Cervical Screening During Pregnancy
Corinne Avery and Julie Denney. Corinne and Julie are both Project Officers at the NSW Cervical Screening Program, part of the Cancer Institute NSW, who are passionate about increasing opportunities for all women to have cervical screening.

Maternal Weight
Dr Briony Hill is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Deputy Head of the Health and Social Care Unit at Monash University. Briony's research interests centre on weight stigma across the preconception, pregnancy and postpartum periods.
Dr Jenna Hollis and Dr Briony Hill talk about maternal weight and weight stigma across the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum periods.

Smoking, vaping and other substance use in pregnancy and parenting
Dr Michelle Cretikos is a public health physician with a PhD in health services research. She has extensive experience in public health policy, system management, population health program delivery, epidemiology, and evaluation.

Diabetes in Pregnancy Panel
Distinguished Professor David Simmons, Professor of Medicine at the Western Sydney University Macarthur Clinical School, Head of the Campbelltown Hospital Endocrinology Department, author of over 400 refereed publications and 2020 American Diabetes Association Norbert Freinkel and 2022 Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group Pederson Awardee.

Jane-Ellen Morrow has lived with Type 1 Diabetes since her diagnosis in 2004 at the age of 10. In this time she has represented her fellow Type 1 friends as an ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She has spoken in state and federal parliament on the impact of Type 1 diabetes and mental health while also being invited to speak at events for Medtronic, Abbott & Roche Diabetes Care.

Rheumatic Heart Disease in Women
Sara Noonan is here to provide a brief overview of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease with a focus on risk factors and issues related to antenatal care and pregnancy. Sara is the rheumatic heart disease Technical Advisor with Menzies School of Health Research; she established Australia’s first RHD control program in 1997 and is a co-lead author and production editor of the Australian RHD clinical guidelines.

Immunisation
Dr Sonya Ennis, Manager of Immunisation at NSW Health. Her interest in immunisation officially began in 2003 when she joined the National Meningococcal C Vaccination Program and was a Senior Policy Analyst in the immunisation unit for many years before taking on the Manager’s role in 2018.

Find more information on the presenters here: https://www.midwives.org.au/EventDetail?EventKey=20240313PH

Resources - Implicit Association Test for weight https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html