Wikipedia

Caroline Homer

Caroline Susan E. Homer is an Australian midwifery researcher and international advocate for women's health rights. She is Co-Program Director, Maternal and Child Health at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney.

Caroline Homer
AO FAHMS
EducationUniversity of Sydney
Alma materUniversity of Technology Sydney
Scientific career
InstitutionsBurnet Institute
University of Technology Sydney
World Health Organization
Thesis
  • Continuity of maternity care in a community setting: A randomised controlled trial using the Zelan design  (2001)

Academic career

edit

Homer graduated from University of Technology Sydney with a masters in nursing (1997)[1] and PhD titled Continuity of maternity care in a community setting : a randomised controlled trial using the Zelan design (2001).[2] She completed a masters of medical science at the University of Sydney in 2008.[1]

Homer was appointed Co-Program Director, Maternal and Child Health at the Burnet Institute in 2018.[1] She was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Maternal and Perinatal Health Executive Guideline Development Group from 2017 to 2020 and was then appointed Inaugural Chair of WHO's Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health, and Nutrition from 2020 to 2022.[3]

As of 2021 she is on the board of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand[4] and is a former president[5] of the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and has been editor of their journal, Women and Birth, since July 2018.[6][7]

In 2020, the WHO's international year of the nurse and the midwife,[8] she reviewed and wrote on care by midwives in low-, middle- and high-income countries[9][10] and also answered the question, "What Would Florence think of midwives and nurses in 2020?"[11]

Homer has been a Member of the Council of National Health and Medical Research Council since 2018 and chair for the current term, July 2021 to June 2024.[12]

Honours and recognition

edit

In 2013 Homer was made a life member of ACM (NSW) and they set up the Caroline Homer Writing Prize in the same year in her honour.[1]

Homer was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to medicine in the field of midwifery as a clinician, researcher, author and educator, through the development of worldwide education standards, and to professional organisations".[13] She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2019.[14]

Selected works

edit

Books

edit
  • Homer, Caroline; Brodie, Pat; Leap, Nicky, eds. (21 May 2008), Midwifery Continuity of Care: A Practical Guide, Elsevier Health Sciences (published 2008), ISBN 978-0-7295-7844-8
  • Gray, Joanne; Smith, Rachel; Homer, Caroline (8 October 2008), Illustrated dictionary of midwifery, Harcourt Australia (published 2008), ISBN 9780729538633

Articles

edit
 
Scholia has a profile for Caroline Homer (Q37843077).

References

edit
  1. ^ a b c d "Professor Caroline Homer AO". Burnet Institute. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  2. ^ Homer, Caroline (2001), Continuity of maternity care in a community setting: A randomised controlled trial using the Zelan design, retrieved 6 February 2021
  3. ^ "EM/Prof Caroline Homer". University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Board of Directors". Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  5. ^ "NSW Annual State Conference". Australian College of Midwives. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Editor-in-Chief appointed for Women and Birth". Australian College of Midwives. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Women and Birth". Journal of the Australian College of Midwives. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  8. ^ "2020 International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife - Nursing and midwifery". www.health.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  9. ^ Michaela Michel-Schuldt; Alison McFadden; Mary Renfrew; Caroline Homer (3 February 2020). "The provision of midwife-led care in low-and middle-income countries: An integrative review". Midwifery. 84: 102659. doi:10.1016/J.MIDW.2020.102659. ISSN 0266-6138. PMID 32062187. Wikidata Q89729963.
  10. ^ Helen J Rogers; Lily Hogan; Dominiek D Coates; Caroline Homer; Amanda Henry (30 January 2020). "Responding to the health needs of women from migrant and refugee backgrounds-Models of maternity and postpartum care in high-income countries: A systematic scoping review". Health & Social Care in the Community. doi:10.1111/HSC.12950. ISSN 0966-0410. PMID 31997461. Wikidata Q93045293.
  11. ^ Caroline Homer; Tracey Bucknall; Tanya Farrell (1 September 2020). "What would Florence think of midwives and nurses in 2020?". Women and Birth. 33 (5): 409–410. doi:10.1016/J.WOMBI.2020.07.009. ISSN 1871-5192. PMID 32829781. Wikidata Q98632967.
  12. ^ "Members of Council 2021–2024 triennium". National Health and Medical Research Council. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  13. ^ "Distinguished Professor Caroline Susan HOMER". It's An Honour. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  14. ^ "Academy elects new Fellows and discusses global pandemic threat at annual meeting". AAHMS - Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caroline_Homer&oldid=1249278960"