Overview
- Speaking on The Borne Podcast released for World Prematurity Day, Beatrice said learning a baby may arrive early "can be incredibly lonely."
- As patron of Borne, she visited the charity’s research laboratories at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital last week under the Every Week Counts campaign.
- She also hosted a Battersea Power Station event bringing together researchers, families and supporters to spotlight current projects.
- Beatrice urged high-quality data and collaborative science, highlighting Borne’s claim that pregnancy and childbirth receive under 2% of medical research funding.
- Borne’s framing underscores the public-health stakes, citing about 60,000 UK preterm births annually and some 15 million globally, with complications a leading cause of neonatal death and lifelong disability.