International Conference on
Prematurity & Stillbirth
Workgroup Co-Chairs and Participants*
Normal Gestational Biology and Labor
John Challis, DSc, FRCOG, FRSC, PhD
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Sam Mesiano, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Participants
Francesco DeMayo, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Sarah England, PhD
University of Iowa
Ozlem Equils, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Michael G. Gravett, MD
University of Washington
Murray Mitchell, DPhil, DSc
University of Auckland
Les Myatt, PhD
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
John Newnham, MD, FRANZCOG
University of Western Australia
William C. Parks, PhD
University of Washington
Margaret Petroff, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center
Jared Roach, MD, PhD
Seattle Children's Hospital
Gordon C.S. Smith, MD, PhD
University of Cambridge
Roger Smith, MD, PhD
Mothers and Babies Research Centre
Felipe Vadillo-Ortego, MD, PhD
Abnormal Gestational Biology and Physiology
Alan H. Jobe, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Charles J. Lockwood, MD
Yale School of Medicine
Participants
Kristina Adams-Waldorf, MD
University of Washington
Andrew Calder, MBChB, PhD
University of Edinburgh
Anne Croy, PhD
Queen's University
Gail H. Deutsch, MD
Seattle Children's Hospital
S.K. Dey, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
David A. Eschenbach, MD
University of Washington
David N. Fredricks, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Hilary S. Gammill, MD
University of Washington
Eugene Kolker, PhD
Seattle Children's Hospital
Thomas McElrath, MD, PhD
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Gil Mor, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
David M. Olson, PhD
University of Alberta Dept. Obstetrics & Gynecology
Roberto Romero, MD
Genetic and Environmental Factors
Jeffrey C. Murray, MD
University of Iowa
Rita Loch-Caruso, PhD
University of Michigan
Participants
Michael Bamshad, MD
University of Washington
Jerrold Heindel, PhD
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Michael Katz, MD
March of Dimes Foundation
Stephen J. Lye, PhD
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Ramkumar Menon, PhD
Emory University
Mario Merialdi, MD, PhD, MPH
World Health Organization
Hyagriv Simhan, MD, MSCR
Magee-Womens Research Institute, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC
Charles Vincent “Skip” Smith, PhD
Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Sreevidya Subramoney, MBBS, MD
The Sahlgrenska Akademin, Göteborg Universitet
Steven S. Witkin, PhD
Stillbirth Epidemiology
Robert L. Goldenberg, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine
Cynthia Stanton, PhD, MPH
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Participants
Gizelton Pereira Alencar, BSc, MPH, DrPH
University of Sao Paulo - Faculdade de Saúde Pública
Abdullah Baqui, MBBS, MPH, DrPH
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Gerard Breart, MD, MSc
INSERM
Oona Campbell, ScM, PhD
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
John B. Casterline, PhD
Ohio State University
Karen Edmond, MD, FRCPCH, PhD
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ruth Fretts, MD, MPH
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Frederik Frøen, Md, PhD
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Jason Gardosi, MD, FRCOG, FRCSED
West Midlands Perinatal Institute
Jean Golding, PhD
University of Bristol, UK
Rachel Haws, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Carol Hogue, PhD, MPH
Mary L. Kamb, MD, MPH
CDC, Div. of STD Prevention
Maile Taualii, PhD, MPH
Papa Ola Lokahi
Marian Willinger, PhD
Epidemiology of Preterm Delivery
Michael S. Kramer, MD
McGill University
José Villar, MD, MSc, MPH, FRCOG
University of Oxford, UK
Participants
Fernando Barros, PhD
Universidade Catolica de Pelotas
Jennifer F. Culhane, PhD, MPH
Drexel University College of Medicine
Alfredo Fort, MD, PhD
PATH/Demographic and Health Surveys
Claudia Holzman, DVM, MPH, PhD
Michigan State University
Christopher P. Howson, PhD
March of Dimes Foundation
Stephen Kennedy, MA, MD, MRCOG
University of Oxford
Joy Lawn, BMedSci, MBBS, MRCP (Paeds), MPH, PhD
Save the Children
Nuruddin Mohammed, PhD
Aga Khan University
Holly Newby, MA
UNICEF
Lale Say, MD, MSc
World Health Organization
Poul Thorsen, MD, PhD
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Yan Wang, DrPH
Division of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University
Michelle A. Williams, ScD
Intervention Development
James A. Litch, MD, DTMH
PATH
Zulfiqar Bhutta, MBBS, FRCP, FRCPCH, FCPS, PhD
Aga Khan University
Participants
José Belizán, MD, PhD
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness
Laura Caulfield, PhD
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
France Donnay, MD, ObGyn, MPH
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Michele Hill-Perkins, MA, MSc, PhD
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Justus Hofmeyr, MRCOG
Eastern Cape Dept of Health
King K. Holmes, MD, PhD
University of Washington
Jay D. Iams, MD
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Gricelia Mkumba, MBCHB, MRCOG
University Teaching Hospital
Luke C. Mullany, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Prentice, PhD
MRC International Nutrition Group
Uma M. Reddy, MP, MPH
NICHD/National Institutes of Health
Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH
