Dr Meghan Bohren

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

Meghan Bohren's selected work

Interventions To Reduce Discrimination And Bias In Healthcare Settings

Research Contracts

Where are all the missing girls?

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Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: a qualitative evidence synthesis

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Giving Mums A Fair Go: Culturally-Responsive Care For Refugees And Migrants

Research Grant

Many of the world’s women are mistreated during childbirth

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 52 most recent scholarly works by Meghan Bohren.

Lessons learned through respectful maternity care training and its implementation in Ethiopia: an interventional mixed methods study

Anteneh Asefa, Alison Morgan, Meghan A Bohren, Michelle Kermode

Journal article | 2020 | Reproductive Health

A qualitative study on acceptability of the mistreatment of women during childbirth in Myanmar

Thae Maung Maung, Kyaw Lwin Show, Nwe Oo Mon, Oezge Tuncalp, Nyein Su Aye, Yin Yin Soe, Meghan A Bohren

Journal article | 2020 | Reproductive Health

BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of maternal health care is critical to reduce mortality and improve women's experiences. Mistrea..

Transforming intrapartum care: Respectful maternity care.

Meghan A Bohren, Özge Tunçalp, Suellen Miller

Journal article | 2020 | Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Respectful maternity care is recommended by the World Health Organization and refers to care that maintains dignity, privacy, conf..

Optimising the use of caesarean section: a generic formative research protocol for implementation preparation

Meghan A Bohren, Newton Opiyo, Carol Kingdon, Soo Downe, Ana Pilar Betran

Journal article | 2019 | REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Caesarean section rates are rising across all geographical regions. Very high rates for some groups of women co-occur ..

How women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: a cross-sectional study with labour observations and community-based surveys

Meghan A Bohren, Hedieh Mehrtash, Bukola Fawole, Thae Maung Maung, Mamadou Dioulde Balde, Ernest Maya, Soe Soe Thwin, Adeniyi K Aderoba, Joshua P Vogel, Theresa Azonima Irinyenikan, A Olusoji Adeyanju, Nwe Oo Mon, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Sihem Landoulsi, Chris Guure, Richard Adanu, Boubacar Alpha Diallo, A Metin Gulmezoglu, Anne-Marie Soumah, Alpha Oumar Sall, et al.

Journal article | 2019 | The Lancet

BACKGROUND: Women across the world are mistreated during childbirth. We aimed to develop and implement evidence-informed, validate..

When the patient is the expert: measuring patient experience and satisfaction with care

Elysia Larson, Jigyasa Sharma, Meghan A Bohren, Ozge Tuncalp

Journal article | 2019 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Gender balance in WHO panels for guidelines published from 2008 to 2018

Meghan A Bohren, Dena Javadi, Joshua P Vogel

Journal article | 2019 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Women's perspectives on health facility and system levels factors influencing mode of delivery in Tehran: a qualitative study

Mahboube Shirzad, Elham Shakibazadeh, Ana Pilar Betran, Meghan A Bohren, Mehrandokht Abedini

Journal article | 2019 | Reproductive Health

Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Meghan A Bohren, Blair O Berger, Heather Munthe-Kaas, Ozge Tuncalp

Journal article | 2019 | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Methodological development of tools to measure how women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: labor observation and community survey

Meghan A Bohren, Joshua P Vogel, Bukola Fawole, Ernest T Maya, Thae Maung Maung, Mamadou Dioulde Balde, Agnes A Oyeniran, Modupe Ogunlade, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Nwe Oo Mon, Boubacar Alpha Diallo, Abou Bangoura, Richard Adanu, Sihem Landoulsi, A Metin Gulmezoglu, Ozge Tuncalp

Journal article | 2018 | BMC Medical Research Methodology

Prevalence of and reasons for women's, family members', and health professionals' preferences for cesarean section in China: A mixed-methods systematic review

Qian Long, Carol Kingdon, Fan Yang, Michael Dominic Renecle, Shayesteh Jahanfar, Meghan A Bohren, Ana Pilar Betran

Journal article | 2018 | PLOS Medicine

Respectful care during childbirth in health facilities globally: a qualitative evidence synthesis

