Amie is a midwife and applied health researcher, who has been involved in research to improve maternity care and outcomes for women in low-and middle-income countries during pregnancy and childbearing since 2010.
Prior to joining LSTM in 2024, Amie worked at the University of Birmingham in applied health research on an MRC funded programme on safe caesarean section and physiological birth promotion in Tanzania and India (C-Safe). Amie has also worked on feasibility studies testing innovations (PREPS Trial) and placebo controlled clinical trials in low-and-middle income settings (AIMS Trial). She has a wealth of experience in evidence synthesis, leading Cochrane systematic reviews with both pairwise and network meta-analyses.
Amie registered as a midwife in 2006 and worked at the Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital as a clinical midwife on labour ward and the high-risk antenatal ward until recently.
Amie obtained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2014.
Research
Amie's research focus area is global maternal health. She is interested in improving care and outcomes for women in low-and-middle income countries, with a specific interest in antenatal care. Amie is interested in public health interventions, health inequalities and hard to reach groups such as adolescents and displaced populations.
Amie is committed to developing Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) in LMICs and is the UK lead for the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Stillbirth Prevention and Management in sub-Saharan Africa.
Currently Amie is working on the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Stillbirth Prevention and Management in sub-Saharan Africa. Working with LAMRN partners, she currently leads the implementation of the WHO evidence-based intrapartum guidelines in Zimbabwe. Amie is also working with the LAMRN partners to explore the experiences of CEI members and researchers that have worked together during the units research on stillbirth prevention and bereavement care.
Amie has experience in a wide range of research methodologies and methods; including, systematic reviews and meta-analysis/synthesis, clinical trials (cluster, stepped-wedged, placebo-controlled parallel group RCTs), multi-methods and qualitative research.
Amie is the principal investigator for the Well-being of Women funded C-Why UK, a project to explore whether the C-Why caesarean section classification system be validated for use in a UK setting.
Amie is working with the University of Birmingham on an NIHR funded programme called EPISAFE to create and trial an evidence-based, personalised care bundle specifically designed for pregnant women with epilepsy. Amie is also working with the University of Birmingham on another NIHR RfPB funded project (OPTIMAL) examining the optimal timing of induction of labour to improve maternal and perinatal outcomes: An individual participant data meta-analysis and qualitative evaluation.