Executive Guideline Steering Group Professor Richard ADANU Richard Adanu is a specialist Obstetrician-Gynaecologist who graduated from the University of Ghana Dean, Medical School and completed his postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Korle Bu School of Public Health, Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. He later obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Ghana Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Gates scholar and was admitted into the Delta Accra, Ghana Omega Public Health Honor Society. He has extensive experience in the fields of maternal mortality and Email: [email protected] morbidity reduction, contraceptive use by women and cervical cancer screening. He is currently the Dean of the University of Ghana School of Public Health, a Professor of Women’s Reproductive Health and Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist with the University of Ghana Hospital. He lectures in public health and population studies and has developed a number of interactive web-based educational material in obstetrics and gynaecology which are used by medical students and a number of practitioners all over the world. In addition to clinical practice and public health education, Richard also serves as the Editor-in- Chief for the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He currently leads a consortium of 11 African universities to facilitate an educational mobility program funded by the European Union. Dr Fernando ALTHABE Fernando Althabe, MD, MSc, is adjunct professor of public health at the University of Buenos Aires, Director adjunct associate professor in the Tulane Department of Epidemiology, and Director of the Department of Department of Mother and Child Health Research Mother and Child Research at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) in Buenos Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy Aires. Formerly he was staff perinatal researcher at the Latin American Centre for Perinatology (Pan Viamonte 2146 3rd floor American Health Organization, World Health Organization) for 7 years. He has considerable experience in Buenos Aires 1056 the design and conduction of multicentre, multinational randomized controlled trials in implementation Argentina research in maternal and child health. He has conducted one large cluster randomized trial in 36 hospitals Email: [email protected] in five Latin American countries to evaluate whether a second opinion before caesarean section could reduce the caesarean section rate; and more recently, a cluster randomized trial in 24 hospitals in Argentina and Uruguay to evaluate whether a behavioural intervention can increase the use of beneficial childbirth practices in maternity hospitals. Dr Althabe works primarily as a trialist and also has extensive experience in teaching research methods and evidence-based clinical practice. Dr Althabe has coordinated short-term courses in research methods for more than 500 health professionals from 12 Latin American countries. He is also coordinator of Master´s Program for Clinical Effectiveness for health professionals in the maternal and child health area, funded by Fogarty International Centre.

Dr Melania Maria Ramos de AMORIM Melania Amorim, MD, PhD, is a Brazilian obstetrician, a university lecturer and researcher. She received Instituto Paraibano de Pesquisa Professor Joaquim her MD degree from UFPB - Brazil (1989) and finished her medical residency in Obstetrics and Amorim Neto and Instituto de Medicina Integral Gynecology at IMIP - Brazil (1992). She obtained her MSc degree from Instituto de Medicina Integral de Professor Fernando Figueira, Brazil Pernambuco - IMIP (1995) and her PhD from the University of Campinas – Unicamp - Brazil (1998). She Email: [email protected] did her post-doctoral work at Unicamp (2010) with a post-doctoral fellowship in the World Health Organization – WHO - Switzerland (2009). Her professional interests include humanization of childbirth, obstetric violence, evidence-based medicine, translational research, high-risk pregnancy with emphasis on hypertension in pregnancy, obstetric emergencies, intensive obstetric care, near miss and maternal mortality. Melania currently teaches at the Federal University of Campina Grande (Paraiba) and IMIP (Pernambuco). She is a Senior Researcher of Instituto Paraibano de Pesquisa Professor Joaquim Amorim Neto - IPESQ (Paraiba) and has more than 260 articles published in national and international medical journals. She is a feminist, activist, fighter against gender violence, promoter of humanization of childbirth, and defender of reproductive rights and women’s autonomy. Dr Shabina ARIFF Dr Shabina Ariff is a clinician scientist and currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Assistant Professor Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi, Pakistan. She completed her Director Neonatal intensive care unit fellowship in Neonatology in 2005 and since then in addition to working at AKU, she received training in Consultant Pediatrician & Neonatologist Neonatology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Australia. She has held several administrative Department of Pediatrics & Child Health positions, including Leading Physician, Chair of various committees including, Infection Control, and Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Pharmacy and as a Quality Representative for the department and Director of Neonatal Intensive Care Email: [email protected] Unit (NICU). She has held the position of Director of MNCH Outreach Undergraduate Program and Hospital Pediatric programs in the department.

