1. Shriyan P, Khetrapal S., van Schayck O. C. P., Babu GR. Maternal depressiveness and infant growth outcomes: Findings from the MAASTHI cohort study in India. J Psychosom Res. 2023(IF 4.6)
2. Shriyan P, Sudhir P, van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Association of high cortisol levels in pregnancy and altered fetal growth. Results from the MAASTHI, a prospective cohort study, Bengaluru. The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia. 2023 Apr 13.
3. Lawn, J. E., Ohuma, E. O., Bradley, E., Idueta, L. S., Hazel, E., Okwaraji, Y. B., … & Babu, G. R. (2023). Small babies, big risks: global estimates of prevalence and mortality for vulnerable newborns to accelerate change and improve counting. The Lancet, 401(10389), 1707-1719. (IF 202.7)
04. A serosurvey template for the whole of India, 24 July 2021, (The Hindu)Leslie HH, Babu GR, Saldanha ND, Turcotte-Tremblay AM, Ravi D, Kapoor NR, Shapeti SS, Prabhakaran D, Kruk ME. Population Preferences for Primary Care Models for Hypertension in Karnataka, India. JAMA network open. 2023 Mar 1;6(3):e232937. (IF 13.3)
05. Why Covishield dose gap must be shortened, 17 June 2021, (TOI)Deepa R, Mandal S, Van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Vitamin B6 Levels and Impaired Folate Status but Not Vitamin B12 Associated with Low Birth Weight: Results from the MAASTHI Birth Cohort in South India. Nutrients. 2023 Apr 6;15(7):1793. (IF 5.7)
06. John DA, Babu GR. What is the Modern Human Eating? Dietary Transition of the Age-Old to the Modern Man of India. Public Health Reviews. 2022:4. (IF 4.9)
1. Erchick DJ, Hazel EA, Katz J, Lee AC, Diaz M, Wu LS, Yoshida S, Bahl R, Grandi C, Labrique AB, Babu GR, Rashid M et al. Vulnerable newborn types: analysis of subnational, population‐based birth cohorts for 541 285 live births in 23 countries, 2000–2021. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. (IF 4.44)
2. Guenat, S., Purnell, P., Davies, Z.G., Nawrath, M., Stringer, L.C., Babu, G.R., Balasubramanian, M., Ballantyne, E.E., Bylappa, B.K., Chen, B. and De Jager, P., 2022. Meeting sustainable development goals via robotics and autonomous systems. Nature Communications, 13(1), 3559. (IF 17.694)
3. Gupta M, Parameswaran G.G., Sra MS, Mohanta R, Patel D, Gupta A, Bansal B, Jain V, Mazumder A, Arora M, Aggarwal N Babu GR. Contact tracing of COVID-19 in Karnataka, India: Superspreading and determinants of infectiousness and symptomatic infection. PloS one. 2022 Jul 11;17(7):e0270789.(IF 3.75)
04. Rubina M, Babu GR, Avinash K, Ranjana S, Tanica L. Factors associated with differential Covid-19 mortality rates in the SEAR nations: a narrative review. IJID Regions. 2022 Feb 27. (IF 12.75)
05. Tamysetty S, Babu GR, Biswamitra Sahu, et al. 2022. Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence: Findings from Slums of Four Major Metro Cities of India. Vaccines 10, 2022, no. 1: 60. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010060 (IF 7.76)
06. Zimmermann LV, Salvatore M, Babu GR, Mukherjee B. Estimating COVID-19‒related mortality in India: An epidemiological challenge with insufficient data. American Journal of Public Health. 2021 Jul;111(S2):S59-62. (IF 4.15)
1. Haridas DN, Schayck OCPv, Babu GR, Nair NS, Shriyan P Feeding styles and adiposity in children of 6 months– 5 years of age: Protocol for a systematic review and meta- analysis. PLOS ONE 18(10) (2023):
2. Birk N, Oakley LL, Mallinson PAC, R D, Babu GR, Nyirenda M, Kinra S. Statistical analysis plan and protocol updates for Gestational diabetes in Uganda and India: Design and Evaluation of Educational Films for Improving Screening and Self-management (GUIDES) trial. Trials. 2023 Aug 12;24(1):520. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07508-5. PMID: 37568171; PMCID: PMC10422739.
