Orri, M., Ahun, M.N., Naicker, S., Besharati, S., & Richter, L.M. (2022) Childhood factors associated with suicidal ideation among South African youth: A 28-year longitudinal study of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. PLOS Medicine 19(3): e1003946. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003946

Naicker, S.N., Ahun, M.N., Besharati, S., Norris, S.A., Orri, M., & Richter, L.M. (2022). The long-term health and human capital consequences of adverse childhood experiences in the Birth to Thirty cohort: Single, cumulative, and clustered adversity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 1799. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031799

Slemming, W., Norris, S. A., Kagura, J., Saloojee, H., & Richter, L. M. (in press). Child development at age 5 years: the effects of maternal education, socio-economic status and early life growth examined prospectively in a low resource setting. South African Journal of Child Health.

Slemming, W., Cele, R., & Richter, L. M. (2021). Quality of early childcare in the home and cognitive development at age 5: results from the South African birth to Twenty Plus cohort study. Early Childhood Development and Care.

Trude, A. C. B., Richter, L. M., Behrman, J. R., Stein, A. D., Menezes, A. M. B., & Black, M. M. (2021). Effects of responsive caregiving and learning opportunities during pre-school ages on the association of early adversities and adolescent human capital: an analysis of birth cohorts in two middle-income countries. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 5(1), 37-46.

Richter, L., Ahun, M., Besharati, S., Naicker, S., & Orri, M. (2021). Adolescent mental health problems and adult human capital: Findings from the South African Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort at 28 years of age. Journal of Adolescent Health.

Bosire, E. N., Chiseri, K., Comeau, D. L., Richter, L. M., Stein, A., & Norris, S. A. (2021). A qualitative study of factors that protect against pregnancy among sexually active teens in the South African Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. BMC Public Health, 1, 1 – 20.

Chidumwa, G., Said-Mohamed, R., Nyati, L. H., Mpondo, F., Chikowore, T., Prioreschi, A., . . . Norris, S. A. (2021). Stunting in infancy, pubertal trajectories and adult body composition: the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 75, 189-197.

Rey, N., Hartwig, F. P., Victora, C. G., Adair, L. S., Barros, F. C., Bhargava, S. K., . . . group, t. C. (in press). Patterns of growth in childhood in relation to adult schooling attainment and IQ in 6 birth cohorts in low and middle-income countries: evidence from COHORTS. The Journal of Nutrition.

Prioreschi, A., Wrottesley, S. V., & Norris, S. A. (2021). Physical activity levels, food insecurity and dietary behaviours in women from Soweto, South Africa. Journal of Community Health, 46.

Okki, M., Besharati, S., Ahun, M., & Richter, L. (2021). Analysis of maternal postnatal depression, socioeconomic factors, and offspring internalizing symptoms in a longitudinal cohort in South Africa. JAMA Open.

Ngcobo, P. N., Nyati, L. H., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2021). The age at which adult height is achieved during adolescence in the Birth to Twenty Cohort, Johannesburg, South Africa. The South African Journal of Child Health, 15(2), 60-65.

Mpondo, F., Wray, C., Norris, S. A., Stein, A., & Richter, L. (in press). Assessing psychological wellbeing measures among South African adults. African Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Micklesfield, L. K., Hanson, S. K., Lobelo, F., Cunningham, S. A., Hartman, T. J., Norris, S. A., & Stein, A. D. (2021). Adolescent physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep in relation to body composition at age 18?years in urban South Africa, Birth-to-Twenty+ Cohort. BMC Pediatrics, 21.

Kolwalski, A. J., Addo, Y., Kramer, M. R., Martorell, R., Norris, S. A., Waford, R. N., . . . Stein, A. D. (2021). Longitudinal associations of pubertal timing and tempo with adolescent mental health and risk behavior initiation in urban South Africa. Journal of Adolescent Health.

Kolwalski, A. J., Addo, O. Y., Kramer, M. R., Martorell, R., Norris, S. A., Waford, R. N., . . . Stein, A. (2021). Initial engagement and persistence of health risk behaviors through adolescence: longitudinal findings from urban South Africa. BMC Pediatrics, 21(31).

May, A. K., Norris, S. A., Richter, L. M., & Pitman, M. M. (2020). A psychometric evaluation of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale in ethnically and culturally heterogeneous South African samples. Current Psychology.

Wray, C., Kolwalski, A. J., Mpondo, F., Ochaeta, L., Belleza, D., DiGirolamo, A., . . . Stein, A. D. (2020). Executive functions form a single construct and are associated with schooling: Evidence from three low- and middle- income countries. PLoS ONE, 15(11).

Slemming, W., Cele, R., & Richter, L. M. (2020). Quality of early childcare in the home and cognitive development at age 5: results from the South African birth to Twenty Plus cohort study. Early Childhood Development and Care.

Poveda, N. E., Hartwig, F. P., Victora, C. G., Adair, L. S., Barros, F. C., Bhargava, S. K., . . . Group, C. (2020). Patterns of growth in childhood in relation to adult schooling attainment and IQ in 6 birth cohorts in low and middle-income countries: evidence from COHORTS. MedRxiv.

Nyati, L. H., Pettifor, J. M., Ong, K. K., & Norris, S. A. (2020). Adolescent growth and BMI and their associations with early childhood growth in an urban South African cohort. American Journal of Human Biology.

McGowan, C. J., & Norris, S. A. (2020). Associations of early-life growth with health using an allostatic load score in young, urban African adults: Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 11(4), 360-368.

Kowalski, A., Addo, Y., Kramer, M., Martorell, R., Norris, S., Waford, R., . . . Stein, A. (2020). Initiation and persistence of health risk behaviors through adolescence: longitudinal findings from urban South Africa. In: Research Square.

Khambule, L., Snyman, T., Norris, S. A., Crowther, N. J., & George, J. A. (2020). Branched chain and aromatic amino acids and cardiometabolic risk in Black African and Asian Indian populations. Metabolomics, 16(108).

Wrottesley, S. V., Pedro, T. M., Fall, C. H. D., & Norris, S. A. (2020). A review of adolescent nutrition in South Africa: transforming adolescent lives through nutrition initiative. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 33(4), 94-132.

Cohen, E., Richter, L. M., Chidumwa, G., Abdalla, S., Weber, A. M., Darmstadt, G. L., & Norris, S. A. (2020). Relationships Between Maternal Factors and Weight Loss Attempts Among Urban Male and Female Adolescents Living in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Journal of Adolescent Health, 66(1), S177-S124.

Casale, D., Desmond, C., & Richter, L., M. (2020). Catch-up growth in height and cognitive function: Why definitions matter. Economics and Human Biology, 37, 100853.

Bosire, E. N., Chiseri, K., Comeau, D. L., Richter, L. M., Stein, A. D., & Norris, S. A. (2020). A qualitative study of factors that protect against pregnancy among sexually active teens in the South African Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. BMC Public Health.

Chidumwa, G., Said-Mohamed, R., Nyati, L.H., Mpondo, F., Chikowore, T., Prioreschi, A., Kagura, J., Ware, L., Micklesfield, L. & Norris, S. (2020). Stunting in infancy, pubertal trajectories and adult body composition: the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition,

Hanson, S. K., Munthali, R. J., Micklesfield, L. K., Lobelo, F., Cunningham, S. A., Hartman, T. J., . . . Stein, A. D. (2019). Longitudinal patterns of physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep in urban South African adolescents, Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. BMC Pediatrics, 19(1), 241.

Magan, A., Micklesfield, L. K., Norris, S. A., Thandrayen, K., Munthali, R. J., & Pettifor, J. M. (2019). Metacarpal indices and their association with fracture in South African children and adolescents. Calcified Tissue International, 104, 14-25.

