Dr Melissa Palmer: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Assistant Professor at LSHTM
- Quoted on
- Women's health & gynaecology
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“The survey's main aim was to understand recent experiences of reproductive health in England, including the services being accessed and the support received. Through starting to analyse the data collected in greater detail, we hope to be able to examine who is most affected by poor reproductive health outcomes and how support can best be provided across different stages of people's lives.”
What Dr Melissa Palmer has said
“For the first time, we have been able to estimate the percentage of women and people assigned female at birth who are experiencing – or have recent experience of – any reproductive health issue.”
Lead author of the research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · Women's health & gynaecology · 29 Sept 2026 · One in four women in England have serious reproductive health issue, survey finds ↗
Where Dr Melissa Palmer has been quoted
- Expert Comment – First findings of Women’s Reproductive Health Survey 2023lshtm.ac.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- One in four women in England have serious reproductive health issue, survey findstheguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
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