Research in maternal, perinatal, and adolescent health
WHO develops guidelines on a broad array of clinical, public health, health system, health promotion and implementation strategies. These interventions are often highly context-specific, with multiple factors that directly and indirectly impact the health and societal outcomes, and as part of these strategies, to identify key research priorities that could accelerate improvement in maternal and perinatal health, newborn, and adolescent health. These methods will assist policy makers, donors, stakeholders in understanding the potential of research avenues to contribute to reducing the burden of disease and disability.
Improving maternal health is considered a crucial element to combat poverty and underdevelopment on a global scale to reducing maternal newborn mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health services.
WHO and partners have set new research priorities on newborns and stillbirth with a focus not only on survival but also on health, growth and development. The findings will assist national stakeholders, governments, NGOs, and research institutes to close knowledge gaps for reducing neonatal mortality, morbidity and long term impairment.
We have established global research priorities for adolescent health in low- and middle-income countries through 2030, building on earlier work that proposed research priorities in adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
