Research
Global Maternal Health
I have a special interest in maternal mortality in the developing world, clinical trials, the management of labour and delivery, and misoprostol use. Between 2000 and 2002 I worked as a visiting clinical lecturer in obstetrics at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda researching low technology methods for reducing maternal mortality. This included misoprostol for incomplete miscarriage and umbilical oxytocin injection for retained placenta.
Postpartum haemorrhage
Misoprostol
Research grants
An International World Health Organisation Collaboration to Implement and Evaluate at Scale the Active Prevention and Treatment of Maternal Sepsis (APT-Sepsis)
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2021 - October 2025
PhD Helen Maver
LIVERPOOL WOMENS HOSP CHAR FUND (UK)
October 2019 - January 2022
NIHR ARC 2 national social care implementation projects
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK), LCCG - LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)
October 2019 - March 2026
A randomized trial comparing oral misoprostol alone with oral misoprostol followed by oxytocin in women induced for hypertension of pregnancy (MOLI study)
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2018 - June 2023
A cluster randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of household alcohol-based handrub for the prevention of sepsis, diarrhoea and pneumonia in Ugandan infants (Babygel)
EUROPEAN AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CLINICAL TRIALS PARTNERSHIP (EDCTP) - (NETHERLANDS), EUROPEAN AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CLINICAL TRIALS PARTNERSHIP - (NETHERLANDS)
February 2019 - January 2025
The Carboprost or Oxytocin Postpartum haemorrhage Effectiveness Study (COPE)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
September 2017 - November 2025
Preventing Post Traumatic stress Disorder: the Stress and Wellbeing after Childbirth Study (STRAWB).
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
November 2016 - September 2019
The postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) Butterfly: clinical testing and commercial development
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
April 2016 - March 2020
Fear of Childbirth: Developing an evidence-based, usable and acceptable tool for UK maternity services’ (FOCUS).
LCCG - LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)
March 2016 - August 2017
Exploring the aetiology and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta.
GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN
September 2014 - August 2019
Induction of labour in pre-eclamptic women: a randomised trial comparing balloon catheter with oral misoprostol.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2012 - March 2016
The AIMS (Antibiotics In Miscarriage Surgery) Trial
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2013 - August 2017