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  1. Health vulnerabilities of incarcerated women in Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal of Prison Health, May 2026, Emerald

    Professor Dr. Md Ishtiaq Ahmed Talukder, Ruchira Naved

  2. A qualitative social network analysis of decision-making around child marriage in three villages in Bangladesh

    Article • Frontiers in Global Women s Health, May 2026, Frontiers

    Ruchira Naved

  3. Implementation gaps in the two-finger test ban in medico-legal evidence collection on rape: a qualitative study in three districts of Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  4. Gender differences in type 2 diabetes treatment and management: a qualitative study in an urban slum population from Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  5. Impact of witnessing abuse of their mother and childhood trauma on men's perpetration of intimate partner violence in the cross-sectional UN multi-country study on men and violence in Asia and the Pacific

    Article • SSM - Mental Health, June 2025, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  6. Maternal experience of intimate partner violence, maternal depression, and parental stress are not associated with child telomere length in Bangladesh

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  7. Cohort profile: the BangladEsh Longitudinal Investigation of Emerging Vascular and nonvascular Events (BELIEVE) cohort study

    Article • BMJ Open, January 2025, BMJ

    Ruchira Naved

  8. A protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of Balika Bodhu: A combined empowerment and social norm based sexual and reproductive health and rights intervention for married adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh

    Article • PLOS One, August 2024, PLOS

    Ruchira Naved

  9. Induced abortion after advent of fetal sex detection technology and child sex at birth

    Article • BMC Public Health, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  10. Microcredit, gender norms, and women’s experiences of economic coercion and agency in Matlab, Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Ruchira Naved

  11. Stress biomarkers and child development in young children in Bangladesh

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, June 2024, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  12. Effectiveness of combined interventions to empower girls and address social norms in reducing child marriage in a rural sub-district of Bangladesh: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of the Tipping Point Initiative

    Article • Journal of Global Health, February 2024, Edinburgh University Global Health Society

    Ruchira Naved

  13. Multi-level analysis of the determinants of physical domestic violence against children using longitudinal data from MINIMat mother–child cohort in Bangladesh

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, December 2023, Frontiers

    Ruchira Naved

  14. Micronutrient Status During Pregnancy is Associated with Child Immune Status in Rural Bangladesh

    Article • Current Developments in Nutrition, August 2023, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  15. Factors Associated With Domestic Violence Against Women at Different Stages of Life: Findings From a 19-Year Longitudinal Dataset From the MINIMat Trial in Rural Bangladesh (2001–2020)

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Ruchira Naved

  16. An Exploration of Social Norms That Restrict Girls’ Sexuality and Facilitate Child Marriage in Bangladesh to Inform Policies and Programs

    Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, March 2022, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  17. Men’s use of economic coercion against women in rural Bangladesh.

    Article • Psychology of Violence, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ruchira Naved

  18. Telomere length is associated with growth in children in rural Bangladesh

    Article • eLife, September 2021, eLife

    Ruchira Naved

  19. Women’s Income-generating Activity and Experiences of Economic Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh

    Article • Sex Roles, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  20. Maternal experience of domestic violence before and during pregnancy and children's linear growth at 15 years: Findings from MINIMat trial in rural Bangladesh

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, March 2021, Wiley

    Ruchira Naved

  21. Women's participation in microfinance: Effects on Women's agency, exposure to partner violence, and mental health

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2021, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  22. Development and Validation of the Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) in Rural Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Ruchira Naved

  23. Learnings from the evaluation of HERrespect: a factory-based intervention to prevent intimate partner and workplace violence against female garment workers in Bangladesh

    Article • Global Health Action, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Ruchira Naved

  24. Women’s experiences of economic coercion and depressive symptoms in Matlab, Bangladesh

    Article • SSM - Population Health, December 2020, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  25. Intimate partner violence is associated with poorer maternal mental health and breastfeeding practices in Bangladesh

    Article • Health Policy and Planning, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ruchira Naved

  26. Development and validation of the LoVI: the Laws on Violence against women and girls Index

    Article • BMC International Health and Human Rights, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  27. New learnings on drivers of men’s physical and/or sexual violence against their female partners, and women’s experiences of this, and the implications for prevention interventions

    Article • Global Health Action, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Ruchira Naved

  28. Using Digital Technology for Sexual and Reproductive Health: Are Programs Adequately Considering Risk?

    Article • Global Health Science and Practice, December 2019, Johns Hopkins School Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs

    Ruchira Naved

  29. Relative importance of prenatal and postnatal determinants of stunting: data mining approaches to the MINIMat cohort, Bangladesh

    Article • BMJ Open, August 2019, BMJ

    Pernilla Svefors, Ruchira Naved

  30. Workplace violence in Bangladesh's garment industry

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2019, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  31. Gender‐Equitable Parental Decision Making and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, May 2019, Wiley

    Ruchira Naved

  32. Maternal Experience of Domestic Violence, Associations with Children’s Lipid Biomarkers at 10 Years: Findings from MINIMat Study in Rural Bangladesh

    Article • Nutrients, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Ruchira Naved

  33. Disparities by sex in care-seeking behaviors and treatment outcomes for pneumonia among children admitted to hospitals in Bangladesh

    Article • PLOS One, March 2019, PLOS

    Ruchira Naved, Aliya Naheed

  34. Multilevel Control Over Sexuality of Unmarried Adolescent Girls and Related Violence: A Qualitative Exploration in Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Ruchira Naved

  35. The pathways between female garment workers’ experience of violence and development of depressive symptoms

    Article • PLOS One, November 2018, PLOS

    Ruchira Naved

  36. Magnitude and correlates of intimate partner violence against female garment workers from selected factories in Bangladesh

    Article • PLOS One, November 2018, PLOS

    Ruchira Naved

  37. PA 19-1-0606 Effect of intimate partner violence and workplace violence on depression of female garment workers in bangladesh

    Article • November 2018, BMJ

    Ruchira Naved

  38. PA 19-2-0610 Does employment in the formal sector protect women from intimate partner violence in the context of patriarchy? the case of garment workers in bangladesh

    Article • November 2018, BMJ

    Ruchira Naved

  39. PA 19-3-0611 A cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of safe on spousal violence against women and girls in slums of dhaka, bangladesh

    Article • November 2018, BMJ

    Ruchira Naved

  40. Gender norms, violence in childhood, and men’s coercive control in marriage: A multilevel analysis of young men in Bangladesh.

