This talk will be held with Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes, Head of Research and Development at Africa’s Voices Foundation. This presentation discusses the method and main findings of a pilot undertaken in 2015 by researchers from the University of Cambridge and Makarere University in Uganda, aimed at understanding the collective beliefs of women in the Central region of Uganda (urban and semi-urban districts) related to complications during and just after pregnancy. The research was funded by King’s College, Smuts Memorial Fund and a Wellcome Trust (grant held by Prof Moffett at the Department of Pathology).