Women's Health

The Women’s Health Initiative Translational Unit (WHITU) is a group of clinicians, midwives, scientists, allied health professionals and lived experience consumers who have a common goal: to improve women’s health through research. The goals of WHITU are to maximise equity, equality, health and empowerment for all women. This is achieved through discovery and knowledge translation of evidence informed by lived experience of women that is culturally respectful and places women at the centre.

Key initiatives

• Booking in my pregnancy (BiMP): https://bimp.swslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/#/ Facilitating early pregnancy antenatal booking appointments across SWSLHD, tailoring use for pregnant women in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
• Lived experience consumer network involved in all aspects of research design
• Placenta bank for future research
• Advancing therapeutic development and expanding treatment options for women with high-risk pregnancies, such as Preeclampsia and cardiovascular health, including trialling remote blood pressure monitoring in the home
• Hyperemesis Gravidarum – managing women with severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
• Sleep apnoea in pregnancy, exploring diagnostic tool preference among pregnant women
• Co-design and implementation of new models of care in pregnancy that are clinically effective, cost effective and sustainable for Maternity services
• Pilot of shared decision-making education with maternity staff to facilitate person centred care and patient empowerment and informed decisions

Support us to support women and their unborn children.