
Jennifer Kurinczuk
Director, Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology, Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
Our aim is to provide evidence for policy and practice for the health and wellbeing of mothers, their babies and their families.
Led by the NPEU at the University of Oxford, we are a team of experts in the fields of maternal and newborn health research, with collaboration from the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester and Cardiff, as well as Imperial College and University College, London. Our Parent, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPPIE) work is led by two lay co-leads, who are part of the core team and ensure PPPIE is at the heart of our work.
Our programme of work began in January 2019, funded by the Policy Research Programme at the Department of Health and Social Care (England) via the National Institute for Health Research. Known as the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care (PRU-MNHC), our work directly affects government and NHS policy and practice around caring for mothers and babies.
Director, Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology, Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
Deputy Director, Senior Social Scientist (NPEU)
Co-lead on Parent, Patient and Public Involvement
Professor of Women's Health Director, Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (University of Birmingham)
Senior Researcher in Epidemiology (NPEU)
Professor of Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology (University of Leicester)
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neonatal Medicine (Imperial College London)
Professor of Obstetrics (University of Manchester)
Professor in Evidence Based Maternity Care (University of Birmingham)
Professor of Maternal and child Population Health (NPEU)
Professor of Neonatal Medicine (Imperial College London)
Co-lead on Parent, Patient and Public Involvement
Professor of Statistical Epidemiology (NPEU)
Associate Professor in Health Economics - Senior Health Economist (NPEU)
University Research Lecturer (NPEU)
Professor of Clinical Nursing & Midwifery (Cardif University)
Associate Professor (Reader) & Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics (University College London)
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (University of Oxford)
Parent, Patient and Public Involvement (PPPI) is at the heart of our vision for the PRU-MNHC. It is essential that our work reflects what mothers, fathers, partners and families want to know, and ensuring this happens is embedded in every aspect of strategy and delivery. Rachel Plachcinski and Charlotte Bevan are our Joint Leads on PPPI. They co-chair our annual PPPI Stakeholder Network meetings, and support wider stakeholder engagement in influencing both our overall strategy and individual projects throughout the programme. Through our PPPI strategy we aim to ensure mothers, fathers, partners and families, and organisations representing them, shape the work of the PRU-MNHC by helping us make decisions about what’s important. Reflecting their ideas, opinions and experiences in our work means we can produce high quality, inclusive research that’s meaningful to families.