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Nithya Ramanathan

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Articles 15
Citations 253
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Public Health
Environmental Health
Biomedical Engineering
Top 10 Co-Authors
Dallas Swendeman
W Scott Comulada
Deborah Estrin
Abhishek Kar
Emily Conant
Marym Mohammady
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Cherryl Kolhe
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Lokendra Singh
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Environ Sci Technol
AIDS Behav
Malays J Med Sci
Public Health Nutr
Gates Open Res
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Recent Articles
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Providing optimal care in the neonatal care units in India: How Covid-19 exacerbated existing barriers
Messersmith L, Kolhe C, Ladha A, Das P, Rao S, Mohammady M, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 May; 4(5):e0000393. PMID: 38696540
Nearly one quarter (600,000) of all neonatal deaths worldwide per year occur in India. To reduce neonatal mortality, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare established neonatal care units,...
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Poor power quality is a major barrier to providing optimal care in special neonatal care units (SNCU) in Central India
Messersmith L, Ladha A, Kolhe C, Patel A, Summers J, Rao S, et al.
Gates Open Res . 2023 Jun; 6:58. PMID: 37383544
Approximately 25% of all neonatal deaths worldwide occur in India. The Indian Government has established Special Neonatal Care Units (SNCUs) in district and sub-district level hospitals to reduce neonatal mortality,...
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Time Series Visualizations of Mobile Phone-Based Daily Diary Reports of Stress, Physical Activity, and Diet Quality in Mostly Ethnic Minority Mothers: Feasibility Study
Comulada W, Swendeman D, Rezai R, Ramanathan N
JMIR Form Res . 2019 Jan; 2(2):e11062. PMID: 30684407
Background: Health behavior patterns reported through daily diary data are important to understand and intervene upon at the individual level in N-of-1 trials and related study designs. There is often...
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Longitudinal Validity and Reliability of Brief Smartphone Self-Monitoring of Diet, Stress, and Physical Activity in a Diverse Sample of Mothers
Swendeman D, Comulada W, Koussa M, Worthman C, Estrin D, Rotheram-Borus M, et al.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth . 2018 Sep; 6(9):e176. PMID: 30249576
Background: Multiple strategies can be used when self-monitoring diet, physical activity, and perceived stress, but no gold standards are available. Although self-monitoring is a core element of self-management and behavior...
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Adherence to self-monitoring healthy lifestyle behaviours through mobile phone-based ecological momentary assessments and photographic food records over 6 months in mostly ethnic minority mothers
Comulada W, Swendeman D, Koussa M, Mindry D, Medich M, Estrin D, et al.
Public Health Nutr . 2017 Dec; 21(4):679-688. PMID: 29199630
Objective: Mobile phones can replace traditional self-monitoring tools through cell phone-based ecological momentary assessment (CEMA) of lifestyle behaviours and camera phone-based images of meals, i.e. photographic food records (PFR). Adherence...
6.
Perceived mHealth barriers and benefits for home-based HIV testing and counseling and other care: Qualitative findings from health officials, community health workers, and persons living with HIV in South Africa
van Heerden A, Harris D, van Rooyen H, Barnabas R, Ramanathan N, Ngcobo N, et al.
Soc Sci Med . 2017 May; 183:97-105. PMID: 28475904
mHealth has been proposed to address inefficiencies in the current South African healthcare system, including home-based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) programs. Yet wide-scale adoption of mHealth has not occurred....
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Root cause analysis underscores the importance of understanding, addressing, and communicating cold chain equipment failures to improve equipment performance
Lennon P, Atuhaire B, Yavari S, Sampath V, Mvundura M, Ramanathan N, et al.
Vaccine . 2017 Apr; 35(17):2198-2202. PMID: 28364931
Vaccine cold chain equipment (CCE) in developing countries is often exposed to harsh environmental conditions, such as extreme temperatures and humidity, and is subject to many additional challenges, including intermittent...
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Cystic Meningioma Masquerading as a Metastatic Tumor: A Case Report
Ramanathan N, Kamaruddin K, Othman A, Mustafa F, Awang M
Malays J Med Sci . 2016 Jul; 23(3):92-4. PMID: 27418876
Cystic meningioma is a rare form of intracranial meningioma. Meningiomas are typically solid tumors but may rarely have cystic components. The diagnosis of cystic meningioma is clinically challenging as the...
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Quantification of elemental and organic carbon in atmospheric particulate matter using color space sensing-hue, saturation, and value (HSV) coordinates
Olson M, Graham E, Hamad S, Uchupalanun P, Ramanathan N, Schauer J
Sci Total Environ . 2016 Jan; 548-549:252-259. PMID: 26802353
A fast and cost effective application of color sensing was used to quantify color coordinates of atmospheric particulate matter collected on filters to quantify elemental and organic carbon (EC/OC) loading....
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Smartphone self-monitoring to support self-management among people living with HIV: perceived benefits and theory of change from a mixed-methods randomized pilot study
Swendeman D, Ramanathan N, Baetscher L, Medich M, Scheffler A, Comulada W, et al.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr . 2015 Apr; 69 Suppl 1:S80-91. PMID: 25867783
Background: Self-monitoring by mobile phone applications offers new opportunities to engage patients in self-management. Self-monitoring has not been examined thoroughly as a self-directed intervention strategy for self-management of multiple behaviors...