Amie Wilson is a midwife and applied health researcher, who has been involved in research to improve maternity care and outcomes for women in low-and middle-income countries during pregnancy and childbearing since 2010. Prior to joining Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2024, she worked at the University of Birmingham in applied health research on an Medical Research Council funded programme on safe caesarean section and physiological birth promotion in Tanzania and India (C-Safe). She has also worked on feasibility studies testing innovations (PREPS Trial) and placebo controlled clinical trials in low-and-middle income settings (AIMS Trial). Amie has a wealth of experience in evidence synthesis, leading Cochrane systematic reviews with both pairwise and network meta-analyses. She registered as a midwife in 2006 and until recently worked at the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital as a clinical midwife on labour ward and the high-risk antenatal ward. Amie obtained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2014.

Amie’s research focus area is global maternal health. She is interested in improving care and outcomes for women in low-and-middle income countries, with a specific focus on antenatal care. Amie is interested in public health interventions, health inequalities and under-represented groups such as adolescents and displaced populations. She is committed to developing community engagement and involvement in low-and-middle income countries and is the UK lead for the National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit on Stillbirth Prevention and Management in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently Amie is working on the National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit on Stillbirth Prevention and Management in sub-Saharan Africa. Working with Lugina Africa Midwives Research Network partners she leads the implementation of the World Health Organisation evidence-based intrapartum guidelines in Zimbabwe. She is also working with Lugina Africa Midwives Research Network partners to explore the experiences of community engagement and involvement members and researchers that have worked together during the units’ research on stillbirth prevention and bereavement care. Amie has experience in a wide range of research methodologies and methods; including, systematic reviews and meta-analysis/synthesis, clinical trials (cluster, stepped-wedged, placebo-controlled parallel group randomised trials), multi-methods and qualitative research. She is the principal investigator for the Well-being of Women funded C-Why UK, a project to explore whether the C-Why caesarean section classification system should be validated for use in a UK setting. 

Amie currently supports the Diploma in Tropical Nursing, the Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and the Masters in Public Health programme. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.