Dianna M. Blau

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Global Maternal and Child Health(32), Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes(27), Viral Infections and Vectors(23), Child Nutrition and Water Access(17), Respiratory viral infections research(17)

Publications139 total

Post-mortem characterisation of HIV-associated under-5 deaths in the CHAMPS network: population-based mortality surveillance
The Lancet HIV·2026· 1 cited
Correction: Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling
PLOS Global Public Health·2025Open Access
Effect of maternal infection on stillbirths and early neonatal deaths: nested case-control studies in pregnancy cohorts in East Africa
2025Open Access
Causes of stillbirth in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Findings from Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance, 2016-2023
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
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·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Country-Specific Estimates of Misclassification Rates of Computer-Coded Verbal Autopsy Algorithms
2025Open Access
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
PLOS Global Public Health·2025Open Access
Modeling structure and country-specific heterogeneity in misclassification matrices of verbal autopsy-based cause of death classifiers
The Annals of Applied Statistics·2025· 1 cited
Adherence to Perinatal Asphyxia or Sepsis Management Guidelines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
JAMA Network Open·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
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·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Postmortem point-of care hemoglobin testing is feasible and potentially accurate among children in South Africa
PLOS Global Public Health·2025Open Access
Importance of postmortem anthropometric evaluation in defining the role of malnutrition as a cause of infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: a cohort study
BMJ Open·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
BMJ Global Health·2024· 22 citedOpen Access
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·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Neurological Symptoms and Cause of Death Among Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
JAMA Network Open·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling
PLOS Global Public Health·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Clinicopathological discrepancies in the diagnoses of childhood causes of death in the CHAMPS network: An analysis of antemortem diagnostic inaccuracies
BMJ Paediatrics Open·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Comparison of causes of stillbirth and child deaths as determined by verbal autopsy and minimally invasive tissue sampling
2024Open Access
Experience on postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling to ascertain the cause of death determination in South African children: A case for implementing as standard of care
South African Medical Journal·2024Open Access
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·2024· 19 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Quique Bassat(16), Robert F. Breiman(16), Shabir A. Madhi(14), Christopher D. Paddock(12), Sherif R. Zaki(12), Karen L. Kotloff(11), Shams El Arifeen(11), Inácio Mandomando(11), Nega Assefa(11), Dickens Onyango(10), Milagritos D. Tapia(10), J. Anthony G. Scott(10), Emily S. Gurley(10), Samba O. Sow(10), Vicky L. Baillie(9), Victor Akelo(8), Adama Mamby Keita(8), Jana M. Ritter(8), Rosauro Varo(8), Lola Madrid(8)