Dr. Ariff has rich and diverse experience in education, clinical service and research. Her areas of interest in research include maternal, neonatal and child health with emphasis on maternal, newborn health and nutrition. She has considerable experience of developing and implementing epidemiological and interventions trials on maternal and newborn health. She has extensive experience in working with leading research organizations like WHO, BMGF, IAEA, University of Oxford and University of Sydney and Swiss Red Cross. She has a number of awards and scholarships to her credit and also has many publications in national and international journals. Her academic bibliography comprises of 25 publications. All publications were in high-impact international journals including Lancet and BMC series.

Over the last decade she has received research support from more than 12 international grants; of which she was the principal investigator in more than half. Professor Susan FAWCUS Sue Fawcus MB.BCH.MA (OXON). FRCOG is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Gynaecology, University of Cape Town, and Head of Obstetric services at Mowbray Maternity Hospital. Mowbray Maternity Hospital, She trained and specialized in the UK and Zimbabwe, worked as an obstetrician in Zimbabwe from 1980- 12 Hornsey Road, 1991, and Kwazulu Natal in 1992 before her current post in Cape Town. Her main work interest is Mowbray, 7700 community obstetrics, prevention of birth asphyxia, promoting respectful maternity care, and the reduction Capetown, South Africa of maternal mortality in poorly resourced countries. She was involved in community based studies of Email: [email protected] maternal mortality in Zimbabwe and currently is Vice-Chairperson of the National Committee for Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths, South Africa, with the responsibility of analysing all deaths due to obstetric haemorrhage, including deaths from bleeding associated with caesarean section. Professor Caroline HOMER Professor Caroline Homer is the Distinguished Professor of Midwifery, the Director of the Centre for Professor of Midwifery, Centre for Midwifery, Child and Midwifery, Child and Family Health and the Associate Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre in Nursing, Family Health Midwifery and Health Development at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is the current Associate Dean: International and Development President of the Australian College of Midwives. Associate Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development Caroline has more than 190 publications in peer reviewed journals. She was the only Australian author in Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney The Lancet’s Series on Midwifery in 2014. She was also a lead writer in the State of the World’s Midwifery Australia 2014 Report released in June by the World Health Organization, United National Population Fund and the Email: [email protected] International Confederation of Midwives and the Analysis of the midwifery workforce in selected Arab countries UNFPA (2015). She has been awarded grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Wellcome Trust (UK) and has led international development projects worth more than $22M. She was a Ministerial appointment to the NHMRC’s Research Committee: 2009-2015 and Chair of the NHMRC Women in Health Science Committee (2012-2015). She has been involved in the development and evaluation of midwifery and maternity services in Australia and in a number of other countries in the Asia Pacific region, including Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Cambodia and Timor Leste. Since 2008, she has been the co-Chair of the Expert Advisory Executive for the development of the National Antenatal Guidelines for the Australian Government’s Department of Health.

Dr Tamar KABAKIAN-KHASHOLIAN Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Promotion and Associate Professor Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. Health Promotion and Community Health Department She has an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from FHS, AUB and obtained her PhD in Maternal Faculty of Health Sciences Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. American University of Beirut Her research focuses on maternal health, specifically on women’s experiences and preferences in Email: [email protected] childbirth, postpartum health, caesarean section trends in the Arab region, breastfeeding and respectful maternity care. Her research approach is intervention oriented across countries and contexts in the Arab world and adopts both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The aim is to improve the quality of maternity care, promote evidence-based practices, minimize women’s exclusion within the health care system and ensure accessible, contextually-sensitive women-centred care. One such recent study she led, funded by WHO (2013-2016), was a multi-site implementation project for the introduction of a labour companionship model in public hospitals in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. She also works on pregnancy and childbirth needs of internally displaced populations and refugees in Lebanon.

