Marian Knight: Fantastic Day at the Oxford Women’s Health Forum
Marian Knight, Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health , NIHR Scientific Director for Research Infrastructure, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Fantastic day at the Oxford Women’s Health forum, this year showcasing research from Nuffield Dept of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford. What an incredible breadth of topics, from the genetics of endometriosis to lactation initiation, AI-enabled placental histology to response to postpartum haemorrhage, suicidality amongst postpartum migrant women on the Thai-Myanmar border to supporting women with chronic post infection syndromes.
A few highlights for me:
Susanna Dunachie, co-director of Oxford Global Health ‘Women’s health is one of the greatest unfinished projects in science’.
Statistics around period pain in adolescents from Rachel Reid-McCann: 70-90% of girls experience dysmenorrhoea, 20-30% report missing school. Clear association with chronic pain in adulthood and an opportunity for early intervention.
The huge burden of anaemia in women of reproductive age – emphasises the importance of the NIHR-funded PANDA trial – 4000 recruits and counting!
Nilufer Ramioglu showcasing the power of international collaboration and genetic understanding of endometriosis subtypes with associations with ovarian cancer – could this help cancer prevention?
Top tips for impact from Rachel R. from the Listen2Baby project – engage stakeholders early and often.
Gracia Fellmeth describing the challenges of assessing suicidality amongst postpartum women, especially in resource-limited settings.
And finally – bringing things back close to home – Brenda Kelly describing Equal Start Oxford with the goal that ‘every mother and baby should thrive’ at its heart. Definitely an aim we can all get behind.”
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