3. Oakley LL, Namara A, Sahu B, Nadal IP, Ana Y, Coombe H, Oteng-Ntim E, Seeley J, Nyirenda M, Babu GR, Kinra S. Educational films for improving screening and self-management of gestational diabetes in India and Uganda (GUIDES): study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2021 Dec;22(1):1-0.(IF 2.19)
04. Hebbar PB, Dsouza V, Bhojani U, van Schayck OC, Babu GR, Nagelhout G. Implementation research for taking tobacco control policies to scale in India: a realist evaluation study protocol. BMJ Open. 2021;11:e050859 (IF 3.00)
05. Gudlavalleti AG, Babu GR, van Schayck OCP, Schaper NC, Lewis MG, Murthy GVS. Evaluation of competence training for the minimally trained health worker in type 2 diabetes: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Medicine. 2020;99(44):e22959. (IF 1.81)
06. Kumar Muthusamy Santhosh BT, Manickam Ponnaiah, Saravana Kumar V, Rade Kiran, Shah Naman, Kant Shashi, Babu GR, Zodpey Sanjay, Kumar CP Girish, Vivian Thangaraj Jeromie Wesley, Chatterjee Pranab, Kanungo Suman, Pandey Ravindra Mohan, Murhekar Manoj, Singh Sujeet K, Sarkar Swarup, Muliyi J P, Gangakhedkar Raman, Reddy D.C.S. National sero-surveillance to monitor the trend of SARS-CoV-2 infection transmission in India: Protocol for community-based surveillance. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2020(IF 5.27)
1. Erchick DJ, Hazel EA, Katz J, Lee AC, Diaz M, Wu LS, Yoshida S, Bahl R, Grandi C, Labrique AB, Babu GR, Rashid M et al. Vulnerable newborn types: analysis of subnational, population‐based birth cohorts for 541 285 live births in 23 countries, 2000–2021. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. (IF 4.44)
2. Guenat, S., Purnell, P., Davies, Z.G., Nawrath, M., Stringer, L.C., Babu, G.R., Balasubramanian, M., Ballantyne, E.E., Bylappa, B.K., Chen, B. and De Jager, P., 2022. Meeting sustainable development goals via robotics and autonomous systems. Nature Communications, 13(1), 3559. (IF 17.694)
3. Gupta M, Parameswaran G.G., Sra MS, Mohanta R, Patel D, Gupta A, Bansal B, Jain V, Mazumder A, Arora M, Aggarwal N Babu GR. Contact tracing of COVID-19 in Karnataka, India: Superspreading and determinants of infectiousness and symptomatic infection. PloS one. 2022 Jul 11;17(7):e0270789.(IF 3.75)
04. Rubina M, Babu GR, Avinash K, Ranjana S, Tanica L. Factors associated with differential Covid-19 mortality rates in the SEAR nations: a narrative review. IJID Regions. 2022 Feb 27. (IF 12.75)
05. Tamysetty S, Babu GR, Biswamitra Sahu, et al. 2022. Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence: Findings from Slums of Four Major Metro Cities of India. Vaccines 10, 2022, no. 1: 60. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010060 (IF 7.76)
06. Zimmermann LV, Salvatore M, Babu GR, Mukherjee B. Estimating COVID-19‒related mortality in India: An epidemiological challenge with insufficient data. American Journal of Public Health. 2021 Jul;111(S2):S59-62. (IF 4.15)
1. Babu GR, Ana Y, Kim MK, Kruk ME, Leslie HH. Universal Health Coverage for Better Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in LMICs. In: Prabhakaran D, Anand S, Reddy KS, editors. Public Health Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Management. Boca Raton: CRC Press; 2022. p. 13.
2. John, Daisy A., Anand Mamdapur, and Giridhara R. Babu. “Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 with Focus on 3rd and 4th Waves.” Handbook on Complete COVID-19 Care (2022): 1.
3. Yamuna A, Babu GR. Understanding and Addressing the Inequalities Affecting Workers in Informal Sector in India. In: Panneer S, Acharya SS, Sivakami N, editors. Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India: Lessons for Emerging Economies. Singapore: Springer Singapore; 2019. p. 3-12.
04. Babu GR, Yamuna A. Ethical Analysis of Public Health Programmes: What Does It Entail? In Ethics in Public Health Practice in India 2018 (pp. 63-83). Springer, Singapore.
05. Babu GR, Jeemon P. ‘Evaluating published studies’ in Dr. Tandon’s Textbook of Cardiology. Eds: Prof. D. Prabhakaran, Prof. K. S. Reddy, Prof. U. Kaul, and Prof. R. Krishna Kumar.
06. Babu GR, Prasad. K.H., Ananta Kumar S R, Mohammed Farooque Khatib, Sri Krishna, Sudha Rani S V. Operational Guidelines for the NCD prevention and control in Karnataka.
1. Yamuna A, Babu GR. Understanding and Addressing the Inequalities Affecting Workers in Informal Sector in India. In: Panneer S, Acharya SS, Sivakami N, editors. Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India: Lessons for Emerging Economies. Singapore: Springer Singapore; 2019. p. 3-12.
2. Babu GR, Yamuna A. Ethical Analysis of Public Health Programmes: What Does It Entail? In Ethics in Public Health Practice in India 2018 (pp. 63-83). Springer, Singapore.
3. Babu GR, Jeemon P. ‘Evaluating published studies’ in Dr Tandon’s Textbook of Cardiology. Eds: Prof. D. Prabhakaran, Prof. K. S. Reddy, Prof. U. Kaul and Prof. R. Krishna Kumar.
4. Babu GR, Prasad.K.H, Ananta Kumar S R, Mohammed Farooque Khatib, Sri Krishna, Sudha Rani S V. Operational Guidelines for the NCD prevention and control in Karnataka.
5. Babu GR, Prasad.K.H, Ananta Kumar S R, Mohammed Farooque Khatib, Sri Krishna, Sudha Rani S V. Operational Guidelines for the NCD prevention and control in Karnataka.Babu GR, Prasad.K.H, Ananta Kumar S R, Mohammed Farooque Khatib, Sudha Rani S V, Sri Krishna. Technical Guidelines for the NCD prevention and control in Karnataka- Medical Officers.
06. Babu GR, Anantha Kumar S R, Mohammed Farooque Khatib. Technical Guidelines for the NCD prevention and control in Karnataka for Staff Nurses
07. Babu GR, Anantha Kumar S R, Mohammed Farooque Khatib. Technical Guidelines for the NCD prevention and control in Karnataka- Junior Health Assistants
08. Babu GR, Anantha Kumar S R, Mohammed Farooque Khatib. Technical Guidelines for the NCD prevention and control in Karnataka- ASHA workers
09. Babu GR, Raveesha R Mugali, Vivek V Singh, India Infrastructure Report-2013: The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Issues & Challenges. [In press] will be hosted on http://www.idfc.com/foundation/policy/india_infrastructure_report.htm
