Summing up Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Discussion and Future Directions led by Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Henrietta Moore (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Tessa Mattholie (DfID) Closing Remarks Ashley Moffett (Reproductive Immunology, Cambridge) Megan Vaughan (African History, Cambridge)

Panel 4 Chair Ruth Prince (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Vikki Chambers (Overseas Development Institute) A comparative perspective of the institutional factors which shape maternal health outcomes in Malawi, Niger, Rwanda and Uganda

Panel 3 Chair Henrietta Moore (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Claire Wendland (Medical Anthropology, Wisconsin) Explanations and uncertainties surrounding unsafe motherhood in Malawi Alemnesh Mirkese (Bergen, Norway)

Panel 3 Chair Henrietta Moore (Social Anthropology, Cambridge) Godfrey Mbaruku (African Health, Tanzania) Health Systems/ policy towards reduction of maternal and neonatal deaths Caroline Bledsoe (Social Anthropology, Northwestern) 'A drug of many uses': Misoprostol and the language of ambiguity in the ‘management’ of pregnancy and labour in the US and West Africa Rachel Chapman (Social Anthropology, Washington) Maternal Mortality, HIV/AIDS and the New Counter-Geography of Survival in...

Panel 2 Chair Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Megan Vaughan (African History, Cambridge) Moral responsibility, accountability and maternal death in Central Africa: a historical approach

Panel 2 Chair Melissa Lane (Politics, Princeton) Philip Steer (Obstetrics) What are the influences of maternal ethnic background on obstetric outcomes in London hospitals today? Ashley Moffett (Reproductive Immunology, Cambridge) How does the mother’s immune system affect the outcome of pregnancy? Vincent De Brouwere (Comparative Epidemiology, Antwerp) Why and when did maternal mortality decline in modern societies?

Panel 1 Chair Tessa Mattholie (DfID) Karen Rosenberg (Biological Anthropology, Delaware) Why have humans reached this dangerous position in comparison with great apes? Jonathan Wells The obstetric dilemma: an ancient game of Russian Roulette, or another fine mess that agriculture got us into?

Panel 1
 Chair Tessa Mattholie (DfID) Wendy Graham (Obstetric Epidemiology, Aberdeen) Maternal mortality: evidence gaps and measurement traps Annettee Nakimuli (Obstetrics, Makerere) What are the main causes of maternal mortality in Africa?

Introduction Ashley Moffett (Reproductive Immunology, Cambridge) Megan Vaughan (African History, Cambridge)

Welcome Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge)