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Our vision is to reduce the devastating impact of stillbirth for women, families and the wider community through improving care to reduce the number of stillborn babies and to reduce the impact of this loss.
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Our aim is to improve care to reduce the number of stillborn babies and to reduce the impact of this loss.
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Objectives

Our objectives are to reduce the number of stillbirths that occur after 28 weeks’ gestation, and to improve the quality of care received by families whose baby is stillborn.

Priority setting

The Stillbirth CRE program addresses major actions within the Stillbirth National Action and Implementation Plan and priorities identified in two multi-stakeholder prioritisation exercises. The Stillbirth CRE first identified research priorities for Australia  in 2015 and renewed these in 2023. 

The Stillbirth CRE research program comprises four areas and incorporates cross-cutting themes of diversity and equity:   

  1. Data to drive change. We draw on existing and novel data systems to gain comprehensive, timely data to drive practice and policy change.  
  2. Novel approaches to prevention.  We identify novel solutions through discovery science and carry out large-scale trials in stillbirth prevention.  
  3. Implementing prevention strategies. We provide scalable interventions to enable health services to reduce the gap between what is known and what is done in maternity care to reduce stillbirth.  
  4. Care Around Stillbirth and Neonatal Death (CASaND). We generate the evidence-base for implementation of effective parent-centred care following stillbirth or neonatal death in hospital and community setting throughout Australia.  

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Research priority report available below.

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Western Pacific Regional Office of the International Stillbirth Alliance
Coordinating Centre, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Alliance, Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
Level 3, Aubigny Place
Mater Research Institute
Raymond Terrace,
South Brisbane QLD 4101
The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine
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