The Maternal and Child Health Systems Policy Research Theme brings together research across the life course from maternal to child health to inform and improve healthcare practice, policy, and research, nationally and internationally.
Research groups include:
- The Maternal and Perinatal Systems and Policy (MAPS) Research Group
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CHILDS (applied health services and systems research)
Together we work across the early life-course engaging with basic science and clinical research that has the potential to improve health care quality and outcomes from bench to population health, through policy relevant world class evidence synthesis, implementation, service delivery science, and experimental health systems research.
We draw on social and health sciences and conduct theoretically informed research into health systems, health outcomes and service delivery. Our group uses a mixed methods approach includes evidence synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data, modelling and data linkage, clinical trials, hybrid effectiveness trials of complex interventions, and qualitative research including interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic methods.
We work closely with clinicians, policy-makers, and community partners locally and globally. We work closely with the IOPPN, King’s Policy Institute, Nightingale School.
We contribute to three research centres - Tommy’s Preterm birth centre, Centre for National Improvement in Maternity care and lead two themes in NIHR ARC South London, Maternal and Perinatal Health, and Child Health.