Anita Makins
BMedSci, BMBS, MPH, PhD, FRCOG
Director of MSc in Global Women's Health
- Director MSci Global Women's Health - NDWRH, University of Oxford
- Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology - OUH NHS Trust, Oxford
- Associate Member Contraception Committee - FIGO
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 2026. 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 three Oxford DPhil students. She has published widely in the scientific literature including authoring one book and two book chapters. She is currently 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
The management of breech presentation and external cephalic version
The use of point of care ultrasound in the triage of labouring women in Ghana