Dr. Kabakian-Khasholian instituted and coordinated a research network on childbirth research in the Arab world, the Choices and Challenges in Changing Childbirth, from 2001 to 2009. She serves as a consultant for local and regional governmental and international agencies for maternal health issues. Dr. Kabakian-Khasholian teaches health communication, research design and maternal health among other courses in the MPH program at the FHS, AUB since 2002. Professor Tina LAVENDER Dame Tina is Professor of Midwifery and Director of the Centre for Global Women’s Health at the University of Manchester School of Nursing University of Manchester, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. Her DBE was awarded in Midwifery & Social Work Room 4.323 2012 for her commitment to developing midwifery capacity, globally. She holds an honorary contract at St Jean McFarlane Building Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. She is a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Nairobi and Sydney and an University Place Adjunct Professor at the University of Malawi. Dame Tina has a number of editorial roles. She is Co-editor Oxford Road in Chief of the British Journal of Midwifery and Associate Editor (and founder) of the African Journal of Manchester, Midwifery and Women’s Health. Dame Tina is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives and Email: [email protected] European Academy of Nurse Science. She is an active member of the Global Women’s Health Society (GLOW) and a regular advisor to the World Health Organization.

Dame Tina leads a programme of research, Midwifery and Women's Health; a multi-disciplinary

programme whose members conduct research in low and high income settings, related to the whole continuum of maternity care. Dame Tina’s main research area is intrapartum care, with a particular focus on the prevention and management of prolonged labour. In 2014 Dame Tina was awarded Faculty Researcher of the Year, which she received at the Universities Distinguished service award event. In 2016, she was declared as one of BBC’s most inspirational women, for her global work. Dr Simon LEWIN Dr Lewin is currently a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institutet of Public Health and the South Global Health Unit African Medical Research Council. His work is largely within the field of health systems research, Norwegian Knowledge Centre including systematic reviews of complex health system interventions; the evaluation of strategies for for the Health Services changing professional and consumer behaviours and the organization of care; and methods for Oslo, Norway synthesizing the findings of qualitative studies and assessing confidence in such findings. He is the Joint Email: [email protected] Co-ordinating Editor of the Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group and a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee for the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at WHO. Professor Pisake LUMBIGANON Pisake Lumbiganon is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Convenor of Cochrane Thailand and Dean and Professor of Ob & Gyn Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Research Synthesis in Reproductive Health based at Convenor, Thai Cochrane Network Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He is also the President of the Royal Thai College Faculty of Medicine of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the deputy secretary general of the Asia Oceania Federation of Khon Kaen University Obstetrics and Gynecology (AOFOG). He got his MD and Obstetrics and Gynaecology training from Email: [email protected] Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University in Thailand and Master of Sciences in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania in the US. He has been involved with various WHO Reproductive Health Research projects including many multicentre randomized controlled trials. He was also the co- principle investigator for the SEA-ORCHID project which was a collaborative project (2004-2008) between Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia granted by Wellcome Trust and National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. He has been convening Cochrane Thailand since its inception in 2002. He has published more than 150 papers including many Cochrane reviews in various international journals. He was awarded as the distinguished researcher in medical science by the National Research Council of Thailand in 2010 and distinguished research professor award by Thailand Research Fund in 2014. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Khon Kaen University from 2009 to 2013. His main areas of research interest include maternal and perinatal health, evidence-based practices, and meta-analysis.

Professor Jim NEILSON Jim Neilson was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Liverpool, UK, 1993-2015. Coordinating Editor He graduated at the University of Edinburgh in 1975 and trained in Scotland and Zimbabwe. As a Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group research fellow in Glasgow, he led one of the first randomised trials of routine ultrasound in pregnancy University of Liverpool and became, following a chance meeting with Iain Chalmers in Zimbabwe, an early author of systematic Liverpool, United Kingdom reviews for the Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials – the forerunner of the Cochrane Collaboration. He Email: [email protected] has been a Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group since 1995, consistently the most productive of Cochrane review groups, worldwide. As a clinical obstetrician, based in Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Jim Neilson continued a long-standing interest in multiple pregnancies, which complemented a Wellcome Trust funded research programme on preterm birth in Malawi, with Nynke van den Broek of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Jim Neilson was centrally involved in the UK Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (latterly as part of MBRRACE-UK) between 1995 and 2015, and was inaugural National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Dean for Faculty Trainees in England 2008-2015, overseeing a £100m annual support for research training at different levels in medicine, dentistry, nursing and allied health professions, and other areas of applied health research. He has been involved in the production of a number of evidence-based clinical guidelines, with WHO and NICE (UK). Dr Lisa M. NOGUCHI Lisa Noguchi, CNM, PhD works for Jhpiego as a Senior Maternal Health Advisor and Zika Response Senior Maternal Health Advisor Team Lead within the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program (Washington, DC). Her work Zika Response Team Lead focuses on the integration of evidence-based infectious disease prevention and management within Maternal and Child Survival Program maternity care, as well as support for maternal health program implementation in Rwanda. She is a USAID Grantee certified nurse-midwife and infectious disease epidemiologist with twenty years of experience in clinical 1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW practice and research in women’s health. Her education includes Bachelor’s degrees in biomedical Washington, DC 20036 USA anthropology, Asian studies, and nursing, and a Master’s degree in nurse-midwifery from the University of Email: [email protected] Pennsylvania. She obtained her PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Noguchi’s interests and publications have focused on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious disease in pregnant and breastfeeding women, intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy, group-based antenatal care, gestational age assessment in low-resource settings, and challenges and strategies in observational data analysis of contraceptive use and STI/HIV risk. She has

