Dr David Odd

2026

• Reeve, N. et al. 2026. Mode of birth and risk of death or severe intraventricular hemorrhage in very preterm infants: a national cohort and emulated target trial (the PRECIOUS (PREterm caesarean/vaginal birth and IVH/OUtcomeS) study). The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 39 (1) 2708471. (10.1080/14767058.2026.2708471)
• Edwards, H. B. et al., 2026. Antenatal magnesium sulphate for neuroprotection of preterm babies: data analysis of inequities in treatment in England 2014 to 2024. BMJ Open Quality 15 (3) e004143. (10.1136/bmjoq-2026-004143)
• Edwards, H. B. et al., 2026. International disparities in use of antenatal magnesium sulfate and antenatal steroids for the preterm baby. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 174 (2), pp.707-717. (10.1002/ijgo.70832)
• Odd, D. et al. 2026. 6127 Infection-related deaths in children and young people, England (2019–2021). Archives of Disease in Childhood 109 , pp.A172.1-A172. (10.1136/archdischild-2024-rcpch.257)
• Odd, D. et al. 2026. 9558 Environmental measures and risk of death by asthma: an NCMD study [Abstract]. Archives of Disease in Childhood 111 (S1), pp.A224-A225. (10.1136/archdischild-2026-rcpch.292)
• Odd, D. et al. 2026. 9688 Infants, children, and young people with life-limiting conditions learning from child death reviews on palliative and end of life care provision: an NCMD report [Abstract]. Archives of Disease in Childhood 111 (S1), pp.A39-A40. (10.1136/archdischild-2026-rcpch.54)
• Chakkarapani, E. et al., 2026. CoolCuddle and autonomic regulation in infants with hypoxic‐ischaemic encephalopathy: an intervention study. Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child 115 (8), pp.1688-1699. (10.1111/apa.70547)
• O’Toole, S. E. et al., 2026. Understanding the wider determinants of child road fatalities in England and opportunities for prevention: protocol for a mixed-methods study of the national child mortality database. BMJ Open 16 (6) e119011. (10.1136/bmjopen-2026-119011)
• Odd, D. et al. 2026. Changes in child suicide rates and characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 5 1657552. (10.3389/frcha.2026.1657552)
• Ingram, J. et al., 2026. Mental health of parents with infants in NICU receiving cooling therapy for hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 44 (3), pp.803-817. (10.1080/02646838.2024.2423178)
• Rapuc, S. et al., 2026. Cognitive development at late infancy and school age in children cooled for neonatal encephalopathy. Pediatric Research 99 , pp.315-322. (10.1038/s41390-025-04152-4)
• Edwards, H. B. et al., 2026. Implementation of national guidelines on antenatal magnesium sulfate for neonatal neuroprotection: extended evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the National PReCePT Programme in England. BMJ Quality & Safety 35 , pp.95-105. (10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017763)
• Sillero-Rejon, C. et al., 2026. Demonstrating the value for money of implementing evidence-based treatment: the case for further investment in magnesium sulphate as a neuroprotectant for preterm births. Frontiers in Health Services 5 1655385. (10.3389/frhs.2025.1655385)

2025

• Pillay, T. et al., 2025. Innovation in neonatology [Letter]. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 9 (11), pp.e20. (10.1016/S2352-4642(25)00268-8)
• Pettinger, K. et al., 2025. Does neonatal care delivery in England and Wales vary by deprivation and ethnicity: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Paediatrics Open 9 (1) 003585. (10.1136/bmjpo-2025-003585)
• Chakkarapani, E. et al., 2025. Cooling and physiology during parent cuddling infants with neonatal encephalopathy in usual care: CoolCuddle‐2 study. Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child 114 (3), pp.546-554. (10.1111/apa.17466)
• Odd, D. et al. 2025. Deaths in children in England from SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first 2 years of the pandemic: a cohort study.. BMJ Open 15 (2) e092627. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092627)
• Davies, A. et al., 2025. Developing a core outcome set for assessing interventions and care for parents after neonatal death in high-income countries (iCHOOSE Neonatal study): protocol for a mixed-methods study.. BMJ Open 15 (2) e088251. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088251)
• Odd, D. et al. 2025. Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. PLoS Medicine 22 (1) e1004417. (10.1371/journal.pmed.1004417)

