Jenny Kurinczuk

BSc (Hons), MBChB, MSc (Epid), MD, FFPH

Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology & Director, NPEU

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit
Co-Director, Policy Research Unit in Maternal Health and Care National Lead - MBRRACE-UK

I am Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU). Our mission at the NPEU is to conduct methodologically rigorous research to provide evidence to improve the care provided to women and their families during pregnancy, childbirth, the newborn period and early childhood as well as promoting the effective use of resources by perinatal health services.

My particular research focuses on the causes and consequences of conditions from conception through pregnancy which affect newborn babies some of which have subsequent effects on the health of the babies as they grow and develop during childhood and beyond. These include newborn brain dysfunction (neonatal encephalopathy), cerebral palsy and congenital anomalies (sometimes also called birth defects), and the health and development of children born following assisted conception, for example IVF.

I am also involved in: leading the MBRRACE-UK collaboration responsible for the national maternal, newborn and infant clinical outcome review programme; studies of near miss maternal morbidity; and the evaluation of paediatric surgical interventions for congenital anomalies.

Key publications

Assisted reproductive technology and birth defects: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal article

Hansen M. et al, (2013), Hum Reprod Update, 19, 330 - 353
Epidemiology of neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy.
Journal article

Kurinczuk JJ. et al, (2010), Early Hum Dev, 86, 329 - 338
Extreme obesity in pregnancy in the United Kingdom.
Journal article

Knight M. et al, (2010), Obstet Gynecol, 115, 989 - 997
Recreational drug use: A major risk factor for gastroschisis?
Journal article

Draper ES. et al, (2008), Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, 63, 356 - 357

Recent publications

Parent-to-parent support interventions for parents of babies cared for in a neonatal unit-protocol of a systematic review of qualitative and quantitative evidence.
Journal article

Hunt H. et al, (2018), Syst Rev, 7
Ethnic variation in unexplained deaths in infancy, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), England and Wales 2006-2012: national birth cohort study using routine data.
Journal article

Kroll ME. et al, (2018), J Epidemiol Community Health, 72, 911 - 918
A trajectories of behavior, attention, social and emotional problems from childhood to early adulthood following extremely preterm birth: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article

Linsell L. et al, (2018), Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MODE OF DELIVERY AT BIRTH AND WHEEZING TRAJECTORIES - EVIDENCE FROM THE UK MILLENNIUM COHORT STUDY
Conference paper

Alterman N. et al, (2018), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 72, A26 - A26
#ETHNIC AND SOCIAL VARIATION IN CAUSE-SPECIFIC INFANT MORTALITY OF PRETERM BABIES, ENGLAND AND WALES 2006-2012: NATIONAL BIRTH COHORT WITH ROUTINE DATA
Conference paper

Kroll ME. et al, (2018), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 72, A9 - A9

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