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Dianna M. Blau

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · US
Area of research
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health · Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Research interest
Research interests include Global Maternal and Child Health, Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes, Viral Infections and Vectors, and Respiratory viral infections research.
h-index
44
citations
7,974
works
144
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Investigating the Role of Cytomegalovirus as a Cause of Stillbirths and Child Deaths in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through Postmortem Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling.
2026cited by 3position: contributordoi
Post-mortem characterisation of HIV-associated under-5 deaths in the CHAMPS network: population-based mortality surveillance
The Lancet HIV 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
Investigating the Role of Cytomegalovirus as a Cause of Stillbirths and Child Deaths in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through Postmortem Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2025cited by 5position: middledoi
Adherence to Perinatal Asphyxia or Sepsis Management Guidelines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
JAMA Network Open 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Major Causes of Perinatal and Paediatric Mortality in Sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia: Adjustment for Selection Bias in the <scp>CHAMPS</scp> Network
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Postmortem point-of care hemoglobin testing is feasible and potentially accurate among children in South Africa.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Use of minimally invasive tissue sampling to determine the contribution of diarrheal diseases to under-five mortality and associated co-morbidities and co-infections in children with fatal diarrheal diseases in Africa and Bangladesh.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Child deaths caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia: a secondary analysis of Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) data
The Lancet Microbe 2024cited by 55position: middledoi
Post-mortem investigation of deaths due to pneumonia in children aged 1–59 months in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia from 2016 to 2022: an observational study
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 2024cited by 41position: middledoi
Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
BMJ Global Health 2024cited by 33position: middledoi
Burden of child mortality from malaria in high endemic areas: Results from the CHAMPS network using minimally invasive tissue sampling
Journal of Infection 2024cited by 22position: middledoi
Identifying delays in healthcare seeking and provision: The Three Delays-in-Healthcare and mortality among infants and children aged 1–59 months
PLOS Global Public Health 2024cited by 22position: middledoi
Identifying delays in healthcare seeking and provision: The Three Delays-in-Healthcare and mortality among infants and children aged 1-59 months.
2024cited by 13position: contributordoi
Etiologies and comorbidities of meningitis deaths in children under 5 years in high-mortality settings: Insights from the CHAMPS Network in the post-pneumococcal vaccine era
Journal of Infection 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
Neurological Symptoms and Cause of Death Among Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
JAMA Network Open 2024cited by 6position: middledoi
Clinicopathological discrepancies in the diagnoses of childhood causes of death in the CHAMPS network: An analysis of antemortem diagnostic inaccuracies
BMJ Paediatrics Open 2024cited by 5position: middledoi
Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling
PLOS Global Public Health 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Causes of Death Among Infants and Children in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network
JAMA Network Open 2023cited by 95position: middledoi
Causes of death identified in neonates enrolled through Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), December 2016 –December 2021
PLOS Global Public Health 2023cited by 56position: middledoi
Causes of death identified in neonates enrolled through Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), December 2016 -December 2021.
2023cited by 43position: contributordoi
Neural tube defects as a cause of death among stillbirths, infants, and children younger than 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia: an analysis of the CHAMPS network
The Lancet Global Health 2023cited by 28position: middledoi
Causes of stillbirth and death among children younger than 5 years in eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia: a population-based post-mortem study
The Lancet Global Health 2023cited by 19position: middledoi
Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths Caused by Group B <i>Streptococcus</i> in Africa and South Asia Identified Through Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS)
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
Provider adherence to clinical care recommendations for infants and children who died in seven low- and middle-income countries in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network
EClinicalMedicine 2023cited by 14position: middledoi
Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in 2019: a systematic analysis
The Lancet 2022cited by 1,795position: middledoi
Prioritizing Health Care Strategies to Reduce Childhood Mortality
JAMA Network Open 2022cited by 60position: middledoi
Insights on the differentiation of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths: A study from the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network
PLoS ONE 2022cited by 3position: middledoi
Global, regional, and national estimates and trends in stillbirths from 2000 to 2019: a systematic assessment
The Lancet 2021cited by 534position: middledoi
Global Respiratory Syncytial Virus–Related Infant Community Deaths
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2021cited by 60position: middledoi
Postmortem investigations and identification of multiple causes of child deaths: An analysis of findings from the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network
PLoS Medicine 2021cited by 56position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Robert F. Breiman · Emory University6 papers (2019–2020) · 5 papers (2019–2019)Quique Bassat · BorgWarner (Brazil)5 papers (2019–2020) · 5 papers (2023–2026)Quique Bassat · BorgWarner (Brazil)5 papers (2023–2026)Shabir A. Madhi · Washington University in St. Louis4 papers (2019–2019)Richard Chawana · University of Cape Town4 papers (2019–2019)Zachary J. Madewell · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention4 papers (2023–2026)Nega Assefa · College of Medical Sciences4 papers (2023–2026)Jana M. Ritter · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention4 papers (2015–2019)Sherif R. Zaki · Tulane University3 papers (2019–2019) · 3 papers (2019–2019)Alane Izu · AstraZeneca (Brazil)3 papers (2019–2019)Vicky L. Baillie · National Research Foundation3 papers (2019–2019) · 3 papers (2019–2019)Martin Hale · Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine3 papers (2019–2019) · 3 papers (2019–2019)Susan Nzenze · University of Cape Town3 papers (2019–2019) · 3 papers (2019–2019)Cynthia G. Whitney · Emory University3 papers (2023–2026)