Loyd, A. B., Derlan, C. L., Smith, E. V., Norris, S. A., Richter, L. M., & Roeser, R. W. (2019). Evaluating the psychometric properties of a measure of ethnic identity among black South African youth. Identity, 19(1), 44-61.

de Kadt, J., van Heerden, A., Richter, L., & Alvanides, S. (2019). Correlates of children’s travel to school in Johannesburg-Soweto Evidence from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) study, South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 68, 56-67.

Cohen, E., Gradidge, P. J., Micklesfield, L. K., & Norris, S. A. (2019). Relationship between body mass index and body image disturbances among South African mothers and their daughters living in Soweto, Johannesburg. Family Community Health, 42(2), 140-149.

Chikowore, T., Sahibdeen, V., Hendry, L. M., Norris, S. A., Goedecke, J. H., Micklesfield, L. K., & Lombard, Z. (2019). C679X loss-of-function PCSK9 variant is associated with lower fasting glucose in black South African adolescents: Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology, 16(100186).

Casale, D., Espi, G., & Norris, S. A. (2019). The predictors of different measures of dietary diversity among one-year-olds in South Africa. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1-7.

Magan, A., Micklesfield, L. K., Nyati, L. H., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2019). A longitudinal comparison of appendicular bone growth and markers of strength through adolescence in a South African cohort using radiogrammetry and pQCT. Osteoporosis International, 30 451-460. doi:10.1007/s00198-018-4761-9.

Manyema, M., & Richter, L. M. (2019). Adverse childhood experiences: prevalence and associated factors among South African young adults. Heliyon, 5(12), e03003.

Mtintsilana, A., Micklesfield, L. K., Chorell, E., Olsson, T., & Goedecke, J. H. (2019). Fat redistribution and accumulation of visceral adipose tissue predicts type 2 diabetes risk in middle-aged black South African women: a 13-year longitudinal study. Nutrition & Diabetes, 9(1), 12.

Weber, A., Rubio-Codina, M., Walker, S., van Buuren, S., Eekhout, I., Grantham-Mcgregor, S., . . . collaborators, G. C. D. G. (2019). The D-score: A metric for interpreting the early development of infants and toddlers across global settings. BMJ Global Health 4(6).

von Fintel, D., & Richter, L. (2019). Intergenerational transfer of health inequalities: exploration of mechanisms in the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa. BMJ Global Health, 4(5).

Sogunle, E., Masukume, G., & Nelson, G. (2019). The association between caesarean section delivery and later life obesity in 21 – 24-year-olds in an Urban South African birth cohort. PLoS ONE.

Nyati, L. H., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2019). The prevalence of malnutrition and growth percentiles for urban South African children. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 492.

Naidoo, S., Kagura, J., Fabian, J., & Norris, S. A. (2019). Early life factors and longitudinal blood pressure trajectories are associated with elevated blood pressure in early adulthood. Hypertension, 73(2), 301-309.

Watson, E. D., Brage, S., White, T., Westgate, K., Norris, S. A., Van Poppel, M. N. M., & Micklesfield, L. K. (2018). The influence of objectively measured physical activity during pregnancy on maternal and birth outcomes in urban black South African women. Maternal Child and Health Journal 22(8), 1190-1199.

Gradidge, P. J., Norris, S. A., Munthali, R., & Crowther, N. J. (2018). Influence of socioeconomic status on changes in body size and physical activity in ageing black South African women. European Review of Aging Physical Activity, 15, 6.

Casale, D., Espi, G., & Norris, S. A. (2018). Estimating the pathways through which maternal education affects stunting: evidence from an urban cohort in South Africa. Public Health Nutrition, 21(10), 1810-1818.

Sedibe, M. H., Pisa, P. T., Feeley, A. B., Pedro, T. M., Kahn, K., & Norris, S. A. (2018). Dietary habits and eating practices and their association with overweight and obesity in rural and urban black South African adolescents. Nutrients, 10(2).

Hanson, S. K., Munthali, R. J., Lundeen, E. A., Richter, L. M., Norris, S. A., & Stein, A. D. (2018). Stunting at 24 Months is not related to incidence of overweight through young adulthood in an urban South African Birth cohort. Journal of Nutrition 148(6), 967-973.

Hendry, L. M., Sahibdeen, V., Choudhury, A., Norris, S. A., Ramsay, M., & Lombard, Z. (2018). Insights into the genetics of blood pressure in black South African individuals: The Birth to Twenty cohort. BMC Medical Genomics, 11(1), 2.

Manyema, M., Norris, S. A., & Richter, L. M. (2018). Stress begets stress: the association of adverse childhood experiences with psychological distress in the presence of adult life stress. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 835.

Richter, L. M., Orkin, F. M., Roman, G. D., Dahly, D. L., Horta, B. L., Bhargava, S. K., . . . investigators, C. (2018). Comparative models of biological and social pathways to predict child growth through age 2 years from birth cohorts in Brazil, India, the Philippines, and South Africa. Journal of Nutrition, 148(8), 1364-1371.

Richter, L. M., Mathews, S., Nonterah, E., & Masilela, L. (2018). A longitudinal perspective on boys as victims of childhood sexual abuse in South Africa: Consequences for adult mental health. Child Abuse & Neglect, 84, 1-10. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.07.016

Richter, L. M., Mathews, S., Kagura, J., & Nonterah, E. (2018). A longitudinal perspective on violence in the lives of South African children from the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort study in Johannesburg-Soweto. South African Medical Journal, 108(3), 181-186.

Prioreschi, A., Munthali, R. J., Kagura, J., Said-Mohamed, R., De Lucia Rolfe, E., Micklesfield, L. K., & Norris, S. A. (2018). The associations between adult body composition and abdominal adiposity outcomes, and relative weight gain and linear growth from birth to age 22 in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa. PLoS ONE, 13(1), e0190483-e0190483.

Nkomo, P., Richter, L., Kagura, J., Mathee, A., Naicker, N., & Norris, S. (2018). Environmental lead exposure and pubertal trajectory classes in South African adolescent males and females. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629, 1437-1445.

Munthali, R. J., Manyema, M., Said-Mohamed, R., Kagura, J., Tollman, S., Kahn, K., . . . Norris, S. A. (2018). Body composition and physical activity as mediators in the relationship between socioeconomic status and blood pressure in young South African women: a structural equation model analysis. BMJ Open, 8(12), e023404.

Manyema, M., Norris, S. A., Said-Mohamed, R., Tollman, S. T., Twine, R., Kahn, K., & Richter, L. M. (2018). The associations between interpersonal violence and psychological distress among rural and urban young women in South Africa. Health & Place, 51, 97-106.

Said-Mohamed, R., Stein, A. D., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2018). Sanitation and diarrhoea in infancy and CRP level at 18 Years: The Birth-to-Twenty Plus cohort. Annals of Human Biology, 46(5), 415-424.

Schoenbuchner, S. M., Pettifor, J. M., Norris, S. A., Micklesfield, L. K., Prentice, A., & Ward, K. A. (2017). Ethnic differences in peripheral skeletal development among urban South African adolescents: A ten-year longitudinal pQCT study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 32(12), 2355-2366.

Slemming, W., Kagura, J., Saloojee, H., & Richter, L. M. (2017). Early life risk exposure and stunting in urban South African 2-year-old children. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 8(3), 301-310.

Prioreschi, A., Wrottesley, S. V., Cohen, E., Reddy, A., Said-Mohamed, R., Twine, R., . . . Norris, S. A. (2017). Examining the relationships between body image, eating attitudes, BMI, and physical activity in rural and urban South African young adult females using structural equation modeling. PLoS ONE, 12(11), e0187508.

Prioreschi, A., Brage, S., Westgate, K., Norris, S. A., & Micklesfield, L. K. (2017). Cardiorespiratory fitness levels and associations with physical activity and body composition in young South African adults from Soweto. BMC Public Health, 17(1), 301.

