Professor Joshua Vogel is a perinatal epidemiologist and maternal health researcher. He is Co-Program Director for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He co-heads Burnet’s multi-disciplinary research group on Global Women’s and Newborn’s Health. Prior to Burnet, he worked in WHO’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH), leading maternal health research and guideline development projects.
Joshua’s research focuses on maternal and perinatal health issues of global concern, to improve the quality of healthcare for pregnant women in resource-constrained settings. He has led randomised trials, epidemiological studies and evidence synthesis projects on major causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, particularly pre-eclampsia, preterm birth and postpartum haemorrhage. He has led studies in more than 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific. This includes the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Platform in 10 Asia-Pacific countries, and the PEARLS Trial on pre-eclampsia prediction and prevention.
