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PRU-MNHC

Our aim is to provide evidence for policy and practice for the health and wellbeing of mothers, their babies and their families.

Led by the NPEU at the University of Oxford, we are a team of experts in the fields of maternal and newborn health research, with collaboration from the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester and Cardiff, as well as Imperial College and University College, London. Our Parent, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPPIE) work is led by two lay co-leads, who are part of the core team and ensure PPPIE is at the heart of our work.

Our programme of work began in January 2019, funded by the Policy Research Programme at the Department of Health and Social Care (England) via the National Institute for Health Research. Known as the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care (PRU-MNHC), our work directly affects government and NHS policy and practice around caring for mothers and babies.

PRU-MNHC Management Team

  • Marian Knight

    Co-Director, Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health, Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)

  • Claire Carson

    Associate Professor - Senior Researcher in Epidemiology (NPEU)

  • Jenny Douglas

    Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion (The Open University)

  • Chris Gale

    Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neonatal Medicine (Imperial College London)

  • Alex Heazell

    Professor of Obstetrics (University of Manchester)

  • Sara Kenyon

    Professor in Evidence Based Maternity Care (University of Birmingham)

  • Neena Modi

    Professor of Neonatal Medicine (Imperial College London)

  • Rachel Rowe

    Associate Professor - Senior Health Services Researcher (NPEU)

  • Julia Sanders

    Professor of Clinical Nursing & Midwifery (Cardiff University)

  • Dimitrios Siassakos

    Associate Professor (Reader) & Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics (University College London)

  • Lucy Smith

    Professor of Perinatal Health (University of Leicester)

  • Alan Stein

    Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (University of Oxford)

Find out more about the PRU Research team

Contact Us

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Name
Prof Fiona Alderdice
Address
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford
Old Road Campus
Oxford
OX3 7LF
Email
fiona.alderdice@npeu.ox.ac.uk
Tel
01865 617901

PPPI

Parent, Patient and Public Involvement (PPPI) is at the heart of our vision for the PRU-MNHC. It is essential that our work reflects what mothers, fathers, partners and families want to know, and ensuring this happens is embedded in every aspect of strategy and delivery. Rachel Plachcinski and Charlotte Bevan are our Joint Leads on PPPI. They co-chair our annual PPPI Stakeholder Network meetings, and support wider stakeholder engagement in influencing both our overall strategy and individual projects throughout the programme. Through our PPPI strategy we aim to ensure mothers, fathers, partners and families, and organisations representing them, shape the work of the PRU-MNHC by helping us make decisions about what's important. Reflecting their ideas, opinions and experiences in our work means we can produce high quality, inclusive research that's meaningful to families.

Find out more about our PPPI work