Dr. Hannah Blencowe

Name: Dr. Hannah Blencowe

Organisation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Dr. Blencowe is a lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, coming from a clinical background with experience in paediatrics, general practice and obstetrics and gynaecology. Her main interests are in maternal, prenatal and newborn health, with a particular focus on stillbirth. Recently, her work has focussed on global estimates of perinatal conditions (including preterm birth, low birth weight, small-for-gestational-age, stillbirths, congenital abnormalities and neonatal morbidity and associated long term consequences) and improving the measurement of pregnancy outcomes and perinatal conditions as part of the measurement improvement agenda for the Every Newborn Action plan to end preventable maternal and neonatal mortality and stillbirths which was launched in June 2014.