Medical student Tehmina Bharucha has won the 2009 Peter Dunn Perinatal Bursary for best perinatal project.
Professor Peter Dunn is currently Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Medicine and Child Health at the University of Bristol. In 1983, he endowed the University with funds to award an annual perinatal prize (now a bursary) to encourage Bristol medical students to undertake a perinatal project during their fifth year. The underlying aim of the bursary is to promote the concept of the continuum of care required by the foetus as it emerges at birth as a newborn infant.
Tehmina Bharucha won the 2009 Bursary for her proposal entitled ‘A trial of community mobilisation in Mumbai to reduce neonatal mortality’.