Steering Committee Members
Serena Donati
Research Director, Head of the Department for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health at the National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Health Institute), Rome, Italy.
Role: Chair of INOSS, Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: Europe / Steering Committee
Marian Knight
Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health and Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford and Scientific Director for Infrastructure for the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), United Kingdom.
Role: Co-chair for Europe, Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: Europe / Steering Committee
Kitty Bloemenkamp
Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist and Chair, Birth Centre, Wilhelmina's Children Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands
Role: Co-chair for Europe, Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: Europe / Steering Committee
Catherine Deneux-Tharaux
Senior Obstetrician and Researcher, CRESS - Inserm U1153, OPPAL team, Paris, France
Role: Co-chair for Europe, Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: Europe / Steering Committee
Thomas van den Akker
Consultant Obstetrician-Gynaecologist, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Professor of Global Maternal Health, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Role: Co-chair for Europe, Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: Europe / Steering Committee
Isabelle Malhamé
Clinician Scientist in Obstetric Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Canada
Role: Co-chair for North America
Group classification: North America / Co-chair
Lachmi Kodan
Obstetrician-Gynaecologist and Clinical Epidemiologist, Academic Hospital Paramaribo (AZP), Lecturer Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Chair of the Committee Maternal Mortality Suriname (MaMS – National Committee for Maternal Mortality in Suriname), PhD on maternal mortality. Responsible for communicating findings to the Ministry of Health, BOG, and healthcare providers.
Role: Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: South America / Steering Committee
Manisha Nair
Professor of Global Health, University of Copenhagen; Professor of Epidemiology & Global Health, University of Oxford; and Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health Research, Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences, Assam, India. Clinician, epidemiologist, founder & lead of the Maternal and Perinatal Health Research collaboration, India (MaatHRI). Leads research in cardiometabolic diseases and iron deficiency affecting women's health, pregnancy & fetal development.
Role: Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: Asia / Steering Committee
Abera Kenay Tura
Senior Lecturer in Maternal and Newborn Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK; and Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Haramaya University, Ethiopia. Founder and country lead of the Ethiopian Obstetric Surveillance System (EthOSS), and expert in maternal near-miss and mortality research in sub-Saharan Africa.
Role: Member of the Steering Committee
Group classification: Co-chair of Africa / Steering Committee
