Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive, and Child Health (MARCH Centre)

The MARCH Centre strengthens and promotes innovation, evaluation and evidence-based policy making by fostering communication and collaboration inside and outside the School and between researchers and policy makers, across a range of settings in over 100 countries and multiple disciplines including: Description: observational epidemiology, high-quality national and global estimates and social science theory and analyses are the foundation for linking data to action. Discovery: understanding infections, genetic and epigenetic risks, and delineating risks for adverse outcomes especially during the two crucial windows of pregnancy and the first two years after birth, and adolescence. Development: innovations in diagnostics, devices and strategies, for example to improve quality of care. Delivery: a major strength is in intervention and health systems research, with economic and policy analysis.