I specialize in formative and qualitative research and in the design and evaluation of community-based behavior change interventions. I have served as a faculty member in the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 1988. My current work includes field trials of interventions to reduce neonatal mortality in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, as well as studies on community case management of sick children in Mali, and effectiveness studies of the large-scale introduction of Zinc tablets as a standard treatment for children with diarrhea in Mali, Pakistan and India. I was very involved in the development of a new framework for the household and community component of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses approach, and played a key role in organizing a workshop in Baltimore in January 2001 for PVOs and NGOs to discuss this framework. I have participated in formative/qualitative research, design and evaluation of community-based behavior change interventions in USAID-funded projects on malaria prevention in Tanzania and schistosomiasis control in Egypt, and other projects on dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention in Mexico, Honduras, Puerto Rico and Brazil. I have experience in training in qualitative research methods including design of qualitative research studies, computer-aided analysis of qualitative data and write-up of results from qualitative studies.

For more on malaria research, see: http://www.jhsph.edu/dept/IH/Research/Malaria.html For more on newborn health research, see: www.jhsph.edu/neonatal

International Health, Behavior change interventions, community participation, qualitative research methods, vector-borne diseases, malaria, neonatal health, treatment-seeking behavior, compliance with antimicrobial treatment, community health workers, operational research

Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence for online version of the course Introduction to International Health for academic year 2005-2006 Advising, Mentoring and Teaching Recognition Award (AMTRA) for academic years 1992-1993, 1998-1999 and 2003-2004, Student Assembly, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health James H. Nakano Citation of the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for outstanding paper published in 2002

Darmstadt GL, Baqui AH, Choi Y, Bari S, Rahman SM, Mannan I, Ahmed ASMNU, Rahman R, Chang S, Winch PJ, Black RE, Santosham M, Arifeen SE. Validation of community health workers’ assessment of neonatal illness in rural Bangladesh. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2009; 87: 12-19.

Harvey SA, Olortegui MP, Leontsini E, Winch PJ. “They’ll change what they’re doing if they know that you’re watching:” Measuring reactivity in health behavior due to an observer’s presence – A case from the Peruvian Amazon. Field Methods. 2009; 21(1): 3-26.

Winch PJ, Doumbia S, Kante M, Male AD, Swedberg E, Gilroy KE, Ellis AA, Cisse G, Sidibe B (2008). Differential Community Response to Introduction of Zinc for Childhood Diarrhea and Combination Therapy for Malaria in Southern Mali. Journal of Nutrition. 138 (3): 642-645.

Baqui AH, Arifeen SE, Darmstadt GL, Ahmed S, Williams EK, Seraji HR, Mannan I, Rahman SM, Shah R, Saha SK, Syed U, Winch PJ, Santosham M, Black RE (2008). Impact of a package of community-based newborn care interventions implemented through two service delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 9628: 1936-1944.

Winch PJ, Gilroy KE, Fischer-Walker CL (2008). The effect of HIV/AIDS and malaria on the context for introduction of zinc treatment and low-osmolarity ORS for childhood diarrhoea. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 26(1): 1-11.

Darmstadt GL, Hussein MH, Winch PJ, Haws RA, Gipson R, Santosham M (2008). Practices of rural Egyptian birth attendants during the antepartum, intrapartum and early neonatal periods. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 26(1): 36-45.

Mannan I, Rahman SM, Sania A, Seraji HR, Al-Mahmud AB, Begum N, Arifeen SE, Winch PJ, Darmstadt GL, Baqui AH (2008). Can Early Postpartum Home Visits by Trained Community Health Workers Improve Breastfeeding of Newborns in Rural Bangladesh? Journal of Perinatology. 28(9):632-40.

Winch PJ, Gilroy KE, Doumbia S, Patterson AE, Daou Z, Diawara A, Swedberg E, Black RE, Fontaine O (2008). Pilot introduction of zinc supplementation for childhood diarrhoea management in Bougouni District, Mali. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 26(2): 151-162.

