Major Publications

Chalise. B., Clark, C. J., Bhattarai, S., & Thapa, S. (2025). The effect of traditional menstrual practices on violence against women: A feminist-inspired structural violence perspective from Far-western Nepal. Social Science & Medicine, 383, 118416.

Chalise, B., Kaneko, S., & Tran, D. (2023). Blessing of the moon: Cultural beliefs, birth timing and child health in Nepal. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 25(8), 947–959.

Chalise, B., Chalise, M., Bista, B., Pandey, A. R., & Thapa, S. (2019). Correlates of continuum of maternal health services in Nepal. PLOS ONE, 14(4), e0215613.

Chalise, B., Aryal, K. K., Mehta, R. K., Dhimal, M., Sapkota, F., Mehata, S., Karki, K. B., Madjdian, D., Patton, G., & Sawyer, S. (2018). Prevalence and correlates of anaemia among adolescents in Nepal. PLOS ONE, 13(12), e0208878.

Other Publications

Timilsina, A., Chalise, B., Ahmed, K. Y., & Thapa, S. (2025). Effect of forest cover change on childhood infections using an ecosystem approach. PLOS ONE, 20(8), e0330101.

Joshi, G., Ichihashi, M., & Chalise, B. (2024). Assessment of a community-based nutrition program for women and children in Nepal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(6), 754.

Thapa, S., Ahmed, K. Y., Bizuayehu, H. M., Huda, M. M., Chalise, B., Bore, M. G., … & Ross, A. G. (2024). Trends and social determinants of the obesity epidemic among reproductive-age women in ten Asian countries. Scientific Reports, 14, 22545

Awasthi, K. R., Jancey, J., Clements, A. C., Sah, R. K., Koirala, M. P., Chalise, B., & Leavy, J. E. (2022). Traditional beliefs, practices, and migration: A risk to malaria transmission in rural Nepal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(24), 16872.

Dhimal, M., Chirico, F., Bista, B., Sharma, S., Chalise, B., Dhimal, M. L., Ilesanmi, O. S., Trucillo, P., & Sofia, D. (2021). Impact of air pollution on global burden of disease in 2019. Processes, 9(10), 1719.

Pandey, A. R., Neupane, T., Chalise, B., Shrestha, N., Chaudhary, S., Dhungana, R. R., & Bista, B. (2021). Factors associated with physical and sexual violence among school-going adolescents in Nepal. PLOS ONE, 16(3), e0248566.

Pandey, A. R., Ojha, B., Shrestha, N., Maskey, J., Sharma, D., Godwin, P., Chalise, B., & Aryal, K. K. (2021). Progress in reducing inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services in Nepal. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 19(1), 140-147.

Pandey, A. R., Chalise, B., Shrestha, N., Ojha, B., Maskey, J., Sharma, D., Godwin, P., & Aryal, K. K. (2020). Mortality and risk factors of disease in Nepal: Trends and projections from 1990 to 2040. PLOS ONE, 15(12), e0243055.

Adhikari, M., Chalise, B., Bista, B., Pandey, A. R., & Upadhyaya, D. P. (2020). Sociodemographic correlates of antenatal care visits in Nepal. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20(513).

Pandey, A. R., Neupane, T., Chalise, B., Chaudhary, S., Shrestha, N., & Bista, B. (2020). Serious injury and its correlates among adolescents in Nepal. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 18(3)48, 506–512.

Neupane, T., Pandey, A. R., Bista, B., & Chalise, B. (2020). Correlates of bullying victimisation among school adolescents in Nepal. PLOS ONE, 15(8), e0237406.

van Tuijl, C. J., Madjdian, D. S., Bras, H., & Chalise, B. (2020). Sociocultural and economic determinants of stunting and thinness among adolescents in Nepal. Journal of Biosocial Science, 53(4), 531–556.

Bista, B., Dhungana, R. R., Chalise, B., & Pandey, A. R. (2020). Prevalence and determinants of NCD risk factors among women in Nepal. PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0218840.

Pandey, A. R., Bista, B., Dhungana, R. R., Aryal, K. K., Chalise, B., & Dhimal, M. (2019). Suicidal ideation and attempts among adolescents in Nepal. PLOS ONE, 14(4), e0210383.

Awasthi, K. R., Adefemi, K., Awasthi, M. S., & Chalise, B. (2017). Public health interventions for malaria control in Nepal’s Terai region. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 15(3), 202–207.

Chalise, M., Steenkamp, M., & Chalise, B. (2016). Factors enabling women with pelvic organ prolapse to seek surgery in Nepal. WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, 5(2), 141–148.