CONTENTS

Bold Thinking Series Family Violence and Alcohol: where to from here?

Ringing Up about Breastfeeding (RUBY): a randomised controlled trial exploring early telephone peer support for breastfeeding Continuity of care by a primary midwife (caseload midwifery) increases women’s satisfaction with antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care – more findings from the COSMOS randomised controlled trial

‘Supporting breastfeeding In Local Communities’ (SILC) Bold Thinking Early Home Learning Study (EHLS) at Family Violence and Alcohol: where to from here? School Angela Taft Postgraduate Updates La Trobe University is running a series of high profile public forums called the Global Burden Disease (GBD) Technical ‘Bold Thinking’ series at the Clemenger Auditorium of the National Gallery on St. Training Workshop Kilda Road. The intent is to showcase the progressive and relevant up-to-date thinking of La Trobe academics. The series began with a public forum between Work and Family Research Network Emeritus Professor Robert Manne and Waleed Aly. Conference, Washington DC, 23-25 June, 2016 On Thursday 19th May, Judith Lumley Centre Director Professor Angela Taft, joined social commentator and feminist writer Clementine Ford, Police Deputy 2016 NNVAWI Conference: Commissioner Capability Wendy Steendam APM and Dr. Anne Marie Laslett Strengthening healthcare systems to from the Centre for Alcohol Policy and Research, in a forum entitled ‘Family promote safety and health of women Violence and Alcohol: where to from here?’ The event was opened by the Vice- and families Chancellor Professor John Dewar, chaired by Frances Leach and well attended with lively debate and discussion about this ‘wicked’ combination of social problems.

To watch the live stream of the Bold Thinking Series, follow the link below: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/bold-thinking/stream

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NEWS IN BRIEF

New Appointments Congratulations to Helen McLachlan who has been appointed to the leadership role of Site Director (Bundoora) for the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Congratulations to Michelle Newton who has been appointed as the Director of Teaching and Learning, School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Graduation and awards

Ringing Up about Breastfeeding (RUBY): a randomised controlled trial exploring early telephone peer support for breastfeeding Fiona McLardie-Hore

Breastfeeding is important for both mothers and babies, and although most start breastfeeding, many stop sooner than they had planned. Evidence on how to maintain breastfeeding in countries with intermediate to high breastfeeding initiation is sparse and many strategies aimed at increasing breastfeeding duration have not been successful. RUBY is Congratulations to Leesa Hooker, who the first Australian randomised controlled trial exploring if early telephone peer recently graduated with her PhD. Her thesis support helps women to continue breastfeeding, and is based on research by publication was titled Strengthening conducted by Professor Cindy-Lee Dennis in Canada. The maternal & child health nursing practice for study is a collaboration between La Trobe University, the women and children experiencing family Royal Women’s Hospital and Breastfeeding violence. She was supervised by Professors Association, with recruitment of participants from the Royal Angela Taft and Rhonda Small. Women’s Hospital, Monash Health and Western Health, Kristina Evardsson won the Perinatal Society Sunshine. Funding was provided by the Felton Bequest. of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) New Investigator Award, Best Poster Over the past three years, 237 volunteers have been trained to provide Presentation, Epidemiology and Public breastfeeding support to the new mothers participating in the study who have Health at the PSANZ 2016 20th Annual been randomly allocated to receive this telephone support. The volunteers call Congress, Townsville, Australia. The title of mothers frequently in the early weeks after birth, when women are more likely her oral and poster presentation was to stop breastfeeding, with less frequent calls up until six months. Heather Physicians’ experiences and views on the role Grimes has been coordinating the volunteer program and is exploring the peer of obstetric ultrasound in rural and urban volunteers’ perspective, collecting data from volunteer call logs, an online Rwanda: a qualitative study. survey and focus groups, as part of her “Pass it on” sub-study.