Nkomo, P., Naicker, N., Mathee, A., Galpin, J., Richter, L., & Norris, S. (2017). The association between environmental lead exposure with aggressive behavior, and dimensionality of direct and indirect aggression during mid-adolescence: Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. Science of the Total Environment, 612, 472-479.

Naicker, S. N., Norris, S. A., Mabaso, M., & Richter, L. M. (2017). An analysis of retrospective and repeat prospective reports of adverse childhood experiences from the South African Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. PLoS ONE, 12(7), 1-19.

Munthali, R. J., Kagura, J., Lombard, Z., & Norris, S. A. (2017). Early life growth predictors of childhood adiposity trajectories and future risk for obesity: Birth to Twenty cohort. Childhood Obesity, 13(5), 384-391.

Micklesfield, L. K., Munthali, R. J., Prioreschi, A., Said-Mohamed, R., van Heerden, A., Tollman, S., . . . Norris, S. A. (2017). Understanding the relationship between socio-economic status, physical activity and sedentary behaviour, and adiposity in young adult South African women using structural equation modelling. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(10).

Magan, A., Nyati, L. H., Micklesfield, L. K., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2017). Metacarpal growth during adolescence in a longitudinal South African cohort. Journal of Bones and Mineral Research, 32(9), 1926-1934.

Liu, X., Behrman, J. R., Stein, A. D., Adair, L. S., Bhargava, S. K., Borja, J. B., . . . Sachdev, H. S. (2017). Prenatal care and child growth and schooling in four low- and medium-income countries. PLoS ONE, 12(2), e0171299.

Meiring, R. M., Micklesfield, L. K., & McVeigh, J. A. (2016). The effect of loading and ethnicity on annual changes in cortical bone of the radius and tibia in pre-pubertal children. Annals of Human Biology, 43(6), 520-526.

Meagley, K., Schriver, B., Geary, R. S., Fielding-Miller, R., Stein, A. D., Dunkle, K. L., & Norris, S. A. (2016). The gender dimensions of social networks and help-seeking behaviors of young adults in Soweto, South Africa. Global Health Action, 9(1), 31138.

Madhavan, S., Richter, L., & Norris, S. (2016). Father contact following union dissolution for low-income children in urban South Africa. Journal of Family Issues, 37(5), 622-644.

Lundeen, E. A., Norris, S. A., Martorell, R., Suchdev, P. S., Mehta, N. K., Richter, L. M., & Stein, A. D. (2016). Early life growth predicts pubertal development in South African adolescents. Journal of Nutrition, 146(3), 622-629.

Lundeen, E. A., Norris, S. A., Martorell, R., Suchdev, P. S., Mehta, N. K., Richter, L. M., & Stein, A. D. (2016). Adolescent pregnancy and attained height among black South African girls: matched-pair prospective study. Journal of Nutrition, 11(1), e0147861.

Lundeen, E. A., Norris, S. A., Adair, L. S., Richter, L. M., & Stein, A. D. (2016). Sex differences in obesity incidence: 20-year prospective cohort in South Africa. Pediatric Obesity, 11(1), 75-80.

Kagura, J., Adair, L. S., Pisa, P. T., Griffiths, P. L., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2016). Associations of socioeconomic status change between infancy and adolescents, and blood pressure in South African adults: Birth to Twenty cohort. BMJ Open, 6(3), e008805.

Kagura, J., Adair, L. S., Munthali, R. J., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2016). Association between early life growth and blood pressure trajectories in black South African children. Hypertension, 68(5), 1123-1131.

Howard, S. J., Cook, C. J., Said-Mohamed, R., Norris, S. A., & Draper, C. E. (2016). The (possibly negative) effects of physical activity on executive functions: implications of the changing metabolic costs of brain development. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 13(9), 1017-1022.

Munthali, R. J., Kagura, J., Lombard, Z., & Norris, S. A. (2016). Childhood adiposity trajectories are associated with late adolescent blood pressure: Birth to Twenty cohort. BMC Public Health, 16(1), 665.

Musa, M. G., Kagura, J., Pisa, P. T., & Norris, S. A. (2016). Relationship between early growth and CVD risk factors in adolescents. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 7(2), 132-143.

Stein, A. D., Lundeen, E. A., Martorell, R., Suchdev, P. S., Mehta, N. K., Richter, L. M., & Norris, S. A. (2016). Pubertal development and prepubertal height and weight jointly predict young adult height and body mass index in a prospective study in South Africa. Journal of Nutrition, 146(7), 1394-1401.

Slemming, W., Bello, B., Saloojee, H., & Richter, L. (2016). Maternal risk exposure during pregnancy and infant birth weight. Early Human Development, 99, 31-36.

Shepherd, J. A., Heymsfield, S. B., Norris, S. A., Redman, L. M., Ward, L. C., & Slater, C. (2016). Measuring body composition in low?resource settings across the life course. Obesity, 24(5), 985-988.

Richter, L., Mabaso, M., & Hsiao, C. (2016). Predictive power of psychometric assessments to identify young learners in need of early intervention: data from the Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort, South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, 46(2), 175-190.

Phillips, E. A., Comeau, D. L., Pisa, P. T., Stein, A. D., & Norris, S. A. (2016). Perceptions of diet, physical activity, and obesity-related health among black daughter-mother pairs in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 16(1), 750.

George, J. A., Norris, S. A., Toman, M., Snyman, T., & Crowther, N. J. (2016). Visceral adiposity is a predictor of parathyroid hormone levels in healthy adults. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation 39(4), 447-453.

Casale, D., & Desmond, C. (2016). Recovery from stunting and cognitive outcomes in young children: evidence from the South African Birth to Twenty cohort study. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health Disease, 7(2), 163-171.

George, C., Goedecke, J. H., Crowther, N. J., Jaff, N. G., Kengne, A. P., Norris, S. A., & Micklesfield, L. K. (2016). The role of body fat and fat distribution in hypertension risk in urban black South African women. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0154894.

Poopedi, M. A., Norris, S. A., Micklesfield, L. K., & Pettifor, J. M. (2015). Does vitamin D status track through adolescence? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 102(5), 1025-1029.

Kruger, H. S., Micklesfield, L. K., Wright, H. H., Havemann-Nel, L., & Goedecke, J. H. (2015). Ethnic-specific cut-points for sarcopenia: evidence from black South African women. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 69(7), 843-849.

Madhavan, S., Richter, L., & Gross, M. (2015). “Doing” and “Undoing” gender in fathering research: Evidence from the Birth to Twenty cohort study in South Africa. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 13(2), 146-163.

Mendenhall, E., & Norris, S. A. (2015). Diabetes care among urban women in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1-7.

Pillay, V., Crowther, N. J., Ramsay, M., Smith, G. D., Norris, S. A., & Lombard, Z. (2015). Exploring genetic markers of adult obesity risk in black adolescent South Africans-the Birth to Twenty Cohort. Nutrition & Diabetes, 5(6), e157.

Pradeilles, R., Griffiths, P. L., Norris, S. A., Feeley, A. B., & Rousham, E. K. (2015). Socio-economic influences on anthropometric status in urban South African adolescents: sex differences in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. Public Health Nutrition, 18(16), 2998-3012.

Richter, L., Mabaso, M., Ramjith, J., & Norris, S. A. (2015). Early sexual debut: voluntary or coerced? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Africa-the Birth to Twenty Plus study. South African Medical Journal, 105(4), 304-307.

Salgin, B., Norris, S. A., Prentice, P., Pettifor, J. M., Richter, L. M., Ong, K. K., & Dunger, D. B. (2015). Even transient rapid infancy weight gain is associated with higher BMI in young adults and earlier menarche. International Journal of Obesity, 39(6), 939-944.

Kagura, J., Adair, L. S., Musa, M. G., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2015). Blood pressure tracking in urban black South African children: Birth to Twenty cohort. BMC Pediatrics, 15(1), 78.

