Protocol for validation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for children under 3 years of age in seven countries

• Fyezah Jehan,
• Günther Fink,
• Arup Dutta,
• Sunil Sazawal,
• Salahuddin Ahmed,
• Abdullah H Baqui,
• Fan Jiang,
• Tarun Dua,
• Melissa Gladstone,
• Fahmida Tofail,
• Vanessa Cavallera,
• Alexandra Brentani,
• Yvonne Schönbeck,
• Jin Zhao,
• Iris Eekhout,
• Dana C McCoy,
• Maureen M Black,
• Rasheda Khanam,
• Magdalena Janus,
• Ann M Weber,
• Marta Rubio-Codina,
• Stef van Buuren,
• Arsene Zongo,
• Muhammad Imran Nisar,
• Gillian Lancaster,
• Yunting Zhang,
• Gareth McCray,
• Patricia Kariger,
• Andreas Holzinger,
• Rebecca Norton,
• Ambreen Nizar,
• Arunangshu D Roy,
• Farzana Begum,
• Katelyn Hepworth,
• Jonathan Seiden,
• Romuald Kouadio E Anago,
• Abbie Raikes,
• Marcus Waldman,
• Raghbir Kaur,
• Michelle Pérez Maillard,
• Mariana Pacifico Mercadante,
• Jamila Khalfan Ali,
• Symone Detmar,
• Samuel Nzale Kembou,
• Said Mohammed Ali

Affiliations

Fyezah Jehan

Pediatrics, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Günther Fink

3 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Arup Dutta

Center for Public Health Kinetics, CPHK Global, Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Sunil Sazawal

Center for Public Health Kinetics, CPHK Global, Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Salahuddin Ahmed

Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Abdullah H Baqui

Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Fan Jiang

5 Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Pediatric Translational Medicine Institution, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, MOE-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children’s Environmental Health, Shanghai, China

Tarun Dua

medical officer

Melissa Gladstone

Department of Women and Children`s Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Fahmida Tofail

41 Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Vanessa Cavallera

7 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Alexandra Brentani

Department of Pediatrics, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil

Yvonne Schönbeck

3 TNO, Department of Child Health, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jin Zhao

Department of AIDS Control and Prevention, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Iris Eekhout

Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Leiden, Netherlands

Dana C McCoy

5 Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Maureen M Black

endowed professor of pediatrics

Rasheda Khanam

1 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

Magdalena Janus

Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Ann M Weber

School of Public Health, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA

Marta Rubio-Codina

Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Stef van Buuren

Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Leiden, Netherlands

Arsene Zongo

Faculté de pharmacie, Université Laval, Laval, Quebec, Canada

Muhammad Imran Nisar

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Gillian Lancaster

School of Primary, Community and Social Care and Keele Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), Keele, UK

Yunting Zhang

Child Health Advocacy Institute, Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, National Children`s Medical Center, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Gareth McCray

1 Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK

Patricia Kariger

2 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Andreas Holzinger

Dr von Hauner Children`s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Rebecca Norton

1Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Ambreen Nizar

Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Arunangshu D Roy

Projahnmo Research Foundation, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Farzana Begum

Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Katelyn Hepworth

2 Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Jonathan Seiden

Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Romuald Kouadio E Anago

IPA Côte d`Ivoire, Innovations for Poverty Action, Abidjan, Côte d`Ivoire

Abbie Raikes

Health Promotion, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Marcus Waldman

Health Promotion, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Raghbir Kaur

Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Michelle Pérez Maillard

Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Mariana Pacifico Mercadante

Department of Pediatrics, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Jamila Khalfan Ali

Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Symone Detmar

Department of Child Health, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, Netherlands

Samuel Nzale Kembou

IPA Côte d`Ivoire, Innovations for Poverty Action, Abidjan, Côte d`Ivoire

Said Mohammed Ali

Institution Head, Public Health Laboratory, Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania