Publications & Reports

GAPPS Team Members in Publication

For a list of publications published by members of our team click on their name below.

    Fernando Barros, MD, PhD
    Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH
    Zulfiqar Bhutta, MBBS, FRCP, FRCPCH, FCPS, PhD
    Michael Gravett, MD
    Thomas N.Hansen, MD
    Maureen Kelley, PhD
    Joy Lawn, BMedSci, MB BS, MRCP (Paeds), MPH
    Eve Lackritz, MD
    Craig E. Rubens, MD, PhD
    Cynthia Stanton, PhD, MPH
    Cesar G. Victora, MD, PhD

PubMed Abstracts for Related Topics
For lists of publication abstracts on PubMed for related topics click on the search term below. Keyword searches are those used in Article 3 of the Global Report on Preterm Birth and Stillbirth.

• Stillbirth
• Perinatal Mortality
• Fetal Death
• Preterm Birth
• Low Birth Weight and Low Birthweight

Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth
GAPPS Executive Director Dr. Craig Rubens and Senior Program Officer Dr. Eve Lackrtiz contributed to this report highlighting the first-ever national, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth.
Download the report (pdf, 5.9 MB).

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
In the February 2012 issue of AJOG, GAPPS Scientific Director Dr. Michael Gravett contributed to a series of articles on classifying and defining the preterm birth syndrome:

The preterm birth syndrome: a prototype phenotypic classification
Challenges in defining and classifying the preterm birth syndrome
The preterm birth syndrome: issues to consider in creating a classification system

The Lancet Series
Authored by an international team, The Lancet series was orchestrated under the leadership of a GAPPS collaborative investigator, Dr. Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa; and Dr. Vicki Flenady, Mater Medical Research Institute and University of Queensland, Australia.

To read the articles, follow the links below:
The Lancet Series Paper 1: Stillbirths: Why They Matter
The Lancet Series Paper 2: Stillbirths: Where, When, Why?
The Lancet Series Paper 3, Stillbirths: What Can We Do at What Cost?
The Lancet Series Paper 4, Stillbirths: How Can Health Systems Deliver?
The Lancet Series Paper 5, Stillbirths: High-Income Countries
The Lancet Series Paper 6, Stillbirths: The Vision for 2020

Reports

Featured Report: Seattle Children’s Academic Annual Report
Faculty at Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington School of Medicine are working to discover the cures of tomorrow. Read how these doctors and researchers are improving the practice of pediatric medicine.

Preterm Birth & Stillbirth
• Global report on preterm birth & stillbirth: the foundation for innovative solutions and improved outcomes

• Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention

• Silent loss and the clinical encounter: Parents’ and physicians’ experiences of stillbirth–a qualitative analysis

• A framework for strategic investments in research to reduce the global burden of preterm birth

• Preventing preterm births: analysis of trends and potential reductions with interventions in 39 countries with very high human development index