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Name	Discipline	Research interests
Dr Marjorie Atchan	Midwifery	Scholarship and learning in Midwifery, maternal postnatal support, infant health and nutrition, the Baby Friendly Health Initiative View Marjorie's profile
Dr Julie Blackburn	Nursing	Gestational diabetes View Julie's profile
Dr Mei Ying Boon	Optometry and vision science	Ocular vision, vision disorders, virtual reality View Mei Ying's profile
Dr Mary Bushell	Pharmacy	Vaccination, profession preparedness, pharmacist education View Mary's profile
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 View Deborah's profile
Dr Angela Douglas	Exercise physiology
Asst Prof Sally De Vitry-Smith	Midwifery	Complex pregnancy View Sally's profile
Dr Mary-Ellen Hooper	Nursing	Healthcare systems, nursing profession, mental health View Mary-Ellen's profile
Dr Zahid Hussain	Pharmacy
Asst Prof Cathy Knight-Agarwal	Nutrition and Dietetics	Maternal nutrition for better mother and baby outcomes View Cathy's profile
Dr Ella Kurz	Midwifery	Childbirth, mental health, healthcare systems, feminist methodology View Ella's profile
Dr Vivienne Lewis	Psychology	Body image, disordered eating View Vivienne's profile
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 View Myra's profile
Assoc Prof Sally Muggleton	Midwifery	Midwifery models of care, applied salutogenesis, educational curriculum design and organisational culture change View Sally's profile
Dr Indira Samarawickrema	Public Health	Cardiometabolic risk factors, physical activity, childhood adversity, intimate partner violence, planning and evaluating interventions View Indira's profile
Assoc Prof Alison Shield	Pharmacy	Pharmacogenetics, toxicology, medicines safety View Alison's profile

Name	Position
Dr Sarah Spiller	Health Care Consumers’ Association, Canberra Australia
Professor Ellen Nøhr	Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
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
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
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. What women value in the midwifery continuity of care model: A systematic review with meta-synthesis Measuring maternal satisfaction with maternity care: A systematic integrative review. What is the most appropriate, reliable and valid tool that can be used to measure maternal satisfaction with continuity of maternity care?
Rebekah Bowman	The relationship between the use of raspberry leaf in pregnancy and augmentation of labour: A prospective observational study. Women's motivation, perception and experience of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: A meta-synthesis
Helena Anolak	Social Constructions of the fetus in women's 'high-risk' pregnancies: A Poststructural Discourse Analysis What's wrong with using the F word? A systematic integrative review of how the fetus is talked about in situations of fetal demise or high risk of fetal loss Our bodies, our choices: Australian law on foetal personhood
Nicola Irwin	Probiotics and children: prevalence, perceptions, and potential. Probiotic supplementation in well children: A scoping review
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.