コクランの妊産婦・新生児・小児保健テーマ別グループは、母体・新生児・小児保健における成果の向上と公平性を推進することを目的としています。
コクランについて
2分に1人が妊娠・出産中に死亡しており、全世界で年間約30万人にもなっています。さらに、世界では15歳未満の子どもが1分間に11人亡くなっており、5歳の誕生日を迎える前に亡くなる500万人の子どものうちほぼ半数は、生後1カ月以内に亡くなっています。これらの死はほとんど予防可能であり、とてつもない不公平を浮き彫りにしています。
妊産婦・新生児・小児保健テーマ別グループは、イノベーション、研究、エビデンスに基づく臨床実践、保健政策、地域社会、そしてグローバルな影響力のための中心的なハブとして機能しています。私たちは、集中的かつ協調的な努力を通じて、緊急のグローバルヘルス問題に取り組むことを約束する多職種グループです。インパクトのある介入、共同作業、イノベーションを目標とすることで、生命を救う医療行為や政策に情報を提供するための実用的な洞察やエビデンスを生み出すことを目指しています。
コクランのチーム
- ジャンヌ＝マリー・ギース、米国マサチューセッツ州、ベス・イスラエル・ディーコネス・メディカル・センター（BIDMC）、 産科・婦人科・生殖学部長
- デビッド・ハース、米国インディアナ州インディアナポリス、インディアナ大学医学部 産科婦人科学教授
- エマ・シネルヴォ、スウェーデンストックホルム、カロリンスカ研究所 女性・子どもの健康部門
- ローレン・トーマン
- エイプリル・マクミラン
私たちは、多様なコミュニティをよりよく代表し、エビデンスを求める人たちのニーズに応えるため、グループの再編成を進めています。このプロセスに参加したい、または最新情報を入手したい方は、ご連絡ください。
コクランの計画
妊産婦・新生児・小児保健テーマ別グループは、臨床専門家、研究者、その他、エビデンスの統合とそのインパクトに多方面の関係者がかかわることに関心を持つ人々からなる世界的なチームを代弁します。コクランの機関や指導者は、政策立案者や資金提供者と強力かつ長期的な関係を築いており、グループの活動の長期的な持続可能性や普及に貢献し、利益をもたらしてくれるものと期待されています。
これらの人々には、世界保健機関（WHO）、ゲイツ財団、米国国立衛生研究所（NIH）、米国医療研究品質調査機構、米国保健資源サービス庁、米国女性の健康研究局などが含まれます。私たちは、コクラン本部と協力して、国際的な利害関係者や資金提供者の関心に特化した支援事例を開発し、協力的な取り組みをさらに発展させ、財政的な持続可能性を確保します。
妊産婦・新生児・小児保健テーマ別グループは、コクランが中低所得国と協力し、これらの地域で持続可能な研究ネットワークが構築され、私たちのエビデンスが最も必要としている人々に届き、力を与えることができるようにするという戦略的決定を尊重し、支持しています。
私たちのリーダーシップ・チームの重要な強みのひとつは、私たちが代表を務める機関や組織内での長年にわたる強力な協力関係です。
私たちは、様々な方法で著者チームをサポートします：
- トレーニング新規著者や研修生からなる国際的に大規模な人々を対象としたコクラン著者トレーニングを支援する、長年にわたる成功実績があります。私たちはこれを継続し、オンラインコースとコクラン国際モビリティプログラムを通じて世界的な展開を図ります。
- レビューの内容と方法論に関する相談：私たちの多様な専門知識を通じて、著者グループに対し、主要な普及戦略や連絡先に関する助言を含む、査読プロセスの全段階における相談支援を提供できます。
- 著者チームのメンバー私たちのグループの幅広い同僚や研修生を生かし、新規または人員不足の著者チームに追加メンバーを提供し、レビュー作成の効率化と所要時間の短縮を支援できます。
- 査読担当者妊産婦・新生児・小児保健分野における広範なグローバルネットワーク（編集経験を有するメンバーや患者・一般人の経験を有するメンバーを含む）を背景に、我々はコクラン中央編集サービスがレビューの査読者を特定する支援が可能であり、これにより査読プロセスの迅速化に寄与します。
これらを戦略諮問委員会との定期的なコミュニケーションを通じて、達成する計画です。私たちの精鋭の管理チームは、各重点分野における主要な連絡窓口を配置し、戦略的諮問委員会のメンバーを通じてこのコミュニケーションを効率的に促進します。
ニュース
私たちは関心度を測るため、グローバル・エビデンス・サミット2024で会合を開催しました。グループの設立に対する前向きな反応と、この分野における優先課題を実現する集団的な可能性に、私たちは圧倒されました。地域社会全体からの関心を把握するため、私たちはオープンハウスを開催する予定です。ご期待ください！
お問い合わせ
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私たちは、リーダーや専門家からなる多様な結びつきの母体を作りたいと考えています。私たちの活動への貢献にご興味をお持ちでしたら、ご自身のスキルや関心について詳しくお聞かせください。
Thematic hubs
Maternal
Emily Shepherd (Australia)
Dr Emily Shepherd is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Australian NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. She is an Affiliate Senior Lecturer with the Adelaide Medical School and Robinson Research Institute at Adelaide University.
Lucian Puscasiu (Romania)
Lucian Puscasiu is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology Targu Mures, Romania. He is also the Director of the PhD School of Medicine at the same University. In addition, he serves as Honorary Director and founder of Cochrane Romania Center. His interests include reproductive health, evidence based translation into guidelines and evidence synthesis.
Pisake Lumbiganon (Thailand)
