Professor Maria Quigley
Colleges
Maria Quigley
BA, MSc
Professor of Statistical Epidemiology
- National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit
Maria joined the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) in January 2004. She supervises DPhil students and teaches on the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology, on the modules in 'Statistics' and 'Maternal and Child Health'.
She is a co-applicant on the NIHR-funded Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care. Her research focuses on infant feeding, preterm birth, perinatal mental health and survey methodology.
Maria has expertise in the analysis of population-based cohorts and surveys, such as the Millennium Cohort Study, in the design and analysis of the NPEU National Maternity Surveys, and in RCTs.
She has also used record linkage of large, routinely collected data to address a range of research questions in the area of maternal and child health.
Maria was Director of Graduate Studies in Oxford Population Health between 2018-2023. Prior to joining the NPEU, she was based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Recent publications
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Associations between maternal body mass index and childhood infections in UK primary care: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort study.
Journal article
Coathup V. et al, (2024), Arch Dis Child
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Lactation-focused audio relaxation versus standard care for mothers of very preterm infants (the EXPRESS randomized clinical trial)
Journal article
Levene I. et al, (2024), Pediatric Research
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Global contribution of suicide to maternal mortality: a systematic review protocol.
Journal article
Simmons E. et al, (2024), BMJ Open, 14
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Donor human milk for preventing necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low-birthweight infants.
Journal article
Quigley M. et al, (2024), Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 9
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The relationship of early expressed milk quantity and later full breastmilk feeding after very preterm birth: A cohort study.
Journal article
Levene I. et al, (2024), Matern Child Nutr