Rate My Professor Miranda Davies-Tuck

A/Professor Miranda Davies-Tuck is an Adjunct Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University and is affiliated with the Hudson Institute – The Ritchie Centre. She serves as Head of Epidemiology and Clinical Trials at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research and co-leads the Pregnancy Discovery and Translation Collaborative. She is a Chief Investigator on the Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence, where she co-leads the Equity Program, and she is the current President of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) as well as an executive member of the PSANZ Interdisciplinary Maternal Perinatal Australasian Collaborative Trials (IMPACT) Network. She obtained her PhD from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in 2010, where she developed expertise in epidemiological and biostatistical methods through work on large prospective cohort studies. She is an NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Stillbirth Fellow and teaches postgraduate epidemiology and biostatistics at Monash University.

Her research program spans discovery science, epidemiology, randomised controlled trials, evidence synthesis, implementation and evaluation, with a focus on transforming maternity care to mitigate adverse pregnancy events and ensure equitable outcomes. Key areas include the endometrial origins of stillbirth, associations between menstrual health and pregnancy outcomes, personalised approaches to reducing adverse outcomes for migrant and refugee women, and evaluation of interventions such as the Safer Baby Bundle. She maintains collaborations with Safer Care Victoria and serves on the scientific advisory board for the Stillbirth Foundation Australia. Her work has contributed to changes in clinical care that have lowered stillbirth rates among women of South Asian background at Monash Health.

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