Shelly Sundberg, MS, ABD
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Stephen Wall, MD, MSW, MPH
Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children
Ken Wind-Andersen, MD
Prioritization of Interventions for Scaling-Up
Robert E. Black, MD, MPH
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
O. Massee Bateman, MD, DTM&H
Save the Children
Participants
Harry Campbell, FRCP (Edin), MD, FFPH, FRSE
University of Edinburgh
Pat Daly, MPP
Save the Children
Jose Luis Diaz-Rosselo, MD
Latin American Centre for Perinatology Women Maternal and Reproductive Health PAHO/WHO
David W. Fleming, MD
Public Health-Seattle & King County
Cholpon Imanalieva, PhD
UNICEF
Pisake Lumbiganon, MD
Khon Kaen University
Igor Rudan, MD, DSc, PhD, MPH
University of Edinburgh
Anuraj H. Shankar, DSc
World Health Organization
Bo Sun, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Fudan University
Jorge E. Tolosa, MD, MSCE
Oregon Health & Science University
Linda Wright, MD
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Juliana Yartey, DrPH
Community-based Strategies and Constraints
Mark W. Young, MD, MHSc
UNICEF
Abhay Bang, MD, MPH
Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health
Participants
Kaosar Afsana , MD, MPH, PhD
BRAC
Shams El Arifeen, MBBS, MPH, DrPH
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
Neal Brandes, MHS
U.S. Agency for International Development
Joseph De Graft-Johnson, MD, DrPH
Save the Children/ACCESS/MCHIP
Asha George, MPH, DPhil
UNICEF
Abdul Hakeem Jokhio, MBBS, PhD
Aga Khan University
Saman Yazdani Khan, MBBS, MPH, MSc
Centre for Health and Population Studies & Shirkat Gah
Stephanie Martin, Med
PATH
Indira Narayanan, MD
BASICS Project
Pius Okong, MD, PhD
Nsambya Hospital/FIGO
Sharad Kumar Sharma, PhD
Department of Health Services
Judith Standley, CNM, MPH
Aboubacry Thiam, MD, MPH
BASICS Project
Cesar G. Victora, MD
Facility-based Strategies and Constraints
Robert C. Pattinson, MD, MRCOG, FCOG (SA)
The Medical Research Council of South Africa
Vinod K. Paul, MD, PhD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, WHO Collaborating Unit in Newborn Care
Participants
Fernando Althabe, MD, MSc
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy
Rajiv Bahl, MD, PhD
World Health Organization
Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH
University of Washington School of Medicine
Shereen Bhutta, FCPS, FRCOG
Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre
Nem-Yun Boo, FRCP
International Medical University
Mickey Chopra, PhD
Health Systems Research Unit
Mike English, MD
KEMRI / Wellcome Trust Programme
Christabel Enweronu-Laryea, MD, MRCP
University of Ghana Medical School
Wendy J. Graham, DPhil (oxon)
IMMPACT, University of Aberdeen
Eve M. Lackritz, MD
CDC
Sonia Lansky, MD, PhD
Health Department - BElo Horizonte City, MG, Brazil
Alvaro Leite, MD, PhD
Mohammod Shahidullah, MBBS, FCPS
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University
Winifred Mwebesa, MD, MPH
Save the Children – US
Linda Vanatoo, MC, ChB, MtropPaed
Ghana Health Service
Steve Welty, MD
Advocacy and Policy
Andres de Francisco, MD, PhD World Health Organization
Ann M. Starrs, MPA
Family Care International
Participants
Andrew Barrer, PhD
US Coalition for Child Survival
Ann K. Blanc, PhD
EngenderHealth
Aparajita Gogoi, PhD
CEDPA
Oluwafemi Kuti, MBBS, FRCOG
Obafemi Awolowo University
Elaine M. Noonan
March of Dimes
Bertha Pooley
Save the Children
Theresa Shaver, RN, MCommH
White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
Jeremy Shiffman, PhD
Syracuse University
Marian Sokol, PhD, MPH
First Candle/SIDS Alliance
F. Bruder Stapleton, MD
Seattle Children’s Hospital/University of Washington
Rachel Wilson, MPH
Resource and Development Funding
Thomas N. Hansen, MD
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Gary Darmstadt, MD, ObGyn, MPH
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Participants
Dean Byrd, PhD, MBA, MPH
Thrasher Research Foundation
Sadia Chowdhury, MD
The World Bank
Christopher J. Elias, MD, MPH
PATH
Mahmoud F. Fathalla, MD, PhD
Assiut University
Héctor Gallardo, MD, MHS
Carso Health Institute
Jennifer L. Howse, PhD
March of Dimes
Lily Kak, PhD
USAID
Peter McDermott, MSc
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Benjamin Schwartz, MD
CARE – USA
Catharine Taylor, MSc (Econ)
PATH
Jimmy Whitworth, MD, FRCP, FFPH, DTM&H
Ethics and Social Justice
Richard A. Cash, MD, MPH
Harvard School of Public Health
Maureen C. Kelley, PhD
University of Washington School of Medicine / Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Participants
Lynn P. Freedman, JD, MPH
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Alice Hazemba, MPH
University of Zambia
Calvin Ho, JSD/PhD Candidate
Bioethics Advisory Committee (Singapore)
Dean Jamison, MS, PhD
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Amar Jesani, MBBS
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights
Raman Kutty Vellappillil, MD, MPhil, MPH
Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies
Reidar K. Lie, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health
Joseph Mfutso-Bengo, PhD, MA
University of Malawi College of Medicine
Paul Ndebele, MSc
University of Botswana
Mala Ramanathan, PhD
Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies
Alina Rodriguez, PhD
Daniel Wikler, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health
Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH
Stanford University
Xiaomei Zhai, PhD