Professor Emeritus Peter Brocklehurst MBChB, MSc, FRCOG, FFPH, FMedSci

• FMedSci, Academy of Medical Sciences 2015

• FFPH, Faculty of Public Health, 2007

• FRCOG, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, 2004

• MSc Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1994

• MRCOG, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, 1991

• MBChB, University of Dundee, 1985

Peter qualified in medicine from the University of Dundee in 1985. He undertook house jobs in Glasgow and Manchester before moving to London to start training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. As part of his obstetrics and gynaecology training, he undertook a period of research as a lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital undertaking a randomised controlled trial of aciclovir prophylaxis for pregnant women with frequently recurring genital herpes infection. After returning to clinical obstetrics and gynaecology at University College Hospital London, Peter decided to undertake formal training in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he graduated 1994.

Peter then joined the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford as a research fellow in perinatal trials. Peter remained at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit for 17 years, becoming Director in 1996.

Peter left Oxford to become Director of the Institute for Women’s Health at University College London in 2011. As Director, he oversaw a large programme of research from basic science through to health policy research across the breath of women’s health and neonatology, as well as a full educational programme from undergraduate medical student teaching, two successful Masters courses in women’s health, as well as a vibrant postgraduate research training programme.

Peter came to the University of Birmingham in July 2016 as Professor of Women’s Health and Director of the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit.

Peter is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

• Methodology of randomised controlled trials.
• Exploring the mechanisms by which mother to child transmission of the gut microbiome influences later health outcomes.
• Exploring the use of routine data in randomised controlled trial design, conduct, and outcome evaluation.

• Wellbeing of Women Trustee, 2014 
• Chair, UKCRC Pregnancy Research Review group, 2016-present