Melissa Medvedev, MD, PhD

Melissa Medvedev
Faculty Director, Academic Senate
Medicine
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Dr. Melissa Medvedev (Morgan) is a physician-scientist with a background in clinical research, global health, and health technology innovation. Her research focuses on evaluating interventions to promote survival and prevent disability in mothers, neonates, and children. She co-led the OMWaNA trial, which compared the effectiveness, safety, costs, and cost-effectiveness of kangaroo mother care initiated before stabilization vs. standard care among neonates weighing 2000g or less at five hospitals in Uganda. She is a co-investigator on the VIVANT study, a RCT evaluating whether oral azithromycin improves growth and infectious morbidity in low birthweight and underweight neonates across 45 health facilities in Burkina Faso.

Dr. Medvedev is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Nature/npj Women's Health. She is a member of the WHO/ UNICEF Every Newborn Measurement Improvement KMC Working Group, the UNICEF/NEST360 Target Product Profiles Working Group, the NEST360 Education and COVID-19 Working Groups, and the COVID-19 Small and Sick Newborn Care Collaborative Group (in partnership with WHO, UNICEF, and NEST360). She previously served as an Associate Editor of Nature/npj Digital Medicine.

Publications

Effectiveness of kangaroo mother care before clinical stabilisation versus standard care among neonates at five hospitals in Uganda (OMWaNA): a parallel-group, individually randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation.

Lancet (London, England)

Tumukunde V, Medvedev MM, Tann CJ, Mambule I, Pitt C, Opondo C, Kakande A, Canter R, Haroon Y, Kirabo-Nagemi C, Abaasa A, Okot W, Katongole F, Ssenyonga R, Niombi N, Nanyunja C, Elbourne D, Greco G, Ekirapa-Kiracho E, Nyirenda M, Allen E, Waiswa P, Lawn JE, OMWaNA Collaborative Authorship Group

Health facility assessment of small and sick newborn care in low- and middle-income countries: systematic tool development and operationalisation with NEST360 and UNICEF.

BMC pediatrics

Penzias RE, Bohne C, Ngwala SK, Zimba E, Lufesi N, Rashid E, Gicheha E, Odedere O, Dosunmu O, Tillya R, Shabani J, Cross JH, Liaghati-Mobarhan S, Chiume M, Banda G, Chalira A, Wainaina J, Gathara D, Irimu G, Adudans S, James F, Tongo O, Ezeaka VC, Msemo G, Salim N, Day LT, Powell-Jackson T, Chandna J, Majamanda M, Molyneux EM, Oden M, Richards-Kortum R, Ohuma EO, Paton C, Hailegabriel T, Gupta G, Lawn JE, with the Health Facility Assessment Technical Content Reviewers, Co-design Group, Health Facility As

Small and sick newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic: global survey and thematic analysis of healthcare providers' voices and experiences.

BMJ global health

Rao SPN, Minckas N, Medvedev MM, Gathara D, Y N P, Seifu Estifanos A, Silitonga AC, Jadaun AS, Adejuyigbe EA, Brotherton H, Arya S, Gera R, Ezeaka CV, Gai A, Gobezayehu AG, Dube Q, Kumar A, Naburi H, Chiume M, Tumukunde V, Medhanyie AA, Plange-Rhule G, Shabini J, Ohuma EO, Tadele H, W/Gebriel F, Hadgu A, Alamineh L, Mehta R, Molyneux E, Lawn JE, COVID-19 Small and Sick Newborn Care Collaborative Group

Preterm care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative risk analysis of neonatal deaths averted by kangaroo mother care versus mortality due to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

EClinicalMedicine

Minckas N, Medvedev MM, Adejuyigbe EA, Brotherton H, Chellani H, Estifanos AS, Ezeaka C, Gobezayehu AG, Irimu G, Kawaza K, Kumar V, Massawe A, Mazumder S, Mambule I, Medhanyie AA, Molyneux EM, Newton S, Salim N, Tadele H, Tann CJ, Yoshida S, Bahl R, Rao SPN, Lawn JE, COVID-19 Small and Sick Newborn Care Collaborative Group