Cochrane 孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康专题小组致力于改善孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康结局并促进公平。
关于我们
每两分钟就有一人在怀孕或分娩期间死亡，全球每年约有 30 万人死亡。此外，全球每分钟有11名15岁以下的儿童死亡，在500万名五岁生日前死亡的儿童中，几乎有一半在出生后一个月内死亡。这些死亡在很大程度上是可以预防的，凸显了巨大的不平等。
孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康专题组是创新、研究、循证临床实践和卫生政策、社区和全球影响的中心枢纽。我们是一个多元专业团体，致力于通过集中和协调的努力解决紧迫的全球健康问题。通过针对有影响力的干预措施、协作工作和创新，我们旨在产生可行的见解和证据，为拯救生命的医疗实践和政策提供信息。
我们的团队
母婴及儿童健康专题组通过协作的、以中心为基础的结构，汇集了专题和技术方面的专业知识，旨在支持高质量、可信赖的证据。我们的主题中心（母婴、新生儿和儿童）和技术中心（指导与协调、方法与培训、作者支持、社区参与以及患者、家庭、护理人员和公众）由多位联合负责人领导，他们在各自的领域内提供领导和优先事项设定。共同负责人通过共同的指导和协调开展集体工作，并得到导师、项目经理、副负责人、工作组和顾问委员会的支持。如果您想参与我们的某个中心，请联系我们！
各中心负责人如下（按字母顺序排列）：
主题中心
产妇
艾米莉·谢泼德（澳大利亚）
卢西安·普斯卡修（罗马尼亚）
皮萨克·伦比加农（泰国）
佐赫拉·拉西（澳大利亚、巴基斯坦）
副主管：
珍·索通威（泰国）
新生
格雷塔·西布雷希特（波兰）
马泰奥·布鲁斯凯蒂尼（瑞典，意大利）
奈明莱（马来西亚）
孩子
佐丹奴·佩雷斯-加西奥拉（墨西哥）
贾伊·达斯（巴基斯坦）
莫里亚姆·奇布佐尔（尼日利亚）
黎氏秋江（德国、越南）
副主管：
陈梅龙（马来西亚）
技术中心
指导与协调
阿米尔·伊姆达德（美国，巴基斯坦）
大卫·哈斯（美国）
艾玛·西内尔沃（瑞典，加拿大）
珍妮-玛丽·吉斯（美国）
程序化支持：
艾普丽尔·麦克米伦（美国）
劳伦·托曼（美国）
方法与培训
安娜-莱娜·塞德勒（德国）
莎耶丝特·贾汉法尔（美国）
副主管：
詹姆斯·索蒂罗普洛斯（澳大利亚）
作者支持
简·克拉克内尔（英国）
米歇尔·菲安德（加拿大）
社区参与
蒂芙尼·杜克（美国）
患者、家属、护理人员和公众
丹妮尔·波洛克（澳大利亚）
恩迪·尤夫拉西亚·阿图（喀麦隆）
我们的计划
孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康专题小组代表一支由临床专家、研究人员和其他对多方利益相关方参与证据综合及其产生的影响感兴趣的人士组成的全球团队。我们的机构和领导人与政策制定者和资助者保持着牢固而持久的关系，他们承诺为该组织工作的长期可持续性和传播做出贡献并获益。
其中包括世界卫生组织、盖茨基金会、国立卫生研究院、医疗保健研究和质量局、卫生资源和服务管理局以及妇女健康研究办公室等。我们将与 Cochrane 中央团队合作，制定针对国际利益相关者和资助者利益的支持案例，以进一步发展我们的合作努力并确保财务可持续性。
孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康专题小组承认并支持 Cochrane 与中低收入国家合作的战略决策，以确保在这些地区建立可持续的研究网络，使我们的证据能够惠及并帮助那些最需要的人。
我们的领导团队的主要优势之一是与我们所代表的机构和组织之间长期而紧密的合作。
我们将通过多种方式支持作者团队：
- 培训我们在为大型国际新作者和受训人员群体提供 Cochrane 作者培训方面有着长期而成功的记录。我们将继续这样做，并通过线上课程和 Cochrane 国际流动计划实现全球影响力。
- 内容和方法学的咨询：通过我们多样化的专业知识，我们可以在评价的所有阶段为作者团体提供咨询帮助，包括就关键传播策略和联系方式提供建议。
- 作者团队成员：鉴于我们拥有众多同事和受训人员，我们可以为新的或人手不足的作者团队提供额外的成员，以帮助提高审核效率和缩短审核时间。
- 同行评审员：鉴于我们在孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康领域拥有庞大的全球网络，包括具有编辑经验的成员和具有患者/公众经验的成员，我们可以支持 Cochrane 的中央编辑服务寻找同行评审员，这将有助于同行评价过程的及时性。
我们计划通过与战略顾问委员会定期沟通来实现这些目标。我们的精益管理团队将在不同的重点领域拥有关键联系人，以便通过战略顾问委员会成员有效地促进这种沟通。
联系我们
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我们渴望建立一个由领导者和专家组成的多元化联盟。如果您有兴趣为我们的工作做出贡献， 请告诉我们更多关于您的技能和兴趣的信息。
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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