Making a real-world impact on maternal and reproductive health

" alt="Associate Professor Angela Dawson" title="">More than 600,000 women and girls die worldwide every year from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and Associate Professor Angela Dawson's groundbreaking research focused on addressing this great inequity in health outcomes has been recognized by the Sax Institute Research Action Awards on Wednesday, 30 November.  Associate Professor Dawson together with Associate Professor Kees van Gool, Deputy Director of the UTS Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, and Associate Professor Kristine Macartney from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance received awards for work that is "a shining example of how research can help address the issues we face as a society."

The commitment of researchers who are passionate about making a tangible difference is critical to improving our health system and individual health outcomes," said Sax Institute CEO Professor Sally Redman. The Sax Institute is an independent, non-profit Australian leader in helping decision makers find and make best use of research to solve real-world health and social problems.

Associate Professor Dawson developed a package of sexual and reproductive healthcare guidelines for use in humanitarian crises in the Asia Pacific region, which have now been used by 95 country coordination teams and 4000 national coordinators in the aftermath of humanitarian disasters. Her work has also influenced 23 policy changes at national and provincial levels to better integrate sexual and reproductive healthcare delivery in emergency responses. Associate Professor Dawson was also responsible for the development of the first NSW Health clinical practice guidelines on obstetric care for women with female genital mutilation.

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