Dr Subha Sri Balakrishnan
Expertise: End-user and women's representative | None declared | None |
Ms Beverly Chambers
Expertise: Women's representative | None declared | None |
Dr Maria Laura Costa
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Professor Malik Goonewardene
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Ms Sonja Henderson
Expertise: Methodologist | None declared | None |
Dr Julia Hussein
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | Research grants, consultancies and travel expenses for meetings from private non-profit organizations, including MacArthur Foundation and PATH, amounting to approx. $600,000 from 2009 to 2013. | Research grants covered maternal health service research for leading causes of maternal death and morbidity in general, and not specific to maternal sepsis. Her research interests were not considered to conflict with her interests in this guideline development. |
Ms Chowa Kasengele
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | Consultancies for Jhpiego to train health workers on elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission and mentorship of nursing staff in family planning in Zambia. | The declared interests were not considered relevant to this guideline. |
Professor Pisake Lumbiganon
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | Co-author of five Cochrane systematic reviews used in this guideline. | The declared academic conflict was not considered significant enough to affect GDG membership or participation in the technical consultation. Nevertheless, Professor Lumbiganon was restricted from participating in the discussions and formulation of recommendations related to the Cochrane reviews that he co-authored. |
Professor Ashraf Nabhan
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Professor Ruta Nadisauskiene
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Professor James Neilson
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Dr Alfred Osoti
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Professor Xu Qian
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Professor Haroon Saloojee
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
Dr Jeffrey Smith
Expertise: Content expert and implementer | Employee of Jhpiego, which works to promote quality of care and reduction of maternal and newborn mortality. Receives a salary from Jhpiego and programme support from USAID and other donors for research and programmatic work in the area of quality of care. Amount of USAID support for the Maternal and Child Survival Program is approximately $50 million for all areas in 2015. | His organizational and personal conflicts of interests were not considered significant enough to pose any risk to the guideline development process or reduce its credibility. Dr Smith, through support from Jhpiego and USAID, has been a key partner in promoting and implementing all published WHO guidelines relating to maternal and newborn health since the late 1990s. |
Professor Adewale Sule-Odu
Expertise: Content expert and end-user | None declared | None |
