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Reproduction and Perinatal Centre
Transforming lives of women, babies and families for a better future
The Reproduction and Perinatal Centre (RPC) is a leading research and education Impact centre in the field of Reproduction, Endocrinology and Fertility, and Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine.
Our research focuses on the beginnings of life spanning fertility and conception into pregnancy and birth, with the aim to improve outcomes and quality of care for mothers and babies.
Our mission
Our mission is to provide the highest quality of evidence to improve outcomes and care for women prior to conception, through to pregnancy and birth and the long-term health and wellbeing of both the mother and child.
We bring together a group of established researchers in the field across the University, at the Western, Northern and Central precincts incorporating the School of Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Health Sciences and Public Health.
In addition to research and clinical expertise, we are committed to establishing teaching and post-graduate research opportunities to train the next generation of researchers and clinicians responsible for the care of women and babies and the advancement of knowledge in the field.
Our research
Our research programme lies at the nexus of what is current and what is possible for women’s and children’s health, seeking to answer some of the most challenging questions in the field.
We address important and unanswered questions covering a broad range of reproduction, pregnancy and obstetrical care issues and encourages patient participation in clinical trials and research opportunities. This includes longer term health outcomes for the mother and child.
Our work extends from discovery science to translational research programmes. We aim to develop novel approaches to improve fertility and pregnancy outcomes for individual women and families and the larger population and society. Our Centre is focused on addressing the health needs of increasingly diverse reproductive populations.
Our people
- Professor Dharmintra Pasupathy, Director
- Professor Nadia Badawi
- Professor Kirsten Black
- Professor N Wah Cheung
- Professor Adrienne Gordon
- Professor Richard Lindley
- Associate Professor Tanya Nippita
- Professor Natasha Nassar
- Emeritus Professor Tim Usherwood
- Dr Justin McNab
- Ms Sarah Melov
- Ms Sharon Eadie, Centre Manager
- Professor Dharmintra Pasupathy
- Professor Nadia Badawi
- Professor Kirsten Black
- Professor N Wah Cheung
- Professor Adrienne Gordon
- Professor Richard Lindley
- Associate Professor Tanya Nippita
- Professor Natasha Nassar
- Emeritus Professor Tim Usherwood
- Dr Justin McNab
- Ms Sarah Melov
- Dr Thora Chai
- Professor N Wah Cheung
- Dr Vanessa El-Achi
- Mr James Elhindi
- Professor Adrienne Gordon
- Dr Jackson Harrison
- Ms Judith Heads
- Ms Roslyn Hogan
- Associate Professor Vincent Lee
- Ms Tracey McCreanor
- Dr Justin McNab
- Ms Sarah Melov
- Associate Professor Tanya Nippita
- Dr Ania Samarawickrama
- Dr Jina Yoon
Education Team
- Dr Rebecca Moses
- Dr Monica Zen
- Dr Thora Chai
PhD candidate - Dr Ania Samarawickrama
MSc candidate - Dr Jina Yoon
PhD candidate - Ms Sarah Melov
PhD candidate - Dr Vanessa El-Achi
Publications
- BMJ Open: Pregnancy outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus by models of care: a retrospective cohort study.
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and the reasons for hesitancy: A multi-centre cross-sectional survey.
- BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Iatrogenic and spontaneous preterm birth in England: A population-based cohort study.
- Women and Birth: Does midwifery continuity of care make a difference to women with perinatal mental health conditions: A cohort study, from Australia.
- International Journal Of Obesity: Lifestyle intervention in obese pregnancy and cardiac remodelling in 3-year olds: children of the UPBEAT RCT.
- International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics: Fetal deaths in Brazil: What changed in the last decade and what can we learn from the current situation?
- Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice: The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and its association on adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus.
- Implementation Science: Effect of the Growth Assessment Protocol on the DEtection of Small for GestatioNal age fetus: process evaluation from the DESiGN cluster randomised trial.
- Women and Birth: Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study.
- Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition: Impact of maternal obesity on neonatal heart rate and cardiac size.
