Dholakia, Ravi Gopalan and Pankaj Shah. Cluster randomized trial of a mHealth intervention “ImTeCHO” to improve delivery of proven maternal, neonatal, and child care interventions through community-based Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) by enhancing their motivation and strengthening supervision in tribal areas of Gujarat, India: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials(2017)18:270
- Modi D, Patel J, Desai S, Shah P. Accessing completeness of pregnancy, delivery, and death registration by Accredited Social Health Activists [ASHA] in an innovative mHealth project in the tribal areas of Gujarat: A cross-sectional study.J Postgrad Med. 2016 May 31. doi:10.4103/0022-3859.183168.
- Gayatri Desai, Kapil Kumar Dave, Somalee Banerjee, Palav Babaria, Reena Gupta. Initial outcomes of a comprehensive care model for sickle cell disease among a tribal population in rural western India. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2016 May;3(5):1282-1287.
- Our first publication regarding sickle cell disease
- Shobha P Shah, Pankaj Shah, Shrey Desai, Dhiren Modi, Gaytri Desai, and Honey Arora. Effectiveness and Feasibility of Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation to Adolescent Girls and Boys through Peer Educators at Community Level in the Tribal Area of Gujarat. Indian J Community Med. 2016 Apr-Jun; 41(2): 158–161.
- Pankaj Shah, Dhiren Modi, Gayatri Desai, Shobha Shah, Shrey Desai, Uday Gajiwala. Equity in utilization of hospital and maternal care services: Trend analysis at SEWA Rural, India. In equity in maternal & child health 2016: 112-121. Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar.
- Dhiren Modi, Ravi Gopalan, Shobha Shah, Sethuraman Venkatraman,Gayatri Desai, Shrey Desai and Pankaj Shah.Development and formative evaluation of an innovative mHealth intervention for improving coverage of community-based maternal, newborn and child health services in rural areas of India. Glob Health Action 2015, 8: 26769.
- Pankaj Shah, Shrey Desai, Dhiren Modi, Shobha Shah. Assessing Diagnostic Accuracy of Haemoglobin Colour Scale in Real-life Setting. J Health Popul Nutr. 2014 Mar;32(1):51-7.
- Pankaj Shah, Shobha Shah, Raman V Kutty, Dhiren Modi. Changing epidemiology of maternal mortality in rural India: tie to reset strategies for MDG-5. Tropical Medicine and International Health. Published online on 18th February, 2014. doi:10.1111/tmi.12282
- Shah PP, Modi DK, Shah SP, Desai SA. Effect of maternity schemes on place of delivery in a tribal block of Gujarat. Indian J Community Med 2013;38:118-20.
- Shobha P Shah, Rajesh Nair, Pankaj P Shah, Dhiren K Modi, Shrey A Desai, Lata Desai. Improving quality of life with new menstrual hygiene practices among adolescent tribal girls in rural Gujarat, India. Reproductive Health Matters 2013;21(41):205–213.
- V. Raman Kutty, Pankaj Shah, Dhiren Modi, Shobha Shah, Mala Ramanathan, and A. R. Archana. Reducing Neonatal Mortality in Jhagadia Block, Gujarat: We Need to go Beyond Promoting Hospital Deliveries. J Trop Pediatr first published online September 10, 2012 doi:10.1093/tropej/fms043.
- Shah P, Gajiwala U, Pate R. Infection control in cataract surgery. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 2009;6(4):206-7.
- Murthy G, Vashist P, John N, Pokharel G, Ellwein L, Gajiwala U, Patel R, Desai L, Shah P. Prevalence and vision-related outcomes of cataract surgery in Gujarat, India. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2009;16(6):400-9.
- Desai L, Shah P, Gajiwala U, Shah R. An innovative rural survey: the experience of SEWA. Community Eye Health Journal 2007;20(64):101-2.
- Gajiwala U, Shah P, Desai L. Training of grassroots workers for the community health eye programme in Southern Gujarat. Community Eye Health Journal 2005;18(56):70-1.
- Desai L, Shah P. Infant mortality rate- issues and experience. Anvesak 2001;31:153-9.
- Latha K, Kanani S, Maitra N, Bhatt R, Senapati S, Bhattacharya S, Sridhar S, Giri G, Shah P, Shah S, Desai L, Parikh I, Taskar V, Dharap N, Mulgaonkar V. Prevalence of Clinically Detectable Gynaecological Morbidity in India: Results of Four Community Based Studies. The Journal of Family Welfare 1997;43(4):8-16.
- Shah A, Nair A, Shah P. A study on sensitivity of P.falciparum to chloroquine in a rural area of Bharuch district, Gujarat. Indian Journal of Malariology 1996;33:126-30.
- Desai L, Shah P, Sridhar S. Integrated interventions for child survival–a case study. Indian J Pediatr 1994;61(1):1-9.