Pisake Lumbiganon is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Khon Kaen University, Thailand. His research interests include maternal and newborn health, epidemiology in obstetrics and gynaecology, clinical research methodologies, and quality of care in maternal health services. He has contributed to the World Health Organization multi-country survey on maternal and newborn health and has published extensively on maternal and perinatal health, including severe maternal outcomes and indirect causes of maternal morbidity. His work focuses on addressing gaps in maternal and newborn care, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Zohra Lassi (Australia, Pakistan)
Zohra Lassi is an Associate Professor and internationally recognized public health researcher focused on maternal, newborn, and adolescent health within the RMNCAH Continuum of Care. Her work centres on evidence synthesis, implementation research, and health equity, particularly in low- and middle-income and disadvantaged settings, with over 300 peer-reviewed publications informing World Health Organization guidelines and global policy frameworks. She has extensive experience in systematic reviews, evidence gap maps, and guideline development, and integrates community voices into evidence and decision-making. She leads international collaborations and capacity strengthening to improve maternal health evidence globally.
Associate lead(s): Jen Sothornwit (Thailand)
Jen Sothornwit is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. He is a gynecologist with a research focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly in family planning, maternal health, and evidence synthesis. His work includes leading systematic reviews, primary research, and capacity strengthening initiatives to support evidence-informed practice and policy in the region.
Newborn
Greta Sibrecht (Poland)
Greta Sibrecht is a neonatologist at the II Department of Neonatology at Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland, with a PhD on heart rate monitoring, including heart rate variability and asymmetry. Her academic interests include evidence synthesis and systematic reviews in collaboration with Cochrane Sweden and Cochrane Neonatal. She currently serves as Chair of the Early Career Investigators Section of the European Society for Paediatric Research and as a tutor at the European School of Neonatology.
Matteo Bruschettini (Sweden, Italy)
Matteo Bruschettini, MD, PhD, is Director of Cochrane Sweden, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Lund University, Sweden. A specialist in neonatology, he obtained his PhD in the Netherlands in 2007 and has worked in Sweden since 2015. Matteo is co-coordinator of the Nordic GRADE Network and has contributed to the Cochrane Collaboration since 2011. He has authored more than 200 scientific papers, including over 50 Cochrane reviews. His work has supported the World Health Organization and is guiding Sweden’s first national guidelines using the GRADE approach.
