 My research looks at the link between education and maternal mortality. Whether more educated people are more able to access and assess information relating to healthcare decisions, whether they're more able to react in a timely manner to symptoms and make decisions which then reduce maternal mortality. So we've looked at this in a few ways. We've looked at measures of education and maternal mortality both at a national and at a country level and also at an individual level. So we look at both countries and people. At a national level, we compare cohorts of women who are, for all effects and purposes, similar but with the only difference being that some are more educated than others and we see whether these more educated women have lower rates of maternal mortality throughout their life. So we find that particularly expansions in early education, moving women from, say, zero or girls from zero to one years of education, has very important effects on rates of maternal mortality. For example, in Nigeria, increasing education by one year from zero to one years reduces rates of maternal death by 160 deaths per 100,000 life births. Internationally, we look at a long series of data with measures on education and maternal mortality. We're interested in seeing whether increases in education reduce rates of maternal death, controlling for all competing explanations. So at a primary level, we find that moving an additional 1% of the population of uneducated girls to primary school reduces the number of maternal deaths by 10 per 100,000 life births. At a secondary level, we see that moving 1% of girls from primary to secondary still has a significant effect or five fewer deaths per 100,000 life births. So over the next 15 years, we've committed to trying to reduce maternal mortality from 210 to 70 deaths per 100,000 life births. This implies we need to look at new policies as well as the traditional policies we've been using during the millennium development goals. And this research suggests that education itself has a significant impact on rates of maternal death.