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Recruitment of all 1152 participants concluded in December 2015, with over Staff news 1000 follow-up interviews completed so far and 348 completed surveys about We warmly welcome two women’s experiences of peer support. We expect to finish collecting all the new staff members to JLC, study data by September this year. For my PhD research, I will be exploring who are working across a women’s experience and satisfaction of receiving peer support, through data number of projects within collected from the experience of peer support surveys and face to face the Transition to interviews with participants. Contemporary Parenthood Program. Jasmine Love Two conference abstracts have been accepted for oral presentation at the 31st started working at JLC in triennial congress of the International Confederation of Midwives in Toronto March on the ‘EHLS@School’ project. 2017. Della Forster will be presenting the primary outcomes and I will be presenting women’s satisfaction with telephone peer support for breastfeeding. Dr Stacey Hokke started at the Centre in May and is Chief Investigators: Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Mary-Ann Davey, Lisa Amir, working on two projects - Lisa Gold, Rhonda Small ‘Families@Work’ and Associate Investigators: Kate Mortensen (ABA), Nanette Shone (ABA), Anita ‘Recruiting and tracing Moorhead (Women’s), Patrice Hickey (Sunshine), Jenny Tenni (Sunshine), Fiona research participants via McLardie-Hore (Women’s), Cindy-Lee Dennis, Chris East (MMC), Heather Grimes social media: feasibility and ethics’. (JLC)

We also welcome our new administrative officer, Taylyn Hulse. She started in May and has a background in Continuity of care by a primary midwife psychological research (caseload midwifery) increases women’s administration within American Universities. satisfaction with antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care – more findings In the first half of this year, JLC farewelled from the COSMOS randomised controlled two significant staff members who trial contributed greatly to the research work and to the supportive culture of the centre. Della Forster Firstly, Simone Pakin, who has been the Continuity of care by a primary midwife during the antenatal, intrapartum and driving force of sound postpartum periods has been recommended in Australia, and many hospitals administration and social have introduced a caseload midwifery model of care. The model includes wellbeing in the centre antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care from a primary midwife with back- for the past five years, up provided by another known midwife when necessary. We conducted the left to join her husband COSMOS (COmparing Standard Maternity care with One to one midwifery in his business. Simone had the formal title Support) randomised controlled trial (the world’s largest trial of caseload of Research and Grants Officer, but her midwifery and the first in Australia) and found that women allocated to care ability to organise efficient systems for with a known midwife had better outcomes overall compared with women who recording our work, to organise our rooms received usual care, and their babies did as well. Women had fewer caesarean and resources, to maintain and beautifully births, and fewer interventions in labour and birth overall. Their babies were less design our website and publications and likely to be admitted to the special care or neonatal unit, and less likely to have a keep them up to date, was fundamental to low weight at birth. Women also reported a better experience in many aspects the successful public face of the Judith latrobe.edu.au/jlc 3 CRICOS Provider 00115M

Lumley Centre. More than this, Simone of their birth, for example they were more likely to say they were proud of with her generosity of spirit and her themselves and less likely to feel negative about labour and birth. organisational skills contributed to the social wellbeing of the centre, organising Another aspect we explored in the COSMOS study was the effect of caseload Christmas in July, decorating the centre, midwifery on women’s satisfaction with care across the maternity continuum. making sure gifts reached those whose We asked women’s views using a questionnaire when we first recruited them to event it was, and keeping us clean and the study, and by a follow-up questionnaire sent at two months after the birth. well-organised. “You know I’m Austrian”, We recruited 2,314 women attending the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne she would say. She is much missed. to the trial, and of these, 1,156 were allocated to receive caseload care and

