Committees: Steering Committee
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Christine Andrews
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Dr Christine Andrews is an early career researcher and co-leads the Implementing Stillbirth Prevention Strategies and Consumer Engagement research programs. Christine joined the Stillbirth CRE in 2018 and has a background in in paediatric burn injury prevention, completing her PhD in 2018 through the University of Queensland. Christine is a perinatal implementation science researcher. Her…
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Susannah Leisher
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Susannah Hopkins Leisher spent over 20 years working on global poverty alleviation, including 10 years based in Vietnam, where she was for five years the Vietnam country representative for Oxfam Hong Kong, as well as consulting for a wide range of agencies including the UN, DFID, the World Bank and various NGOs. Subsequently she spent…
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Deanna Stuart-Butler
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Deanna Stuart-Butler, belonging to the Arabana people of South Australia is a key figure in First Nations health research, focusing on stillbirth. As Senior Advisor, Indigenous Research and Co-lead Equity and Diversity, Stillbirth CRE, she leads First Nations initiatives within the NHMRC Stillbirth CRE and the Safer Baby Bundle, enhancing First Nations health and advocates…
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Billie Bradford
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Billie Bradford is a Senior Research Officer at Mater Research and a practising midwife since 1998. For 10 years Billie was a Midwife Educator responsible for leading the perinatal and maternal mortality review at MidCentral Health in New Zealand and Local Co-ordinator for the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC). Billie completed a Masters in…
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Robin Cronin
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Robin Cronin is a PhD student researching modifiable risk factors for late stillbirth at the University of Auckland. For the last 4 years she has been the part time project coordinator on the recently completed University of Auckland, New Zealand Multicentre Stillbirth Study. Robin also works in a clinical role as team leader of the…
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Vicki Flenady
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Professor Vicki Flenady leads the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence which aims to reduce stillbirths and improve care for families when a child is stillborn through high quality research and raising community awareness. Vicki was lead author on The Lancet’s stillbirth series in 2011 and 2016. Vicki’s research…
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David Ellwood
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David Ellwood joined Griffith University in early 2013 to take up a joint appointment as Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Director of Maternal-Fetal medicine at Gold Coast Health. Prior to this he was Deputy Dean at the Australian National University Medical School in Canberra. He has held various roles within the School of Medicine…
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Philippa Middleton
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Philippa Middleton is a Principal Research Fellow in the Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children Theme of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and an Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide. As a perinatal epidemiologist and implementation scientist, she specialises in randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, research synthesis, guidelines,…
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Jonathan Morris
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Jonathan Morris is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist. Currently, Professor Morris is Director of The Kolling Institute, based at Royal North Shore Hospital. The Institute aims to embed high quality biomedical research within health to realize its mission of research discovery, development, delivery and dissemination for healthy people, healthy…
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Miranda Davies-Tuck
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Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck is a perinatal epidemiologist based at the Ritchie Centre in Melbourne and at Safer Care Victoria. Miranda combines population-based and clinical epidemiological studies with basic science research to improve our understanding of and develop strategies to prevent stillbirth. She has a particular focus on addressing disparities in stillbirth rates seen in migrant…
