The International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium for the 21st Century, or INTERGROWTH-21st, is a global, multidisciplinary network of more than 300 researchers and clinicians from 27 institutions in 18 countries worldwide and coordinated from the University of Oxford. We are dedicated to improving perinatal health globally and committed to reducing the millions of preventable newborn deaths that occur as a result of preterm birth or poor intrauterine growth.
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This website provides clinicians and researchers access to the INTERGROWTH-21st Global Perinatal Package. This package is comprised of new, globally-validated standards and practical training resources. To download the standards please use the download links to the right of this page.
These standards are paired with an expanding Training Toolkit and a rich body of literature on our methods.
Policymakers may be interested in learning our progress with dissemination so far, and the implications of our new standards for health policy.
A selection of INTERGROWTH-21st-related news articles from around the world and information regarding press inquiries is available on our Media page.
This three module course communicates the methodology of maternal, fetal and newborn growth monitoring and the application of the INTERGROWTH-21st international growth standards to make judgement about appropriateness of growth. This course is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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(English) Introducing the INTERGROWTH-21st Project (Low Bandwidth) from Maternal Health Task Force