worked in clinical practice settings providing obstetric and gynaecologic care in the U.S., Asia, and Africa. Dr. Noguchi’s experience includes pre-service education in medicine (U.S.), nursing and midwifery (U.S. and Malawi), and in-service education (U.S., Vietnam, and Rwanda). Her clinical research experience includes research design, longitudinal data analysis, global coordination of clinical trials, regulatory affairs, and capacity building on clinical research literacy for community health educators in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. She is a member of the Roll Back Malaria – Malaria in Pregnancy and EP-SCALE Preterm Birth Working Groups. Dr. Noguchi is an Associate in the Department of Epidemiology within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Principal Investigator for AGES, an observational study focusing on the clinical practice of gestational age estimation in South and Southeast Asia. She is also currently co-leading a USAID-funded assessment of obstetric ultrasound service delivery (with focus on detection of Zika Congenital Syndrome) in five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Professor Xu QIAN Dr. QIAN Xu is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, Professor and Chair School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She has been appointed as the Director of Department of maternal, child and adolescent health Global Health Institute, Fudan University since 2012. She also serves as the Chairman-designate of School of Public Health, Fudan University Women's Health Care Branch and Vice Chairman of Global Health Branch in Chinese Preventive 138 Yixueyuan Road, Box 175 Medicine Association. Prof Qian was a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) of P.R.China Department of Reproductive Health and Research in World Health Organization (2012-2017). Her main Email: [email protected] research areas cover safe motherhood and program evaluation, adolescent reproductive health and care, systematic review and evidence-based health care, maternal health policy and system research. As the principal investigator, her research projects have been funded by UNICEF, European Commission, US- NIH Fogarty Center and UK-DFID since 2005.

Prof Qian was trained both in medical and public health field. She got her Bachelor and Master degrees of Medicine from Shanghai Medical University and PhD degree in Epidemiology from Fudan University, China. She has worked and conducted research in maternal, child and reproductive health for nearly 30 years. During 2000-2013, she served as a Vice Dean for the School of Public Health, Fudan University, as well as the Chair of FUSPH’s IRB for ethics review.

Dr Petr VELEBIL Petr Velebil graduated from the first Medical School of Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic, Chief, Perinatal Centre and started his professional carrier in the Institute for the Care of Mother and Child in Prague in 1981. of the Institute for the Care of Mother and Child While obtaining the specialized training in obstetrics and gynaecology and PhD at the Charles University Chief, WHO Collaborating Centre in Perinatal Medicine (1989), and maintaining his full time clinical work, he became very interested in maternal and perinatal Prague, Czech Republic public health. He pursued this interest by working with the Czech national and international perinatal Email: [email protected] data. Dr Velebil deepened his knowledge and expertise in perinatal epidemiology and surveillance during his work at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC in Atlanta. He served as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer (1991 -1993) and as Medical Officer in the Division of Reproductive Health (1993-95).