E Shakibazadeh, M Namadian, MA Bohren, JP Vogel, A Rashidian, V Nogueira Pileggi, S Madeira, S Leathersich, Oe Tuncalp, OT Oladapo, JP Souza, AM Guelmezoglu

Journal article | 2018 | Bjog

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Elham Shakibazadeh, Meghan A Bohren, Joshual P Vogel, Ahmet Metin Gulmezoglu

Journal article | 2018 | BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 4: how to assess coherence

Christopher J Colvin, Ruth Garside, Megan Wainwright, Heather Munthe-Kaas, Claire Glenton, Meghan A Bohren, Benedicte Carlsen, Ozge Tuncalp, Jane Noyes, Andrew Booth, Arash Rashidian, Signe Flottorp, Simon Lewin

Journal article | 2018 | Implement Sci

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 2: how to make an overall CERQual assessment of confidence and create a Summary of Qualitative Findings table

Simon Lewin, Meghan Bohren, Arash Rashidian, Heather Munthe-Kaas, Claire Glenton, Christopher J Colvin, Ruth Garside, Jane Noyes, Andrew Booth, Ozge Tuncalp, Megan Wainwright, Signe Flottorp, Joseph D Tucker, Benedicte Carlsen

Journal article | 2018 | Implement Sci

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 5: how to assess adequacy of data

Claire Glenton, Benedicte Carlsen, Simon Lewin, Heather Munthe-Kaas, Christopher J Colvin, Ozge Tuncalp, Meghan A Bohren, Jane Noyes, Andrew Booth, Ruth Garside, Arash Rashidian, Signe Flottorp, Megan Wainwright

Journal article | 2018 | Implement Sci

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 3: how to assess methodological limitations

Heather Munthe-Kaas, Meghan A Bohren, Claire Glenton, Simon Lewin, Jane Noyes, Ozge Tuncalp, Andrew Booth, Ruth Garside, Christopher J Colvin, Megan Wainwright, Arash Rashidian, Signe Flottorp, Benedicte Carlsen

Journal article | 2018 | Implement Sci

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series

Simon Lewin, Andrew Booth, Claire Glenton, Heather Munthe-Kaas, Arash Rashidian, Megan Wainwright, Meghan A Bohren, Ozge Tuncalp, Christopher J Colvin, Ruth Garside, Benedicte Carlsen, Etienne V Langlois, Jane Noyes

Journal article | 2018 | Implement Sci

Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings-paper 6: how to assess relevance of the data

Jane Noyes, Andrew Booth, Simon Lewin, Benedicte Carlsen, Claire Glenton, Christopher J Colvin, Ruth Garside, Meghan A Bohren, Arash Rashidian, Megan Wainwright, Ozge Tuncalp, Jacqueline Chandler, Signe Flottorp, Tomas Pantoja, Joseph D Tucker, Heather Munthe-Kaas

Journal article | 2018 | Implement Sci

WHO Recommendations: Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience

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Report | 2018

Women's perspectives of mistreatment during childbirth at health facilities in Ghana: findings from a qualitative study

Ernest T Maya, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke, Caroline Badzi, Joshua P Vogel, Meghan A Bohren, Richard Adanu

Journal article | 2018 | Reproductive Health Matters

Progression of the first stage of spontaneous labour: A prospective cohort study in two sub-Saharan African countries

Olufemi T Oladapo, Joao Paulo Souza, Bukola Fawole, Kidza Mugerwa, Gleici Perdona, Domingos Alves, Hayala Souza, Rodrigo Reis, Livia Oliveira-Ciabati, Alexandre Maiorano, Adesina Akintan, Francis E Alu, Lawal Oyeneyin, Amos Adebayo, Josaphat Byamugisha, Miriam Nakalembe, Hadiza A Idris, Ola Okike, Fernando Althabe, Vanora Hundley, et al.

Journal article | 2018 | PLoS Med

The communication and emotional support needs to improve women's experience of childbirth care in health facilities in Southwest Nigeria: A qualitative study

Olubunmi A Ojelade, Musibau A Titiloye, Meghan A Bohren, Akinpelu O Olutayo, Adebimpe A Olalere, Adesina Akintan, Olufemi T Oladapo, Bukola Fawole