Helena Litorp
Affiliated Researcher at Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa; Swedesd - Centrum för forskning och utbildning om lärande för hållbar utveckling
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 254 27 94
- E-mail:
- helena.litorp@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 14B, 1 tr
75237 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
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M.D, PhD, Associate professor global health
Biography
With a background as a specialist physician in obstetrics and gynaecology, I have both clinical as well as research experience from several low-resource settings and a special interest in emergency obstetric care, innovations, and implementation. Apart from being affiliated researcher at the Department of Women's and Children's Health, I currently hold a position as physician and Chief Medical Officer at a CRO specialized in clinical trials and as Associate Professor in global health at the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet.
Research
My main research interest is in maternal and newborn health as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in low-income countries. Prior and current research projects include:
- 2006-2008: Female genital cutting among antenatal care attendees in Sweden
- 2010-2015: Overuse of caesarean section and its association with maternal near-miss morbidity and mortality in Tanzania
- 2017-2020: Quality improvement interventions for improved perinatal care in Nepal (NePeriQIP)
- 2019-Ongoing: Implementing the maternal near-miss tool in the fragile setting of Somaliland
- 2019-Ongoing: Scaling up low-cost technology for improved intrapartum fetal surveillance and neonatal resuscitation in Nepal (SUSTAIN)
- 2019-Ongoing: Norms and values as barriers and enablers for improved global sexual and reproductive health and rights in multiple sub-Saharan African countries
Publications
Selection of publications
- Vital Signs Directed Therapy for the Critically Ill (2020)
- The burden of and factors associated with misclassification of intrapartum stillbirth (2020)
- Effect of a scaled-up neonatal resuscitation quality improvement package on intrapartum-related mortality in Nepal (2019)
- "What about the mother?" (2015)
- Fear, Blame And Transparency (2015)
- Maternal near-miss and death and their association with caesarean section complications (2014)
- Increasing caesarean section rates among low-risk groups (2013)
Recent publications
- 'We did everything by phone' (2024)
- NeuroMotion Smartphone Application for Remote General Movements Assessment (2024)
- Association between delayed cesarean section and severe maternal and adverse newborn outcomes in the Somaliland context (2023)
- Incidence and causes of severe maternal outcomes in Somaliland using the sub‐Saharan Africa maternal near‐miss criteria: A prospective cross‐sectional study in a national referral hospital (2022)
- Effects of a novel weight-loss combination product containing orlistat and acarbose on obesity (2022)
All publications
Articles
- 'We did everything by phone' (2024)
- NeuroMotion Smartphone Application for Remote General Movements Assessment (2024)
- Association between delayed cesarean section and severe maternal and adverse newborn outcomes in the Somaliland context (2023)
- Incidence and causes of severe maternal outcomes in Somaliland using the sub‐Saharan Africa maternal near‐miss criteria: A prospective cross‐sectional study in a national referral hospital (2022)
- Effects of a novel weight-loss combination product containing orlistat and acarbose on obesity (2022)
- Incidence and outcomes of intrapartum-related neonatal encephalopathy in low-income and middle-income countries (2022)
- Gender norms and women’s empowerment as barriers to facility birth (2022)
- Augmentation of labor with oxytocin and its association with delivery outcomes (2021)
- Vital Signs Directed Therapy for the Critically Ill (2020)
- The burden of and factors associated with misclassification of intrapartum stillbirth (2020)
- Disclosing suboptimal indications for emergency caesarean sections due to fetal distress and prolonged labor (2020)
- Low use of vacuum extraction (2020)
- Coverage, associated factors, and impact of companionship during labor (2019)
- Scaling Up Safer Birth Bundle Through Quality Improvement in Nepal (SUSTAIN) - a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial in public hospitals (2019)
- The burden of misclassification of antepartum stillbirth in Nepal (2019)
- Effect of a scaled-up neonatal resuscitation quality improvement package on intrapartum-related mortality in Nepal (2019)
- Scaling up quality improvement intervention for perinatal care in Nepal (NePeriQIP); study protocol of a cluster randomised trial (2017)
- The effects of previous cesarean deliveries on severe maternal and adverse perinatal outcomes at a university hospital in Tanzania (2016)
- Criteria-based audit to improve quality of care of foetal distress (2016)
- "What about the mother?" (2015)
- Fear, Blame And Transparency (2015)
- Maternal near-miss and death and their association with caesarean section complications (2014)
- Increasing caesarean section rates among low-risk groups (2013)
- Female genital mutilation among antenatal care and contraceptive advice attendees in Sweden. (2008)
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