2024

• Beasant, L. et al., 2024. Embedding the ‘CoolCuddle’ intervention for infants undergoing therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in NICU: an evaluation using normalisation process theory. BMJ Open 14 (10) e088228. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088228)
• Odd, D. et al. 2024. PRECIOUS study (PREterm Caesarean/vaginal birth and IVH/OUtcomeS): does mode of birth reduce the risk of death or brain injury in very preterm babies? A cohort and emulated target trial protocol. BMJ Open 14 (9) e089722. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-089722)
• Odd, D. et al. 2024. Risk factors for infection and outcomes in infants with neonatal encephalopathy: a cohort study. Pediatric Research 96 , pp.785-791. (10.1038/s41390-024-03157-9)
• Odd, D. et al. 2024. 6595 Child mortality in England during, and after, the COVID-19 pandemic. Archives of Disease in Childhood , pp.A85.2-A86. (10.1136/archdischild-2024-rcpch.120)
• Odd, D. et al. 2024. 6600 Deaths in children in England following SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first two years of the pandemic. Archives of Disease in Childhood , pp.A108.2-A109. (10.1136/archdischild-2024-rcpch.157)
• Farr, I. et al., 2024. Health service use of infants involved in family justice care and supervision proceedings in Wales: a data linkage study.. International Journal of Population Data Science 9 (2) 2362. (10.23889/ijpds.v9i1.2362)
• Odd, D. E. et al. 2024. Race and ethnicity, deprivation, and infant mortality in England, 2019-2022. Jama Network Open 7 (2) e2355403. (10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.55403)
• Cornish, R. P. et al., 2024. Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and risk of preterm birth: a collaboration using large routine health datasets. BMC Medicine 22 (1) 10. (10.1186/s12916-023-03230-w)

2023

• Rela, A. et al. 2023. Quality of life at a 10-year follow-up of children born preterm with post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation : A cohort study. Neonatology 120 (6), pp.690-698. (10.1159/000533355)
• Odd, D. et al. 2023. Newborn health and child mortality across England. Jama Network Open 6 (10) e2338055. (10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.38055)
• Isaac, T. C. et al., 2023. Measuring the impact of deprivation on learning difficulties and behaviour among infants born preterm: A cohort study. Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 16 (3), pp.411-421. (10.3233/NPM-221151)
• Hurt, L. et al. 2023. What matters to families about the healthcare of preterm or low birth weight infants: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Patient Education and Counseling 115 107893. (10.1016/j.pec.2023.107893)
• Jee, G. et al., 2023. Early childhood parent-reported speech problems in small and large for gestational age term-born and preterm-born infants: a cohort study. BMJ Open 13 (4) e065587. (10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065587)
• Yao, S. L. , Smit, E. and Odd, D. 2023. The effectiveness of interventions to prevent intraventricular haemorrhage in premature infants: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 16 (1), pp.5-20. (10.3233/NPM-221048)
• Romantsik, O. et al., 2023. Postnatal phenobarbital for the prevention of intraventricular haemorrhage in preterm infants. Cochrane Library 2023 (3) CD001691. (10.1002/14651858.CD001691.pub4)
• Odd, D. et al. 2023. Child mortality in England during the first 2 years of the covid-19 pandemic. Jama Network Open 6 (1) e2249191. (10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.49191)

2022

• Odd, D. et al. 2022. What is the relationship between deprivation, modifiable factors and childhood deaths: a cohort study using the English National Child MortalityDatabase. BMJ Open 12 e066214. (10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066214)
• Williams, C. et al., 2022. Vision function in children 10 years after grade 3 or 4 intraventricular haemorrhage with ventricular dilation: A masked prospective study. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 65 (2), pp.223-231. (10.1111/dmcn.15294)
• Parish, O. et al. 2022. Barriers and facilitators to shared decision-making in neonatal medicine: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of parental perceptions. Patient Education and Counseling 105 (5), pp.1101-1114. (10.1016/j.pec.2021.08.033)
• Jones, H. et al. 2022. Population birth outcomes in 2020 and experiences of expectant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a ‘born in Wales’ mixed methods study using routine data. PLoS ONE 17 (5) e0267176. (10.1371/journal.pone.0267176)
• Odd, D. et al. 2022. Child mortality in England during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Archives of Disease in Childhood 107 (3) e22. (10.1136/archdischild-2021-323370)
• Ingram, J. et al., 2022. ‘Opportunity to bond and a sense of normality’: Parent and staff views of cuddling babies undergoing therapeutic hypothermia in neonatal intensive care: ‘CoolCuddle’. Health Expectations 25 (4), pp.1384-1392. (10.1111/hex.13477)
• Odd, D. et al. 2022. Child mortality in England during the COVID-19 pandemic. Archives of Disease in Childhood 107 (1), pp.14-20. (10.1136/archdischild-2020-320899)
• Smith, C. et al., 2022. Deaths in children and young people in England after SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first pandemic year. Nature Medicine 28 , pp.185-192. (10.1038/s41591-021-01578-1)

2021

• Odd, D. et al. 2021. Child suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 6 100273. (10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100273)
• Odd, D. et al. 2021. Physiological responses to cuddling babies with hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy during therapeutic hypothermia: an observational study. BMJ Paediatrics Open 5 (1) e001280. (10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001280)
• Norman, J. E. et al., 2021. Feasibility and design of a trial regarding the optimal mode of delivery for preterm birth: the CASSAVA multiple methods study. Health Technology Assessment 25 (61)(10.3310/hta25610)
• Course, C. et al. 2021. Volatile organic compounds as disease predictors in newborn infants: a systematic review. Journal of Breath Research 15 (2) 024002. (10.1088/1752-7163/abe283)

