Oona Campbell BS ScM PhD

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Background

I am a reproductive epidemiologist with degrees in demography, epidemiology and biology. I currently lead the maternal health programme. My 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.

Teaching

I organize Basic Epidemiology and teach on it. I also teach on Foundations in Reproductive Health Research; Family Planning; and Current Issues in Maternal and Perinatal Health.

Research

I have worked in the Middle East (Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey), in West Africa (Benin, Nigeria, and Ghana), and in the Philippines, Indonesia and Brazil. I have collaborated with a number of Ministries of Health and agencies (including MotherCare, DFID, WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, USAID and Ford Foundation). My recently completed research on a large RCT looking at Vitamin A to reduce maternal mortality in Ghana; I am looking at the time of maternal death; and analyses of studies of perinatal mortality in Brazil and maternal mortality in Turkey. I am a member of the DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium "Towards 4+5", which focuses on improving maternal and neonatal survival and health, the targets of Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5. I led the MM+ component of IMMPACT which focused on methods for measuring maternal mortality, and included a maternal mortality measurement resource.

Selected publications

• Gabrysch, S.; Campbell, O.M. Still too far to walk: Literature review of the determinants of delivery service use BMC Pregnancy Childbirth, 2009; 9(1):34
• Turkylmaz, A.S.; Koc, I.; Schumacher, R.; Campbell, O.M.R. The Turkey National Maternal Mortality Study European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, 2009; 14(1):75-82
• Graham, W.J.; Ahmed, S.; Stanton, C.; Abou-Zahr, C.; Campbell, O.M.; Measuring maternal mortality: an overview of opportunities and options for developing countries. BMC Med, 2008; 6:12
• Houweling, T.A.J.; Ronsmans, C.; Campbell, O.M.R.; Kunst, A.E. Huge poor-rich inequalities in maternity care: an international comparative study of maternity and child care in developing countries Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007; 85(10):745-754
• Campbell, O.M.; Graham, W.J.; on behalf of The Lancet Maternal Survival Series steering group, .; Strategies for reducing maternal mortality: getting on with what works. Lancet, 2006; 368(9543):1284-99
• Kabakian-Khasholian, T.; Campbell, O.M.; Impact of written information on women's use of postpartum services: a randomised controlled trial. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand, 2007; 86(7):793-8
• Campbell, O.; Gipson, R.; Issa, A.H.; Matta, N.; El Deeb, B.; El Mohandes, A.; Alwen, A.; Mansour, E.; National maternal mortality ratio in Egypt halved between 1992-93 and 2000. Bull World Health Organ, 2005; 83(6):462-471
• Campbell, O.; Gipson, R.; Mohandes, A. E.; Issa, A. H.; Matta, N.; Mansour, E.; Mohsen, L. The Egypt National Perinatal/Neonatal Mortality Study 2000 Journal of Perinatology, 2004; 24(5):284-9

Full publications listing (since 2001)