Dr Alexandra Ridout
Clinical Lecturer in Women and Children's Health
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Biography
Dr. Alex Ridout is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at St Thomas’ Hospital and Clinical Lecturer in Maternal Global Health at King’s College London (King’s Prize Fellowship, NIHR DSE Award). She is currently co-leading the NIHR-funded Global Health Research Group CRIBS, which focuses on simple, scalable innovations to reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. She is the UK lead for the CRADLE-5 trial, evaluating the impact of the national scale-up of the CRADLE intervention, a vital signs alert device and emergency triage package, into routine maternity care in Sierra Leone.
Her research interest in high-risk pregnancy spans high and low-income settings; her thesis looked at strategies to personalise prediction of spontaneous preterm birth (King’s Outstanding Thesis Award).
Research
Maternal And Child Health Systems and Policy Research (MAPS)
The Maternal and Perinatal Systems and Policy (MAPS) Research Group assumes a life-course approach which is engaged with basic and clinical science research that has the potential to improve health care quality and outcomes from bench to population health, through policy relevant world class evidence synthesis, implementation and service delivery research.
News
Use of blood pressure and pulse monitoring device shows promise for maternal health in Sierra Leone
A new study shows that the use of a simple maternity innovation that measures the mother’s blood pressure and pulse can be scaled nationally in Sierra Leone...
Research
Maternal And Child Health Systems and Policy Research (MAPS)
The Maternal and Perinatal Systems and Policy (MAPS) Research Group assumes a life-course approach which is engaged with basic and clinical science research that has the potential to improve health care quality and outcomes from bench to population health, through policy relevant world class evidence synthesis, implementation and service delivery research.
News
Use of blood pressure and pulse monitoring device shows promise for maternal health in Sierra Leone
A new study shows that the use of a simple maternity innovation that measures the mother’s blood pressure and pulse can be scaled nationally in Sierra Leone...