Equity and Diversity

The Stillbirth CRE is committed to ​reducing inequality in prevention and care after stillbirth in Australia and the wider Western Pacific region. A focus on reducing inequity is an urgent priority identified by the Stillbirth CRE and cuts across all of our research program areas, with a number of projects focused Indigenous, migrant and refugee, and regional and rural populations.

• Drivers of stillbirth in refugee women in VIC
• Classification system for causes of perinatal deaths
• HIC Scorecard
• Improving knowledge of causes and contributors to stillbirth in Papua New Guinea
• Developing core outcomes for stillbirth (COSTIL)
• IMproving Perinatal Mortality Review and Outcomes Via Education (IMPROVE)
• An investigation into placental biomarkers of maturation and ageing in South Asian Women
• Adaptation and implementation of the Safer Baby Bundle for Indigenous women
• A new stillbirth prevention module for migrant and refugee women
• Living Literacy program
• Developing an individualised risk assessment tool for women at term
• Lived experience of Cape York Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, families and health workers in regard to stillbirth
• Stillbirth in Lao PDR
• Indigenous artwork for the Stillbirth CRE