Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth


Contributors to Born Too Soon

Editors

  • Christopher Howson, March of Dimes, United States
  • Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa
  • Mary Kinney,Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa

Author teams (by chapter)

Chapter 1. Preterm birth matters

  • Christopher Howson, March of Dimes, United States
  • Mary Kinney, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa
  • Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa

Chapter 2. 15 million preterm births

  • Hannah Blencowe, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
  • Simon Cousens, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
  • Doris Chou, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Mikkel Z. Oestergaard, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Laly Say, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Ann-Beth Moller, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Mary Kinney, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa
  • Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa

Chapter 3. Care before and between pregnancy

  • Sohni Dean, Aga Khan University, Division of Women and Child Health, Pakistan
  • Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Aga Khan University, Division of Women and Child Health, Pakistan and Canada
  • Elizabeth Mary Mason, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Christopher Howson, March of Dimes, USA
  • Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Zohra S. Lassi, Aga Khan University, Division of Women and Child Health, Pakistan
  • Ayesha Imam, Aga Khan University, Division of Women and Child Health, Pakistan

Chapter 4. Care during pregnancy and childbirth

  • Jennifer Requejo, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
  • Mario Merialdi, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Fernando Althabe, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Argentina
  • Matthais Keller, University Hospital, Essen Germany
  • Joanne Katz, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
  • Ramkumar Menon, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA

Chapter 5. Care for the preterm baby

  • Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa
  • Ruth Davidge, PMB Metro, NNASA (Neonatal Nurses Association of Southern Africa), South Africa
  • Vinod Paul, All India Institute for Medical Sciences, India
  • Severin von Xylander, World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Joseph de Graft Johnson, MCHIP, USA
  • Anthony Costello, University College, London UK
  • Mary Kinney, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa
  • Joel Segre, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
  • Elizabeth Molyneux, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital/Malawi Medical School, Malawi

Chapter 6. Actions: everyone has a role to play

  • Mary Kinney, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa
  • Christopher Howson, March of Dimes, United States
  • Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children US, South Africa
  • Eve Lackritz, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, an Initiative of Seattle Children's, USA
  • Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Aga Khan University, Division of Women and Child Health, Pakistan and Canada
  • Hannah Blencowe, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
  • Sohni Dean, Aga Khan University,,Division of Women and Child Health,,Pakistan
  • Jennifer Requejo, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,,USA
Technical review team
  • José Belizán (chair), Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Argentina
  • Elizabeth Mary Mason (chair), World Health Organization, Switzerland
  • Anthony Costello, University College, London UK
  • Andres de Francisco, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Switzerland
  • Mark Klebanoff, The Ohio State University, Nationwide, USA
  • Silke Mader, EFCNI-European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants, Germany
  • Jeff Murray, University of Iowa, USA
  • Pius Okong, Uganda Christian University, Uganda
  • Carmencita Padilla, Institute of Human Genetics / National Institutes of Health / University of the Philippines, Manila Philippines
  • Robert Pattinson, Medical Research Council, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Vinod Paul, All India Institute for Medical Sciences, India
  • Craig Rubens, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, an initiative of Seattle Children's USA
  • Andrew Serazin, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
  • Catherine Spong, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Antoinette Tshefu, School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Rexford Widmer, Rural Health, GE Healthcare, Singapore
  • Khalid Yunis, American University of Beirut Medical Centre, Lebanon
  • Nanbert Zhong, Institute for Basic Research in Development and Peking University Center of Medical Genetics, China
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