Dr Stephanie Dellicour

Biography

Stephanie Dellicour is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), specialising in advancing methodologies for assessing the benefits and risks of therapeutics during pregnancy, particularly in resource-limited settings. With 20 years of experience in epidemiology, pharmacovigilance, and global health research, her work aims to strengthen evidence for informed policy decisions, ensuring that pregnant patients and healthcare providers have access to critical information for decision-making. Her work is guided by four years as a visiting scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in western Kenya, as well as previous roles in the pharmaceutical industry and the UK drug regulatory agency.

Stephanie leads the Malaria in Mothers and Babies Pregnancy Exposure Registry, an international collaboration and multicentre active surveillance project designed to evaluate the safety of antimalarials during pregnancy. She is also the project lead for the SAFIRE consortium at LSTM, which involves the first adaptive platform trial designed to assess malaria treatments during the first trimester of pregnancy in Africa.

Research interests

Stephanie’s research focuses on the safety assessment of medications used during pregnancy, with a particular emphasis on antimalarial treatments in resource-limited settings. She has led evidence-synthesis efforts on artemisinin-based therapies in early pregnancy to inform World Health Organisation treatment guidelines. Her work in pharmacoepidemiology bridges the gap between clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and public health policy implementation.

Key areas of her research include, developing and implementing observational studies to monitor medication safety in pregnancy, investigating the burden and impact of malaria infection during pregnancy, evaluating healthcare provider adherence to malaria treatment guidelines for pregnant patients, and novel trial approaches for ethical and safe inclusion of pregnant participants.

Teaching

Stephanie contributes to teaching on the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Systems course, pharmacovigilance and quantitative research methods. She currently supervises three PhD students and multiple MSc students. Her supervision interests include: pharmacoepidemiology and perinatal epidemiology, novel methodologies for monitoring medication safety in pregnancy in resource-limited settings, implementation science approaches to improve maternal health services, mixed-methods evaluation of healthcare provider practices in malaria-endemic regions, and evidence synthesis for policy development in global health.

Selected research publications

Missed opportunities for digital health data use in healthcare decision-making: A cross-sectional digital health landscape assessment in Homa Bay county, Kenya – Journal: PLOS Digital Health – Published: 13th June 2025

Perceptions and drivers of healthcare provider and drug dispenser practices for the treatment of malaria in pregnancy in the context of multiple first-line therapies in western Kenya: a qualitative study – Journal: Malaria Journal – Published: 14th September 2023

Healthcare provider and drug dispenser knowledge and adherence to guidelines for the case management of malaria in pregnancy in the context of multiple first-line artemisinin-based combination therapy in western Kenya – Journal: Malaria Journal – Published: 8th September 2023

Global estimates of the number of pregnancies at risk of malaria
from 2007 to 2020: a demographic study – Journal: The Lancet Global Health – Published: 1st January 2023

Pregnancy outcomes after first-trimester treatment with artemisinin
derivatives versus non-artemisinin antimalarials: A systematic review
and individual patient data meta-analysis – Journal: The Lancet – Published: 25th November 2022

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