Dr Christy Burden
Current positions
Associate Professor in Obstetrics
Bristol Medical School (THS)
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Research interests
Dr Christy Burden is an Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Head of the Academic Women’s Health Unit at the University of Bristol.
She and the team at UoB have published seminal work on virtual reality simulation education and training and more recently research in the area of high risk pregnancies and perinatal loss. This includes publications in the Lancet on psychosocial outcomes after perinatal death.
Her clinical and research interests are in maternal medicine and the management of high risk pregnancies in women with chronic diseases and gestational diabetes.
Christy Burden is also the NIHR Clinical Research Network Lead for Reproductive Health and Childbirth.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Improving Quality of Antenatal Care in Nepal through prioritisation and co-design of interventions: Phase 2 of the Nepal Antenatal Care Network
Principal Investigator
Description
We are aiming to improve antenatal care practice in Nepal. We have previously undertaken research to understand the current quality of antenatal care in Nepal. We will now share these…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
25/01/2021 to 31/07/2021
The Nepal Antenatal Care Network (NANC-Net): A collaboration to build research capacity to improve the quality of Antenatal Care in Nepal.
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
We will launch the Nepal Antenatal Care Network (NANC-Net) to improve antenatal care (ANC) for Nepalese women. The NANC-Net will identify existing interventions to improve ANC, and better understand the…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
12/11/2018 to 31/07/2019
Development of a core outcome set and identification of outcome measurement tools for interventions after stillbirth (International Collaboration for Harmonising Outcomes fOr Stillbirth ResEarch: ICHOOSE)
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Background
A wide range of interventions are offered to parents following the diagnosis of stillbirth. Examples include seeing birthing options, counselling and care in subsequent pregnancies. Many of these interventions have…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Doctoral CollegeDates
01/01/2018 to 31/12/2020
Evaluation of structured simulation-based training in operative vaginal birth
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Stepped-wedge implementation and evaluation of simulation training on maternal and neonatal outcomes following operative vaginal birthManaging organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/01/2017 to 01/04/2018
Development of the BD Odon Device
Principal Investigator
Description
Using simulation technology to inform the design and iterative development of the Bd Odon Device, within a multi-disciplinary teamManaging organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
03/08/2015 to 20/07/2017
Thesis supervisions
Simulation in developing new instruments for operative vaginal birth
Supervisors
Neurological and cardiovascular pathophysiological responses to monochorionic placentation
Supervisors
Development of a core outcome set for stillbirth care research
Supervisors
Prophylactic uterotonic drugs for prevention of postpartum haemorrhage after vaginal birth
Supervisors
A pharmacoepidemiological study of the risks and benefits to mothers and offspring of prescribing drugs during pregnancy
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
07/03/2025A qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators to low-dose aspirin adherence in pregnant women with placental dysfunction risk in the UK
BMJ Open
Defining normal serum creatinine in pregnancy—results from the AKID UK prospective cohort study
Clinical Kidney Journal
Disparities in Stillbirths in England
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Reactive Hypoglycaemia at Glucose Tolerance Test—Another Presentation of Gestational Diabetes
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
What Do Antenatal Women Want From Their Antenatal Education?
Maternal and Child Health Journal
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