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The most dangerous day of your life is the day you are born.
If you’re a woman, the second most dangerous day is when you have a baby.

What happens to a foetus affects the health outcomes for multiple generations.
In the broader South Western Sydney area, 30% of women booking for maternity care have some higher risk and need more specialist care.
Many women in the community face challenges accessing this care, due to having English as a second language or cultural background.

Predicting and preventing preeclampsia (20% of pregnant women)
Predicting and preventing Gestational Diabetes (15% of pregnant women)
Establishing a comprehensive first trimester screening program in SWS where screening rates are drastically low
Identifying severe heart problems early
Preventing preterm and still births by
- Using machine learning to develop predictive models
- Reducing the rate of late stillbirth (which affects 1 in 300 women) through innovative “point of care” biochemical testing
- Better triage of ongoing risk to a pregnancy, which we believe can reduce the stillbirth rate by 50%
- Researching the vaginal “microbiome” to predict risk

Support us to make childbirth safer for mothers and babies.

Lead, Obstetrics and Women’s Health Research
Ingham Institute

We aim to improve health outcomes for the foetus, the baby, the mother and future generations of women and children.

Professor Jon Hyett