Anita Makins

Anita Makins is a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist with a specialist interest is in Global Women's Health.  She has worked extensively in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia with NGOs (including Medecins Sans Frontieres, SolidarMed, Chemonics, BMGF), Ministries of Health in several low and middle income countries and international organisations including the International Federation of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (FIGO) and the WHO.  She is the Director of new MSc in Global Women's Health and is leading its development which pending approvals will be launched in September 2025. 

She is also a founding member and lead for Women’s Health at Oxford University’s multidisciplinary Global Surgery Group. She lectures undergraduate and postgraduate medical doctors and midwives at the university and externally.  She currently supervises Medical students on the Global Surgery Special Study Module and Oxford DPhil students.  She has published widely in the scientific literature including authoring one book and two book chapters.  She is an associate member of FIGO's Contraception Committee.

Current areas of research include:

• Non hormonal contraception; Postpartum family planning and breast feeding
• Improvements in access to obstetric care for the rural poor - Oka Taxi initiative in rural Mozambique in collaboration with SolidarMed
• The management of breech presentation and external cephalic version
• The use of point of care ultrasound in the triage of labouring women in Ghana