Contact Details for LSHTM Submission
Oona Campbell, on behalf of
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
0207 927 2210
Contributors to LSHTM Submission
Dr Dominique Behague
Lecturer in Anthropology
Prof Oona Campbell
Professor in Epidemiology and
Reproductive Health
Prof Daniel Chandramohan
Professor of Public Health
Prof John Cleland
Professor of Medical Demography
Dr Veronique Filippi
Senior Lecturer
Dr Sabine Gabrysch
Research Degree Student Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Ivy Osei
Research Degree student in CPS
Prof Vikram Patel
Professor of International Mental Health
Tim Powell-Jackson
Research Degree Student in HPU
Dr Carine Ronsmans
Reader
Research interests include: definition of evidence-based policy making in safe motherhood; how
users perceived good quality of care; the long term consequences of pregnancy and complications
Areas of expertise include measurement of maternal morbidity and mortality, perinatal mortality
and evaluation of different modes of delivering maternal health and family planning services
Epidemiology and control of malaria in pregnancy and infancy; vitamin D supplementation. Current
studies include: vitamin D suppl.trial in Afghanistan; ACT studies in children in Ghana; IPTi trial in
Tanzania; malaria in pregnancy study in India.
Sexual and reproductive health, contraception, child mortality, survey methods, fertility theories
Deputy director for the DFID funded Research Programme Consortium 'Towards 4+5'. Research
interests include: methods for measuring reproductive and maternal morbidity in developing
countries; long term health, social and economic consequences of obstetric complications; learning
from near-miss events in health services; improving quality of obstetric care through audit. Most of
her research is in West Africa
Accessibility to MCH services
Emergency contraception in Ghana
Research interest include the relationship of mental disorders with gynaecological morbidities,
adolescent health, HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health; and the development and evaluation
of complex interventions for mental disorders (including child mental disorders) integrated in
routine care settings
Evaluation of financing scheme to improve access to MCH in Nepal
Areas of interest include the methodological and conceptual aspects of the evaluation of Maternal
and Perinatal Health Programmes, the measurement of maternal morbidity and mortality,
examining the role of audits to improve the quality of obstetric care, and understanding the
contribution of indirect causes including HIV to maternal mortality
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