Veronique Filippi DDG DISP PhD

Senior Lecturer

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Veronique Filippi is a Senior Lecturer in maternal health and epidemiology. She has studied political sciences, demography, and epidemiology. Her 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; and improving quality of obstetric care through audit. Most of her research is in  Africa where she is also involves or coordinates large evaluation projects (impact of removal of user fees and preventing maternal deaths from unwanted pregnancies).  Veronique is  a member of the STEPUP Research Programme Consortium on "Meeting reproductive health needs for the Millenium".

Affiliation

• Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Teaching

Veronique organises a MSc module on Current Issues in Safe motherhood and Perinatal Health in developing countries and supervises PhD students in maternal health research. She is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

Research

Her current research activities include estimating: the burden of ill-health associated with obstetric complication (a CHERG activity funded by the Gates Foundation); the impact of the removal of user fees on maternity care in African countries (EU FP7 project FEMHEALTH - see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/femhealth/); the cost effectiveness of interventions to reduce maternal deaths from unwanted pregnancies (funded by DFID).

• Selected publications

• Difficulties leaving home: a cross-sectional study of delays in seeking emergency obstetric care in Herat, Afghanistan.

  Hirose, A. ; Borchert, M. ; Niksear, H. ; Alkozai, A.S. ; Cox, J. ; Gardiner, J. ; Osmani, K.R. ; Filippi, V. ;

  Soc Sci Med, 2011;

• Risk of psychological distress following severe obstetric complications in Benin: the role of economics, physical health and spousal abuse.

  Fottrell, E.; Kanhonou, L.; Goufodji, S.; Behague, D.P.; Marshall, T.; Patel, V.; Filippi, V.;

  Br J Psychiatry, 2010; 196(1):18-25

• Effects of severe obstetric complications on women's health and infant mortality in Benin.

  Filippi, V.; Goufodji, S.; Sismanidis, C.; Kanhonou, L.; Fottrell, E.; Ronsmans, C.; Alihonou, E.; Patel, V.;

  Trop Med Int Health, 2010;

• Health of women after severe obstetric complications in Burkina Faso: a longitudinal study.

  Filippi, V.; Ganaba, R.; Baggaley, R.F.; Marshall, T.; Storeng, K.T.; Sombié, I.; Ouattara, F.; Ouedraogo, T.; Akoum, M.; Meda, N.;

  Lancet, 2007; 370(9595):1329-37

• Paying the price: The cost and consequences of emergency obstetric care in Burkina Faso.

  Storeng, K.T.; Baggaley, R.F.; Ganaba, R.; Ouattara, F.; Akoum, M.S.; Filippi, V.;

  Soc Sci Med, 2007; 66(3):545-57

• Maternal health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action.

  Filippi, V.; Ronsmans, C.; Campbell, O.M.; Graham, W.J.; Mills, A.; Borghi, J.; Koblinsky, M.; Osrin, D.;

  Lancet, 2006; 368(9546):1535-41

• How to do (or not to do) ... Obstetric audit in resource-poor settings: lessons from a multi-country project auditing 'near miss' obstetrical emergencies

  Filippi, V.; Brugha, R.; Browne, E.; Gohou, V.; Bacci, A.; de Brouwere, V.; Sahel, A.; Goufodji, S.; Alihonou, E.; Ronsmans, C.

  Health Policy and Planning, 2004; 19(1):57-66

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