Marian Knight
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University of Oxford
Marian Knight | |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Public Health England University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Syncytiotrophoblast microvillous membrane deportation in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia (1997) |
Marian Knight MBE is a British physician who is a Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health at the University of Oxford. She is an Honorary Consultant of Public Health for Public Health England. During the COVID-19 pandemic Knight studied the characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women who tested positive for COVID-19.
As a child, Knight was not sure whether she should study mathematics or medicine. She eventually settled on medicine, and completed her first degree in medical sciences at the University of Cambridge.[1] She specialised in obstetrics and neonatalogy, and worked in Edinburgh, Newcastle upon Tyne and Oxford.[1] Knight returned to academia, and completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford. Her research considered the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia.[2] In 2005 Knight established the UK Obstetric Surveillance System, a national system to study rare disorders of pregnancy.[3][4] She specialised in epidemiology and joined the faculty at the University of Oxford in 2006.[1]