1,158 were allocated to the standard options of care. Compared with standard Our second farewell was care, caseload care was associated with higher overall ratings of satisfaction to Mridula Shankar. Her Masters from Berkeley with antenatal care. University in the US on sexual and reproductive Our conclusion was that for women at low risk of medical complications, rights and services in caseload midwifery increases women’s satisfaction with antenatal, intrapartum India, in addition to her and postpartum care. For more details, you can read the full article, which is interest and published in an open-access journal. The reference is below. commitment to public health and women’s human rights made Funding: NHMRC Project Grant her an ideal Research Fellow for the JLC Citation: Forster DA, McLachlan HL, Davey M-A, Biro MA, Farrell T, Gold L, Flood Director, Angela Taft. Mridula coordinated M, Shafiei T, Waldenström U. Continuity of care by a primary midwife (caseload the study of access and equity to midwifery) increases women's satisfaction with antenatal, intrapartum and medication in Australia and also postpartum care. The COSMOS randomised controlled trial. BMC Pregnancy and the feasibility study of Harmony - the trial Childbirth: 2016; 16: 28. of a GP system intervention pairing bilingual GPs with bilingual advocates to reduce and prevent family violence in South Asian communities. Mridula’s thoroughness, intelligence, attention to ‘Supporting breastfeeding In Local Communities’ (SILC) detail and great personal charm ensured that the studies were well conducted and completed. She leaves us to commence a Helen McLachlan PhD in Global Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Breastfeeding provides infants with the optimal start to life, yet despite recommendations from the World Health Organization and high rates Congratulations to Dr. Liz Westrupp and of breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding for six months is uncommon her partner Dave on the birth of their in Australia. Increased breastfeeding support at home early in the postpartum daughter Daphne in July. period may improve breastfeeding maintenance.

The Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) provided funding to try two ideas aimed at increasing breastfeeding duration in Local Government Areas (LGAs) in , and to compare them with usual care women received. ‘Supporting breastfeeding In Local Communities’ (SILC) was a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating whether two specific community-based interventions would increase the percentage of women continuing to feed at least some breast milk in those LGAs. Ten LGAs with a lower than average rate of any breastfeeding at hospital

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Visitors discharge; more than 450 births per year; and that agreed to participate were randomly allocated to one of three trial arms: Dr. Jane Koziol-McLain Professor Jane Koziol- 1. Standard care; or McLain is Professor of 2. Early postnatal home-based breastfeeding support visits to women at Nursing, and Director of risk of breastfeeding cessation; or the Centre for 3. Home-based breastfeeding support visits plus access to community- Interdisciplinary Trauma based breastfeeding drop-in centres. Research, Auckland University of Technology. Home visits were conducted by experienced Maternal and Child Health Nurses Her internationally (SILC-MCHNs). Breastfeeding drop-in centres were staffed by SILC-MCHNs. The renowned research interventions ran for a nine-month period from July 2012 to March 2013. focuses on improving the health system response to violence against women and children, especially among culturally Compared with the women in LGAs which had care as usual, there was no diverse communities. Professor Koziol- difference in breastfeeding at four months in the women in LGAs who had extra McLain has led research documenting the home visits, nor in women in LGAs with home visits plus drop-in centres. There prevalence of partner violence among was also no difference in breastfeeding at three or six months, nor in any LGA women in the New Zealand health care before and after the intervention. setting and consulted for the UNFPA on violence against women in the Asia-Pacific, Study findings including Vanuatu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands Four LGAs were randomised to the comparison arm and provided usual care and Fiji. She has worked in teams that have (n=2414 women); three LGAs were randomized to home visits (n=2281 women); investigated health care site-based partner and three LGAs to home visits plus drop-in centres (n=2344 women). violence screening acceptability and effectiveness, measured nursing Early home-based and community-based support proved difficult to implement. professional family violence curriculum in Interventions to increase breastfeeding in complex community settings require the tertiary sector, and evaluated policy sufficient time and partnership building for successful implementation. We and employers’ responses to family cannot conclude that additional community-based support is ineffective in violence. improving breastfeeding maintenance given the low level of adherence to the Jane visited the JLC for several weeks in planned protocol. May, gave seminars in Franklin St and Bundoora and met with scholars interested Publications to date: in family violence and health system 1. McLachlan HL, Forster DA, Amir LH, Cullinane M, Shafiei T, Watson L, research. Jane is returning to the JLC in Ridgway L, Cramer R, Small R. Supporting breastfeeding In Local October to further this developing work Communities (SILC) in Victoria, Australia: a cluster randomised and to give a plenary presentation at the controlled trial. BMJ Open 2016;6 (2) :e008292 doi:10.1136/bmjopen- Nursing Network on Violence International 2015-008292. (NNVAWI) conference, hosted by La Trobe University School of Nursing and Midwifery 2. Ridgeway L, Cramer R, McLachlan HL, Forster DA, Cullinane M, Shafiei through JLC. T, Amir LH. Breastfeeding support in the early postpartum: Content of home visits in the SILC Trial. Birth, accepted 8 June 2016.

