Sue Kildea

Dr, Professor

Research Focussed Professorial Fellow, CDU College of Nursing and Midwifery

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8591-4968

Registered to supervise postgraduate research

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Sue Kildea is an internationally renowned midwifery and health services researcher with collaborative projects across Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK. Specialising in midwifery and maternity services, remote and First Nations health she has projects redesigning maternity services; Birthing on Country services; new methods of monitoring progress in labour; sterile water injections for back pain in labour; waterbirth; and new methods for breastfeeding support. Most projects aim to improve health services and many are to strengthen services for vulnerable women and families (First Nations women, refugee women, teenagers, rural and remote women; women impacted by natural disasters/ stress in pregnancy). She is a strong collaborative researcher with expertise in participatory action research, epidemiology, randomised controlled trials, evaluation and community development. She has worked as a technical advisor in for the World Health Organisation, UNFPA and other organisations in Mongolia, Geneva, Jordan, Viet Nam, Canada, Japan and Indonesia. In 2018, Sue won Research Australia’s Health Services Researcher Award. Together with Molly Wardaguga, a Senior Aboriginal Health Worker from Maningrida, Sue was the joint recipient of the UTS Human Rights Award in 2004. This was awarded for contribution to advancing reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

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Projects

1 Finished
5 Active

APP1135125 Building on Our Strengths (BOOSt): Developing and Evaluating Birthing On Country Primary Maternity Units

Kildea, S., Tracy, S., Nelson, C., Currie, J., Kinnear, A., Mohamed, J., McGrath, L., Worner, F., Sherwood, J., Barclay, L., Kruske, S., Roe, Y., Hartz, D. & Tracy, M.

1/04/19 → 31/08/22

Project: Other

Assessing the impact of bundled care on rates of perineal injury, maternal satisfaction and midwifery practice: a multi-method study

Lee, N. J., Kildea, S., Gao, Y., Allen, J. & Jenkinson, R.

3/09/19 → 3/09/24

Project: Other

Dead or Deadly and Bulwal Balaang Young Women's Program

Kildea, S., Roe, Y., Gao, Y. & Roberts, J.

1/07/20 → 30/06/21

Project: Research

Impact of an innovative model of care for women from a refugee background

Kildea, S., Gao, Y. & Steel, M.

26/06/20 → 25/06/21

Project: Research

Investigation into the operational management of Congress Alukura Women’s Health Service

Kildea, S.

28/04/20 → 10/07/20

Project: Research