Midwife and women's health academic
Jane Sandall is professor of social science and women's health at the Women's Health Academic Centre of King's College London. Sandall leads the Maternal Health Services and Policy Research Group in King's Health Partners Women’s Health Academic Centre and is also a lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) South London Applied Research Collaboration. She has authored several Cochrane reviews on midwife-led settings and hundreds of peer-reviewed papers. Her contribution to midwifery and women's health was awarded with an CBE. She also received an honorary doctorate in health sciences from the University of Technology Sydney in 2014.
Biography.
Jane Sandall is a midwife and started her clinical career in Malawi. She then returned to the UK and completed a bachelor's in social science at London South Bank University in 1990, a Masters at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1991 and a PhD in sociology at University of Surrey in 1998. Her research has been funded by the ESRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust, NIHR, and other charitable sources.
Academic work.
Her research examines the use of new technologies into health care, and ways of organising services to bridge gaps in care and improve quality and safety including midwifery models of care. Research she has conducted or been involved with includes organisational case studies looking at safety of Birthplace in England, and the relationship between maternity workforce staffing and outcomes using secondary data analysis. Her research has been used by the UK government commission on Nursing and Midwifery, House of Commons Health Committee on Inequalities, NHS London, and US, Brazilian and Australian reviews of maternity services.
Jane Sandall is also a member of RCOG Stillbirth Clinical Studies Group and a member of the NIHR Advanced Fellowship Panel and the ESRC Peer Review College. She is associate editor of the journal "Midwifery".
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