The NPEU is a multi-disciplinary research unit which was established at the University of Oxford in 1978.
Our mission is to conduct methodologically rigorous research to provide evidence to improve the care provided to women, babies and families during pregnancy, childbirth, the newborn period and early childhood as well as promoting the effective use of resources by perinatal health services
We will be holding two MBRRACE-UK launch meetings during 2019. The first meeting, in October, will launch the MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance findings: Deaths for Births from January to December 2017. The second meeting, in November, will launch the MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care report.
Please find further details of the two events below. Full details of each event, including how to book and how to submit an abstract are available on the page for the specific event.
Date: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Venue: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London
Date: Tuesday 19th November 2019
Venue: The Studio, Birmingham
The Policy Research Unit in Maternal Health and Care (PRU-MHC) was established in 2010 with funding from the Department of Health and encompasses such projects as:
The NPEU Clinical Trials Unit (NPEU CTU) is a fully registered UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit and typically runs a number of large multi-centre Randomised Controlled Trials, such as:
The NPEU also conducts Social Sciences, Health Economics and Epidemiological Research (SHEER) which includes on-going influential studies such as: