Name: SECS Research Seminar - Dr Sarah Neal 'Very early adolescent motherhood in low and middle-income countries'
Start: 2018-05-02T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-05-02T14:30:00+01:00
Location: St George's Building - Room SG 1.12

SECS Research Seminar - Dr Sarah Neal  'Very early adolescent motherhood in low and middle-income countries'

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Title: Very early adolescent motherhood in low and middle-income countries
Dr Sarah Neal, Lecturer in Global Health, Centre for Global Health, Poverty, Population and Policy (GHP3)
It is well recognised that adolescent motherhood poses a significant risk to the health and future opportunities of both mother and child. However, despite estimates that up to two million women each year have their first birth before they are 16 years old, we know little of the specific characteristics of this particularly vulnerable group and the disadvantages they face. Data on adolescent pregnancy is rarely disaggregated by age, and often indicators only refer to ages 15-19 years. Very early adolescent childbearing is therefore a largely hidden problem which is rarely addressed through policy or programmes.  
This presentation will bring together and present a body of work which aims to increase our understanding of these births to very young mothers.  I will examine trends in early adolescent births in low- and middle-income countries, before discussing the characteristics of these very young mothers and how they differ from those who give birth in later adolescence.  I will also present work looking at newborn outcomes for adolescent births, and discuss evidence that the increased risk in mortality is concentrated among those infants born to the youngest mothers. 
Dr Sarah Neal - Biography
Sarah Neal originally trained and worked as a nurse before studying social policy and social research at the Universities of Bristol and Bath.  She has worked on a number of public health programmes in developing countries (and particularly in fragile states), and also spent time as a UK-based adviser with DFID.  She completed a PhD on the determinants of neonatal mortality in developing countries at Southampton University in 2009 and following this held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to examine the determinants and outcomes of very early adolescent motherhood in low and middle income countries.  She is currently a lecturer in Global Health, and Director of the Global Health MSc Programme.
Her interests include maternal and child health, adolescent reproductive health (with a particular focus on very early adolescent pregnancy), measuring inequities in health and health care in fragile states.

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