The National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) is a multidisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford. Our work involves running randomised con

James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships help decide what health questions most need research.

Baroness Amos is asking women and families across England to share their experiences of maternity and neonatal care through a public Call for Evidence.

Objective To assess the associations of early life exposures with school readiness.Design, setting, main outcome measure and participants Using data from the Born in Bradford (BiB) birth cohort, we in...

I like a good acronym, so my initial response to the new TORPIDO trial was very positive! TORPIDO 30/60 was a large multicentre RCT comparing initial FiO2 concentrations for resuscitation of the preterm infant (Oei JL, et al. Targeted Oxygen for Initial Resuscitation of Preterm Infants: The TORPIDO 30/60 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. United States2025). The first TORPIDO study (Targeted Oxygen in the Resuscitation of Preterm Infants and their Developmental Outcomes) was a comparison in 290 infants <32 weeks GA, of 21% starting O2 concentration vs 100% starting concentration (

The inaugural meeting of our Research Network shares LGBTQIA+ perinatal health research priorities

Objective To investigate whether perinatal care delivery in England and Wales varies by ethnicity and socio-economic deprivation, using National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) measures.Design Retrosp...

Dangerous misinformation over an M&S 'trans' bra fitting story is spreading online; here's what we actually know.

Aim Analyse the association of markers of metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) with different clinical approaches to MBDP prevention and management. Methods Four-part cohort study in a ter...

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Comparison of Fenton, Olsen, and WHO growth charts and observations on the interpretation of small, large, preterm, and term.

Co-producing better maternity care with and for Black, African, Caribbean, and mixed-Black families—grounded in lived experience, advocacy, and research.

It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life