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth: Performances of birthweight charts to predict adverse perinatal outcomes related to SGA in a cohort of nulliparas.
- BMJ Open. Investigating service delivery and perinatal outcomes during the low prevalence first year of COVID-19 in a multiethnic Australian population: a cohort study.
- BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Risk of postpartum haemorrhage is associated with ethnicity: A cohort study of 981 801 births in England.
- Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology: Improving antenatal detection of small-for-gestational-age fetus: economic evaluation of Growth Assessment Protocol.
- PLOS Medicine: Evaluation of the Growth Assessment Protocol (GAP) for antenatal detection of small for gestational age: The DESiGN cluster randomised trial
- Midwifery: The BLIiNG study - Breastfeeding length and intensity in gestational diabetes and metabolic effects in a subsequent pregnancy: A cohort study
- BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Associations between ethnicity and admission to intensive care among women giving birth: a cohort study.
- British Journal of Psychiatry: Birth without intervention in women with severe mental illness: cohort study.
- British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology: Risk of postpartum haemorrhage is associated with ethnicity: A cohort study of 981 801 births in England
- Archives of Disease in Childhood: Impact of maternal obesity on neonatal heart rate and cardiac size
- Women and Birth: Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study
- British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology: Associations between ethnicity and admission to intensive care among women giving birth: a cohort study
- BMJ Open: Effectiveness of a customised mobile phone text messaging intervention supported by data from activity monitors for improving lifestyle factors related to the risk of type 2 diabetes among women after gestational diabetes: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial (SMART MUMS with smart phones 2)
- Intern Medicine Journal: Antenatal FibroScan® assessment for metabolic associated fatty liver in pregnant women at risk of gestational diabetes from a multiethnic population – a pilot study
- BMJ Open: Validation of ethnicity in administrative hospital data in women giving birth in England: cohort study
- Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy: MRI-Derived Fetal Weight Estimation in the Midpregnancy Fetus: A Method Comparison Study
- Journal of Diabetes and its Complications: The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in women diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease during pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Nutrients: Modifiable Determinants of Postpartum Weigh Loss in Women with Obesity: A Secondary Analysis of the UPBEAT Trial.
- Maternal & Child Nutrition: Infant feeding practices among macrosomic infants: A prospective cohort study.
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth: Induction of labour during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey of impact on practice in the UK
- BMJ Open: Cervical ripening at home or in-hospital - prospective cohort study and process evaluation (CHOICE) study: a protocol
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth: Waterbirth: a national retrospective cohort study of factors associated with its use among women in England
- Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice: The prevalence of metabolic associated fatty liver detected by FibroScan® in women with gestational diabetes in a multiethnic population.
- Trials: Using electronic patient records to assess the effect of a complex antenatal intervention in a cluster randomised controlled trial - data management experience from the DESiGN Trial team.
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth: Characteristics associated with uncomplicated pregnancies in women with obesity: a population-based cohort study.
- BMC Medical Genomics: A hemizygous mutation in the FOXP3 gene (IPEX syndrome) resulting in recurrent X-linked fetal hydrops: a case report.
- BMJ: Risk of complicated birth at term in nulliparous and multiparous women using routinely collected maternity data in England: cohort study.
- BMJ Open: Costing the impact of Interventions during pregnancy in the UK: a systematic review of economic evaluations.
- Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal: Neonatal admission and mortality in babies born in UK alongside midwifery units: a national population-based case-control study using the UK Midwifery Study System (UKMidSS).
- Prenatal Diagnosis: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and epidemiological characteristics associated with prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease.
- Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology: Effects and side effects of maternal administration of indomethacin for fetal tricuspid valve dysplasia.
- Scientific Reports: Risk stratification for small for gestational age for the Brazilian population: a secondary analysis of the Birth in Brazil study.
- Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology: Gestational diabetes: opportunities for improving maternal and child health.
- PLOS ONE: Metabolic phenotyping by treatment modality in obese women with gestational diabetes suggests diverse pathophysiology: An exploratory study
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