Jaff, N. G., Norris, S. A., Snyman, T., Toman, M., & Crowther, N. J. (2015). Body composition in the Study of Women Entering and in Endocrine Transition (SWEET): A perspective of African women who have a high prevalence of obesity and HIV infection. Metabolism, 64(9), 1031-1041.

Gradidge, P. J., Norris, S. A., Micklesfield, L. K., & Crowther, N. J. (2015). The role of lifestyle and psycho-social factors in predicting changes in body composition in black South African women. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0132914.

Fall, C. H. D., Sachdev, H. S., Osmond, C., Restrepo-Mendez, M. C., Victora, C., Martorell, R., . . . Stein, A. (2015). Association between maternal age at childbirth and child and adult outcomes in the offspring: a prospective study in five low-income and middle-income countries (COHORTS collaboration). The Lancet 3(7), e366-e377.

Draper, C., Grobler, L., Micklesfield, L., & Norris, S. (2015). Impact of social norms and social support on diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour of adolescents: a scoping review. Child: Care, Health and Development, 41(5), 654-667.

De Lucia Rolfe, E., Ong, K. K., Sleigh, A., Dunger, D. B., & Norris, S. A. (2015). Abdominal fat depots associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome risk factors in black African young adults. BMC Public Health, 15, 1013.

Cole, T. J., Rousham, E. K., Hawley, N. L., Cameron, N., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2015). Ethnic and sex differences in skeletal maturation among the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(2), 138-143.

Chantler, S. D., Dickie, K., Micklesfield, L. K., & Goedecke, J. H. (2015). Longitudinal changes in body fat and its distribution in relation to cardiometabolic risk in black South African women. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, 13(9), 381-388.

Addo, O. Y., Stein, A. D., Fall, C. H., Gigante, D. P., Guntupalli, A. M., Horta, B. L., . . . Group, C. (2015). Parental childhood growth and offspring birthweight: pooled analyses from four birth cohorts in low- and middle-income countries. American Journal of Human Biology, 27(1), 99-105.

Sedibe, M. H., Feeley, A., Voorend, C., Griffiths, P. L., Doak, C. M., & Norris, S. A. (2014). Narratives of urban female adolescents in South Africa: dietary and physical activity practices in an obesogenic environment South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 27(3), 114-119.

Schriver, B., Meagley, K., Norris, S. A., Geary, R. S., & Stein, A. D. (2014). Young people’s perceptions of youth-orientated health services in urban Soweto South Africa: A qualitative investigation. BMC Health Services Research, 14(625).

Pradeilles, R., Rousham, E. K., Norris, S. A., & Griffiths, P. L. (2014). Urban South African adolescents’ perceptions of their neighborhood socio-economic environments: The Birth to Twenty Plus cohort study. Children, Youth & Environments, 24(3), 173-200.

Philippe, J. G., Nigel, J., Crowther, E., Chirwa, D., Norris, S. A., & Micklesfield, L. (2014). Patterns, levels and correlates of self-reported physical activity in urban black Soweto women. BMC Public Health, 14(934).

Norris, S. A., Wrottesley, S., Mohamed, R. S., & Micklesfield, L. K. (2014). Africa in transition: growth trends in children and implications for nutrition. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 64(2), 8-13.

Micklesfield, L. K., Pedro, T. M., Kahn, K., Kinsman, J., Pettifor, J. M., Tollman, S., & Norris, S. A. (2014). Physical activity and sedentary behavior among adolescents in rural South Africa: levels, patterns and correlates. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 40.

Madhavan, S., Richter, L., Norris, S., & Hosegood, V. (2014). Fathers’ financial support of children in a low-income community in South Africa. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 35(4), 452-463.

Lundeen, E. A., Stein, A. D., Adair, L. S., Behrman, J. R., Bhargava, S. K., Dearden, K. A., . . . investigators, C. (2014). Height-for-age z scores increase despite increasing height deficits among children in 5 developing countries. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 100(3), 821-825.

Thandrayen, K., Norris, S., Micklesfield, L., & Pettifor, J. (2014). Fracture patterns and bone mass in South African adolescent-mother pairs: The Birth to Twenty cohort. Osteoporosis International, 25(2), 693-700.

van Heerden, A. C., Norris, S. A., Tollman, S. M., Stein, A. D., & Richter, L. M. (2014). Field lessons from the delivery of questionnaires to young adults using mobile phones. Social Science Computer Review, 32(1), 105-112.

Verkuijl, N. E., Richter, L., Norris, S. A., Stein, A., Avan, B., & Ramchandani, P. G. (2014). Postnatal depressive symptoms and child psychological development at 10 years: a prospective study of longitudinal data from the South African Birth to Twenty cohort. The Lancet Psychiatry, 1(6), 454-460.

Casale, D., Desmond, C., & Richter, L. (2014). The association between stunting and psychosocial development among preschool children: a study using the South African Birth to Twenty cohort data. Child: Care, Health & Development, 40(6), 900-910.

Jaff, N. G., Snyman, T., Norris, S. A., & Crowther, N. J. (2014). Staging reproductive aging using stages of reproductive aging workshop+ 10 in black urban African women in the Study of Women Entering in Endocrine Transition. Menopause, 21(11), 1225-1233.

Chirwa, E. D., Griffiths, P., Maleta, K., Ashorn, P., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2014). Postnatal growth velocity and overweight in early adolescents: A comparison of rural and urban African boys and girls. American Journal of Human Biology, 26(5), 643-651.

Chirwa, E. D., Griffiths, P. L., Maleta, K., Norris, S. A., & Cameron, N. (2014). Multi-level modelling of longitudinal child growth data from the Birth-to-Twenty Cohort: a comparison of growth models. Annals of Human Biology, 41(2), 168-179.

de Kadt, J., Norris, S. A., Fleisch, B., Richter, L., & Alvanides, S. (2014). Children’s daily travel to school in Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa: geography and school choice in the Birth to Twenty cohort study. Children’s Geographies, 12(2), 170-188.

Ibanez-Gonzalez, D. L., Mendenhall, E., & Norris, S. A. (2014). A mixed methods exploration of patterns of healthcare utilization of urban women with non-communicable disease in South Africa. BMC Health Services Research, 14, 528.

Ibanez-Gonzalez, D. L., & Greenstein, R. (2014). Chronic illness and the urban healthworld: a Sowetan case study. South African Review of Sociology, 45(2), 97-116.

Ibanez-Gonzalez, D. L. (2014). Perspectives on healthcare, chronic non-communicable disease, and healthworlds in an urban and rural setting. Global Health Action, 7(1), 25317.

Hsiao, C., & Richter, L. M. (2014). Early mental development as a predictor of preschool cognitive and behavioral development in South Africa. Infants & Young Children: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Early Childhood Intervention, 27(1), 74-87.

Gitau, T. M., Micklesfield, L. K., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2014). Changes in eating attitudes, body esteem and weight control behaviours during adolescence in a South African cohort. PLoS ONE, 9(10), 1-10.

George, J. A., Micklesfield, L. K., Norris, S. A., & Crowther, N. J. (2014). The association between body composition, 25(OH)D, and PTH and bone mineral density in black African and Asian Indian population groups. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 99(6), 2146-2154.

Feeley, A. B., & Norris, S. A. (2014). Added sugar and dietary sodium intake from purchased fast food, confectionery, sweetened beverages and snacks among Sowetan adolescents. South African Journal of Child Health, 8(3), 88-91.

Dickie, K., Micklesfield, L. K., Chantler, S., Lambert, E. V., & Goedecke, J. H. (2014). Meeting physical activity guidelines is associated with reduced risk for cardiovascular disease in black South African women; a 5.5-year follow-up study. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 498.

Meiring, R. M., Avidon, I., Norris, S. A., & McVeigh, J. A. (2013). A two-year history of high bone loading physical activity attenuates ethnic differences in bone strength and geometry in pre-/early pubertal children from a low-middle income country. Bone, 57(2), 522-530.

