Closing the Gap – Inequalities in Neonatal Outcomes

Socioeconomic inequalities in infant mortality exist in many developed countries despite improvements in overall mortality. Countries have varying strategies to reduce these inequalities but the landscape is complex. Public health interventions targeting major potentially modifiable risk factors for mortality are essential.

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• Professor Karen Luyt

  Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Neonatal Medicine

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  Professor Karen Luyt

  Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Neonatal Medicine St Michaels Hospital and University of Bristol

  Role and Location

  Consultant Neonatologist, St Michaels Hospital and Professor of Neonatal Medicine, University of Bristol

  Education

  Karen Luyt read medicine in South Africa and received a CCST in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) in the UK in 2004. She was awarded a Walport Senior Lectureship in 2009 and holds a tenured clinical-academic position in Neonatal Medicine at the University of Bristol. She works as a clinical neonatologist in the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care unit at St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol, with special interests in brain injury, neuro-intensive care and improving health outcomes in high-risk infants.

  Research Interests

  Professor Luyt’s laboratory-based research has focused on mechanisms of brain injury and regeneration in the newborn central nervous system. Her translational clinical research concerns evaluation and implementation of evidence-based interventions to reduce neuro-disability and mortality in newborns.

  Chief Investigator for:
  – School age outcomes of the DRIFT (Drainage, Irrigation, and Fibrinolytic Therapy) Trial (NIHR funded). Functional outcome and brain imaging in children who received DRIFT for post haemorrhagic ventricular dilatation.
  – PReCePT (Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in Preterm Labour) Study – National cluster randomised controlled trial (Health Foundation funded).
  She is lead for neonatal mortality review for University Hospital Bristol since 2010 and the academic lead for child death review (University of Bristol) since 2014.

  Memberships

  Bristol Medical School (THS)
  Bristol Poverty Institute
  Bristol Population Health Science Institute
  Bristol Neuroscience