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Dr. Cindy Lee Dennis Professor Cindy-Lee Early Home Learning Study (EHLS) at School Dennis visited JLC for 2 weeks in early 2016. Meabh Cullinane During her visit, she worked with Touran EHLS at School is a follow-up of the Early Home Learning Study (EHLS), which ran Shafiei and the from 2010 to 2013 in Local Government Areas across Victoria. EHLS was a research team from cluster randomised controlled trial of a parenting support program called JLC to develop smalltalk, and aimed to identify the best way to support parents experiencing research proposals and grant applications about peer support intervention to prevent difficult social circumstances to create a rich home learning environment for perinatal depression and anxiety. She also their young children. More than 2000 Victorian parents of children aged from presented two seminars, titled: ‘Mothering birth to three years participated in EHLS. The findings showed that, compared to transitions research program” and “How to controls, smalltalk participants had greater gains in parent-child interactions, develop an international program of the home environment and children's communication and social skills at the end research’. of program delivery and at a 5-month follow-up.

Cindy-Lee is an international leader in EHLS at School follows the original EHLS cohort up between 7 – 8 years of age, maternal mental health. She is a Professor and aims to investigate whether positive early effects of the smalltalk program at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of are sustained to early school-age. Data are being collected from parents, Nursing, University of Toronto. She holds a children and their teachers. Data collection began in January 2016 and will Canada Research Chair in Perinatal continue until the end of 2018. Community Health at the University of Toronto and the Shirley Brown Chair in A major focus of the study is a home visit to collect data from parents and Women’s Mental Health Research at the children. In January 2016 an initial mail-out was sent to 991 families providing Women’s College Research Institute in them with information about the study and inviting them to update their partnership with University of Toronto’s contact details. Since then, the research team has been busy contacting all Psychiatry Department and the Centre for families to update their contact details, book assessments that are due, and Addiction and Mental Health. Her research identify families who will require additional effort to trace. The team began focus areas include: detecting, preventing and treating perinatal depression and conducting home visits in April 2016, and has since collected data from anxiety; examining the health of immigrant approximately 80 families, with more assessments due before the end of 2016. mothers and infants; developing The team is looking forward to a busy end to 2016, and will begin collecting data postpartum interventions that include from teachers and schools in August 2016. fathers and improving breastfeeding outcomes. Funding: EHLS at School has been funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Project between the research team at La Trobe University (LTU), Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), Deakin

University, and University of Technology (QUT) and the Victorian Department of Education and Training.

Research Team: Jan Nicholson (LTU), Elizabeth Westrupp (LTU), Naomi Hackworth (LTU), Sheena Reilly (Griffith University), Fiona Mensah (MCRI),

Penny Levickis (MCRI), Lisa Gold (Deakin), Donna Berthelsen (QUT)

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Postgraduate updates: Grants

Angela Taft and Ingrid Wilson joined with the A new informal lunchtime education session for HDR students has commenced Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) to at JLC: ‘Nuts & Bolts’. The session runs once a month and focuses on sharing win significant funding from a La Trobe information about the basics of undertaking a higher degree by research, and University Centre of Excellence bid designed further encouraging a supportive postgraduate culture. ‘Nuts & Bolts’ is the to bring together scholars from differing creation of PhD Candidate, Maggie Flood. schools and colleges with national and international colleagues around major public challenges. They are currently New Student Perspective: drawing up a development plan for the next two years to establish their program titled Sara Stelfox Tackling domestic violence and alcohol misuse: a multidisciplinary research program I am very happy to be undertaking my PhD here at Judith toward strategies to prevent and reduce Lumley Centre. It has taken more time than I anticipated to alcohol-related domestic violence. take the leap and now that I have, I am excited by the opportunity to share journeys with fellow students and Leesa Hooker received MAEVe/MSEI Seed researchers here. I am looking forward to a valuable and Funding, University of Melbourne & unique professional and personal journey, an opportunity to Western Health for My Safety App: Scoping develop new skills and become connected with a wider a safety and communication app for children network of researchers working in women’s health. I am experiencing family violence. studying part-time and I am a midwifery lecturer and course coordinator at another university. My practice background is almost entirely International Conference midwifery based and I enjoyed working in all midwifery areas but concentrated Presentations on the care of women and their babies after birth. I have held clinical and education based roles in hospitals and have always enjoyed working with students and newly graduated midwives, this led to roles in universities and Work and Family Research Network (WFRN) eventually to JLC. Conference, Washington, DC: My PhD will focus on postnatal depression and ways to better support women