Stein, A. D., Barros, F. C., Bhargava, S. K., Hao, W., Horta, B. L., Lee, N., . . . Consortium of Health-Orientated Research in Transitioning Societies, I. (2013). Birth status, child growth, and adult outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. The Journal of Pediatrics, 163(6), 1740-1746.e1744.

Ramsoomar, L., Morojele, N. K., & Norris, S. A. (2013). Alcohol use in early and late adolescence among the Birth to Twenty cohort in Soweto, South Africa. Global Health Action, 6(1), 19274.

Mendenhall, E., Richter, L. M., Stein, A., & Norris, S. A. (2013). Psychological and physical co-morbidity among urban South African women. PLoS ONE, 8(10), 1-1.

May, A., Pettifor, J. M., Norris, S. A., Ramsay, M., & Lombard, Z. (2013). Genetic factors influencing bone mineral content in a black South African population. Journal of Bone & Mineral Metabolism, 31(6), 708-716.

May, A., Hazelhurst, S., Li, Y., Norris, S. A., Govind, N., Tikly, M., . . . Staedtler, F. (2013). Genetic diversity in black South Africans from Soweto. BMC Genomics, 14(1), 644.

Ibanez-Gonzalez, D. L., & Norris, S. A. (2013). Chronic non-communicable disease and healthcare access in middle-aged and older women living in Soweto, South Africa. PLoS ONE, 8(10), e78800.

Horta, B. L., Bas, A., Bhargava, S. K., Fall, C. H., Feranil, A., de Kadt, J., . . . Victora, C. G. (2013). Infant feeding and school attainment in five cohorts from low-and middle-income countries. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e71548.

Adair, L. S., Fall, C. H., Osmond, C., Stein, A. D., Martorell, R., Ramirez-Zea, M., . . . Victoria, C. G. (2013). Associations of linear growth and relative weight gain during early life with adult health and human capital in countries of low and middle income: findings from five birth cohort studies. The Lancet, 382(9891), 525-534.

Ginsburg, C., Griffiths, P. L., Richter, L. M., & Norris, S. A. (2013). Residential mobility, socioeconomic context and body mass index in a cohort of urban South African adolescents. Health & Place, 19, 99-107.

George, J. A., Norris, S. A., van Deventer, H. E., & Crowther, N. J. (2013). The association of 25 hydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone with metabolic syndrome in two ethnic groups in South Africa. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e61282.

Feeley, A. B., Musenge, E., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2013). Investigation into longitudinal dietary behaviours and household socio-economic indicators and their association with BMI Z-score and fat mass in South African adolescents: The Birth to Twenty [Bt20] cohort. Public Health Nutrition, 16(4), 693-703.

Doak, C. M., Hoffman, D. J., Norris, S. A., Ponce, M. C., Polman, K., & Griffiths, P. L. (2013). Is body mass index an appropriate proxy for body fat in children? Global Food Security, 2(2), 65-71.

Christian, P., Lee, S. E., Donahue Angel, M., Adair, L. S., Arifeen, S. E., Ashorn, P., . . . Hao, W. (2013). Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low-and middle-income countries. International Journal of Epidemiology, 42(5), 1340-1355.

Griffiths, P. L., Johnson, W., Cameron, N., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2013). In urban South Africa, 16-year-old adolescents experience greater health equality than children. Economics and Human Biology, 11(4), 502-514.

Addo, O. Y., Stein, A. D., Fall, C., Gigante, D. P., Guntupalli, A. M., Horta, B. L., . . . Martorell, R. (2013). Maternal height and child growth patterns from birth to adulthood. Journal of Pediatrics, 163(2), 549-554.

Brittian, A. S., Lewin, N., & Norris, S. A. (2013). “You must know where you come from” South African youths’ perceptions of religion in time of social change. Journal of Adolescent Research, 28(6), 642-663.

Hosegood, V., & Madhavan, S. (2012). Understanding fatherhood and father involvement in South Africa: Insights from surveys and population cohorts. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers, 10(3), 257-273.

Norris, S. A., Osmond, C., Gigante, D., Kuzawa, C. W., Ramakrishnan, L., Lee, N. R., . . . Group, C. (2012). Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and adult diabetes risk in five low- or middle-income country birth cohorts. Diabetes Care, 35(1), 72-79.

Naicker, N., Richter, L., Mathee, A., Becker, P., & Norris, S. A. (2012). Environmental lead exposure and socio-behavioural adjustment in the early teens: The Birth to Twenty cohort. Science of the Total Environment, 414, 120-125.

McVeigh, J. A., & Norris, S. A. (2012). Criterion validity and test-retest reliability of a physical activity questionnaire in South African primary school-aged children. South African Journal of Sports Medicine, 24(2), 43-48.

Lombard, Z., Crowther, N. J., Van der Merwe, L., Pitamber, P., Norris, S. A., & Ramsay, M. (2012). Appetite regulation genes are associated with body mass index in black South African adolescents: a genetic association study. BMJ open, 2(3), e000873.

Kuzawa, C. W., Hallal, P. C., Adair, L., Bhargava, S. K., Fall, C. H., Lee, N., . . . Group, C. (2012). Birth weight, postnatal weight gain, and adult body composition in five low- and middle-income countries. American Journal of Human Biology, 24(1), 5-13.

Kagura, J., Feeley, A. B., Micklesfield, L. K., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2012). Association between infant nutrition and anthropometry, and pre-pubertal body composition in urban South African children. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 3(6), 415-423.

Hawley, N. L., Rousham, E. K., Johnson, W., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., & Cameron, N. (2012). Determinants of relative skeletal maturity in South African children. Bone, 50(1), 259-264.

Radin, J., & Cameron, N. (2012). Studying Mandela’s children: human biology in post-apartheid South Africa: An interview with Noel Cameron. Current Anthropology 53(S5), S256-S266.

Richter, L. M., Victora, C. G., Hallal, P. C., Adair, L. S., Bhargava, S. K., Fall, C. H., . . . Stein, A. D. (2012). Cohort profile: the consortium of health-orientated research in transitioning societies. International Journal of Epidemiology 41(3), 621-626.

Griffiths, P. L., Sheppard, Z. A., Johnson, W., Cameron, N., Pettifor, J. M., Norris, S. A., . . . Norris, S. A. (2012). Associations between household and neighbourhood socioeconomic status and systolic blood pressure among urban South African adolescents. Journal of Biosocial Science, 44(4), 433-458.

Crowther, N. J., & Norris, S. A. (2012). The current waist circumference cut point used for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in Sub-Saharan African women is not appropriate. PLoS ONE, 7(11), 1-8.

Feeley, A., Musenge, E., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2012). Changes in dietary habits and eating practices in adolescents living in urban South Africa: The Birth to Twenty cohort. Nutrition, 28(7-8), e1-6.

Fall, C. H., Borja, J. B., Osmond, C., Richter, L., Bhargava, S. K., Martorell, R., . . . Victora, C. G. (2011). Infant-feeding patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood: data from five cohorts in low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Epidemiology, 40(1), 47-62.

De Lucia Rolfe, E., Norris, S. A., Sleigh, A., Brage, S., Dunger, D. B., Stolk, R. P., & Ong, K. K. (2011). Validation of ultrasound estimates of visceral fat in black South African adolescents. Obesity, 19(9), 1892-1897.

Dandara, C., Lombard, Z., Du Plooy, I., McLellan, T., Norris, S., & Ramsay, M. (2011). Genetic variants in CYP (-1A2, -2C9, -2C19, -3A4 and -3A5), VKORC1 and ABCB1 genes in a black South African population: a window into diversity. Pharmacogenomics 12(12), 1663–1670.

Ginsburg, C., Richter, L. M., Fleisch, B., & Norris, S. A. (2011). An analysis of associations between residential and school mobility and educational outcomes in South African urban children: The Birth to Twenty cohort. International Journal of Educational Development, 31(3), 213-222.

