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Professor Andrew Weeks MB ChB MD FRCOG

Professor of International Maternal Health Women's & Children's Health

Research

Global Maternal Health

I have a special interest in maternal mortality in the developing world, clinical trials, the management of labour and delivery, and misoprostol use. Between 2000 and 2002 I worked as a visiting clinical lecturer in obstetrics at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda researching low technology methods for reducing maternal mortality. This included misoprostol for incomplete miscarriage and umbilical oxytocin injection for retained placenta.

Postpartum haemorrhage

Misoprostol

Research Grants

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

PhD Helen Maver

LIVERPOOL WOMENS HOSP CHAR FUND (UK)

October 2019 - January 2022

NIHR ARC 2 national social care implementation projects

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK), LCCG - LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)

October 2019 - March 2026

A randomized trial comparing oral misoprostol alone with oral misoprostol followed by oxytocin in women induced for hypertension of pregnancy (MOLI study)

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2018 - June 2023

A cluster randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of household alcohol-based handrub for the prevention of sepsis, diarrhoea and pneumonia in Ugandan infants (Babygel)

EUROPEAN AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CLINICAL TRIALS PARTNERSHIP (EDCTP) - (NETHERLANDS)

February 2019 - January 2025

COPE The Carboprost or Oxytocin Postpartum haemorrhage Effectiveness Study

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

September 2017 - September 2024

Preventing Post Traumatic stress Disorder: the Stress and Wellbeing after Childbirth Study (STRAWB).

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

November 2016 - September 2019

The postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) Butterfly: clinical testing and commercial development

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

April 2016 - March 2020

Fear of Childbirth: Developing an evidence-based, usable and acceptable tool for UK maternity services’ (FOCUS).

LCCG - LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)

March 2016 - August 2017

Exploring the aetiology and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta.

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN

September 2014 - August 2019

Induction of labour in pre-eclamptic women: a randomised trial comparing balloon catheter with oral misoprostol.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2012 - March 2016

The AIMS (Antibiotics In Miscarriage Surgery) Trial

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2013 - August 2017