2020

• Bendor-Samuel, O. et al., 2020. A comparison of UK preterm anthropometric charts and INTERGROWTH-21st: is it time to change growth charts?. Neonatology 117 (3), pp.300-307. (10.1159/000507024)
• Boel, L. et al., 2020. Temporal trends of care practices, morbidity, and mortality of extremely preterm infants over 10-years in South Wales, UK. Scientific Reports 10 (1) 18738. (10.1038/s41598-020-75749-4)
• Mahoney, L. et al., 2020. Treatment for post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation: a multiple-treatment meta-analysis. Frontiers in Pediatrics 8 238. (10.3389/fped.2020.00238)
• Glover Williams, A. and Odd, D. 2020. Investigating the association between post-term birth and long term cognitive, developmental and educational impacts: a systematic review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 33 (7), pp.1253-1265. (10.1080/14767058.2018.1514379)

2019

• Glover Williams, A. et al., 2019. Elevated International Normalized Ratio (INR) is associated with an increased risk of intraventricular hemorrhage in extremely preterm infants. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 41 (5), pp.355-360. (10.1097/MPH.0000000000001509)
• Odd, D. , Evans, D. and Emond, A. M. 2019. Prediction of school outcome after preterm birth: a cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 104 (4), pp.348-353. (10.1136/archdischild-2018-315441)
• Luyt, K. et al., 2019. Ten-year follow-up of a randomised trial of drainage, irrigation and fibrinolytic therapy (DRIFT) in infants with post-haemorrhagic ventricular dilatation. Health Technology Assessment 23 (4)(10.3310/hta23040)
• Gamaleldin, I. et al., 2019. Significant intraventricular hemorrhage is more likely in very preterm infants born by vaginal delivery: a multi-centre retrospective cohort study. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 32 (3), pp.477-482. (10.1080/14767058.2017.1383980)

2018

• Odd, D. et al. 2018. Associations between early term and late/post term infants and development of epilepsy: a cohort study. PLoS ONE 13 (12) e0210181. (10.1371/journal.pone.0210181)
• Stutchfield, C. et al., 2018. In response to: Teofili L, et al. Foetal haemoglobin, blood transfusion, and retinopathy of prematurity. Eye 32 (6) 1156. (10.1038/s41433-018-0031-5)
• Rajatileka, S. et al., 2018. Variants of the EAAT2 glutamate transporter gene promoter are associated with cerebral palsy in preterm infants. Molecular Neurobiology 55 , pp.2013-2024. (10.1007/s12035-017-0462-1)
• Odd, D. E. et al. 2018. Associations between birth at, or after, 41 weeks gestation and perinatal encephalopathy: a cohort study. BMJ Paediatrics Open 2 (1) e000010. (10.1136/bmjpo-2017-000010)
• Jones, R. , Heep, A. and Odd, D. 2018. Biochemical and clinical predictors of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy after perinatal asphyxia. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 31 (6), pp.791-796. (10.1080/14767058.2017.1297790)

2017

• Odd, D. et al. 2017. Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury: Planned delivery before intrapartum events. Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 10 (4), pp.347-353. (10.3233/NPM-16152)
• Stutchfield, C. J. et al., 2017. Foetal haemoglobin, blood transfusion, and retinopathy of prematurity in very preterm infants: a pilot prospective cohort study. Eye 31 (10), pp.1451-1455. (10.1038/eye.2017.76)
• Yau, C. W. H. et al., 2017. Response to 'Telling the whole story about simulation-based education'. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 96 (10), pp.1274. (10.1111/aogs.13196)

2016

• Yau, C. W. H. et al., 2016. The cost of local, multi-professional obstetric emergencies training. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 95 (10), pp.1111-1119. (10.1111/aogs.12956)
• Davis, J. W. et al., 2016. The impact of a sepsis quality improvement project on neurodisability rates in very low birthweight infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition 101 (6), pp.F562-F564. (10.1136/archdischild-2015-309804)
• Odd, D. et al. 2016. Association between neonatal resuscitation and a single nucleotide polymorphism rs1835740. Acta Pædiatrica 105 (7), pp.e307-e312. (10.1111/apa.13421)
• Odd, D. , Evans, D. and Emond, A. 2016. Preterm birth, age at school entry and long term educational achievement. PLoS ONE 11 (5) e0155157. (10.1371/journal.pone.0155157)
• Crofts, J. F. et al., 2016. Prevention of brachial plexus injury-12 years of shoulder dystocia training: an interrupted time-series study. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 123 (1), pp.111-118. (10.1111/1471-0528.13302)
• Bates, S. et al., 2016. Superior vena cava flow and intraventricular haemorrhage in extremely preterm infants. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 29 (10), pp.1581-1587. (10.3109/14767058.2015.1054805)

2015

• Feetham, J. E. et al., 2015. Paediatric ED reattendance rates: comparing nurse practitioners and other clinicians. Emergency Medicine Journal 32 (5), pp.379-397. (10.1136/emermed-2013-203514)

2014

• Rajatileka, S. et al., 2014. Detection of three closely located single nucleotide polymorphisms in the EAAT2 promoter: comparison of single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP), pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing. BMC Genetics 15 (1) 80. (10.1186/1471-2156-15-80)
• Odd, D. et al. 2014. Risk of low Apgar scores and socioeconomic status over a 30-year period. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 27 (6), pp.603-607. (10.3109/14767058.2013.833903)