Health & Wellbeing
19
2.3
International maternal health
Keywords
Global health, maternity, millennium development goals,
maternal mortality, safe motherhood
Expertise
Liverpool develops low-cost technologies for maternity
care, and conducts clinical trials in poorer and low
resourced settings. We also have expertise in knowledge
synthesis – bringing together evidence to produce reports
and guidelines.
We are experienced in developing and testing products
applicable to maternity care with external organisations
and industry. We welcome approaches from external
organisations to help develop and test their products in
the largest women’s hospital in the UK.
Capabilities and facilities
•
Experience of clinical research in low resource
settings
•
Technology development: industry collaborations,
prototypes, clinical testing of devices
•
Field sites in Uganda, Pakistan, Libya and Malawi
•
Intellectual property (we have patents pending on
three clinical devices).
Also see:
Society & Culture –
4.1
Migration and mobility, page 171
Health & Wellbeing –
2.1
Safe pregnancies and birth, page 18
2.4
Knowledge synthesis, page 21
For further information
on all our specialist
centres, facilities and
laboratories
go to page
179