by using technology to reduce isolation and improve social connectedness. Jan Nicholson: How parents’ income, time and job quality affect children’s health and Postnatal depression and anxiety have a significant impact on women, partners development. Work and Family Research and the wider family and remains tainted by stigma and other barriers to Network Conference, Washington, DC. 23- seeking help. Overcoming these barriers to be able to improve women’s access 25 June, 2016 to effective support and treatment can help to improve women’s experiences Paper presented as part of a symposium: and the outcomes for their children. Parents’ Work Conditions, Parenting and Child Development. Sara is supervised by Helen McLachlan, Della Forster, and Touran Shafiei.

Amanda Cooklin: Change and stability in work-family conflict and mothers’ and fathers’ mental health: longitudinal evidence from an Australian cohort. Work Global Burden Disease (GBD) Technical Training Workshop and Family Research Network Conference, Washington, DC. 23-25 June, 2016 Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla In May 2016, I had the opportunity to attend the Global Burden Disease (GBD) Technical Training Workshop which was hosted by the Institute for Health

Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington. The workshop

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Cattram Nguyen: Missing data in analyses was held in Greece and the IHME provided full financial support for my of work-family conflict: a case study using participation. Professor Emmanuela Gakidou, Global Health Director and data from the Longitudinal Study of Academic Development and Training of the IHME, and her team delivered the Australian Children. Work and Family opening speech to 65 participants. Participants were from a diverse range of Research Network Conference, lower, middle and higher income countries across the world. Professor Washington, DC. 23-25 June, 2016 Christopher J.L. Murray, Director of the IHME, led the closing ceremony and Papers presented as part of a symposium: explained the future directions and work of the GBD. Work and family health and wellbeing.

The workshop focused on diseases and injuries across countries, which

produced a diverse set of comparisons defined by time, age and gender. The International Society on Early Intervention intensity and engagement of this workshop enabled participants to have an (ISEI) Conference, Stockholm: interactive exchange of ideas in relation to mortality, causes of death, non-fatal Naomi Hackworth: What influences outcomes, and risk factors. During this workshop, I also expanded my skills to parental engagement in early intervention? utilise and analyse data with the GBD advanced methodological framework. Predictors of recruitment, enrolment, Using GBD data, I learned how to predict health trends over time, identify health retention, and involvement of vulnerable inequalities and risk factors, as well as estimate figures such as years lived with families. International Society on Early disability (YLDs), years of life lost (YLLs), disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), Intervention Conference: Stockholm, and healthy life expectancy (HALE). These skills and figures can have a high Sweden. 8-10 June, 2016. impact on intervention implementation and policy decision making in relation to GBD. I look forward to applying these new skills during my PhD studies and in Jan Nicholson: A cluster randomised the future. controlled trial of an early home learning intervention for disadvantaged children: Everyone is welcome to be part of the GDB by joining the GBD collaborator outcomes and implications for network at: http://www.healthdata.org/gbd implementation. International Society on Early Intervention Conference: Stockholm, Sweden. 8-10 June, 2016. Papers presented as part of a symposium:

Collaboration and co-production: supporting disadvantaged families through universal early childhood services.

