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Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research (CMCHR), School of Health & Medical Sciences (@CityUniHealth), City, St George's, Uni of London (@CityUniLondon)

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Joined October 2014
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Good news Friday! Register to attend the City St George's, CMCRH Global Maternal Health Symposium, and hear fantastic talks from our MSc Global Maternal Health students. Registere here: eventbrite.com/e/global-mate…

Global Maternal Health Symposium

Join us at the Global Maternal Health Symposium to hear past students' experiences, insights, and findings of placements and dissertations.

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Good news Friday! A new #INTERSECT paper on the international prevalence of childbirth-related PTSD (CB-PTSD) has been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Read the open-access article here: lnkd.in/dtt2T36N

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Good news Friday! On Thursday 10th September Rose Meades and Susan Ayers from the centre went to Parliament to launch their report 'Counting the Cost of Birth Trauma', on behalf of the MAP Alliance Team. Read the report here: 5f8ec21b-f020-4c12-ba31-b274…
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Good news Friday! Rose Meades and Liz Dudeney from the centre have published an editorial about the EPDS. Read it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Rethinking the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: contemporary relevance, validity and implica...

Rethinking the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: contemporary relevance, validity and implications for future research

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We are pleased to share the news article reporting on the MUNet Conference which was held on the 8th September. Read more here: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and…

Midwifery Unit Network conference brings maternity research and practice together at City St...

Midwives, service users, policymakers and researchers from across Europe and beyond spoke at City St George’s about how they can close the policy-research gap

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Good news Friday: Work carried out by researchers at the centre has been mentioned in a Guardian Journal article. Read it here: theguardian.com/society/2026…

Thousands of UK women have undiagnosed PTSD after childbirth each year, study finds

Experts call for joined-up support through the postnatal period amid concerns GPs are not trained to spot symptoms

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The ReproFam group are also developing a new, inclusive measure of prenatal bonding that can be used by all expecting parents including biological and non-biological mothers, fathers, and non-gestational parents across diverse family structures. Read more: reprofam.co.uk/projects/new-…
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The ReproFam group are also currently carrying out a project about young adults born following identifiable gamete donation in the UK, experiences of requesting information about their donors identity. Find out more here: reprofam.co.uk/projects/requ…
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🏥 Routine PTSD screening for new mothers could save the NHS £26 million a year, according to a new report from City St George’s on the economic impact of postnatal PTSD on the NHS. Read more ➡️ ow.ly/loEg50ZMCWC

New report first to outline economic impact of childbirth-related PTSD in the UK | City St George...

Launched at the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Birth Trauma, the report provides the first estimates of some of the economic costs associated with PTSD following birth in the UK

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Read our blog post about our conference which we held in July: intersectstudy.org/post/inte… #birthtrauma #childbirthptsd

INTERSECT Conference

It has been just over a month since our first INTERSECT conference, which was held on the 21st July 2026!The conference brought together international researchers to present their work on childbirt...

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One of the studies run by the Reprofam research group is about embryo donation, exploring the experiences of people donating and receiving embryos as part of a directed donation programme: reprofam.co.uk/projects/embr…
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Good news Friday! PhD student, Kyla Vaillancourt has had a paper published about the Psychometric evaluation of the NICHD Parent-Infant Interaction Scales. Read more here: frontiersin.org/journals/psy… #parentinfantinteraction

Frontiers | A psychometric evaluation of the NICHD Parent-Infant Interaction Scales to inform...

BackgroundThere is no recommended measure of parent-infant interaction that is psychometrically robust, feasible (i.e., brief and simple to use) and validate...

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As well as being the new Centre lead, Prof Jadva also runs the Reproduction and Family research group which conducts internationally recognised research on assisted reproduction and family diversity across the life course. Read more here: reprofam.co.uk/
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The PHHI also carries out research on Developing an Educational Pack for Student Nurses based on Adult and Young Peoples’ Perspectives on Sickle Cell Anaemia #studentnurses #sicklecellanaemia
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Good news Friday! Publication by Prof Susan Ayers and colleagues about maternal mistreatment in Brazil using data from the INTERSECT study: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/epr…
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The PHHI also carried out an an evaluation on child nursing student views and experiences on peer mentoring and understanding how to train them as peer mentors, in addition to assisting them in mentoring other colleagues as well. #peermentoring
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We are thrilled to announce that Professor Vasanti Jadva, Professor of Family Psychology is the new director for the newly named "Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health". Read more about Vasanti here: citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/pe…

Professor Vasanti Jadva | City St George's, University of London

Professor Vasanti Jadva, Professor, is an academic at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences of City St George's, University of London.

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International prevalence of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder has now been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry cambridge.org/core/journals/…

International prevalence of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder: INTERSECT study |...

International prevalence of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder: INTERSECT study

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The ReSPoND study carried out by PHHI group aimed to improve the way that positive newborn screening results for conditions such as sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis are communicated to parents by health professionals. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Rethinking Strategies for Positive Newborn Screening Result (NBS+) Delivery (ReSPoND): a process...

Newborn blood spot (NBS) screening seeks to prevent ill health, disability and death through early diagnosis and effective intervention. Each year, around 10,000 parents of babies born in England are...

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Good news Friday. Another publication today from our PhD student Kyla Vaillancourt: Psychometric evaluation of the NICHD Parent-Infant Interaction Scales to inform clinical practice. frontiersin.org/journals/psy… #parentinfantinteraction

Frontiers | A psychometric evaluation of the NICHD Parent-Infant Interaction Scales to inform...

BackgroundThere is no recommended measure of parent-infant interaction that is psychometrically robust, feasible (i.e., brief and simple to use) and validate...

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