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PRECISE (PREgnancy Care Integrating translational Science, Everywhere) Network

PRECISEActiveKenya, Gambia · Multi-countryEstablished 2017Multi-Cohort
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12,000
Cohort size
2017
Year started
Mixed
Setting
Pregnant women + non-pregnant women of reproductive age
Age group
Female
Sex
Multi-Cohort
Cohort type

About this cohort

Prospective pregnancy cohort across The Gambia (West Africa), Kenya (East Africa) and Mozambique (Southern Africa), aiming to recruit ~10,000 pregnant women and 1,800 non-pregnant women of reproductive age. Designed to investigate placental disorders — pregnancy hypertension/pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction, preterm birth and stillbirth — through deep clinical, social and biological phenotyping with longitudinal biospecimens. The first published cohort profile appeared in 2025.

Cohort-provided summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

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Maternal & Child Health
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Pregnancy Complications
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Biorepository

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 12,000 participants in a mixed setting in Kenya, Gambia, spanning Pregnant women + non-pregnant women of reproductive age (female). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

2017
Cohort established
Start of data collection as recorded in the APCC directory.
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Further milestones
To be confirmed Additional events pending custodian input.

Key characteristics

Core descriptive metadata.

Study design / type
Multi-Cohort
Cohort size
12,000Participants / residents
Population focus
Pregnant women + non-pregnant women of reproductive age · Female
Geographic coverage
Kenya, GambiaMulti-country
Year started
2017Ongoing
Coordinates
None, NoneLat, Long

Institutions & governance

Lead institution(s); partners and governance to be confirmed.

King's College London
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM
CISM Mozambique
Aga Khan University

Partner institutions & governance arrangements — To be confirmed

Nested studies & sub-cohorts

Studies built on this cohort platform.

Nested studies / sub-cohorts — To be confirmed.

FAIR readiness

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable assessment.

F · TBCA · TBCI · TBCR · TBC
ⓘFAIR assessment pending — to be completed with the cohort custodian against the APCC metadata standard.

Investigators

Principal investigators and ORCID identifiers.

Information pending validation.

Publications & evidence

Outputs, policy briefs and research evidence.

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Publications, policy briefs and research outputs to be linked from Africahied. To be confirmed.

Data access & governance

How the data can be accessed and governed.

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Access procedure
Managed access via the cohort custodian
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Ethics & governance
To be confirmed

Collaboration opportunities

Partnerships and capacity strengthening.

Collaboration opportunities, capacity-strengthening and partnership details. To be confirmed.

Contact

How to reach the cohort team or request access.

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Lead institution
King's College London
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Contact
To be confirmed
Metadata source: APCC cohort directoryLast reviewed: 19 June 2026Some fields are placeholders pending custodian confirmation — verify independently.