Nai Ming Lai (Malaysia)
Lai Nai Ming is Professor of Paediatrics and Director of Clinical Campus at Taylor’s University, Malaysia, and trained as a paediatrician and neonatologist. He has been a Cochrane author since 2004 and trainer since 2006, serving in multiple editorial and leadership roles including Senior Editor of Cochrane Central Editorial Services and Associate Editor of Cochrane Neonatal. He has also trained and mentored systematic review authors across multiple countries in Asia and in Australia.
Child
Giordano Perez-Gaxiola (Mexico)
Giordano Perez-Gaxiola is a practising pediatrician and researcher at Sinaloa’s Pediatric Hospital in Mexico, with an interest in children’s infectious diseases, vaccines, and health literacy. He leads the Cochrane Associated Centre at Sinaloa’s Pediatric Hospital and has been involved in Cochrane for more than 15 years in multiple roles including author, trainer, director of Cochrane Mexico, and member of its communications and geographic groups. He is a professor in pediatrics and evidence-based medicine at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico, promoting systematic reviews and Cochrane.
Jai Das (Pakistan)
Dr Jai Das works as an Associate Director at the Institute for Global Health and Development and Associate Professor for the Division of Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University, Karachi. He is a medical doctor trained in pediatric surgery and has a PhD in population and public health. He has extensive experience in maternal and child health research, evidence-based systematic reviews, and public health. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and received multiple international recognitions for his research impact. His interests include evidence use in policy and programs, research capacity development, and the impact of climate change on health.
Moriam Chibuzor (Nigeria)
Moriam Chibuzor is a Senior Research Officer at Cochrane Nigeria, Institute of Tropical Diseases Research and Prevention, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. She works in evidence synthesis, information retrieval, and knowledge translation, supporting clinical practice guideline development and policy briefs in Nigeria. She has contributed to the Global Evidence, Local Adaptation Project and has authored Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews that informed WHO guidelines. She is also a trainer within the Cochrane Trainers’ Network, building capacity among clinicians, consumers, and media practitioners.
Thu Giang Le Thi (Germany, Vietnam)
Thu Giang Le Thi is Lead of the Research Unit at the Child Health Foundation in collaboration with LMU University Hospital Munich, Germany. She is a researcher with a multidisciplinary background in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, and health economics. She has been trained by Cochrane Sweden, Cochrane Ireland, and Cochrane Germany. Her work includes paediatric research studies, systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, and developing evidence-informed instruments to promote healthy food environments for children and adolescents.
Associate lead(s): May Loong Tan (Malaysia)
May Loong Tan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & University College Dublin Malaysia Campus. She is the Director of Cochrane Malaysia and a Cochrane trainer involved in promoting evidence-based healthcare through training, research synthesis, and dissemination. Her research interests focus on breastfeeding practices and advocacy, with experience in systematic reviews and evidence synthesis, and she is currently pursuing a PhD on developing indicators of a breastfeeding friendly community.
Technical hubs
Steering & coordination
Aamer Imdad (US, Pakistan)
Aamer Imdad is a pediatric gastroenterologist and clinician–scientist at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, USA, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Fellowship Director in Pediatric Gastroenterology. His work focuses on improving maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes through evidence synthesis, clinical research, and guideline development, with collaborations involving the World Health Organization and Cochrane. He has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications, including reviews that informed global health policy and clinical practice. His interests include infant nutrition, neonatal feeding practices, GRADE methodology, evidence-based medicine, and strengthening the translation of research into practice.
David Haas (US)
David A. Haas is Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana University School of Medicine, USA. He has been involved with Cochrane since 2002, starting as a Contact Editor for the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group and later serving as Co-Director of the US Satellite. He collaborates with Jeanne-Marie Guise on Cochrane’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group, helping to convene, organize, and prioritize activities in maternal, newborn and child health. His work focuses on producing and disseminating maternal and newborn health evidence to inform global practice and policy.
Emma Sinervo (Sweden, Canada)
Emma Sinervo (MD, PHD) is a researcher at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, alongside her role as a medical specialist within Sexual and Reproductive Health and Region Stockholm. She is an elected member of the Cochrane Governing Board and previously named one of Cochrane’s top 30 under 30. Emma has worked for and collaborated with the World Health Organization on guideline development, implementation research, and international clinical trials, including large neonatal and maternal health studies. She strongly supports international collaboration within the research community.
