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Dr Harriet Ruysen

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

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I am a researcher and midwife driven by a firm belief that all women should have equitable access to quality healthcare. I have 20 years experience in maternal and newborn health and worked with Médecins Sans Frontières before joining the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where I supported programmes in low-resource and conflict settings; including Somaliland and the Democratic Republic of Congo. My research includes a strong focus on health systems strengthening, implementation science, and multi-country collaboration.

Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Teaching

I enjoy teaching, mentoring and supporting students and am a tutor for the Reproductive & Sexual Health Research MSc.
I co-organise the Ethics, Public Health and Human Rights module and previously, a course in Advanced Research Methods.


I teach on:

Ethics, Public Health and Human Rights
Current Issues in Safe Motherhood and Perinatal Health
Applying Public Health Principles in Developing Countries
Diploma of Tropical Nursing

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research

I am interested in the intersections between health systems, experiences of care, risk perception, behaviour change, and measurement. Whilst most of my research focuses on low-resource and humanitarian settings, I want to learn across all contexts, including the UK where I continue my midwifery practise.

Research Area
Conflict
Electronic health records
Global Health
Maternal health
Neonatal health
Perinatal health
Public health
Epidemiology
Qualitative research
Mixed methods research
Country
Bangladesh
Congo
Nepal
Somalia
Tanzania
United Kingdom
Region
East Asia & Pacific (developing only)
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications
Effective care for mothers and their babies during humanitarian crises.
COCOMAN, O; Tappis, H; Scudder, E; RUYSEN, H; Patterson, JM; Prabhu, SM; Kitamura, T; Fair, M; Abdullah, M; Siddeeg, K; Afifi, M; Kayita, J; Khumbizeni, SC; Zombre Sanon, VM; Abgrene, KA; Chaya, R; Rammal, T; El Nour, M; Mitchell, K; Schulte-Hillen, C; Gupta, G; Moran, A;
2026
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Who gets funded? Global analysis of research funding for newborn health and stillbirth in fragile and non-English speaking countries, 2016–2020
ALLISON, LE; RUYSEN, H; Alva, MJ S; Agravat, P; Loucaides, EM; Kumar, MB; Molina-García, A; Sebina, I; FITCHETT, EJ A; Russell, N; LAWN, JE;
2025
SSM - health systems
A Delphi process to build consensus on revised Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) signal functions and levels of care.
MOXON, SG; Wharton-Smith, A; Sharma, S; Aluvaala, J; Campbell, OM R; Gupta, G; Lobis, S; Warthin, C; PENN-KEKANA, L; Freedman, LP; Delphi panel on EmONC signal functions and levels ,;
2025
PloS one
Institutionalising community participation in decision-making in maternal and newborn health services in low-and middle-income countries: An analysis from 102 national health ministries.
COCOMAN, O; Jackson, D; RUYSEN, H; Gilmore, B;
2025
PLOS Global Public Health
S1 Table - Institutionalising community participation in decision-making in maternal and newborn health services in low-and middle-income countries: An analysis from 102 national health ministries
COCOMAN, O; JACKSON, D; RUYSEN, H; Gilmore, B;
2025
PLOS Global Public Health
S2 Table - Institutionalising community participation in decision-making in maternal and newborn health services in low-and middle-income countries: An analysis from 102 national health ministries
COCOMAN, O; JACKSON, D; RUYSEN, H; Gilmore, B;
2025
PLOS Global Public Health
Born too soon: accelerating change to 2030 and beyond.
LAWN, JE; Khosla, R; Reid, A; Langlois, EV; Kinney, M; Gupta, G; Mollel, D; Jacobsson, B; Bizri, ME; Gruending, A; RUYSEN, H; Thompson, K; Ashorn, P; McDougall, L; Fogstad, H; Shafique, F; Banerjee, A;
2025
Reproductive health
Measuring ENAP interventions for small and/or sick newborns in routine health information systems: indicators and considerations from a WHO expert consultation.
WHO expert consultative group on small and/or sick,;
2025
Journal of global health
How and why does mode of birth affect processes for routine data collection and use? A qualitative study in Bangladesh and Tanzania.
RUYSEN, H; Majid, T; Shamba, D; Mhajabin, S; Minja, J; Rahman, AE; Ngopi, T; Ramesh, M; El Arifeen, S; Steege, R; SEELEY, J; LAWN, JE; DAY, LT; EN-BIRTH-2 Study Group,;
2024
PLOS global public health
Data for: "How and why does mode of birth affect processes for routine data collection and use? A qualitative study in Bangladesh and Tanzania."
RUYSEN, H; Majid, T; Shamba, D; Mhajabin, S; Minja, J; Rahman, AE; Ngopi, T; Ramesh, M; Arifeen, SE; Steege, R; SEELEY, J; LAWN, JE; DAY, LT; EN-BIRTH 2, SG;
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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