Ginsburg, C., Steele, F., Richter, L. M., & Norris, S. A. (2011). Modelling residential mobility: factors associated with the movement of children in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. Population Space & Place, 17(5), 611-626.

Kimani-Murage, E. W., Kahn, K., Pettifor, J. M., Tollman, S. M., Klipstein-Grobusch, K., & Norris, S. A. (2011). Predictors of adolescent weight status and central obesity in rural South Africa. Public Health Nutrition, 14(6), 1114-1122.

Vidulich, L., Norris, S., A, Cameron, N., & Pettifor, J. M. (2011). Bone mass and bone size in pre-or early pubertal 10-year-old black and white South African children. Calcified Tissue International, 88(4), 281-293.

Thandrayen, K., Norris, S. A., Micklesfield, L. K., & Pettifor, J. M. (2011). Heterogeneity of fracture pathogenesis in urban South African children: The Birth to Twenty cohort. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 26(12), 2834-2842.

Poopedi, M. A., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2011). Factors influencing the vitamin D status of 10-year-old urban South African children. Public Health Nutrition, 14(2), 334-339.

Naicker, N., Norris, S., Mathee, A., & Richter, L. (2011). Lead exposure and the onset of puberty: Birth to Twenty cohort. Epidemiology, 22(1), S119.

Micklesfield, L. K., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2011). Ethnicity and bone: a South African perspective. Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 29(3), 257.

Micklesfield, L. K., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2011). Determinants of bone size and strength in 13-year-old South African children: the influence of ethnicity, sex and pubertal maturation. Bone, 48(4), 777-785.

van Heerden, A. C., Norris, S. A., & Richter, L. M. (2010). Using mobile phones for adolescent research in low- and middle-income countries: preliminary findings from the birth to twenty cohort, South Africa. Journal of Adolescent Health, 46(3), 302-304.

Stein, A. D., Wang, M., Martorell, R., Norris, S. A., Adair, L. S., Bas, I., . . . Victora, C. G. (2010). Growth patterns in early childhood and final attained stature: data from five birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries. American Journal of Human Biology, 22(3), 353-359.

Sheppard, Z. A., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., Cameron, N., & Griffiths, P. L. (2010). How can we learn about community socioeconomic status and poverty in a developing country urban environment? An example from Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa. African Population Studies, 24(1/2), 53-69.

Ramchandani, P. C., Richter, L. M., Norris, S. A., & Stein, A. (2010). Maternal prenatal stress and later child behavioral problems in an urban South African setting. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 49(3), 239-247.

Naicker, N., Norris, S. A., Mathee, A., von Schirnding, Y. E., & Richter, L. (2010). Prenatal and adolescent blood lead levels in South Africa: Child, maternal and household risk factors in the Birth to Twenty cohort. Environmental Research, 110(4), 355-362.

Naicker, N., Norris, S. A., Mathee, A., Becker, P., & Richter, L. (2010). Lead exposure is associated with a delay in the onset of puberty in South African adolescent females: Findings from the Birth to Twenty cohort. Science of the Total Environment, 408(21), 4949-4954.

Martorell, R., Horta, B. L., Adair, L. S., Stein, A. D., Richter, L., Fall, C. H., . . . Barros, F. C. (2010). Weight gain in the first two years of life is an important predictor of schooling outcomes in pooled analyses from five birth cohorts from low-and middle-income countries. Journal of Nutrition, 140(2), 348-354.

Avan, B., Richter, L. M., Ramchandani, P. G., Norris, S. A., & Stein, A. (2010). Maternal postnatal depression and children’s growth and behaviour during the early years of life: Exploring the interaction between physical and mental health. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 95(9), 690-695.

Micklesfield, L. K., Evans, J., Norris, S. A., Lambert, E. V., Jennings, C., Joffe, Y., . . . Goedecke, J. H. (2010). Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometric estimates of visceral fat in Black and White South African Women. Obesity, 18(3), 619-624.

Ramchandani, P. G., Richter, L. M., Stein, A., & Norris, S. A. (2009). Predictors of postnatal depression in an urban South African cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders, 113(3), 279-284.

Micklesfield, L. K., Norris, S. A., van der Merwe, L., Lambert, E. V., Beck, T., & Pettifor, J. M. (2009). Comparison of site-specific bone mass indices in South African children of different ethnic groups. Calcified tissue international, 85(4), 317-325.

Jones, L. L., Griffiths, P. L., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., & Cameron, N. (2009). Is puberty starting earlier in urban South Africa? American Journal of Human Biology, 21(3), 395-397.

Jones, L. L., Griffiths, P. L., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., & Cameron, N. (2009). Age at menarche and the evidence for a positive secular trend in urban South Africa. American Journal of Human Biology, 21(1), 130-132.

Hawley, N. L., Rousham, E. K., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., & NoËL, C. (2009). Secular trends in skeletal maturity in South Africa: 1962-2001. Annals of Human Biology, 36(5), 584-594.

Ginsburg, C., Norris, S. A., Richter, L. M., & Coplan, D. B. (2009). Patterns of residential mobility amongst children in greater Johannesburg, Soweto, South Africa: Observations from the Birth to Twenty cohort. Urban Forum, 20(4), 397-413.

Fleisch, B., & Shindler, J. (2009). Gender repetition: school access, transitions and equity in the ‘Birth-to-Twenty’ cohort panel study in urban South Africa. Comparative Education, 45(2), 265-279.

Feeley, A., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2009). Fast-food consumption among 17-year-olds in the Birth to Twenty cohort. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 22(3).

Richter, L., M, Panday, S., Swart, M., T, & Norris, S. (2009). Adolescents in the city: material and social living conditions in Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa. Urban Forum, 20(3), 319-334.

Richter, L. M., Panday, S., & Norris, S. A. (2009). Factors influencing enrolment: A case study from Birth to Twenty, the 1990 birth cohort in Soweto–Johannesburg. Evaluation & Program Planning, 32(3), 197-203.

Zingoni, C., Norris, S. A., Griffiths, P. L., & Cameron, N. (2009). Studying a population undergoing nutrition transition: a practical case study of dietary assessment in urban South African adolescents. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 48(3), 178-198.

Willey, B. A., Cameron, N., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., & Griffiths, P. L. (2009). Socio-economic predictors of stunting in preschool children-a population-based study from Johannesburg and Soweto. South African Medical Journal, 99(6), 450-456.

Thandrayen, K., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2009). Fracture rates in urban South African children of different ethnic origins: the Birth to Twenty cohort. Osteoporosis International, 20(1), 47-52.

Sheppard, Z. A., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., Cameron, N., & Griffiths, P. L. (2009). Approaches for assessing the role of household socioeconomic status on child anthropometric measures in urban South Africa. American Journal of Human Biology, 21(1), 48-54.

Norris, S. A., Griffiths, P., Pettifor, J. M., Dunger, D. B., & Cameron, N. (2009). Implications of adopting the WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards: Case study from urban South Africa, the Birth to Twenty cohort. Annals of Human Biology, 36(1), 21-27.

Sabet, F., Richter, L. M., Ramchandani, P. G., Stein, A., Quigley, M. A., & Norris, S. A. (2009). Low birthweight and subsequent emotional and behavioural outcomes in 12-year-old children in Soweto, South Africa: findings from Birth to Twenty. International Journal of Epidemiology, 38(4), 944-954.

Demerath, E. W., Jones, L. L., Hawley, N. L., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., Duren, D., . . . Cameron, N. (2009). Rapid infant weight gain and advanced skeletal maturation in childhood. Journal of Pediatrics, 155(3), 355-361.

Cameron, N., Jones, L. L., Griffiths, P. L., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2009). How well do waist circumference and body mass index reflect body composition in pre-pubertal children? European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 63(9), 1065-1070.

