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FHSS PhD student Rachel Arnold has been quoted in of one world’s most famous newspapers The New York Times.   Late last week on Dec. 4th The New York Times published an article under the heading ‘Reported Gains in Afghan Maternal Health Are Found to Be Implausible’ [1].  Rachel Arnold was interviewed since her PhD study, based in CMMPH, focuses on maternity care in one of the larger hospitals in the Afghan capital Kabul.  Rachel has also published an excellent paper from her research in Afghanistan in the scientific journal BJOG [2]. Her paper analyses the culture of a Kabul maternity hospital to understand its impact on the care of perinatal women and their babies.  The paper is published in Gold Open Access, hence freely available to audiences across the globe,

Congratulations.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health

References:

1. Nordland. R. ‘Reported Gains in Afghan Maternal Health Are Found to Be Implausible’ The New York Times Dec 4th, 2015, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/world/asia/afghanistan-maternal-mortality-rate.html
2. Arnold R, van Teijlingen E, Ryan K, Holloway I. Understanding Afghan health care providers; a qualitative study of the culture of care in a Kabul maternity hospital. BJOG 2015: 122(2): 260–267.