Committees: Rural and Remote Advisory Group
Jared Watts
Jared is passionate about rural medicine and First Nation Peoples’ Health and the role of generalists and the essential role they play in ensuring all women have access to high quality clinical care close to their home, family and support networks.
Jenny Bell
Experienced rural midwife and educator Current very small rural maternity unit (caseload) clinician
Leonie McLaughlin
A registered nurse and midwife with a long-standing passion for midwifery and education, Leonie has worked in many settings of midwifery over 35 years, from tertiary settings, family birth units and very small rural maternity units. Leonie has a particular interest in midwifery-led, caseload, and continuity models of maternity care, and the positive impact midwives…
Vicki Flenady
Professor Vicki Flenady leads the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence which aims to reduce stillbirths and improve care for families when a child is stillborn through high quality research and raising community awareness. Vicki was lead author on The Lancet’s stillbirth series in 2011 and 2016. Vicki’s research…
