Please join us (on-line) on Wednesday the 17th January at 7pm until 8pm to hear from three fabulous speakers on the topic of Air Pollution and pregnancy (Details and Biographies below).
Please register to attend using this link. (Apologies, but the talk details are currently incorrect and will be corrected soon - this will not affect registration and the correct talk details are below)
- Miss Ranee Thakar MD FRCOG President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Title: 'Air pollution and Women's Health - RCOG initiatives to educate, lobby, and advocate on the adverse impacts of air pollution on reproductive health outcomes'.
- Dr Mark Miller and Miss Rosemary Townsend,
Title: 'Air Pollution and Maternal Health'.
- Dr Amy Manning, Obstetrics and gynaecology speciality trainee in the North East of England.
Title: “Talking about air pollution with patients”
Speaker Biographies:
Miss Ranee Thakar Biography:
Miss Ranee Thakar MD FRCOG is the President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist at Croydon University Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer, St George’s University of London.
Before taking up her role as President at the RCOG, she was Senior Vice President for Global Health from 2019-2022, overseeing the RCOG’s programmes to improve the health of women and girls globally. Ranee also has an impressive academic profile, with over 200 publications and has made a significant contribution to improving perineal trauma outcomes by training obstetricians and midwives to provide safer maternity care for women globally, and leads the national obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASI) Care Bundle Project.
One of Ranee’s top three priorities as president is to work with the RCOG’s membership to bring about meaningful change in response to the climate crisis, particularly around making care more sustainable. Having played a leading role in the RCOG’s ongoing response to racial inequalities in the specialty, Ranee also recognises the importance of responding to the intersections between health inequity and the climate crisis.
Mark Miller Biography:
Mark Miller is a Reader (Senior Research Scientist) working in the Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the British Heart Foundation. Mark’s research investigates the health effects of air pollution, particularly the biology underlying how particles in vehicle exhaust can affect the cardiovascular system.
Mark is a member of the World Heart Federation Air Pollution Expert Group and an Expert Member of COMEAP, the UK governmental advisory Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution. His work was highlighted as a case study in the UK Clean Air Strategy 2019, and contributed to the 2021 World Health Organisation Global Air Quality Guidelines.
Dr Amy Manning Biography:
Obstetrics and gynaecology speciality trainee in the North East of England. Co-lead for the CSH women’s health network. An advocate for active transport and clean air for all.
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