Reports from the NICHD Global Network’s Maternal and Newborn Health Registry: supplement introduction

TY - JOUR

T1 - Reports from the NICHD Global Network’s Maternal and Newborn Health Registry

T2 - supplement introduction

AU - for the Global Network investigators

AU - Goldenberg, Robert L.

AU - Goudar, Shivaprasad S.

AU - Saleem, Sarah

AU - Hibberd, Patricia L.

AU - Tolosa, Jorge E.

AU - Koso-Thomas, Marion

AU - McClure, Elizabeth M.

N1 - Funding Information: Publication is funded by grants from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NICHD to the participating sites and to RTI International. Funding Information: In 2001, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research []. Its goal was and continues to be, to perform research to improve outcomes for pregnant women and their children in low-resource countries. The structure of the Global Network comprises partnerships between academic institutions in the United States and low and middle-income countries (LMIC) and a central data coordinating center, each funded by NIH grants which are recompeted periodically. Currently, the international sites are located in Pakistan, India (2 sites), Kenya, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Guatemala and Bangladesh. The Global Network has conducted more than 15 randomized clinical trials to assess the efficacy of various interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes and child health. In addition, since accurate data on pregnancy, maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes and trends in these data over time are often not available in low-resource countries, the Global Network has also collected population-based data in specific geographic locations within each country. The Maternal and Newborn Health Registry, which began in 2008, now has collected data on more than 700,000 pregnant women and their outcomes. Research staff conduct visits to enroll women as early as possible during pregnancy, collect data during antenatal care, after delivery and at 42 days post-partum and perform multiple quality assurance checks to ensure the accuracy of Registry data with a focus on maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes. To provide an overall picture of pregnancy and its outcomes and trends over time in LMIC, the Global Network developed this collection of papers. This supplement features 19 publications describing the Global Network and the Registry data from 2010 to 2018 [–].

PY - 2020/11

Y1 - 2020/11

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096902228&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1186/s12978-020-01024-4

DO - 10.1186/s12978-020-01024-4

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 33256779

AN - SCOPUS:85096902228

SN - 1742-4755

VL - 17

JO - Reproductive Health

JF - Reproductive Health

M1 - 177

ER -