    Article • Psychology of Violence, September 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ruchira Naved

  41. A cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of SAFE on spousal violence against women and girls in slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Article • PLOS One, June 2018, PLOS

    Ruchira Naved

  42. Cohort Profile: The Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab (MINIMat) cohort in Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, June 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ruchira Naved

  43. Multilevel influences on men’s partner violence justification, control over family decisions, and partner violence perpetration in Bangladesh.

    Article • Psychology of Violence, May 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ruchira Naved

  44. Multilevel influences on depressive symptoms among men in Bangladesh.

    Article • Psychology of Men & Masculinity, April 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ruchira Naved

  45. The HERrespect intervention to address violence against female garment workers in Bangladesh: study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial

    Article • BMC Public Health, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  46. Female garment workers’ experiences of violence in their homes and workplaces in Bangladesh: A qualitative study

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 2018, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  47. Men’s perpetration of partner violence in Bangladesh: Community gender norms and violence in childhood.

    Article • Psychology of Men & Masculinity, January 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ruchira Naved

  48. Breast-feeding counselling mitigates the negative association of domestic violence on exclusive breast-feeding duration in rural Bangladesh. The MINIMat randomized trial

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    shirin ziaei, Ruchira Naved

  49. Experiencing Lifetime Domestic Violence: Associations with Mental Health and Stress among Pregnant Women in Rural Bangladesh: The MINIMat Randomized Trial

    Article • PLOS One, December 2016, PLOS

    shirin ziaei, Ruchira Naved

  50. Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis

    Article • Demography, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  51. Disclosure and help seeking behavior of women exposed to physical spousal violence in Dhaka slums

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  52. Men’s Coercive Control, Partner Violence Perpetration, and Life Satisfaction in Bangladesh

    Article • Sex Roles, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved, Chris Martin

  53. Community Economic Status and Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Bangladesh

    Article • Violence Against Women, April 2015, SAGE Publications

    Ruchira Naved

  54. Community-level correlates of physical violence against unmarried female adolescents in Bangladesh

    Article • BMC Public Health, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  55. Prevalence of and factors associated with male perpetration of intimate partner violence: findings from the UN Multi-country Cross-sectional Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, October 2013, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  56. Prevalence of and factors associated with non-partner rape perpetration: findings from the UN Multi-country Cross-sectional Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, October 2013, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  57. Early prenatal food supplementation ameliorates the negative association of maternal stress with birth size in a randomised trial

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, April 2013, Wiley

    Ruchira Naved

  58. Sexual Violence Towards Married Women in Bangladesh

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  59. Medically unexplained illness and the diagnosis of hysterical conversion reaction (HCR) in women’s medicine wards of Bangladeshi hospitals: a record review and qualitative study

    Article • BMC Women s Health, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  60. Intimate partner violence, abortion, and unintended pregnancy: Results from the WHO Multi‐country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence

    Article • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, September 2012, Wiley

    Ruchira Naved

  61. Women's exposure to intimate partner violence and child malnutrition: findings from demographic and health surveys in Bangladesh

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, August 2012, Wiley

    shirin ziaei, Ruchira Naved

  62. Violence against Women with Chronic Maternal Disabilities in Rural Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  63. Early Participation in a Prenatal Food Supplementation Program Ameliorates the Negative Association of Food Insecurity with Quality of Maternal-Infant Interaction

    Article • Journal of Nutrition, April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ruchira Naved

  64. Prevalence and Correlates of Physical Spousal Violence Against Women in Slum and Nonslum Areas of Urban Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, August 2011, SAGE Publications

    Ruchira Naved

  65. Violence against women is strongly associated with suicide attempts: Evidence from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence against women

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, July 2011, Elsevier

    Yemane Berhane, Ruchira Naved

  66. Dowry and Spousal Physical Violence Against Women in Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Family Issues, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Ruchira Naved

  67. Violence Against Women and Increases in the Risk of Diarrheal Disease and Respiratory Tract Infections in Infancy

    Article • Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, October 2009, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Ruchira Naved

  68. Paramedic-conducted Mental Health Counselling for Abused Women in Rural Bangladesh: An Evaluation from the Perspective of Participants

    Article • Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  69. Micronutrient supplementation affects maternal-infant feeding interactions and maternal distress in Bangladesh

    Article • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, May 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ruchira Naved

  70. Violence against women and the risk of fetal and early childhood growth impairment: a cohort study in rural Bangladesh

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, February 2009, BMJ

    Ruchira Naved

  71. Spousal Violence in Bangladesh: A Call for a Public-health Response

    Article • Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ruchira Naved

  72. Violence against women and the risk of under‐five mortality: analysis of community‐based data from rural Bangladesh

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, January 2008, Wiley

    Ruchira Naved

  73. Physical violence by husbands: Magnitude, disclosure and help-seeking behavior of women in Bangladesh

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2006, Elsevier

    Ruchira Naved

  74. The efffects of migration and work on marriage of female garment workers in Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal of Population Geography, March 2001, Wiley

    Ruchira Naved