
Project Summary
The goal of this 5-year programme was to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity in high mortality populations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It aimed to do this by building a global network of high quality scientists and population field sites to generate research evidence to improve policy and practice for maternal and child survival in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Nepal. The programme brought together IGH, MIRA (Nepal), SNEHA (Mumbai, India), PACHI (Malawi), MaiMwana (Malawi), BADAS (Bangladesh) and Ekjut (Jharkhand and Orissa, India).
Key Project Information
Dates: Dec 2008 - Nov 2014
Principal Investigator: Prof Anthony Costello
Partners: MIRA (Nepal) | SNEHA (Mumbai, India) | PACHI (Malawi) | MaiMwana (Malawi) | BADAS (Bangladesh) | Ekjut (Jharkhand and Orissa, India).
Location: Nepal, Malawi, Bangladesh and India
Funding: Wellcome Trust
Contact: audrey.prost@ucl.ac.uk
- Research Team
Prof Anthony Costello
Prof Audrey Prost
MIRA (Nepal) lead : Professor DS Manandhar
Perinatal Care Project (Bangladesh) lead: Professor Kishwar Azad
Ekjut lead: Dr Prasanta Tripathy
SNEHA lead: Neena Shah More
MaiMwana and PACHI (Malawi) lead: Dr Charles Mwansambo
Publications
The Lancet meta-analysis of women's group trials (PDF)
Resources
Datasets
WTSA women's groups trials comparative dataset (request access)