Publications
Selected scholarship.
Highlights of Dr. Mediratta’s peer-reviewed publications. For the full and continuously-updated list, see Google Scholar.
Ethiopia and Gondar
- Derivation and validation of a prognostic score for neonatal mortality in Ethiopia: a case-control study.
- Overnight admissions to a neonatal intensive care unit in Ethiopia are not associated with increased mortality.
- Remote versus in-person pre-service neonatal resuscitation training: a noninferiority randomized controlled trial in Ethiopia.
- Risk factors and case management of acute diarrhoea in North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia.
Global Burden of Disease (selected)
- Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990 to 2021.
- Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950 to 2021.
- Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990 to 2023.
- Global, regional, and national burden of epilepsy, 1990 to 2021.
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990 to 2021.
- Global, regional, and national trends in routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030.
Other selected work
- Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries.
- Burden of disease scenarios by state in the USA, 2022 to 2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
- Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021.