Dr Rebecca Whybrow is a Lecturer in Midwifery at King’s College London. As an experienced midwife, educator and researcher, Rebecca specialises in ‘high-risk’ pregnancies, intrapartum care, clinician and patient decision-making, and health service policy.

Rebecca’s NIHR funded PhD explored the implementation of shared decision-making in pregnant women with hypertension which included codesigned antihypertensive patient decision aids (endorsed by NICE).

Rebecca has spent two years at the Department of Health and Social Care advising ministers and policy makers on fetal brain injury reduction, maternity leadership and culture as well as the Women’s Health Strategy. She was also an ‘Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions and their babies’ NICE guideline committee member.

Research interests

• Midwifery practice
• Maternal medicine
• Women's health
• Health service policy and management
• Shared and clinical decision-making
• Implementation science
• Multiple methodologies
• Codesign methodology
• Systematic review

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