Charlotte Bevan

Charlotte Bevan is a parent, patient and public involvement (PPPI) expert working with the University of Oxford. She co-leads PPI with Rachel Plachcinski on the Oxford Labour Monitoring project and advises the Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health on meaningful strategic and project PPI. She is also co-lead on PPPI at the Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care (PRU-MNHC).

Charlotte worked for more than a decade as a journalist in the UK and in south-east Asia as a BBC World Service correspondent. She changed careers after her daughter Hope died shortly after birth, due to events in labour in 2001. She subsequently worked at Sands, a charity which supports families whose baby has died before, during or shortly after birth for 17 years. With colleagues, she helped innovate and deliver work to ensure parents' voices were heard in policy, service and research initiatives to improve care and safety for women and families in the UK. As a Sands representative on the MBRRACE-UK collaboration, as a co-author on The Lancet stillbirth series, and as a PPI contributor to the DISCERN study, she has helped highlight the enormous financial and emotional impacts perinatal harm and death during labour has on the NHS and families.