She was awarded a Wellcome Trust research fellowship to train in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where she worked toward a doctoral degree.
[1] In 1992 Kurinczuk moved to Australia, where she joined the recently formed Telethon Kids Institute and worked as a perinatal epidemiologist.
[3] After seven years in Australia, Kurinczuk returned to the United Kingdom, where she was made Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester.
[4] In particular, Kurinczuk studies the origins and consequences of neonatal encephalopathy, a neurological disorder that occurs in the earliest days of life.
[7][8] She led Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK), a programme which monitored maternal deaths between 2009 and 2013.
[9] In 2015 MBRRACE-UK) showed that whilst maternal deaths were falling, women could receive better care, and suicides could be prevented.