Jeanne-Marie Guise (US)
Jeanne-Marie Guise is Professor with Tenure in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Emergency Medicine, Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University, USA. She leads research in evidence-based medicine, clinical informatics, patient safety, and learning health systems, and directs multiple national programs including Centers of Excellence and AHRQ-funded initiatives. She serves as Associate Director of US Cochrane West and Director of the Scientific Resource Center for AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice Centers program. Her work focuses on translating evidence into practice and improving the health and safety of women and children.
Tessy Boedt (Belgium)
Tessy Boedt is a physiotherapist and nutritional scientist, specialized in pre- and postnatal guidance, and currently completing a PhD on preconception care and lifestyle at KU Leuven, Belgium. She is focused on research and education on health before, during, and after pregnancy and has developed and teaches sports classes and workshops for (expectant) mothers at Mama Moves Mechelen / Health in Progress.
Associate lead(s): Yasmine Ahmed Asaad (Egypt)
Yasmine is a primary care physician and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. She is a Cochrane US Year 4 mentee and contributes to Cochrane reviews that inform World Health Organization guidelines.
Programmatic support:
April Mcmillan (US)
Lauren Thomann (US)
Methods & training
Anna-Lene Seidler (Germany)
Anna-Lene Seidler is a Senior Research Fellow at the CTC Evidence Integration team, working as a biostatistician since 2017. She specializes in next generation systematic review methodology, including prospectively planned, network and individual participant data meta-analysis, and contributes to clinical trial registration research through the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry. She is a member of the Cochrane Prospective Meta-Analysis methods group and leads international collaborations such as iCOMP and TOPCHILD. Her work focuses on providing statistical support for research and advancing evidence synthesis in maternal and child health.
Shayesteh Jahanfar (US)
Shayesteh Jahanfar is a Professor at Tufts School of Medicine, USA, and a reproductive epidemiologist with training in epidemiology, public health, and biostatistics. Her research focuses on reproductive and maternal–child health, global health, HIV/AIDS, opioid use, and twin studies. She serves as Director of the Cochrane Affiliate at Tufts University within the Cochrane US Network and as co-lead for Training and Methods for the Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Thematic Group. She has published over 50 systematic reviews, including Cochrane reviews, and over 300 publications and 13 textbooks.
Associate lead(s): James Sotiropoulos (Australia)
James Sotiropoulos is a paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, and PhD candidate at NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, working on a series of projects related to oxygen use during preterm neonatal resuscitation.
Author support
Jane Cracknell (UK)
Jane is co-managing editor of Cochrane Neonatal (6 years), after having been a managing editor for Cochrane Anaesthesia and Cochrane Critical Care for 18 years. She brings a wealth of experience and specialist education within methodology and evidence-based health care from Oxford University and is an author of six published Cochrane reviews.
Michelle Fiander (Canada)
Michelle is the primary managing editor at Cochrane Neonatal and is involved with the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Group. She is a trained information specialist with 30 years of experience in evidence synthesis support and consultancy work with international organizations and universities, such as McMaster University (Canada).
Community engagement
Tiffany Duque (US)
Tiffany brings more than 20 years of experience in global nutrition, community interventions, and maternal and child health, with leadership spanning academic, government, professional society, and non-governmental organization sectors. She has led high-impact research and programs across diverse cultural and multidisciplinary settings, with deep expertise in evidence-based public health, implementation strategies, capacity building, and mentoring.
Associate lead(s): Shahd Abdalla (Sudan)
Shahd Abdalla is a medical doctor from Sudan with an interest in evidence-based medicine and health equity. She participated in the Cochrane US Health Equity Mentoring Program Year 4 as a mentee. Her work is centered on maternal, newborn, and child health and has engagement in evidence synthesis work and improving the reach and use of evidence.
