Professor David Lissauer MBChB, BMedSci, PhD, MRCOG
NIHR Professor of Global Maternal and Fetal Health Women's & Children's Health
- Work email David.Lissauer@liverpool.ac.uk
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Research
Research Overview
His research seeks to improve the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth in low income countries include clinical trials, evidence synthesis, implementation research and policymaking.
He has a specific interest in the prevention and management of maternal infection and sepsis in low resource settings.
He has completed important multi-country clinical trials such as the AIMS (antibiotics in miscarriage surgery trial) published in the NEJM, and has an ongoing portfolio of studies in Malawi, Uganda and Pakistan.
Research Grants
Strategies to reduce vertical transmission of multi-drug resistant pathogens (NeoVT-AMR)
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2020 - September 2022
Trained Immunity in BCG vaccinated children
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (USA)
October 2021 - October 2024
Stopping mothers dying from sepsis in Africa
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
February 2021 - January 2026
An International World Health Organisation Collaboration to Implement and Evaluate at Scale the Active Prevention and Treatment of Maternal Sepsis (APT-Sepsis)
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2021 - July 2024