Slide show: 5 years at the UCL Institute of Women’s Health

The inaugural five-year review of the UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health (IfWH), conducted by an international panel of experts, has found that the Institute is now starting to rival the best European institutions of its kind. The independent reviewing panel praised the IfWH as a unique institution in the UK, which is producing research of international standing. Its findings were based on written documentation of all aspects of the Institute's work, as well as a three-day site visit. Established in 2004, the IfWH covers four areas of integrated clinical and academic activity: Neonatal Medicine, Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Reproductive Health and Benign Gynaecology, and Women's Cancer. These areas are complemented by two cross-cutting themes of Global Health and Education and Training. During its first five years, the Institute has been at the heart of a number of groundbreaking projects, such as trialling the first ever ovarian cancer screening programme in the UK; finding new evidence to suggest that cancer is a stem cell disease; research into cooling to prevent adverse outcomes from asphyxia in babies and rolling out a global health programme, which includes the Ugandan Women's Health Initiative. You can see some of the stories that brought the Institute to the headlines in this slideshow.