Our people
| Name | Discipline | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Marjorie Atchan | Midwifery | Scholarship and learning in Midwifery, maternal postnatal support, infant health and nutrition, the Baby Friendly Health Initiative |
| Dr Julie Blackburn | Nursing | Gestational diabetes |
| Dr Mei Ying Boon | Optometry and vision science | Ocular vision, vision disorders, virtual reality |
| Dr Mary Bushell | Pharmacy | Vaccination, profession preparedness, pharmacist education |
| Prof Deborah Davis | Midwifery | Wellness, physiological birth and midwifery led care, midwifery led interventions that enhance the wellness, experience of childbearing women and their family including a healthy weight gain in pregnancy |
| Dr Angela Douglas | Exercise physiology | |
| Asst Prof Sally De Vitry-Smith | Midwifery | Complex pregnancy |
| Dr Mary-Ellen Hooper | Nursing | Healthcare systems, nursing profession, mental health |
| Dr Zahid Hussain |
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| Asst Prof Cathy Knight-Agarwal | Nutrition and Dietetics | Maternal nutrition for better mother and baby outcomes |
| Dr Ella Kurz | Midwifery | Childbirth, mental health, healthcare systems, feminist methodology |
| Dr Vivienne Lewis | Psychology | Body image, disordered eating |
| Dr Myra Leung | Optometry | Neonatal health for vision development, techniques used in optometric practice, interventions for myopia, use of digital devices, visual development and learning |
| Assoc Prof Sally Muggleton |
| Midwifery models of care, applied salutogenesis, educational curriculum design and organisational culture change |
| Dr Indira Samarawickrema | Public Health | Cardiometabolic risk factors, physical activity, childhood adversity, intimate partner violence, planning and evaluating interventions |
| Assoc Prof Alison Shield | Pharmacy | Pharmacogenetics, toxicology, medicines safety |
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Dr Sarah Spiller | Health Care Consumers’ Association, Canberra Australia |
| Professor Ellen N酶hr |
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| Professor Boon Lim | Clinical director, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children Clinical Associate Professor, Australian National 麻豆村 |
| Dr Alison Porteous | Staff Specialist, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children |
| Professor Bengt Lindstrom | Professor of Health Promotion, Nordic School of Public Health Research, G脰teburg, Sweden |
| Professor Wendy Brown | School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The 麻豆村 of Queensland |
| Professor Abdel Latif Mohamed | Professor of Neonatology, Australian National 麻豆村; Senior Neonatologist, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children |
| Professor Chris Nolan | Associate Dean (research) Australian National 麻豆村; Director of Endocrinology (2016-2018), The Canberra Hospital |
| Professor Caroline Homer AO | Co-Program Director, Maternal and Child Health, Burnet Institute |
| Dr Rati Jani | Senior Lecturer, Nutrition and Dietetics, Griffith 麻豆村 |
Honours students
| Name | Project |
|---|---|
| Jo Evans ACT Health Scholarship | Women’s unmet maternity and neonatal care needs in times of natural disaster: A systematic integrative review |
| Claire White ACT Health Scholarship | A content analysis of web-based information on the care of perineal injury |
| Jenny Owens-Roberts | Women’s experiences of pregnancy or maternity care in Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic |
| Emma Goudron ACT Health Scholarship | Is Universal Carbon Monoxide Testing in Pregnancy an Acceptable and Effective Smoking Cessation Initiative? An Integrative Systematic Review of Evidence. |
| Victoria Chard ACT Health Scholarship | Outcomes of women presenting with decreased fetal movements at Centenary Hospital for women and Children |
| Danielle Chenery ACT Health Scholarship | A systematic review of the effectiveness of different models of maternity care to support perinatal mental health |
PhD students
| Name | Project |
|---|---|
| Celia Hindmarsh | 'Elimination communication' (natural infant hygiene) |
| Noelyn Perriman | Development of a standardised validated tool to measure maternal satisfaction in a Continuity Model of Midwifery Care. |
| Rebekah Bowman | The relationship between the use of raspberry leaf in pregnancy and augmentation of labour: A prospective observational study. |
| Helena Anolak | Social Constructions of the fetus in women's 'high-risk' pregnancies: A Poststructural Discourse Analysis |
| Nicola Irwin | Probiotics and children: prevalence, perceptions, and potential. |
| Jeannine Bradow | Australian rural and remote maternity unit closures and the impact on women and midwives. |
| Catherine Bell | Rethinking birth plans: facilitating informed decision making. |