Focussing on the origins of preterm birth: Why understanding aetiology is critical to optimising outcomes

• Jennifer Jardine,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Centre for Public Health and Policy, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9932-6865

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• Laura Goodfellow,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8111-5007

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• Caroline Ovadia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Women and Children’s Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4859-0324

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• Anna L. David ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna L. David, Catherine Williamson

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0199-6140

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• Catherine Williamson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna L. David, Catherine Williamson

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: catherine.williamson@imperial.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6226-7611

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