Our People

Ms Bianca Ryan

Research Midwife

Mr Elias Roro

PhD student

Ms Kelly Merchant 

Bears of Hope Co-representative

Ms Ashley Pade

Research Assistant

Ms Rebecca Leonard 

Bears of Hope Co-representative 

Ms Till Heike 

Bereaved parent; Red Nose representative 

Ms Kirstin Tindal

Senior Research Assistant; PhD Candidate

Ms Hannah Fitzpatrick 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Sophie Hickingbotham 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Rachel Hill 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Steph Chaumont 

Bereaved Parent

Ms Jules Mallia 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Monique Lumley 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Kylie Stewart 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Sarah Jade Matheson

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Kiralee Innes 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Emily Judd 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Sarah Lawrence 

Bereaved Parent 

Ms Edith Drajkopyl 

Bereaved Parent 

Dr Sarah Henry

Research Manager

Ms Jacqui Freeman

Research Midwife in Migrant and Refugee Health

Dr Michelle Carty

Senior Research Assistant

Ms Mu Cheng

Research Assistant

Professor

Fabricio Costa

Consultant at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, Gold Coast University Hospital; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Griffith University

Ms Hayley Nisbet

Research Support Officer

Ms Sarah Graham

Epidemiologist

Ms Megan Weller 

Research Midwife and Education Manager

Dr Aleena Wojcieszek

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Ms Meghna Bhamidipati

Research Assistant

Ms Dominah Devadas

Research Support Officer

Ms Cheryl Bailey

PhD Candidate

Ms Natasha Cocker

Education Coordinator

Ms Jacinda Wilson

Senior Research Assistant

Ms Ashleigh Rousseaux

Community Engagement Manager - QLD

Ms Emma Porter

Clinical Midwifery Consultant

Professor

Joshua Vogel

Burnet Institute - Co-Program Director, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health; Co-Head, Global Women’s and Newborn’s Health Group; Senior Principal Research Fellow

Ms Cherie Martin

Clinical Midwife; Research Midwife

Ms Elahe Nikooharf Salehi

Research Assistant

Mr Louis de Waal

Research Assistant

Professor

Vicki Flenady

Director; Co-lead Risk Factors; Co-lead Implementation; Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth - Stillbirth CRE

Professor

David Ellwood

Co-director; Co-lead Risk Factors; Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth (Stillbirth CRE)

Professor

Sue Walker

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne; Stillbirth CRE

Dr Siobhan Loughnan

Postdoctoral researcher and Co-Lead of the Care Around Stillbirth and Neonatal Death research program.

Professor

Alexander Heazell

University of Manchester

Professor

Gordon Smith

Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Associate Professor

Philippa Middleton

Co-lead Implementation, Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth (Stillbirth CRE)

Associate Professor

Brad Farrant

Bereaved parent; Researcher

Ms Claire Storey

Co-Chair, International Stillbirth Alliance

Ms Poliana Medeiros

PhD Candidate

Associate Professor

Carrington Shepherd

Indigenous Health research, Curtin University

Ms Tania Marsden

PhD Candidate

Professor

Declan Devane

Professor of Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Professor

Jan Jaap Erwich

Gynaecologist-Perinatologist, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Professor

Caroline Homer

Co-Program Director, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health; Working Group Head, Burnet Institute

Dr Sean Seeho

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal North Shore Hospital; University of Sydney

Professor

Belinda Jennings

Midwifery, Northern Territory Department of Health

Dr Jessica Sexton

Senior Research Fellow

Ms Laura Singline

Research Assistant

Professor

Robert Silver

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, United States

Dr Margaret Murphy

Midwife and lecturer in Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland

Dr Katy Gold

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dr Dimitrios Siassakos

Consultant Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics, University of Bristol

Dr Hannah Blencowe

Lecturer, Paediatrician, Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Ms Susannah Leisher

Honorary Fellow

Ms Ann Lancaster

Psychologist

Dr Rupesh Gautam

Research Associate

Dr Christine Andrews

Postdoctoral researcher; Co- lead’s the Implementing Stillbirth Prevention Strategies and Consumer Engagement research programs

Ms Valerie Ah Chee

Indigenous Research Midwife

Ms Leonie McLaughlin

CRANAPlus

Ms Robin Cronin

Research Midwife Specialist

Ms Billie Bradford

Senior Research Officer

Ms Deanna Stuart-Butler

Senior Advisor – Indigenous Research

Dr Danielle Pollock

Bereaved parent; Researcher

Professor

Michael Coory

Biostatistician

Associate Professor

Fran Boyle

Co-lead Care After Stillbirth, Stillbirth CRE

Professor

Sailesh Kumar

Co-lead Prediction and Placenta, Stillbirth CRE

Professor

Adrienne Gordon

Co-lead Risk Factors; Lead Public Awareness Stillbirth CRE

Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck

NHMRC/Stillbirth CRE Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Perinatal Epidemiologist, Hudson Institute of Medical Research - Ritchie Centre

Professor

Jonathan Morris

Co-lead Research Capacity Development; Co-lead Care After Stillbirth; Stillbirth CRE

Associate Professor

Emily Callander

Health Economics

Professor

Vicki Clifton

Co-lead: Placental biomarkers of pregnancies at risk of stillbirth, Stillbirth CRE