Sarah Barnett has joined Options' technical team as a Maternal and Newborn Health Specialist. Sarah, a demographer and social statistician who worked most recently as a Lecturer in Maternal and Child Health at the Institute for Child Health, has ten years' experience working in national and international public health. She has extensive experience with community based projects: designing and implementing interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and large-scale prospective surveillance systems to monitor maternal and neonatal care-seeking behaviour, home-care practices and mortality. She has worked in India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, China and South Africa and has experience of working in rural areas and urban slums. She gained her PhD at the University of Southampton, exploring socio-economic differences in health.