Baqui AH, Arifeen SE, Darmstadt GL, Ahmed S, Seraji HR, Winch PJ, Williams EK, Santosham M, Black RE and the Bangladesh Projahnmo Study Group. Differentials in neonatal mortality in two adjacent ruralareas of Bangladesh: Lessons for neonatal health interventions. Global Public Health 2008; 3(4): 366-382.

Harvey SA, Paredes Olórtegui M, Leontsini E, Bustamante Pezo C, Olórtegui Pezantes LM, Winch PJ. ‘The whole world will be able to see us’: Determining the characteristics of a culturally appropriate bed net among mestizo communities of the Peruvian Amazon. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2008; 79(6): 834-838.

Darmstadt GL, Kumar V, Yadav R, Shearer JC, Baqui AH, Awasthi S, Singh JV, Mehrotra H, Srivastava K, Gupta A, Sharma A, Winch PJ, Santosham M, and the Saksham Study Group. Community perceptions of birthweight in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: Implications for care of low-birth-weight infants. Journal of Perinatology. 2008; 28: S53-S60.

Alam MA, Ali NA, Sultana N, Mullany LC, Teela KC, Khan NUZ, Baqui AH, Arifeen SE, Mannan I, Darmstadt GL, Winch PJ. Newborn umbilical cord and skin care in Sylhet District, Bangladesh: Implications for promotion of umbilical cord cleansing with topical chlorhexidine. Journal of Perinatology. 2008; 28: S61-S68.

Articles published in 2006-7: Ellis AA, Winch PJ, Daou Z, Gilroy KE, Swedberg E (2007). Home management of childhood diarrhoea in southern Mali - implications for the introduction of zinc treatment. Social Science and Medicine 64: 701-712.

Corsi KF, Winch PJ, Kwiatkowski CF, Booth RE (2007). Childhood factors that precede drug injection: Is there a link? Journal of Child and Family Studies 16(6): 808-818. Moran AC, Winch PJ, Sultana N, Kalim N, Afzal KM, Koblinsky M, Arifeen SE, Seraji MH, Mannan I, Darmstadt GL, Baqui AH; Bangladesh PROJAHNMO Maternal Morbidity Study Group (2007). Patterns of maternal care seeking behaviours in rural Bangladesh. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 12(7):823-32.

Darmstadt GL, Hussein MH, Winch PJ, Haws RA, Lamia M, El-Said MA, Gipson RF, Santosham M (2007). Neonatal home care practices in rural Egypt during the first week of life. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 12(6):783-97.

Hernández LS, Winch PJ, Parker K, Gilman RH (2006). Understandings of reproductive tract infections in a peri-urban pueblo joven in Lima, Peru. BMC Women’s Health 6:7.

Winch PJ, Gilroy KE, Doumbia S, Patterson AE, Daou Z, Coulibaly S, Swedberg E, Black RE, Fontaine O (2006). Short Communication: Prescription and Administration of a 14-Day Regimen of Zinc Treatment for Childhood Diarrhea in Mali. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 74(5): 880-883.

Patterson AE, Winch PJ, Gilroy, KE, Doumbia S. Local terminology for medicines used to treat fever in Bougouni District, Mali: Implications for the introduction and evaluation of interventions to improve malaria treatment practices (2006). Trop Med Int Health 11(10): 1613-1624.

Gittelsohn JG, Dyckman W, Tan ML, Boggs MK, Frick KD, Alfred J, Winch PJ, Haberle H, Palafox NA (2006). Development and Implementation of a Food Store-Based Intervention to Improve Diet in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Health Promotion Practice 7(4): 396-405.

Bari S, Mannan I, Rahman MA, Darmstadt GL, Serajil MH, Baqui AH, El Arifeen S, Rahman SM, Saha SK, Ahmed AS, Ahmed S, Santosham M, Black RE, Winch PJ; Bangladesh Projahnmo-II Study Group (2006). Trends in use of referral hospital services for care of sick newborns in a community-based intervention in Tangail District, Bangladesh. J Health Popul Nutr. 24(4):519-29.