Patients, families, caregivers & public
Danielle Pollock (Australia)
Danielle is a lived experience stillbirth researcher and methodologist in evidence synthesis based in Adelaide, Australia. She completed a PhD on stillbirth stigma, identifying that over half of bereaved mothers faced stigmatizing attitudes and highlighting bereaved parents as advocates for changing attitudes towards stillbirth among clinicians, researchers, and government organizations. She is a research fellow in evidence-based healthcare and continues patient advocacy.
Ndi Euphrasia Atuh (Cameroon)
Euphrasia Ebai-Atuh Ndi is a resource mobilizer passionate about putting evidence at the centre of citizens' everyday life. She is a trained secondary school teacher, PhD holder in accounting, primary school proprietor and a mother of five beautiful children. Euphrasia joined Cochrane in 2017 and became a member of Cochrane Patient and Public Network, Executive in 2021. She has been engaged in several evidence production, dissemination and implementation PPI initiatives across Cochrane groups and other local and international organizations. As a mother, Euphrasia is passionate about empowering fellow mothers and women with the necessary skills to co-produce, disseminate and use evidence.
Our plans
The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group represents a global team of clinical experts, researchers, and others who are interested in multi-interest-holder engagement in evidence synthesis and the resulting impact. Our institutions and leaders have strong and long-lasting relationships with policy-makers and funders who have the promise to contribute to and benefit long-term sustainability and dissemination of the group’s work.
These relationships include the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration and Office of Research on Women’s Health, amongst others. We will work with the Cochrane central team to develop cases of support specific to the interests of international stakeholders and funders to further develop our collaborative efforts and ensure financial sustainability.
The Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group acknowledges and supports Cochrane’s strategic decision to engage with low- and middle-income countries to ensure that sustainable research networks are developed in these areas, enabling our evidence to reach and empower those who need it most.
One of the key strengths of our leadership team are the long-standing, strong collaborations within the institutions and organizations that we represent.
We will support author teams in multiple ways:
- Training: We have a long and successful track record of supporting Cochrane author training for large, international groups of new authors and trainees. We will continue this and have a global reach through the virtual courses and through the Cochrane International Mobility programme.
- Content and methodological consultations: Through our diverse expertise, we can provide author groups with consultative assistance during all phases of a review, including advising on key dissemination strategies and contacts.
- Author team members: Given our breadth of colleagues and trainees, we can provide new or understaffed author teams with additional members to aid the efficiency and turnaround time for reviews.
- Peer reviewers: Given our vast global network within Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, including members with editorial experience and those with patient/public experience, we can support Cochrane's Central Editorial Service in identifying peer reviewers for reviews, which will aid in the timeliness of the peer review process.
We plan to accomplish these through regular communication with our strategic advisory board. Our lean administrative team will have key contacts in different focus areas to facilitate this communication efficiently through the strategic advisory board members.
News
Launch of New Cochrane MNCH LinkedIn page
The Cochrane Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group has established a dedicated LinkedIn page to support communication and engagement activities across the maternal, newborn and child health community.
Cochrane MNCH at WHO HRP Committee
The Cochrane Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group was represented at the 39th WHO Human Reproduction Programme Policy and Coordination Committee on 24–25 March 2026. Discussions focused on future priorities for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda, ensuring alignment with global evidence needs.
The discussion highlighted key priorities for advancing evidence-based approaches in SRHR and strengthening collaboration among global partners, while also providing an opportunity to share Cochrane MNCH’s work and to help shape priorities for evidence synthesis in this area.
Cochrane MNCH at FIGO World Congress
At the FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in South Africa in October 2025, co-leads of the Steering and Coordination Hub for the Cochrane Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Thematic Group led a panellist-driven session entitled, “Cochrane’s impact within maternal, newborn, and child health: past, present, and future.”
The session outlined the steps of the evidence pipeline from evidence production to guideline development and implementation.
Share your Input: education & training
Following feedback at our FIGO session, we are developing new training resources on how to read and interpret medical reviews.
We invite you to complete a short survey to help shape MNCH learning priorities.
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Latest issue: 3 April 2026 [PDF]
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