Professor Andrew Weeks - Liverpool Medical Institution (LMI) Lecture 'Maternity care in the UK'
6:00pm - 7:00pm /
Thursday 18th September 2025
Type: Lecture /
Category: Research
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Part of the 'Bringing Life' lecture programme organised by this year's president of Liverpool Medical Institution, Professor Andrew Weeks.
Whilst in-person tickets are now sold out, for the first time, the lecture will also be broadcast as a webinar on Zoom.
Click on the link provided to register to watch Professor Andrew Week’s inaugural lecture.
Andrew Weeks is Professor of International Maternal Health Care at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Sanyu Research Unit. He was raised in Kenya, but had his undergraduate and postgraduate medical training in Yorkshire (Sheffield, Leeds, Scunthorpe and Rotherham). In 2001, he returned to East Africa for 2 years as Visiting Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Makerere University in Uganda. In 2003, he joined the University of Liverpool as a Clinical Lecturer, before becoming a Senior Lecturer, and then being awarded a personal chair in 2011. He is also honorary consultant obstetrician at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, one of the UK’s largest obstetric units.
Andrew Weeks’ primary interest is in the translation of maternity care from high to low resource settings. He has a particular interest in misoprostol (he runs the www.misoprostol.org website), postpartum haemorrhage and the management of labour. He has an interest in developing medical technologies and has 3 patents pending for clinical devices. One, the PPH Butterfly (search for the PPH Butterfly video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlo4SoItJ1c), has been funded in 2 successive grants by the NIHR i4i fund for over £1 million. It was 2015 Innovation of the Year in the NIHR NW Coast Research and Innovations awards and finalist in the 2015 Plastics Industry Awards.
Andrew has over 200 publications to his name and currently runs clinical trials in the UK, Uganda and India, funded by the MRC, Wellcome Trust, DFID and NIHR.
Whilst in-person tickets are now sold out, for the first time, the lecture will also be broadcast as a webinar on Zoom.
Click on the link provided to register to watch Professor Andrew Week’s inaugural lecture.
Andrew Weeks is Professor of International Maternal Health Care at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Sanyu Research Unit. He was raised in Kenya, but had his undergraduate and postgraduate medical training in Yorkshire (Sheffield, Leeds, Scunthorpe and Rotherham). In 2001, he returned to East Africa for 2 years as Visiting Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Makerere University in Uganda. In 2003, he joined the University of Liverpool as a Clinical Lecturer, before becoming a Senior Lecturer, and then being awarded a personal chair in 2011. He is also honorary consultant obstetrician at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, one of the UK’s largest obstetric units.
Andrew Weeks’ primary interest is in the translation of maternity care from high to low resource settings. He has a particular interest in misoprostol (he runs the www.misoprostol.org website), postpartum haemorrhage and the management of labour. He has an interest in developing medical technologies and has 3 patents pending for clinical devices. One, the PPH Butterfly (search for the PPH Butterfly video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlo4SoItJ1c), has been funded in 2 successive grants by the NIHR i4i fund for over £1 million. It was 2015 Innovation of the Year in the NIHR NW Coast Research and Innovations awards and finalist in the 2015 Plastics Industry Awards.
Andrew has over 200 publications to his name and currently runs clinical trials in the UK, Uganda and India, funded by the MRC, Wellcome Trust, DFID and NIHR.