New guidance on doctors' behaviour from the UK Prime Minister

Abstract

Funding agencies should focus on helping to facilitate the translation of ideas into research projects.• More research focused on ex pect-ations, beliefs, barriers, and know-ledge of women and their families to design and tailor interventions for health improvement and population empowerment.• The need for collaborative research among developing countries to obtain external validity and, when feasible, to measure maternal mor-tality as an outcome. Large, pragmatic multinational cluster trials are an attractive strategy to achieve this aim.• The need for researchers from high-income countries who are planning trials focused on maternal survival to explore the possibility of implementing such trials in close collaboration with researchers from developing countries.• The need for researchers to be trained in their native countries or in similar countries to improve the likelihood that they will stay at research institutions in their own countries. To attain all of these needs, robust research institutions in developing countries are needed, and local and international support should seek to attain this goal.