Arri leads the Maternal Health workstream and oversees research teams trying to understand and stop miscarriages and deaths during childbirth. Arri is Director of the Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research, and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health . 

Arri is working to improve miscarriage care and runs EMOTIVE, a global clinical trial  to prevent deaths in childbirth caused by excessive bleeding (post-partum haemorrhage).  

Christian leads our workstream on Barriers Within and Into Work. His research mainly considers employment outcomes, educational mismatch, firm productivity, and health and wellbeing in developing countries. His research also looks at intergenerational transmission of inequality, and gender effects on human capital development. Christian is contributing to a new project to explore minority ethnic doctors' career transitions in medicine across the life course.

Adam has recently become co-lead for our Maternal Health work stream and is a Lecturer of Maternal Health Clinical Trials, Deputy Director of the Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research (Birmingham) and part of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health. Adam works on a range of conditions, but focusses on miscarriage and is campaigning for changes in women’s care. You can also follow the work of the Tommy’s Centre on Twitter.

Louise recently joined the theme as joint lead for the Sexual and Reproductive Rights work stream. She is an expert in economic evaluation and methodological research and is particularly interested in research which focuses on sexual health, public health and women’s health. Louise is based in the Institute of Applied Health Research and works across a range of projects that address issues including STIs, sexual assault referral centres, and smoking cessation during pregnancy.

Atina works on human rights law in health and biomedicine and co-leads the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights workstream. She is interested in how the international community manages health challenges and scientific progress. Her gender inequality work  focuses on assisted reproduction and abortion, particularly  the notion of invisible subjects, acquiring visibility through law, and the socio-legal factors contributing to the process of visibilisation. 

James joined as the lead for our workstream on Qualitative Approaches to Understanding Gender Inequality in 2022 and is interested in using forensic economics methodologies to explore "hard to see" aspects of gender inequality. For example, using large, global datasets to estimate the vast impact of un and under employment of women. James has also been involved in projects on sexual violence during COVID-19 social restrictions and global gender pay inequality.