Adair, L. S., Martorell, R., Stein, A. D., Hallal, P. C., Sachdev, H. S., Prabhakaran, D., . . . Victora, C. G. (2009). Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and adult blood pressure in 5 low- and middle-income-country cohorts: when does weight gain matter? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 89(5), 1383-1392.

Crowther, N. J., Cameron, N., Trusler, J., Toman, M., Norris, S. A., & Gray, I. P. (2008). Influence of catch-up growth on glucose tolerance and ?-cell function in 7-year-old children: Results from the Birth to Twenty study. Pediatrics, 121(6), 1248-1248.

Griffiths, P. L., Rousham, E. K., Norris, S. A., Pettifor, J. M., & Cameron, N. (2008). In urban South Africa, 16-year-old adolescents experience greater health equality than children. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 93(10), 862-867.

Victora, C. G., Adair, L., Fall, C., Hallal, P. C., Martorell, R., Richter, L., & Sachdev, H. S. (2008). Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital. The Lancet, 371(9609), 340-357.

Pedro, T. M., MacKeown, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2008). Variety and total number of food items recorded by a true longitudinal group of urban black South African children at five interceptions between 1995 and 2003: The Birth-to-Twenty [Bt20] Study. Public Health Nutrition, 11(6), 616-623.

Norris, S. A., Sheppard, Z. A., Griffiths, P. L., Cameron, N., & Pettifor, J. M. (2008). Current socio?economic measures, and not those measured during infancy, affect bone mass in poor urban South African children. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 23(9), 1409-1416.

Norris, S. A., Roeser, R. W., Richter, L. M., Lewin, N., Ginsburg, C., Fleetwood, S. A., . . . van der Wolf, K. (2008). South African-ness among adolescents: The emergence of a collective identity within the Birth to Twenty cohort study. Journal of Early Adolescence, 28(1), 51-69.

Norris, S. A., & Richter, L. M. (2008). Are there short cuts to pubertal assessments? Self-reported and assessed group differences in pubertal development in African adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 42(3), 259-265.

Jones, L. L., Griffiths, P. L., Adair, L. S., Norris, S. A., Richter, L. M., & Cameron, N. (2008). A comparison of the socio-economic determinants of growth retardation in South African and Filipino infants. Public Health Nutrition, 11(12), 1220-1228.

Vidulich, L., Norris, S. A., Cameron, N., & Pettifor, J. M. (2007). Infant programming of bone size and bone mass in 10-year-old black and white South African children. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 21(4), 354-362.

Richter, L., Norris, S., Pettifor, J., Yach, D., & Cameron, N. (2007). Cohort Profile: Mandela’s children: the 1990 Birth to Twenty study in South Africa. International Journal of Epidemiology, 36(3), 504-511.

Norris, S. A., Richter, L. M., & Fleetwood, S. A. (2007). Panel studies in developing countries: case analysis of sample attrition over the past 16 years within the Birth to Twenty cohort in Johannesburg, South Africa. Journal of International Development, 19(8), 1143-1150.

Micklesfield, L. K., Norris, S. A., Nelson, D. A., Lambert, E. V., Van der Merwe, L., & Pettifor, J. M. (2007). Comparisons of body size, composition, and whole body bone mass between North American and South African children. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 22(12), 1869-1877.

McVeigh, J. A., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2007). Bone mass accretion rates in pre?and early?pubertal South African black and white children in relation to habitual physical activity and dietary calcium intakes. Acta Paediatrica, 96(6), 874-880.

Lewin, N. S., Norris, S. A., & Richter, L. M. (2007). Health and social scientists need to weigh in. South African Medical Journal, 97(6), 392-393.

Jennifer, M. M., Titilola, M. P., & Shane, A. N. (2007). Energy, macro- and micronutrient intake among a true longitudinal group of South African adolescents at two interceptions (2000 and 2003): The Birth-to-Twenty (Bt20) Study. Public Health Nutrition, 10(6), 635-643.

Ellison, G. T. H., Richter, L. M., De Wet, T., Harris, H. E., Griesel, R. D., & McIntyre, J. A. (2007). The reliability of hand-written and computerized records of birth data collected at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Curationis, 20(1), 36-40.

Vidulich, L., Norris, S. A., Cameron, N., & Pettifor, J. M. (2006). Differences in bone size and bone mass between black and white 10-year-old South African children. Osteoporosis International, 17(3), 433-440.

Steyn, N. P., Senekal, M., Norris, S. A., Whati, L., MacKeown, J. M., & Nel, J. H. (2006). How well do adolescents determine portion sizes of foods and beverages? Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 15(1), 35-42.

Steyn, K., De Wet, T., Saloojee, Y., Nel, H., & Yach, D. (2006). The influence of maternal cigarette smoking, snuff use and passive smoking on pregnancy outcomes: the Birth to Ten Study. Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 20(2), 90-99.

Richter, L. M., Norris, S. A., Swart, T. M., & Ginsburg, C. (2006). In-migration and living conditions of young adolescents in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. Social Dynamics, 32(1), 195-216.

Nyati, L. H., Norris, S. A., Cameron, N., & Pettifor, J. M. (2006). Effect of ethnicity and sex on the growth of the axial and appendicular skeleton of children living in a developing country. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 130(1), 135-141.

Petersen, C., Norris, S., Pettifor, J., & MacKeown, J. (2006). Eating attitudes in a group of 11-year-old urban South African girls. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 19(2), 80-85.

Richter, L. M. (2006). Studying adolescence. Science, 312(5782), 1902-1905.

Richter, L. M., Norris, S. A., & Ginsburg, C. (2006). The silent truth of teenage pregnancies-Birth to Twenty cohort’s next generation. South African Medical Journal, 96(2), 122-123.

Cameron, N., Preece, M. A., & Cole, T. J. (2005). Catch?up growth or regression to the mean? Recovery from stunting revisited. American Journal of Human Biology, 17(4), 412-417.

Cameron, N., Wright, M. M., Griffiths, P. L., Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2005). Stunting at 2 years in relation to body composition at 9 years in African urban children. Obesity Research, 13(1), 131-136.

Norris, S. A., & Richter, L. M. (2005). Usefulness and reliability of tanner pubertal self?rating to urban black adolescents in South Africa. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15(4), 609-624.

Cameron, N., Griffiths, P. L., Wright, M. M., Blencowe, C., Davis, N. C., Pettifor, J. M., & Norris, S. A. (2004). Regression equations to estimate percentage body fat in African prepubertal children aged 9 years. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 80(1), 70-75.

McVeigh, J., Norris, S., & De Wet, T. (2004). The relationship between socio?economic status and physical activity patterns in South African children. Acta Paediatrica, 93(7), 982-988.

McVeigh, J. A., Norris, S. A., Cameron, N., & Pettifor, J. M. (2004). Associations between physical activity and bone mass in black and white South African children at age 9 year. Journal of Applied Physiology, 97(3), 1006-1012.

Richter, L. M., Norris, S. A., & De Wet, T. (2004). Transition from Birth to Ten to Birth to Twenty: the South African cohort reaches 13 years of age. Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 18(4), 290-301.

MacKeown, J. M., Cleaton-Jones, P. E., & Norris, S. A. (2003). Nutrient intake among a longitudinal group of urban black South African children at four interceptions between 1995 and 2000 [Birth-to-Ten Study]. Nutrition Research, 23(2), 185-197.

MacKeown, J. M., Cleaton?Jones, P. E., & Fatti, P. (2003). Caries and micronutrient intake among urban South African children: a cohort study. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 31(3), 213-220.

Cameron, N., Pettifor, J., De Wet, T., & Norris, S. (2003). The relationship of rapid weight gain in infancy to obesity and skeletal maturity in childhood. Obesity, 11(3), 457-460.

Cameron, N. (2003). Physical growth in a transitional economy: the aftermath of South African apartheid. Economics and Human Biology, 1(1), 29-42.

