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CGHAD Peer-Reviewed Publications

2025

Thies, D. A., Navarro-Colorado, C., & Khan, A. S. (2025). 38. Till the next pandemic: National preparedness. In D. Fisher (Ed.), Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response (1st ed.). NUS Press. 

2024

Dormal, M., Raikes, A., & Charles McCoy, D. (2024). Improving Measurement Efficiency of an Early Education Quality Monitoring Tool for Majority World Countries. Early Education and Development, 1-23. 

ElRayes, W., Malik, S., Akesson, B., Mahmood, I., Hafiz, M.G., Aldalaykeh, M., Mahmood, A., Gautam, B., Hoque, S., Ul Haque, F. and Watanabe-Galloway, S. (2024), "Mental health services among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: perspectives from field service providers", International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-11-2022-0112 

Herstein JJ, Lukowski J, ElRayes W, Lowe JJ, Mehta AK, Mukherjee V, Stern KL, Carrasco SV, Vasa A, Vasistha S, Sauer LM. High-Level Isolation: A Landscape Analysis of Global Capabilities and Opportunities to Advance the Field. Health Secur. 2024 Aug 5. doi: 10.1089/hs.2023.0181. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39101827. 

Krafft, Caroline, Raikes, A., Towfighian, S., & Mojgani, R. (2024). Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 68 (2024): 24-34. 

Stern, K. L., Sauer, L. M., Arguinchona, C., Dunning, J., ElRayes, W., Lim, P. L., ... & Herstein, J. J. (2024). Global High-Consequence Infectious Disease Readiness and Response: An Inventory of High-Level Isolation Units. Health security. 

2023

Alnaji, N. A., Tippens, J. A., & ElRayes, W. (2023). Syrian Refugee Women’s Maternal Mental Health Perceptions, Coping Strategies, and Help-Seeking Practices in Lebanon. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 10436596231163876. 

Alshehri, K., Palm, D., Wehbi, N. K., Jung Tak, H., & ElRayes, W. (2023). The difficulty of using prescription drug monitoring program among office-based physicians in the USA: a challenge to mitigate controlled substance prescriptions. Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, rmad016. 

Cavallera, V., Lancaster, G., Gladstone, M., Black, M. M., McCray, G., Nizar, A., Raikes, A., ... & Janus, M. (2023). Protocol for validation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for children under 3 years of age in seven countries. BMJ open, 13(1), e062562. 

Cuartas, J., McCoy, D., Sánchez, J., Behrman, J., Cappa, C., Donati, G., Heyman, J., Lu, C., Raikes, A., Rao, N., Richter, L., Stein, A., & Yoshikawa, H. (2023). Family play, reading, and other stimulation and early childhood development in five low‐and‐middle‐income countries. Developmental Science, e13404. 

de Laat, J., Radner, J., Holding, P., van der Haar, L., Slemming, W., Krapels, J., van der Harst, M., Raikes, A., Sanou, A., & Dusabe, C. (2023). Measurement for Change: Reflections from innovators' experiences with monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for Early Childhood Development. Frontiers in public health, 11, 1021790. 

Krafft, C., Raikes, A., Towfighian, S. N., & Mojgani, R. S. (2023). Quality and Inequality in Pre-Primary and Home Environment Inputs to Early Childhood Development in Egypt. Policy Research Working Paper 10317. World Bank. 

Krafft, C., Towfighian, S. N., Raikes, A., & Mojgani, R. S. (2023). What Can We Learn from Pre-Primary Quality Assurance Systems?  World Bank Working Paper.   

Lukowski J., Vasa A., Arguinchona C., ElRayes W., Frank M.G., Galdys A.L., Garcia M., Garland J.A., Kline S., Persson C., Ruby D., Sauer L., Carrasco S.V., Vasistha S., Herstein J.J. A Narrative Review of High-Level Isolation Unit Operational and Infrastructure Features. BMJ Global Health 2023;8:e012037. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012037 

McCray, G., McCoy, D., Kariger, P., Janus, M., Black, M. M., Chang, S. M., Raikes, A., ... & Gladstone, M. (2023). The creation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for children aged 0–3 years: combining subject matter expert judgements with big data. BMJ Global Health, 8(1), e009827. 

Raikes, A. (2023). Using early childhood data and measurement to leverage change: Are we making progress?. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1-11. 

Raikes, A., Alvarenga Lima, J. H. N., & Abuchaim, B. (2023). Early Childhood Education in Brazil: Child Rights to ECE in Context of Great Disparities. Children, 10(6), 919. 

Raikes, A., Rao, N., Yoshikawa, H., Cohrssen, C., … Richter, L. (2023).  Global tracking of access and quality in early childhood education. International Journal of Childcare and Education Policy, 17:14.  

Raikes, A., Sayre Mojgani, R., Heinzel-Nelson Alvarenga Lima, J., Davis, D., Cassell, C., Waldman, M., & Escalante, E. (2023). Profiles of Quality in Three Distinct Early Childhood Programs Using the Brief Early Childhood Quality Inventory (BEQI). International Journal of Early Childhood, 1-26. 

Wael ElRayes, Alaa Abdel-Rahman, Hoda Mansour, Ali Asy, Mona ElShokry, Marwa Farid, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, and Youssef ElRayes. Infectious Organisms and Biological Agents and Toxins in the Egyptian Legislation. First Edition, 2023. ISPN: 978-977-94-44840. 

2022

Angela Vasa, Valerie Pacino, Sami Vasistha, Wael ElRayes, John-Martin J. Lowe. COVID-19 Response Among U.S. Hospitals with Emerging Special Pathogen Programs. Journal of Health Security. 2022 

Herstein, J. J., Vasa, A., Sauer, L. M., Vanairsdale, S., ElRayes, W., Vasistha, S., Herzog, C., Leo, Y. S., Vasso, S., Jacobs, M., & Lowe, J. J. (2022). Increasing International Collaboration and Networking Among High-level Isolation Units and Programs. Health security. 

Maha Farid, Rania Talaat, Valerie Pacino, Hyo Jung Tak, Wael ElRayes. Household disinfection practices by women living in Egypt during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and the association of information sources and suspected bleach toxicity. BMC Public Health. 2022 

Raikes, A. (2022). Defining and Measuring Quality of Early Childhood Education in Low‑and Middle‑Income Countries. Measuring Noncognitive Skills in School Settings: Assessments of Executive Function and Social-Emotional Competencies, 189.