Upon his return to the Czech Republic he used his CDC experience to support the Czech MoH as a member of the Perinatology Advisory Board which defined the network of perinatal centres and developed the nationwide surveillance system of the aggregated and individual perinatal data. The work was done in collaboration and coordination with the activities of the WHO. This was accomplished through his participation in work of the WHO CC in Prague, his membership on the WHO Regional Advisory Panel for Reproductive Health in Europe, and his involvement in the EuroPeristat Project in Europe. Dr Velebil is continuing his work in clinical perinatology and perinatal epidemiology as the chief of one of the largest perinatal centres in the Czech Republic. The Perinatal Centre of the Institute for the Care of Mother and Child was designated as the WHO Collaborating Centre for Perinatal Medicine in 2015. Through his activities in professional bodies in the country and in Europe he supports the principles of evidence-based care of mothers and their babies in order to reduce excessive maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. COCHRANE PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH GROUP Ms Therese DOWSWELL Therese is a Research Associate with Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth, Department of Women’s and Research Associate Children’s Health, University of Liverpool, UK. Her role involves providing methodological support for Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth systematic review authors for prioritised intervention reviews in pregnancy and childbirth, often as a Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth, Department of member of the review team. Therese also contributes to teaching research methods at the University of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Liverpool. She completed a degree in economics at the LSE in 1981, and a PhD at Leeds University in Liverpool, 1987. Since 1988 she has worked in UK universities as a health services researcher (conducting Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, Crown quantitative and qualitative research, as a trialist, and research manager). From 1992, Therese has

Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS, UK worked in evidence synthesis and since taking up her post at Liverpool University has carried out work for Email: [email protected] WHO reviewing trial evidence to underpin WHO guidelines in relation to pregnancy and childbirth. Ms Lynn HAMPSON Lynn Hampson has 18 years’ experience working as the Information Specialist for Cochrane Pregnancy Trial Search Coordinator and Childbirth (PCG). As such, she is responsible for maintaining and developing the PCG’s Specialised Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Database of Trials by: writing, maintaining, evaluating and updating the Group’s overall search strategy; Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth, Department of screening; sourcing full text papers; classifying/indexing relevant papers before adding to the Trials Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Database; and providing pre-screened specific search results to review authors. Lynn is responsible for Liverpool, ensuring all aspects of the search methods sections in all of the Group’s systematic reviews and protocols Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, Crown meet current Cochrane standards. This includes: design and structure of searches to achieve optimal Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS, UK results; identifying search terms; advice on the use of search filters; accurate reporting of searches; Email: [email protected] checking, editing and providing feedback on trial identification and reference sections of Cochrane protocols and reviews as part of the editorial process; advice and training for authors on the best use of reference management software. Lynn peer reviews search methods in Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy reviews (from other Cochrane Groups); and writes search methods for other ad-hoc projects within Pregnancy and Childbirth. At present she is also working on a short-term project as Quality Assurance Specialist for Cochrane’s ‘Accelerating M+CH Next Generation Evidence System’ (Child Health P I C O annotation project) responsible for oversight of the quality of annotations of Pregnancy and Childbirth reviews. Ms Frances KELLIE Frances is the Managing Editor of Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth and is based within the Managing Editor Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is responsible for Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth the editorial processing of systematic reviews that are produced and published by Cochrane Pregnancy Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth, Department of and Childbirth and the day-to-day activities of the group. Frances completed a degree in Psychology in Women’s and Children’s Health, University of 1998 at the University of Wales, Bangor and in 2001 she completed her PhD in Psychology at the same Liverpool, institution. She subsequently worked as a researcher in cognitive neuropsychology until relocating to Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, Crown Liverpool in 2005. After spending the next three years working as a data scientist at a government Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS, UK oceanographic research laboratory she joined Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth in 2008 as Deputy Email: [email protected] Managing Editor and took over the role of Managing Editor in January 2013.

