Anthony Costello MA MB BChir FRCP FRCPCH

Professor of International Child Health and Director of UCL Institute for Global Health

Address: UCL Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health 30 Guildford Street London WC1N 1EH Phone No: +44 (0)207 905 2122 Fax No: +44 (0)207 404 2062 Extension: 82 72 2261 Email: a.costello@ich.ucl.ac.uk Expertise: Maternal and newborn health Biography: Anthony Costello is Professor of International Child Health and head of the Centre for International Health and Development at the UCL Institute of Child Health, and Director of the UCL Institute for Global Health. He has expertise in maternal and child health epidemiology and programmes in developing countries, and has contributed papers on health economics, health systems, child development, nutrition and infectious disease. He has published over 100 papers in international journals, including the Lancet, BMJ, Pediatrics, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, PLOS Medicine and Biomed Central journals, and has received award grants of over £20m including programme and project grants from the UK Department for International Development, the Wellcome Trust, Saving Newborn Lives Initiative, UBS Foundation, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, the Big Lottery Fund and the Health Foundation. His areas of scientific expertise include the evaluation of community interventions on maternal and newborn mortality, women’s groups, the cost-effectiveness of interventions, community and social life saving treatments for maternal and newborn mortality in the poorest populations, nutritional supplementation and international overseas aid flows for maternal and child health. He has been a consultant on field programmes for Save the Children Fund, the World Bank, the WHO, DFID, USAID, UNDP and Saving Newborn Lives. He is the founder and Executive Director of Women and Children First, a UK based NGO which has developed an international programme of support for programmes to improve maternal and child health in poor populations. He is an Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, UCLH Trust.