Rate My Professor Sally Tracy

Sally Tracy is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, where she held the position of Professor of Midwifery from 2009 until her retirement in 2021. Affiliated with the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, she also served as Conjoint Professor in the School of Women's and Children's Health, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of New South Wales. Tracy led the Midwifery and Women’s Health Research Unit at the Royal Hospital for Women and the University of Sydney, directing several large-scale NHMRC-funded studies on maternity care. Prior roles include Director of Midwifery Practice Development for the Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service and Postdoctoral Fellow at UNSW's National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit from 2005 to 2011. With over 30 years of experience as a midwife in clinical and academic settings in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, she was educated in New Zealand, holding qualifications including a Doctor of Midwifery (DMid) from the University of Technology Sydney, a Master of Arts in midwifery practice from Thames Valley University, a Bachelor of Nursing, an Advanced Diploma in Midwifery, and postgraduate studies in epidemiology from Victoria University of Wellington.