Meghan Bohren is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Women’s Health in the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She currently leads research projects working to improve women’s experiences with pregnancy and childbirth care in low- and middle-income countries.
This includes primary mixed-methods research on the mistreatment of women during childbirth and respectful maternity care in Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea and Myanmar, and implementation research promoting labor companionship and reducing unnecessary caesarean section in Thailand and Myanmar. Meghan is also an Associate Editor with Cochrane’s Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) review group, where she focuses on systematic reviews impacting populations and systems in low- and middle-income countries, and methodological research related to qualitative evidence syntheses. She is also a co-coordinator of the CERQual (Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative Research) coordinating group. Meghan teaches post-graduate courses on Gender and Health, and Health Inequalities. Prior to coming to University of Melbourne, Meghan worked as a researcher at the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Reproductive Health and Research (Switzerland), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (USA), University of Medical Sciences and Technology (Sudan), and Population Services International (USA). She has led and collaborated on research projects in Sudan, Ghana, Guinea, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, India, Myanmar, Thailand and USA.
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FEATURED Journal article
How women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: a cross-sectional study with labour observations and community-based surveys
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Monitoring and evaluation of the Multicultural Affairs and Social Cohesion Division Family..
Research Contracts
Where are all the missing girls?
NEWS ARTICLE
Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Journal article
GIVING MUMS A FAIR GO: CULTURALLY-RESPONSIVE CARE FOR REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS
Research Grant
Many of the world’s women are mistreated during childbirth
NEWS ARTICLE
Continuous support for women during childbirth
Journal article
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Projects
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Project Types
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Research Contracts
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Internal Research Grant
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Research Grant
Additional Information
Implementing companion of choice during labour and childbirth and Robson classification, awarded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 2019; Reaching full potential - Identifying Effective Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for young people in Australia, awarded by Economic and Social Participation Research Initiative Hallmark Seed Funding Scheme 2018; Better Outcomes in Labour Difficulty (BOLD), awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2013-2017; How women are treated during facility-based childbirth in 4 countries, awarded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 2013-2019
Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Senior Research Fellow - Gender & Women’S Health
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
Doctor of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
Masters of Science in Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Arts
College of William & Mary