About us
The Cochrane Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Thematic Group is dedicated to improving outcomes and advancing equity in maternal, newborn, and child health. Every two minutes, a person dies during pregnancy or childbirth, amounting to approximately 300,000 deaths per year worldwide. Additionally, 11 children under age 15 die every minute worldwide, with almost half of the five million children who die before their fifth birthday dying within their first month of life. These deaths are largely preventable, highlighting tremendous inequities.
The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group serves as a central hub for innovation, research, evidence-based clinical practice and health policy, community, and global impact. We are a multi-professional group committed to addressing urgent global health issues through focused and coordinated efforts. By targeting impactful interventions, collaborative work, and innovation we aim to generate actionable insights and evidence to inform healthcare practices and policies that save lives.
Team
Our plans
The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group represents a global team of clinical experts, researchers, and others who are interested in multi-interest holder engagement in evidence synthesis and resulting impact. Our institutions and leaders have strong and long-lasting relationships with policy-makers and funders that have the promise to contribute to and benefit long-term sustainability and dissemination of the group’s work.
These relationships include the WHO, the Gates foundation, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Research on Women’s Health, amongst others. We will work with the Cochrane central team to develop cases of support specific to the interests of international stakeholders and funders to further develop our collaborative efforts and ensure financial sustainability.
The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group acknowledges and supports Cochrane’s strategic decision to engage with LMICs to ensure that sustainable research networks are developed in these areas, enabling our evidence to reach and empower those who needs it most
One of the key strengths of our leadership team are the long-standing, strong collaborations within the institutions and organizations that we represent.
We will support author teams in multiple ways:
- Training: We have a long and successful track record of supporting Cochrane author training to large, international groups of new authors and trainees. We will continue this and have a global reach through the virtual courses and through the Cochrane International Mobility program.
- Content and methodological consultations: Through our diverse expertise, we can provide author groups with consultative assistance during all phases of a review, including advising on key dissemination strategies and contacts.
- Author team members: Given our breadth of colleagues and trainees, we can provide new or understaffed author teams with additional members to help aid in the efficiency and turnaround time for reviews.
- Peer reviewers: Given our vast global network within Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, including members with editorial experience and those with consumer experience, we can support the CES in identifying peer reviewers for reviews, which will aid in the timeliness of the peer review process.
We plan to accomplish these through our regular communication with our strategic advisory board. Our lean administrative team will have key contacts in different focus areas to facilitate this communication efficiently through the strategic advisory board members.
We are keen to build a diverse coalition of leaders and experts. If you are interested in contributing to our work, please tell us more about your skills and interests here.
Upcoming activities /news
We held a meeting at the Global Evidence Summit 20204 to gauge interest from those at the summit. We were blown away by the positive reception to the creation of the group and the collective potential to deliver on the priority areas in the field.
We are planning on having open houses to gauge interest from the wider community. Stay tuned!
Contact us
For more information about our work or to become involved with the Cochrane Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group please contact us at: emma.persad@ki.se.
If you are interested in contributing to our work, please tell us more about your skills and interests here.