
Dr Cristina Fernandez Turienzo
Senior Research Fellow
Research interests
- Medicine
- Population Health
Contact details
Biography
Cristina is a Senior Research Fellow at King's with over eighteen years of experience in clinical and applied health research across a wide range of international settings. She is a registered nurse and midwife and holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine, a Master of Public Health (MPH), and a PhD in Public Health.
Cristina has led and contributed to numerous hybrid implementation-effectiveness trials of complex interventions in maternal, child, and adolescent health, as well as mixed-methods research aimed at addressing global health challenges and inequities, such as the 2YoungLives programme in Sierra Leone. She is one of the co-founders of the UK Chagas Hub, a network to tackle Chagas disease among the Latin American community in the UK.
Cristina also teaches in the School, supervises MSc and PhD students, and participates in national/international funding committees and advisory groups. She is a member of the WHO Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) and passionate about hybrid trials, community-based interventions, and research capacity exchange in global health.
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
Community based mentoring in Sierra Leone for pregnant adolescents and their babies doubles survival rates
An innovative community-based mentoring scheme for pregnant adolescent girls in Sierra Leone has been found to save lives.

Seeing the same midwives improves birthing experience for high-risk mothers
Seeing the same midwives throughout the perinatal period makes a substantial difference to a women’s feelings of calm and confidence during pregnancy and...

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
Community based mentoring in Sierra Leone for pregnant adolescents and their babies doubles survival rates
An innovative community-based mentoring scheme for pregnant adolescent girls in Sierra Leone has been found to save lives.

Seeing the same midwives improves birthing experience for high-risk mothers
Seeing the same midwives throughout the perinatal period makes a substantial difference to a women’s feelings of calm and confidence during pregnancy and...
