Table 6.

Top 10 maternal health SBCE research priorities

Rank	Maternal health research priority
1	Understand the determinants of self-care, family care practices, utilisation of maternity care services and access to life-saving commodities, and improve the delivery of approaches to address these determinants
2	Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to increase community awareness, capacity, mobilisation, engagement and social accountability
3	Improve the delivery of approaches to strengthen health service responsiveness to cultural needs and preferences and to strengthen intercultural linkages between the health services and the community
4	Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to foster effective male involvement in efforts to increase maternal, newborn and child well-being and access to care
5	Improve the delivery of health education and counselling interventions that are tailored to the needs of different audiences to improve self-care, family care practices and utilisation of maternity care services
6	Improve the delivery of community-based midwifery programmes to foster individual, family and community behaviours that improve maternal and newborn health
7	Find new approaches and improve the delivery of existing approaches to increase access to and use of modern family planning methods, including emergency and post-abortion contraception for women and adolescent girls
8	Understand the determinants of gender inequity and find new approaches to foster women’s empowerment and agency to improve their health
9	Find new approaches to address hunger and malnutrition
10	Improve the delivery of approaches to increase the uptake of HIV prevention and care services during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period

SBCE social, behavioural and community engagement