MacKeown, J., & Cleaton-Jones, P. (2001). Dental caries incidence in relation to nutrient intake in urban preschool children. The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 14(4), 132-136.

Gray, P., & Crowther, N. (2001). Implications of the thrifty phenotype hypothesis for the health of societies undergoing acculturation – lessons for South African health planning. South African Medical Journal, 91(4), 325-328.

Ellison, G., & De Wet, T. (2001). Shoe size, stature and caesarean delivery. South African Medical Journal, 91(10), 846-848.

Barbarin, O. A., Richter, L., & De Wet, T. (2001). Exposure to violence, coping resources, and psychological adjustment of South African children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71(1), 16-25.

Barbarin, O. A., & Richter, L. (2001). Economic status, community danger and psychological problems among South African children. Childhood, 8(1), 115-133.

Crowther, N. J., Trusler, J., Cameron, N., Toman, M., & Gray, I. P. (2000). Relation between weight gain and beta-cell secretory activity and non-esterified fatty acid production in 7-year-old African children: results from the Birth to Ten study. Diabetologia, 43(8), 978-985.

Ellison, G. T., & De Wet, T. (2000). Infant mortality in Soweto-estimates from the Birth to Ten study using the ‘previous birth’ technique. South African Medical Journal, 90(5), 490-491.

Ellison, G. T., De Wet, T., Matshidze, K. P., & Cooper, P. (2000). The reliability and validity of self-reported reproductive history and obstetric morbidity amongst birth to ten mothers in Soweto. Curationis, 23(4), 76-81.

MacKeown, J. M., Edwards, A. W., & Cleaton-Jones, P. E. (2000). Energy and macronutrient intake in relation to dental caries incidence in urban black South African preschool children in 1991 and 1995: The Birth-to-Ten study. Public Health Nutrition, 3(3), 313-319.

Mathee, A., Von Schirnding, Y. E., De Wet, T., & Mokoetle, K. (2000). Potential risk factors for asbestos exposure amongst six-month-old infants living in the township of Soweto, South Africa. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 10(2), 135-139.

Mathee, A., Von Schirnding, Y. E. R., De Wet, T., & Mokoetle, K. (2000). Potential risk factors for asbestos exposure amongst six-month-old infants living in the township of Soweto, South Africa. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 10(2), 135-139.

Norris, S. A., & Pettifor, J. M. (2000). A review: factors influencing bone mass acquisition in children: new Birth to Ten research initiative investigating such factors in black and white urban children in South Africa. Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection, 15(4), 113-117.

Steyn, K., De Wet, T., Richter, L., Cameron, N., Levitt, N. S., & Morrell, C. (2000). Cardiovascular disease risk factors in 5-year-olds urban South African children-the Birth to Ten Study. South African Medical Journal, 90(7), 719-726.

Barbarin, O. A. (1999). Social risks and psychological adjustment: A comparison of African American and South African children. Child Development, 70(6), 1348-1359.

Barbarin, O. A., & Richter, L. (1999). Adversity and psychosocial competence of South African children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 69(3), 319-327.

Levitt, N. S., Steyn, K., De Wet, T., Morrell, C., Edwards, R., Ellison, G. T., & Cameron, N. (1999). An inverse relation between blood pressure and birth weight among 5- year-olds children from Soweto, South Africa. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53(5), 264-268.

Morrell, C. H. (1999). Simpson’s Paradox: an example from a longitudinal study in South Africa. Journal of Statistics Education, 7(3), 1-4.

Crowther, N. J., Cameron, N., Trusler, J., & Gray, I. P. (1998). Association between poor glucose tolerance and rapid post-natal weight gain in seven-year-old children. Diabetologia, 41(10), 1163-1167.

Harris, H. E., Ellison, G. T. H., Richter, L. M., De Wet, T. D., & Levin, J. (1998). Are overweight women at increased risk of obesity following pregnancy? British Journal of Nutrition, 79(6), 489-494.

Matshidze, K. P., Richter, L. M., Ellison, G. T., Levin, J. B., & McIntyre, J. A. (1998). Caesarean section rates in South Africa: evidence of bias among different ‘population groups’. Ethnicity & Health, 3(1-2), 71-79.

Cameron, N., De Wet, T., Ellison, G. T., & Bogin, B. (1998). Growth in height and weight of South African urban infants from birth to five years: The Birth to Ten Study. American Journal of Human Biology, 10(4), 495-504.

Barbarin, O. A., Richter, L., De Wet, T., & Wachtel, A. (1998). Ironic trends in the transition to peace: Criminal violence supplants political violence in terrorizing South African Blacks. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 4(3), 283-305.

Ellison, G. T., Wagstaff, L., Cameron, N., & De Wet, T. (1997). Geographical differences in infant feeding patterns in disadvantaged communities. South African Medical Journal, 87(8), 1025-1026.

Ellison, G. T., Richter, L. M., De Wet, T., Harris, H. E., Griesel, R. D., & McIntyre, J. A. (1997). The reliability of hand-written and computerised records of birth data collected at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Curationis, 20(1), 36-40.

Ellison, G., T, Richter, L., M, De Wet, T., Harris, H., E, Griesel, R., D, & McIntyre, J., A. (1997). Improving the accuracy of birth notification data: lessons from the Birth to Ten study South African Journal of Epidemiology Infection, 12, 91-96.

Barbarin, O. A., & Khomo, N. (1997). Indicators of economic status and social capital in South African townships: What do they reveal about the material and social conditions in families of poor children? Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research 4(2), 193-222.

Cooper, P. A., & Sandler, D. L. (1997). Outcome of very low birth weight infants at 12 to 18 months of age in Soweto, South Africa. Pediatrics, 99(4), 537-544.

Ellison, G. T., & McIntyre, J. A. (1997). Improving the accuracy of birth notification data: lessons from the Birth to Ten study. Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection, 12(3), 91-96.

Ellison, G. T., De Wet, T., IJsselmuiden, C. B., & Richter, L. M. (1997). Segregated health statistics perpetuate racial stereotypes. British Medical Journal, 314(7092), 1485.

Cameron, N. (1996). Birth to Ten: The first five years. The Leech, 65(1), 42-44.

MacKeown, J. M., Cleaton-Jones, P. E., & Perdrau, G. G. M. (1996). Energy and macronutrient intake of one-year-old South African urban children: The Birth to Ten [BTT] Study. Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 10(2), 150-160.

Smith, R. E., Kok, A., Rothberg, A. D., & Groeneveld, H. T. (1995). Determinants of blood pressure in Sowetan infants. South African Medical Journal, 85(12), 1339-1342.

Richter, L. M., Yach, D., Cameron, N., Griesel, R. D., & De Wet, T. (1995). Enrolment into Birth to Ten [BTT]: population and sample characteristics. Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 9(1), 109-120.

Anderson, A., & Richter, L. M. (1994). ‘Birth to Ten’: Error detection and correction in a longitudinal address database. Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection, 9(1), 16-19.

Bortz, M. A. (1992). Language abilities of 18-month-old Zulu speakers. South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 39, 25-34.

Fonn, S., De Beer, M., Kgampe, S., McIntyre, J., Cameron, N., Padayachee, G., N, . . . Zitha, D. (1991). ‘Birth to Ten’ – pilot studies to test the feasibility of a birth cohort study investigating the effects of urbanisation in South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 79(8), 449 -454.

Yach, D., Cameron, N., Padayachee, N., Wagstaff, L., Richter, L., & Fonn, S. (1991). Birth to Ten: child health in South Africa in the 1990s. Rationale and methods of a birth cohort study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 5(2), 211-233.

Yach, D., Padayachee, G. N., Cameron, N., Wagstaff, L. A., & Richter, L. (1990). ‘Birth to Ten’ – a study of children of the 1990s living in the Johannesburg-Soweto area. South African Medical Journal, 5(2), 325-326.