Shannon Bennetts: Comparing parent- reported and directly-measured child language and parenting behaviors. International Society on Early Intervention Conference: Stockholm, Sweden. 8-10 June, 2016

Beatriz (Front row, 4th from the right) and other workshop attendees

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Lunchtime seminars Work and Family Research Network Conference, We hold lunchtime seminars on the first Washington DC, 23-25 June, 2016 Wednesday of every month from February to December, from 12.30 - 1.30 pm and Amanda Cooklin extra seminars at alternative times. These seminars showcase the work of our The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is an international colleagues as well as national and membership organization of interdisciplinary work and family international academics and researchers researchers. Members of the Transition to Contemporary Parenthood Team visiting the Centre. (Amanda Cooklin, Jan Nicholson, Cattram Nguyen) with partners from Australian National University (Lyndall Strazdins, Liana Leach, Huong Dinh) and University Massachusetts Amherst, USA (Maureen Perry-Jenkins; Rachel Hermann; Hillary Upcoming seminars: Halpern) had two symposia accepted for presentation at the WFRN bi-ennial conference held in Washington DC in June, 2016. Aug 3 Laura Biggs, PhD Candidate, Judith

Lumley Centre: A mixed method The first symposium “Work and Family Health and Wellbeing” was presided by evaluation of the PANDA Perinatal Lyndall Strazdins who outlined the pathways through which the work-family Anxiety and Depression Australia interface influences family life and health outcomes. Two papers then evidenced National Perinatal Depression this model showing a link between work-family conflict and parents’ mental Helpline health (or depression) from the transition to parenthood and beyond. The third Sep 7 Dr. Carla Pascoe, Historical and paper presented a phenomenon common to all cohort studies - the handling of Philosophical Studies, The missing data – and showed the implications of various treatments on study University of Melbourne, results. Tammy Allen (University of South Florida) led the Discussion for this Memories of maternal transition: session. the history of becoming a mother in Australia since 1945 The second symposium, ‘Parents’ work conditions, parenting and child development’, comprised of three papers examining how conditions of Oct 5 Dr. Kay Cook, Centre for Applied employment, including work hours and work-family conflict are related to both Social Research, RMIT University, parenting quality and children’s developmental outcomes across Australia and Impact of social policy on USA. Jan Nicholson gave an overview of the importance of longitudinal cohort relationships between the state, data to address these questions and Maureen Perry-Jenkins led the discussion. individuals and families

Nov 2 Associate Professor Lisa Amir, The overall goal of these symposia was to highlight how work conditions shape Judith Lumley Centre, parents’ health and child development and, in so doing, highlight potential sites Breastfeeding in public for workplace interventions that can support working parents. Dec 7 Professor Sue McDonald, Judith Lumley Centre, Estimated blood I was invited to present a paper in a third symposium, ‘Work and family in relation to health and wellbeing’, organised by Dr Mara Yerkes (University of loss in the birth pool Utecht, The Netherlands). I presented the paper, ‘What matters for working fathers? Job Characteristics, work-family conflict and enrichment and fathers’ postpartum mental health’. For more information, please refer to our website at www.latrobe.edu.au/jlc/news- events/seminars-and-clubs

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Strengthening healthcare systems to promote safety and In the media health of women and families Amanda Cooklin was interviewed by Jon Faine on ABC 774 on 19 April, discussing 21st Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International mothers’ and fathers’ work-family conflict Conference 2016 and the effect on their health and wellbeing. She was also interviewed on radio in Sydney Professor Angela Taft, Director of the Judith Lumley Centre, is chairing and and Perth on 4 March, commenting on coordinating the 21st Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International fathers’ low use of paternity leave in Conference, which will be held 26 - 28 October 2016 in Melbourne. Australia following the release of an OECD Save the date! report. Keynote Speakers: Della Forster was interviewed by The Herald Sun for her reunion with a Corowa woman . Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno, MD, MSc, World Health Organization, she cared for 23 years ago. This woman was Geneva, Switzerland born premature at 25 weeks and was only . Prof Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins School of the size of a pen. The feature highlighted Nursing, Baltimore, USA the excellent care at the Royal Women’s . Prof Jane Koziol-McLain, PhD, RN, Auckland University of Hospital. http://tinyurl.com/glrlbc7 Technology, Auckland, New Zealand . Prof Kelsey Hegarty, MBBS, FRACGP, DipRACOG, PhD, Department of Lisa Amir was featured in an interview General Practice, University of Melbourne, Australia about her career and research. See the link . Ms Rosie Batty, Family violence campaigner, Australian of the Year to The RED Alert blog to read the article. 2015 http://tinyurl.com/hgqobps Early Bird Registration ends 31 August 2016.

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