Research Groups

  • The Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Research (emPoWeR) Unit

    Research Group Leader : A/Prof Michelle Peate

    Royal Women's Hospital

    The emPoWeR Unit conducts research with a focus on the psychological, emotional and social aspects of reproductive health.

  • Maternal Fetal Medicine Pregnancy Research Centre

    Research Group Leader : Prof Shaun Brennecke

    Royal Women's Hospital

    The blueprint for a healthy life is largely determined by events which take place in the uterus before we are even born.

  • Gynaecology Research Centre - Rogers Group

    Research Group Leader : Professor Peter Rogers

    Royal Women's Hospital

    The Research focus of the gynaecology research centre covers several areas.

  • Embryo Implantation Research Group

    Research Group Leader : Prof Evdokia Dimitriadis

    Royal Women's Hospital

    This group is interested in reproductive biology.

  • Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group

    Research Group Leader : Jeanie Cheong

    Royal Women's Hospital

    The Victorian Infant Collaborative Study (VICS) is a long term study of prematurely born infants throughout their childhood and into adulthood.

  • Translational Obstetrics Group

    Research Group Leads : Professor Stephen Tong and Professor Tu'uhevaha Kaitu'u-Lino

    Mercy Hospital for Women

    The team is focused on developing diagnostics and therapeutics to improve the care of pregnant women and their fetuses.

  • Gynaecology Research Centre - Hickey Group

    Research Group Leader : Professor Martha Hickey

    Royal Women's Hospital

    This groups research focus is menopause, reproductive endocrinology and healthy ageing in women.

  • Fertility Preservation Taskforce

    Research Group Leader : A/Prof Yasmin Jayasinghe

    Royal Women's Hospital

    This group conducts research focused on oncofertility preservation

  • Perinatal Research Group

    Research Group Leader: Professor Sue Walker

    Mercy Hospital for Women

    The vision of the Maternal Fetal Medicine centre is to achieve integration of the three professional domains: excellence in clinical care, education and research

  • Molecular Microbiology and Reproductive Health Research Group

    Research Group Leader : Professor Suzanne M. Garland

    Royal Women's Hospital

    The team is focused on on providing evidence for changes that may translate into clinical practice, affecting patient health.

  • Therapeutics Discovery and Vascular Function Group

    Research Group Leader : Professor Natalie Hannan

    Mercy Hospital for Women

    This group conducts research with a focus on therapeutics discoveries and vascular function

  • Newborn Research Centre

    Research Group Leader : Professor Peter Davis

    Royal Women's Hospital

    The motto of the Women's Newborn Research Centre is “Making the babies better”. To do this we are trying to give all babies, irrespective of their size and maturity at birth the best chance of growing into healthy adults.

    • newborn research
    • neonatology

  • The ‘Co-designing abortion care in Melbourne’s North’ research team

    Research Group Leader : Eleanor Johnson

    Northern Centre for Education & Research.

  • Perinatal Epidemiology Group

    Research Group Co Leads : A/Prof Roxanne Hastie, Dr Anthea Lindquist & Prof Stephen Tong

    Mercy Hospital for Women

    The Perinatal Epidemiology Group aims to investigate which events, illnesses or exposures during pregnancy pose risks or benefits to the health and future wellbeing of mothers and their children.

  • Obstetric Diagnostics and Therapeutics Group

    Research Group Co Leads : A/Prof Fiona Brownfoot & Dr Elif Kadife

    Mercy Hospital for Women

    The Obstetric Diagnostics and Therapeutics Group is focused on developing novel devices and treatments to improve pregnancy outcomes.