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS/MEETING OBSERVERS Ms Deborah ARMBRUSTER Deborah Armbruster is a nurse-midwife with a Master’s in Public Health and a fellow of the American Sr. Maternal and Newborn Health Advisor College of Nurse-Midwives. In April, 2010, she joined USAID and is currently a Senior Maternal and USAID/GH/HIDN/MCH CP3 10056A Newborn Health Advisor. She has been USAID’s lead on the UNCoLSC and convener for the Maternal 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Health Technical Resource Team. She came to USAID from PATH where she was the director of the Washington, DC 20523 research project, the Oxytocin Initiative. From 2004-2009, she was the Director of the Prevention of Email: [email protected] Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI) project. She has over 25 years’ experience in safe motherhood and reproductive health programs in over 15 countries. She has been actively involved in the Safe Motherhood Initiative for over 15 years and is a founding member of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood. She has been involved in the development of Home-Based Life Saving Skills program. She serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. Ms Sue BREE Sue has been a practising midwife for forty years. Her work has mainly been in the provision of Board member (Asia Pacific) autonomous community based midwifery services to women and families living in rural areas of New New Zealand College of Midwives, Zealand and she has also worked in Papua New Guinea and in a refugee camp in Malaysia. In addition to New Zealand her clinical work Sue has recently been appointed as the Maternity Quality Facilitator for the Northland Representative, International Confederation of District Health Board with a focus on quality improvement including strengthening and supporting primary Midwives maternity services across the region. She has served on several national and regional maternity related Email: [email protected] committees; is a past president of the New Zealand College of Midwives and her experience in regulation includes being a member of the Nursing Council of New Zealand and later, an inaugural member of the Midwifery Council of New Zealand. Sue is currently a Board Member of the International Confederation of Midwives representing the Asia-Pacific region. In 2012 Sue was made a member of the NZ Order of Merit for services to midwifery. Dr Janna PATTERSON Dr Janna Patterson is a Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the Senior Program Officer Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) team. She manages a portfolio of grants on neonatal health Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health ranging from the prevention and treatment of newborn sepsis to care of the preterm infant, including kangaroo mother care. Dr Patterson is a board-certified paediatrician and neonatologist. Prior to joining Global Development Program the Foundation, she was a practicing neonatologist and researcher on faculty at the University of Gates Foundation Washington. Her research in Kenya focused on transplacental transfer of antibodies to respiratory Seattle, Washington pathogens in the mother-infant dyad. Her peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters are focused on USA maternal-neonatal infections, HIV, and prematurity. Previously, Dr Patterson spent several years living Email: [email protected] and working in Tanzania including work as a Programme Officer at the Tanzania Public Health Association, and she remains fluent in Swahili. Her education includes a B.A. in African Development

from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MD and MPH from the University of Alabama- Birmingham, with graduate medical studies at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital. Ms Mary Ellen STANTON Mary Ellen Stanton is Senior Maternal Health Advisor to United States Agency for International Senior Reproductive Health Advisor Development (USAID) where she guides the Global Health Bureau’s maternal health portfolio, including United States Agency for International research and implementation of country programs. She is the Team Leader for Maternal Health and Development (USAID) currently Acting Division Chief for the Maternal Newborn Health Division. She serves as the USAID Center for Population, Health and Nutrition Washington-based coordinator for the Afghanistan Health Program for the Bureau for Global Health, and 320 Twenty-First Street N.W. manages USAID’s obstetric fistula program. She has helped to develop USAID's advocacy and Washington D.C., United States implementation research activities to address the problem of disrespect and abuse of women during Email: [email protected] childbirth in health care facilities.

Ms. Stanton received her B.A. from Oberlin College, B.S. from Columbia University, and M.S.N. from the University of Illinois. She is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives. In 2015 she received the ACNM Hattie Hemschemeyer Award and the University of Illinois Alumni Association Humanitarian Award.

Professor Gerard H.A. VISSER Prof Gerard Visser is an Emeritus professor of obstetrics at the University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Chair FIGO Committee on Safe Motherhood and Netherlands. He is a former head of Obstetrics and Chairman Department pf Obstetrics, Gynecology and Newborn Health. Neonatology, Utrecht. He is also a former member of the board of the University Medical Centre, Utrecht Department of Obstetrics and Vice-dean, former Chairman of the Dutch College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, former University Medical Center president of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine. He is the current Chair for the FIGO Safe Lundlaan 6 Motherhood and Newborn Health Committee (from Oct 2015 onwards). Prof Visser has Honorary Fellow 3584 EA Utrecht of the Flemish, South African, Royal (British; Fellow ad Eudem) and Romanian Colleges of Obstetrics and The Netherlands Gynaecology and of the German Perinatal Society. He was awarded the Maternity price of the European Email: [email protected] Association of Perinatal Medicine in 2016. His research interests include fetal (neurological) development, fetal monitoring, intrauterine growth restriction, and diabetes in pregnancy. He has published over 460 articles, supervised 72 completed PhD projects, and with Hirsch Index of 52 (ISI Web of Knowledge), or 72 (Google Scholar).