Dr Amie Wilson PhD, BSc (hons), RM

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Fellow in Global Maternal Health
Midwife

Contact details

Email: a.wilson.5@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @amiewil

Address: Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Amie Wilson is a Research Fellow in Global Maternal Health and Midwife. Amie has real passion for improving care for women in resource limited settings. Amie’s PhD examined interventions to reduce maternal death in low-and-middle income countries (supervised by Professor Arri Coomarasamy and Professor Christine MacArthur). Amie’s work in evidence synthesis has achieved publications in the Lancet and British Medical Journal, and featured in World Health Organisation guidelines.

Amie has continued with her work aiming to improve outcomes for mothers and babies around the world, through clinical research in low-and-middle income countries. Amie worked with Professor Arri Coomarasamy and Professor David Lissauer (Malawi‐Liverpool‐Wellcome Trust) on the AIMS trial (Antibiotics in Miscarriage Surgery) that included over 3400 women from Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Pakistan, in an international, randomised controlled trial (published in New England Journal of Medicine). Amie is leading a Cochrane review on Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Miscarriage Surgery. Amie has worked for the World Health Organisation as a consultant, exploring the views and experiences of midwifery educators across the world, to better understand what action WHO and global partners, should take to improve quality midwifery education.

Amie is currently working with Professor Katie Morris and Professor Ioannis Gallos, comparing the evidence on medicines given to women to delay the birth of babies at risk of being born premature, to see which medicines are effective but also well-tolerated by women. This has been prioritised by the World Health Organisation and will support international guidelines on preterm birth.

Qualifications

PhD Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Birmingham, 2013
Registered Midwife NMC 2006
BSc (hons) Midwifery, Birmingham City University, 2006

Other activities

Amie has been a registered Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council since 2006.

Amie was a trustee of Maternal Health Charity 'Ammalife' (UK Registered Charity 11202236) for 13 years, only recently resigning to bring ‘new life’ to the organisation.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Pilarski, N, Jones, I, Dunlop, C, Jones, L, Hodgetts-Morton, V, Morris, RK & Wilson, A 2026, '"It's your body… so it's just nice to know what they're putting in it" A qualitative study of women's views and experiences of caesarean section, antibiotic use and infection', BMC pregnancy and childbirth, vol. 26, no. 1, 694. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-026-09070-9

Jones, L, Delicate, A, Waigwa, S, Hodgetts Morton, V, Morris, RK, Whitehurst, J, Hillman, S & Chapter Collaborative Group 2025, 'Exploring views and experiences of childbirth-related perineal trauma: a qualitative study protocol for developing a wound management tool and care pathway', BMJ Open, vol. 15, no. 4, e088248. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088248

Chapter Collaborative Group, Delicate, A, Hillman, S, Morton, V, Morris, RK, Man, R & Jones, L 2025, 'Postnatal care and pathways for childbirth-related perineal trauma in England: A qualitative study of healthcare professionals' experiences and perspectives on future development', Women and Birth, vol. 38, no. 6, 102106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2025.102106

CHAPTER Group, Hodgetts Morton, V, Man, R, Perry, R, Hughes, T, Tohill, S, MacArthur, C, Magill, L & Morris, RK 2024, 'Childbirth Acquired Perineal Trauma study (CHAPTER): a UK prospective cohort study protocol', BMJ Open, vol. 14, no. 5, e086724. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086724

Rickard, F, Lu , F, Gustafsson , L, MacArthur, C, Cummins, C, Coker, I, Wilson, A, Mane, K, Manneh, K & Manaseki-Holland, S 2022, 'Clinical handover communication at maternity shift changes and women's safety in Banjul, The Gambia: a mixed-methods study', BMC pregnancy and childbirth, vol. 22, 784. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05052-9

Jones, IHM, Thompson, A, Dunlop, CL & Wilson, A 2022, 'Midwives' and maternity support workers' perceptions of the impact of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on respectful maternity care in a diverse region of the UK: a qualitative study', BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 9, e064731. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064731

Gooden, T, Gustafsson , L, Lu , F, Rickard, F, Sitch, A, Cummins, C, Manneh, K, Wilson, A, MacArthur, C & Manaseki-Holland, S 2021, 'Facilitating better postnatal care with women-held documents in The Gambia: a mixed-methods study', BMC pregnancy and childbirth, vol. 21, no. 1, 479. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03902-6

Cheshire, J, Jones, L, Munthali, L, Kamphinga, C, Liyaya, H, Phiri, T, Parry‐Smith, W, Dunlop, C, Makwenda, C, Devall, AJ, Tobias, A, Nambiar, B, Merriel, A, Williams, H, Gallos, I, Wilson, A, Coomarasamy, A & Lissauer, D 2021, 'The FAST‐M complex intervention for the detection and management of maternal sepsis in low‐resource settings: a multi‐site evaluation', BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, vol. 128, no. 8, pp. 1324-1333. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16658

Review article

Hahn, M, Grace, E, Wilson, A, Sheraz, M, Jenkins, S, Cordero, JC, Calvo, GR, Zamora, J, Kingdon, C, Hanson, C, Downe, S, Sobhy, S & Thangaratinam, S 2026, 'Variation in outcome reporting in studies comparing vacuum-assisted birth versus second-stage caesarean section: a systematic review', European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology X, vol. 30, 100463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurox.2026.100463

Ahmed, SI, Ammerdorffer, A, Moakes, CA, Cheshire, J, Gulmezoglu, AM, Coomarasamy, A, Lissauer, D & Wilson, A 2025, 'Prophylactic antibiotics for uterine evacuation procedures to manage miscarriage', Cochrane Library, vol. 2025, no. 4, CD014844. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD014844.pub2

Junaid, F, Davies, B, Tariq, S, Zamora, J, Moss, N, Black, M, Wilson, A, Dyson, J, Weckesser, A, Craig, J, Bromley, R, Thangaratinam, S & Allotey, J 2025, 'Seizure prediction in pregnant women with epilepsy: An umbrella review of clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews', European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, vol. 308, pp. 241-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2025.03.022

Wilson, A, Kaur, H, Hassan, AA, Mbwele, B, Sobhy, S, Calvo, GR, Piñero, SO, Zamora, J & Thangaratinam, S 2025, 'Variations in caesarean section outcome reporting in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review', European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, vol. 307, pp. 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2025.01.039

Ahmed, SI, Ammerdorffer, A, Moakes, CA, Cheshire, J, Gülmezoglu, AM, Coomarasamy, A, Lissauer, D & Wilson, A 2022, 'Prophylactic antibiotics for uterine evacuation procedures to treat miscarriage', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 2022, no. 1, CD014844. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD014844

Merriel, A, Wilson, A, Decker, E, Hussein, J, Larkin, M, Barnard, K, O'Dair, M, Costello, A, Malata, A & Coomarasamy, A 2022, 'Systematic review and narrative synthesis of the impact of Appreciative Inquiry in healthcare', BMJ open quality, vol. 11, no. 2, e001911. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001911

Wilson, A, Hodgetts-Morton, VA, Marson, EJ, Markland, AD, Larkai, E, Papadopoulou, A, Coomarasamy, A, Tobias, A, Chou, D, Oladapo, OT, Price, MJ, Morris, K & Gallos, ID 2022, 'Tocolytics for delaying preterm birth: a network meta-analysis (0924)', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 2022, no. 8, CD014978. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD014978.pub2

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