Call for papers - Effects of climate change on obstetrics and perinatal medicine

Guest Editors:
Jewel Gausman, ScD, MHS, Guttmacher Institute, United States
Ambrogio P. Londero, PhD, MS, University of Genoa, Italy

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 12 July 2024

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is calling for submissions to our Collection on 'Effects of climate change on obstetrics and perinatal medicine'.

This collection aims to bring together research that investigates the impacts of climate change on maternal health and perinatal care. Climate change is a global phenomenon with far-reaching consequences, touching most aspects of human life. The field of obstetrics and perinatal medicine is no exception, as emerging evidence suggests that climate change can significantly influence maternal health, perinatal outcomes, and the practice of obstetric care in a variety of ways. Climate-related events such as heatwaves and wildfire smoke can directly affect maternal health and outcomes while events such as flooding and drought-related displacement can affect provision of and access to perinatal care.

New Content Item This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being and SDG 13: Climate Action.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Jewel Gausman, ScD, MHS, Guttmacher Institute, United States

Jewel Gausman, ScD, MHS, is a social epidemiologist who focuses on applying cross-disciplinary qualitative and quantitative methodologies to understand the social and structural drivers of disparities in global maternal and child health. Dr Gausman is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Women & Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she also received her ScD in social epidemiology. In addition, she holds a MHS in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Jordan School of Nursing in the Maternal and Child Health Nursing Department.

Ambrogio P. Londero, PhD, MS, University of Genoa, Italy

Dr Ambriogio is a PhD holder, Research Associate at the University of Genoa, and Obstetrics and Gynecology consultant at IRCCS Institute Giannina Gaslini (Genoa). His research interests include fetal growth, obstetrics, and feto-maternal medicine. Dr Londero has also gained a second master's degree in medical and genomic statistics. He is a member of many relevant professional organizations and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals. He has also published book chapters and a number of conference abstracts referring to women’s health and cancer.

About the Collection

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is calling for submissions to our Collection on 'Effects of climate change on obstetrics and perinatal medicine'. This collection aims to bring together research that investigates the impacts of climate change on maternal health and perinatal care.

Climate change is a global phenomenon with far-reaching consequences, touching most aspects of human life. The field of obstetrics and perinatal medicine is no exception, as emerging evidence suggests that climate change can significantly influence maternal health, perinatal outcomes, and the practice of obstetric care in a variety of ways. Climate-related events such as heatwaves and wildfire smoke can directly affect maternal health and outcomes while events such as flooding and drought-related displacement can affect provision of and access to perinatal care.

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is launching a new Collection, ‘Effects of climate change on obstetrics and perinatal medicine’, to bring together research that investigates the impacts of climate change on maternal health and perinatal care. The collection invites researchers and clinicians in fields including obstetrics and midwifery, maternal health, environmental science, and public health to contribute research submissions that explore topics including, but not limited to, correlations between environmental factors and obstetric outcomes, changes to perinatal care due to climate change, psychological effects of climate-related stressors during pregnancy, climate change's effects on global disparities and vulnerable populations, and innovative interventions and technologies mitigating the adverse effects of climate change in perinatal care and obstetrics.

This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being and SDG 13: Climate Action.

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Effects of climate change on obstetrics and perinatal medicine" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.