Paediatrician/ obstetrician trained in UK then lived in rural South Asia for 15 years working as a clinician scientist across the mother-newborn-child-adolescent health/nutrition continuum of care.
Louise joined LSHTM in 2017 and was previously Deputy Head of the Maternal Newborn Health Group.
She enjoys innovating low-cost practical solutions for the sustainable implementation of evidence-based solutions in maternal newborn child health.
PhD Thesis 2023 - title: Quality of care and quality of data for hospital births – tension or traction?
Louise joined LSHTM in 2017 and was previously Deputy Head of the Maternal Newborn Health Group.
She enjoys innovating low-cost practical solutions for the sustainable implementation of evidence-based solutions in maternal newborn child health.
PhD Thesis 2023 - title: Quality of care and quality of data for hospital births – tension or traction?
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Centres
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Teaching
Module co-organiser: Foundations in Reproductive Health
Teach: Professional Diploma of Tropical Nursing
Tutor: MSc Reproductive and Sexual Health Research
Research
Integrating mother and child health and improving quality of care and data quality and use in high mortality/ morbidity settings.
Collaborative research includes
- Every Newborn-Birth Indicators Research Tracking in Hospitals (EN-BIRTH) 2 study (PI) leading to the collaborative development of the Every Newborn Measurement for Newborns and Stillbirths (EN-MINI Tools) https://www.data4impactproject.org/resources/en-mini-tools/en-mini-tool…;
- Improving Quality and Use of Newborn Indicators (IMPULSE) study (Co-PI).
- MOMENUTM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics (MSSFPO) - projects on counselling, consent and debrief, and Caesarean Section Audit.
- MOMENTUM Private Health Care Delivery (MPHD) - project on Caesearean Section (Co-PI)
- WHO Minimum Maternal Newborn Health Minimum Dataset
- Management of small & nutritionally at-risk infants under six months and their mothers (MAMI)
- Eye health - Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
Research Area
Child health
Clinical guidelines
Maternal health
Perinatal health
Health workers
Global health
Neonatal health
Reproductive health
Country
Bangladesh
Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
India
Nigeria
Nepal
Tanzania
Uganda
Selected Publications
Time to care for newborns and nurses: the HIGH Q project in Kenya (guest editorial).
2025
International journal of nursing studies
A global analysis of the determinants of maternal health and transitions in maternal mortality.
2023
The Lancet Global health
Counseling, informed consent, and debriefing for cesarean section in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review.
2023
International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics
