Our people
Name | Discipline | Research interests |
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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 |
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Dr Sarah Spiller | Health Care Consumers’ Association, Canberra Australia |
Professor Ellen Nøhr |
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Professor Boon Lim | Clinical director, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children Clinical Associate Professor, Australian National University |
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, GÖteburg, Sweden |
Professor Wendy Brown | School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland |
Professor Abdel Latif Mohamed | Professor of Neonatology, Australian National University; Senior Neonatologist, Centenary Hospital for Women and Children |
Professor Chris Nolan | Associate Dean (research) Australian National University; 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 University |
Honours students
Name | Project |
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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 |
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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. |