Safe in
Pregnancy

There is an urgent need to link active safety surveillance of novel interventions in pregnancy to existing routine maternal, neonatal, and child health data collection systems.

 

Ongoing
Project

We will define the landscape for integrated maternal immunization active safety surveillance by reviewing the literature, building consensus among experts, and identifying potential sentinel sites in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our goal is to have sites ready for deployment of an integrated active safety surveillance system for introducing novel interventions in pregnancy, including novel maternal vaccines.

 

Steering
Committee

Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
W.H. Watkins Professor of Epidemiology
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Fernando Althabe, MD, MSc
Medical Officer, Maternal and Perinatal and Preventing Unsafe Abortion Team
World Health Organization
(observer)

Amanda "Mabel" Berrueta, MD
Researcher, Department of Mother and Child Health Research
Instituto de Efectividad Clínica Sanitaria

Andy Stergachis, PhD
Director, Global Medicines Program
University of Washington

Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen, MD, MSc
Global Head of Maternal Immunization
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(observer)

 

Advisory
Board

Judith Absalon, MD, MPH, FIDSA
Vaccine Research & Development, Pfizer, Inc.

Steve Anderson, PhD, MPP
Director, Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
U.S. Food & Drug Administration

Christine Guillard, MD
World Health Organization
(observer)

Elizabeth McClure, PhD
Senior Research Epidemiologist
Social, Statistical, and Environmental Health Sciences
RTI International

Flor M. Munoz, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Portia Mutevedzi, PhD
Senior Epidemiologist
SA-MRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA)

Kissa W. Mwamwitwa-Mbwana
Tanzania Medicines and Medical Devices Authority (TMDA)

Annettee Nakimuli, MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine
Makerere University College of Health Sciences

Jennifer Clark Nelson, PhD
Senior Investigator and Director of Biostatistics
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Lisa Noguchi, PhD, CNM
Director, Maternal and Newborn Health
Jhpiego

Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, MD
Immunization Safety Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Esperanca Sevene, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiological Science, Clinical Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)

 

Resources

Maternal interventions vigilance harmonization in low- and middle-income countries: Stakeholder meeting report; Amsterdam, May 1–2, 2018
Mapping the landscape of global programmes to evaluate health interventions in pregnancy: the need for harmonised approaches, standards and tools
Maternal Immunization Safety Monitoring in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Roadmap for Program Development
Maternal and neonatal data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries: scoping review protocol
Advisory Board Technical Consultation for COVAX Maternal Immunization Work Group: Maternal Immunization Post-Licensure Safety Needs for Pregnant Women and their Infants
Maternal and neonatal data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries for maternal vaccines active safety surveillance systems: A scoping review
COVID-19 and pregnancy: An umbrella review of clinical presentation, vertical transmission, and maternal and perinatal outcomes
Safety of COVID-19 vaccines, their components or their platforms for pregnant women: A rapid review
(PREPRINT)
Using maternal and neonatal data collection systems for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines active safety surveillance in low- and middle-income countries: an international modified Delphi study
 

Contact Us

Andrea Meyer
Director of Global Health Research
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
ameyer1@tulane.edu

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation