Dr. Alex Ridout is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at St Thomas’ Hospital and Clinical Lecturer in Maternal Global Health at King’s College London (King’s Prize Fellowship, NIHR DSE Award). She is currently co-leading the NIHR-funded Global Health Research Group CRIBS, which focuses on simple, scalable innovations to reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. She is the UK lead for the CRADLE-5 trial, evaluating the impact of the national scale-up of the CRADLE intervention, a vital signs alert device and emergency triage package, into routine maternity care in Sierra Leone.

Her research interest in high-risk pregnancy spans high and low-income settings; her thesis looked at strategies to personalise prediction of spontaneous preterm birth (King’s Outstanding Thesis Award).