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Strategies To Increase Breastfeeding Duration In Australia
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$285,870.00
Summary
I am a general practitioner and lactation consultant with expertise in breastfeeding research and practice. I am an international expert in nipple and breast pain in breastfeeding women, and have published widely on other clinical topics, including medications for breastfeeding women; also breastfeeding rates and factors associated with lower rates, such as maternal smoking, obesity and low-income. This fellowship allows me to look at ways to improve breastfeeding rates in Australia and to impro ....I am a general practitioner and lactation consultant with expertise in breastfeeding research and practice. I am an international expert in nipple and breast pain in breastfeeding women, and have published widely on other clinical topics, including medications for breastfeeding women; also breastfeeding rates and factors associated with lower rates, such as maternal smoking, obesity and low-income. This fellowship allows me to look at ways to improve breastfeeding rates in Australia and to improve the experience for women and their families.Read moreRead less
Immunisation Practice And Policy Development In Australia: Urgent Priorities In Prevention Of Infectious Diseases In Children, Adolescents And Pregnant Women
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$473,477.00
Summary
Our research aims to optimise protection for infants and children against serious infectious diseases causing death and disability, such as whooping cough, influenza and meningococcal disease. We will establish the safety and effectiveness of vaccines to improve protection against these infections. Our community research will determine the best ways to improve uptake of immunisation in children and in pregnant women to provide the best protection for infants and mothers.
Addressing Inequalities In Women's Health: Research, Implementation And Scale Up Of Evidence Based Care To Improve Health Outcomes
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$340,038.00
Summary
My women's reproductive health implementation research program addresses gaps in evidence based health care, builds the evidence for implementation and scale-up of effective interventions into policy and practice and drives health care improvement to deliver better health outcomes. The program focuses on i) specific groups who experience disadvantage through location or socio-economic disadvantage or health condition and ii) women at critical life stages (pre-conception and pregnancy)
Promoting Children’s Health In The Face Of Early Life Adversity: Pathways To Resilience Across The Life Course
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$419,180.00
Summary
This Fellowship will build upon my research to discover the risk and resilience pathways involved in the long-term health outcomes for Australian children experiencing stress in their early years. This research will inform the planning of better targeted policy, public health and primary health care solutions for children and families in the critical early years of children’s lives.
Defining The Optimal Nutrition In Pregnancy And Early Life To Prevent Childhood Obesity
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$428,900.00
Summary
Obesity threatens to reduce the length and quality of life of future generations and prevention is a priority. There is now good evidence that the risk a person has of becoming obese is related to the nutritional environment they experience before birth and in early infancy. My research aims to identify nutritional strategies which can be applied safely during pregnancy and infancy to help reduce body fat mass in children and improve their long term health outcomes.
Healthy Futures For Vulnerable Families: Addressing Inequalities In Maternal And Child Health Care For Refugee And Aboriginal Families
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$421,747.00
Summary
This proposal will help to determine organisational and service level factors leading to better health outcomes for Aboriginal and refugee women and their families during and after pregnancy; and develop and test interventions to reform maternity and early childhood health systems to reduce maternal and child health inequalities for vulnerable populations.
Translational Public Health Research Addressing Complex Questions In Maternal, Perinatal And Indigenous Health
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$420,872.00
Summary
The health of women during pregnancy and the first year after giving birth is critical to the health and well-being of children. This research aims to improve understanding of the causes and consequences of poor maternal health and contribute to better informed policy and practice in maternity, early postnatal and primary care services. It focuses on 3 major themes: improving women’s health after childbirth; maternity and early postnatal care; and Indigenous women’s and children’s health.
Novel Point-of-care Screening And Treatment Interventions To Improve Pregnancy Outcomes And To Prevent Cervical Cancer In High-burden, Low-income Settings
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$470,144.00
Summary
I lead newly-funded research grants worth nearly $10 million to conduct novel intervention trials in sexual and reproductive health. These projects build on the extensive collaborations and the robust nationwide network of clinical field sites that I have established in Papua New Guinea during the past five years. My research will lead to improved maternal and neonatal health outcomes, and prevent premature deaths due to cervical cancer, in high-burden, low-income settings worldwide.
Breaking The Intergenerational Cycle Of Obesity Through Nutritional Interventions
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$477,180.00
Summary
The nutritional environmental experienced by an individual before birth and in early infancy is a critical determinant of their risk of obesity and assocaited metabolic disorders in later life. Over the course of this fellowship, I will focus on defining the nutritional factors which are the key drivers of this metabolic programming. My ultimate aim is to identify nutritional interventions during pregnancy and/or early infancy which can improve the long-term health outcomes of the child and redu