Contributors to the guideline

Annex 1Contributors to the guideline

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WHO Steering Group (Geneva, Switzerland)

Rajiv Bahl
Unit Head
Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent and Health and Ageing
Tarun Dua
Programme Manager
Department of Mental Health and Substance Use
Olufemi T. Oladapo
Unit Head
Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research
Fernando Althabe
Medical Officer
Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research
Mercedes Bonet
Medical Officer
Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research
Neerja Chowdhary
Technical Officer
Department of Mental Health and Substance Use
Karen Edmond
Scientist
Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent and Health and Ageing
Anayda Portela
Technical Officer
Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent and Health and Ageing
Shuchita Gupta
Medical Officer
Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent and Health and Ageing
Lisa Rogers
Technical Officer
Department of Nutrition and Food Safety
João Paulo Souza
Consultant
Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent and Health and Ageing

Guideline Development Group

Shabina Ariff
Director of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Consultant Pediatrician and Neonatologist
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan
Abdullah Baqui
Director
International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, United States of America (USA)
Blami Dao
Technical Director
Western and Central Africa
Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, USA
Louise Tina Day
EN-BIRTH Research Manager
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Abiy Seifu Estifanos
Lecturer
School of Public Health of Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Duncan Fisher
Co-founder and Editor
Family Included
United Kingdom
Jane Fisher (Chair, Maternal mental health)
Director, Global and Women’s Health
Head, Division of Social Sciences
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Zelee Hill
Associate Professor
Institute for Global Health
Faculty of Population Health Sciences
University College
London, United Kingdom
Caroline Homer
Co-Program Director
Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
Burnet Institute
Melbourne, Australia
Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian
Associate Professor
Department of Health Promotion and Community Health
Faculty of Health Sciences
American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
Mary Kinney
Researcher
School of Public Health
University of Western Cape
Cape Town, South Africa
Tina Lavender
Professor of Maternal and Newborn Health
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Pisake Lumbiganon
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Convenor, Thai Cochrane Network
Faculty of Medicine
Khon Kaen University
Khon Kaen, Thailand
Address Malata
Professor
Malawi University of Science and Technology
Limbe, Malawi
James Neilson (Chair, Maternal health, health systems and health promotion)
Coordinating Editor
Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Ibone Olza
Co-founder, El Parto es Nuestro
Director of European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health
Madrid, Spain
Malvarappu Prakasamma
Professor
Academy for Nursing Studies and Women’s Empowerment Research Studies
Telangana, India
Siddarth Ramji (Chair, Newborn health)
Director-Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology
Department of Neonatology
Maulana Azad Medical College
New Delhi, India
Parminder Suchdev
Associate Director, Emory Global Health Institute
Director, Global Health Office of Pediatrics
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Hubert
Department of Global Health
Emory University
Atlanta, USA
Mark Tomlinson
Professor
Institute for Life Course Health Research
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Haifa Wahabi
Chair of Evidence-based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation
College of Medicine
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

External Review Group

Rafat Jan
Professor and Associate Dean
Outreach and Policy Unit
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan
Silke Mader
Chairwoman of the Executive Board
European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants
Munich, Germany
Matthews Mathai
Independent Consultant in International Maternal and Perinatal Health
St John’s, Canada
Linda Richter
Professor
DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Jane Sandall
Professor of Social Science and Women’s Health
Department of Women and Children’s Health
King’s College London
London, United Kingdom
Steve Wall
Senior Director
Newborn Health
Save the Children US
Washington, DC, USA

Technical Working Group

Edgardo Abalos
Director
Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Monica Chamillard
Medical Doctor
Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Virginia Diaz
Medical Doctor
Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Soo Downe
Professor of Midwifery Studies
University of Lancashire
Preston, United Kingdom
Kenneth Finlayson
Research Associate
School of Community Health and Midwifery
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, United Kingdom
Leanne Jones
Deputy Managing Editor
Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Ani Movsisyan
Consultant
Pettenkofer School of Public Health
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Munich, Germany
Susan Munabi-Babigumira
Researcher
Department of Global Health/Cochrane Effective
Practice and Organisation of Care Group Division for Health Services
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Oslo, Norway
Julia Pascale
Medical Doctor
Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Yanina Sguassero
Medical Doctor
Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Aleena Wojcieszek
Consultant
Dr Aleena Wojcieszek Consulting
Brisbane, Australia

External Partners and Meeting Observers

Carlos Fuchtner
President
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
London, United Kingdom
Gagan Gupta
Health Specialist
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
New York, USA
Tedbabe Degefie Hailegebriel
Senior Adviser
Maternal and Newborn Health
UNICEF
New York, USA
Petra ten Hoope-Bender
Technical Adviser
Sexual and Reproductive Health
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Geneva, Switzerland
William Keenan
Professor, Department of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University
President, International Pediatric Association
Saint Louis, USA
Smita Kumar
Senior Newborn Advisor
Office of Maternal Child Health and Nutrition
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Washington, DC, USA
Rebecca Levine
Senior Maternal Health Advisor
USAID
Washington, DC, USA
Jeffrey Smith
Deputy Director
Implementation Research and Demonstration for Scale
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington, DC, USA
Ann Yates
Lead Midwife Advisor
International Confederation of Midwives
The Hague, The Netherlands
Willibald Zeck
Global Maternal and Newborn Thematic Fund
Coordinator
UNFPA
New York, USA

WHO Regional Office Representatives

Regional Office for Africa

Triphonie Nkurunziza
Medical Officer
Reproductive, Maternal Health and Ageing Team
Assumpta Muriithi
Medical Officer
Reproductive, Maternal Health and Ageing Team
Child and Adolescent Health Programme

Regional Office for the Americas/Pan American Health Organization

Bremen De Mucio
Advisor on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Latin American Center of Perinatology, Women and Reproductive Health
Pablo Duran
Advisor, Perinatal Health
Latin American Center of Perinatology
Women and Reproductive Health

Regional Office for Europe

Oleg Kuzmenko
Technical Officer
Reproductive and Maternal Health

Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Jamela Al-Raiby
Regional Advisor
Child and Adolescent Health Programme
Karima Gholbzouri
Regional Advisor
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research

Regional Office for South-East Asia

Anoma Jayathilaka
Medical Officer
Maternal and Reproductive Health

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WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience [Internet]. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022. Annex 1, Contributors to the guideline.