Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Maternity care in the bush: using the Internet to provide educational resources to isolated practitioners

Sue  Kildea

Sue Kildea

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, supplied data, collected data, input data, wrote the first draft

position: Associate Professor Midwifery

Australia

Midwifery, maternity services, Indigenous health, maternal mortality and morbidity


Lesley  Barclay

Prof Emer Lesley Barclay

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts, supervised data collection

position: Professor Health Services Development

Lesley Barclay (AO PhD) is the foundation Professor of Health Services Development at Charles Darwin University and co directs a new Graduate School of Health Practice. As the Chief Investigator she guided medical and midwifery colleagues in one of the first National Health and Medical Research Council Centres of Clinical Excellence in Research focusing on improvements to maternity services. She is currently leading research into maternity services in China funded by ARC in partnership Chinese colleagues, and on Indigenous birth and systems to support this in Australia. Lesley has led over 30 research projects and been successful with 8 NHMRC and ARC grants in the last decade, supervising more than 30 major research theses to successful completion. Five of her graduates are now in professorial positions. In recent years she has published 3 books, 25 refereed journal articles and 15 major reports for government. Lesley has worked in International development for nearly 20 years, as a technical adviser to governments, AusAID, World Bank and WHO, in provision of primary health car, maternal infant/child health and capacity building in health worker education systems. This work has occurred in Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific Islands. Lesley has also served on a variety of national committees such as the NHMRC Council for two terms and was an inaugural ministerial appointee to the Australian Council for Safety and Quality. She was awarded an AO in 2004 in recognition of her contribution to professional and international developments and child health.


Pat  Brodie

Pat Brodie

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Professor of Midwifery Practice Development & Research


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