Published Papers and Reports
Publications in maternal and child health
- Audit and maternal mortality features the first-ever estimates of preterm birth rates by country and is authored by a broad group of 45 international multi-disciplinary experts from 11 countries, with almost 50 organisations in support. This report is written in support of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health and the efforts of Every Woman Every Child, led by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
- WHO 2009 guidelines on management of PPH
- List of child health randomised controlled trials 2012-13 taking place in developing countries with summary of findings
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Specialization training in Malawi: a qualitative study on the perspectives of medical students graduating from the University of Malawi College of Medicine Adam P Sawatsky, Natasha Parekh, Adamson S Muula and Thuy Bui
The Lancet
- Quality of care, risk management and technology in obstetrics to reduce hospital-based maternal mortality in Senegal and Mali (QUARITE): a cluster-randomised trial Dumont, A, Fournier, P, Abrahamowicz, M et al (online publication)
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Commentary: reducing the world’s stillbirths (Goldenberg, McClure, Belizan)
- 3.2 million stillbirths: epidemiology and overview of the evidence review (Lawn, Yokoob, Haws, Soomro, Darmstadt, Bhutta)
- Reducing stillbirths: screening and monitoring during pregnancy and labour (Haws, Yakoob, Soomro, Menezes, Darmstadt, Bhutta)
- Reducing stillbirths: interventions during labour (Darmstadt, Yakoob, Haws, Menezes, Soomro, Bhutta)
International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
- Obstetric care in low-resource setting: What, who, and how to overcome challenges to scale up? (Hofmeyr, Haws, Bergström, Lee, Okong, Darmstadt, Mullany, Oo, Lawn)
- Two million intrapartum-related stillbirths and neonatal deaths: Where, why and what can be done? (Lawn, Lee, Kinney, Sibley, Carlo, Paul, Pattinson, Darmstadt)
- Neonatal resuscitation in low-resource settings: What, who and how to overcome challenges to scale up? (Wall, Lee, Niermeyer, English, Keenan, Carlo, Bhutta, Bang, Narayanan, Ariwan, Lawn)
BMJ
- A comparison of clinical officers with medical doctors on outcomes of caesarean section in the developing world: meta-analysis of controlled studies (Wilson, Amie; Lissauer, D; Thangaratinam, Shakila; Khan, Khalid S; MacArthur, Christine; Coomarasamy, Arri)
- “Non-physician clinicians” in low income countries: a potential solution to lack of human resources for maternal health (Editorial, Bergström, Staffan)
The New England Journal of Medicine
- Are we making progress in maternal mortality? (Paxton, A and Wardlaw, T)
Pacific Health Summit - Initiatives - Maternal and Newborn Health
Oxford University Press
- Implementation and Evaluation of a Neonatal Educational Program in Rural Nepal by Clare Wendy Allen and Heather Jeffery
- Newborn Care Practices at Home: Effect of a Hospital-based Intervention in Sri Lanka by Upul Senarath, Dulitha N Fernando and Ishani Rodrigo
- Preferences and Practices: Use of Neonatal Resuscitation Devices in Low-Resource Settings by P S Coffey, K Kelly and V Tsu
Springer Science Publications
- Kazembe, L. Mapping socio-economic inequealities in health status in Malawian children: a Beyesian approach, in Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, Vol. 34. Eds Kandala, Ngianga Bakwin nad Ghilagber, Gebrenegus. Springer Science, 2014.
- Manda, Samuel OM, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala and Gebrenegus Ghilagaber. Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa, in Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, Vol. 34. Eds Kandala, Ngianga Bakwin nad Ghilagber, Gebrenegus. Springer Science, 2014.
Internet Scientific Publications
- A clinical audit of the management of postpartum haemorrhage in Malawi, by Eugene Kongnyuy and Nynke van den Broek