Wednesday, 14/05/2025 · 14:00
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Sonia Muliyil
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health, UK
Prior to joining The Lancet Group as the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health, Sonia Muliyil worked as a Senior Editor for Nature Medicine, handling manuscripts in women's health, reproductive medicine, child and adolescent health, as well as metabolic diseases. She has also served as the lead editor of Trends in Genetics and a consulting editor for Cell Genomics and Developmental Cell. Sonia's PhD research focused on understanding the complex interplay between apoptotic signals and mitochondrial dynamics that drive cell delamination. As an EMBO and HFSP fellow at the University of Oxford (UK), Sonia investigated the role of TNF signalling in lipid metabolism and neurodegeneration.
Sarah Passey
Deputy Editor, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health, UK
Sarah Passey joined The Lancet Group in 2001 as an Assistant Editor and worked for The Lancet in this role, and later as a Senior Assistant Editor, until 2021, when she joined The Lancet Neurology as a Senior Editor. In 2025, she joined The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health as Deputy Editor. Sarah studied Biochemistry at University of Leeds (UK) and gained a MSc from the Open University (UK) in 2005, studying Neural Ageing and Addiction, Molecular Medicine, and Science Communication.
Ben Burwood
Senior Editor, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health, UK
Ben Burwood joined The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health in March 2025. He initially joined The Lancet Group as an Assistant Editor in April 2019, before moving to eClinicalMedicine, part of The Lancet Discovery Science, in June 2023. Before this, Ben obtained an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from University of Southampton (UK), focusing on developmental and reproductive biology and the developmental origins of health and diseases.