Roseanna Metcalfe (2022, 2026)
Charles Ameh (2022, 2026)
Helen Allott (2022, 2026)
Dr Roseanna Metcalfe MBChB DRH MRCOG
Roseanna Metcalfe is a consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the West of Scotland. She specialises in high-risk obstetrics and care of women with social complexity who may experience barriers in accessing care. She has a Diploma in Reproductive Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Dr Charles Ameh PhD MPH FWACS (OBGYN) DRH
Dr Ameh is a Reader in Global Health, co-Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Maternal and Newborn Health, and Deputy Head of the International Public Health Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. A graduate from the Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, where he completed his medical degree and postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dr Ameh is a member of the WHO Maternal, Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response Technical Working Group, the Africa CDC Covid-19 task force, and the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Maternal Mortality and Maternal Cause of Death Estimation. He is an implementation science researcher with an established international reputation in emergency obstetric care capacity strengthening (undergraduate and postgraduate), obstetric Early Warning Systems, MNH quality of care including maternal, perinatal death surveillance, and response and health system strengthening in low-income countries. He has substantial online teaching expertise and has published considerably in the field of global maternal health. He is an adjunct faculty at the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nairobi, external examiner to MoI University Kenya and the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Charles is also on the editorial board of several leading global public health journals. He has trained health workers in emergency obstetric care training including assisted vaginal births in over 15 counties in Africa and Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Togo, Chad, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ethiopia, Somaliland, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
Dr Helen Allott MBE MSc FRCOG
Dr Allott is an Honorary Senior Specialist at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). She graduated in Medicine from Sheffield University, and after completing specialist training worked as a Consultant Obstetrician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital for 22 years, where she was also a Foundation Programme Training Director for 10 years. She obtained an MSc in Global Health and Development at UCL and has been chairperson of trustees for Kisiizi Partners, an NGO supporting healthcare in Uganda, since 2000. In the NHS, her areas of interest were labour ward management, and interventions to support women suffering the after-effects of traumatic birth and bereavement. At LSTM she has developed training programmes for various cadres of in-service maternal health workers in low-resource countries, ranging from auxiliary nurse-midwives to obstetricians and anaesthetists. Her main areas of interest involve improving the quality of care and decreasing morbidity and mortality for women undergoing operative birth procedures, through training and mentorship, and understanding barriers and enablers involved in converting learning into clinical practice change. Dr Allott has worked in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, India and Cambodia since joining the School.
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