The Global and Maternal Newborn Health Hub is a focal point for researchers to develop ideas, share learning, and build capacity for impactful research in maternal and newborn health globally, underpinned by an ethos of interdisciplinarity.
Our objective is to develop, consolidate, and integrate capacities of researchers interested in maternal and newborn health while leveraging context-relevant research evidence to guide advocacy efforts, programmes and policies geared towards improving outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth for mothers and their newborns across the globe.
Situated within the Centre for Vulnerable Children and Families, the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Hub brings together wide-ranging expertise of researchers across the Centre to address existing and emerging issues that limit access, preclude optimum experience, and increase the risk of poor pregnancy outcomes for mothers and their newborns across high-, middle- and low-income countries.
The Hub aims to allow for more integration and interaction amongst researchers and is in line with the Institute for Lifecourse Development’s underpinning ethos for interdisciplinarity.
Hub activities include deployment of innovative and collaborative research, capacity building, grant making, community engagement and advocacy.
The Hub is led by Dr Julia Morgan, Dr Liz Gale, Pasang Tamang and Itohan Osayande.