Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research

A constituent research centre of the School of Public Health

The NSW Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research was established to bring together the perinatal health service research and education efforts of a number of groups with responsibility for perinatal health services research in New South Wales. The Centre's overall objective is to improve the process and outcome of care for mothers and infants in NSW through research and education promoting evidence-based practice. The Centre's activities enhance and underpin the statewide service activities of the Pregnancy and Newborn Services Network (PSN). This forum enables clinicians, researchers and policy makers to work together as an integrated team.

The Centre's research activities include:

• Analysis of population based perinatal data to establish rates of perinatal morbidity and mortality and their associated risk factors
• Evaluation of the impact of perinatal conditions on long term developmental disorders in children
• Promoting and conducting randomised controlled trials to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of obstetric and neonatal care
• Critically appraising evidence for the effectiveness and efficiency of various forms of obstetric and neonatal care as part of the Cochrane Collaboration
• Developing evidence-based guidelines for clinical practice in obstetric and neonatal care and evaluating the implementation of research findings into clinical practice
• Undertaking research that considers the social environment of mothers and babies, as well as clinical factors
• Undertaking perinatal health services research for planning and evaluation

Director: Professor David Henderson-Smart

The Pregnancy and Newborn Services Network
QEII Building D02
University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Phone: +61 2 9351 7318
Fax: +61 2 9351 7742
Email:
Web: http://www.psn.org.au/index.php