Professor Marian Knight
Contact information
+44 (0)1865 289727
Fax +44 (0)1865 289701
Websites
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Public Health England
Honorary Consultant in Public Health
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National Institute for Health and Care Research
Chair, Research for Patient Benefit Programme South Central Regional Funding Committee
Marian Knight
MA, MBChB, MPH, DPhil, FFPH, FRCPE
Director NPEU, Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health
- National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit
- MSC in Global Health Science module 6 lead: Maternal and Child Health
Marian Knight is Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU).
Her work focuses on using national observational studies to address clinical questions concerning rare and severe complications of pregnancy and early life. She also leads the MBRRACE-UK national confidential enquiries into maternal morbidity and mortality.
Professor Knight is also the Medical Sciences Divisional Academic Champion for Policy and Public Engagement and as part of her role she sits on the Oxford Policy Engagement Network Steering Group. In February 2012, Marian was awarded one of the first NIHR Research Professorships to develop further her work relating to maternal morbidity and care of infants requiring early surgery.
She trained initially in obstetrics and neonatology, completing a DPhil investigating the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia, before becoming interested in epidemiology and population health. She therefore undertook specialty training in public health, becoming a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2006. She is an Honorary Consultant in Public Health with Public Health England.
Recent publications
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Sotrovimab versus usual care in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial.
Journal article
RECOVERY Collaborative Group None., (2026), Lancet Infect Dis, 26, 34 - 45
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Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity and the Contribution of Deprivation: A Population-Based Causal Analysis.
Journal article
Geddes-Barton D. et al, (2025), BJOG, 132, 2131 - 2137
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Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care: Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2021-23
Report
Felker A. and Knight M., (2025)
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Molnupiravir or nirmatrelvir-ritonavir plus usual care versus usual care alone in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial.
Journal article
RECOVERY Collaborative Group None., (2025), Lancet Infect Dis, 25, 1000 - 1010
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Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response in Ethiopia: a systematic review.
Journal article
Yuya M. et al, (2025), Reprod Health, 22
