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We are excited to announce the Respectful Maternity Care Conference, to be held on 6-7 March 2026 in Brisbane, Australia. 

 

This exciting event is an Australian first, and we look forward to welcoming maternity staff, researchers and consumers from across the country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venue: Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Education Centre

Conference Themes:

Day 1: First Nations/Migrant/CALD Communities and Racism in Maternity Care

  • Culturally Competent Care Practices: How organisations have adapted their protocols and practices to better serve First Nations, migrant and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities within maternity services.

  • Improving outcomes for First Nations and Migrant women and families: Research, case studies, posters or workshops demonstrating effective strategies for combating racism and discrimination in healthcare.

 

Day 2: Broadening the Scope of Respectful Maternity Care

  • Informed Consent and RMC: Exploration of policies, education, or advocacy efforts aimed at eliminating obstetric violence and enhancing informed consent practices.

  • Understanding and Preventing Birth Trauma: Insights into the causes of birth trauma with a focus on preventative measures and therapeutic responses.

  • Program Implementation for Broader Impact: How organizations have successfully implemented policies or programs addressing day 2 topics, including lessons learned and measurable improvements to respectful maternity care.

Ticket prices

Two-day attendance  $500

Single day tickets now available: 

Presenter topics:

  • Dr Karen Joash: The Science of Equity: Culturally Competent Care and Anti-Racism Innovations in Maternity Health

  • Shadow Toke: Trauma-informed and culturally safe maternity care from the perspectives of those providing and receiving maternity care

  • Workshop Carly Anderson: Mindful Florals for Clinicians: A Reflective Lunchtime Workshop

  • Martha Isela Vázquez Corona: Migrant mums & maternity care: A qualitative participatory health research study

  • Prof Nayana Parange: Reducing perinatal mortality and morbidity through Point-of-Care Ultrasound using culturally responsive approaches for respectful maternity care in rural areas

  • Workshop Kelli Zakharoff: Understanding and Preventing Birth Trauma: Insights into the causes of birth trauma with a focus on preventative measures and therapeutic responses

  • Workshop Rebecca Black & Jane Brincat : Matrescence Informed Care: Bridging Interdisciplinary Models to Provide Women-Centred Maternity Care and Improve Health Outcomes

  • Prof Julie Jomeen - Framework for preventing birth trauma

  • Lucy Frankham: Helping Mental Health Professionals to Reframe Birth Trauma Prevention and Intervention using the Integrated Theory of Birth Trauma

  • Carla Anderson: Integrating psychological skills into perinatal healthcare for medical perinatal clinicians

  • Isabelle Oderberg: Respectful care through early pregnancy loss (pre-recorded) 

  • Kym Yuke: Birthing on Country SISTABIRTH

  • Martine Chait: Respectful care through stillbirth - a lived experience perspective

  • Kelley Lennon: ACM Chief Midwife

  • Bridget Roache: Respectful Breastfeeding Support: Advancing Human Rights through Shared Decision-Making, Rights-Based and Trauma-Informed Care

  • Dr Kirsten Small: Unconsented CTG use in labour: What is the problem and what do we do now?

  • Helen Rogers: Advancing Equitable Perinatal Care - an evaluation of the Cross Cultural Worker Service in Sydney

  • Jane Brincat/Hollie Swanton/Fiona Ellory/Rachel Howe: Occupational therapists can do that? Collaborating to improve respectful maternity care

  • Stephen Kennedy: Dad’s role in Respectful Maternity Care

  • Kelly Haynes: Navigating maternity care: A systematic review of barriers and enablers for migrant and refugee women

  • Elysse Prussing and Alecia Staines: Nothing about us without us- maternity consumers voice in research

  • Workshop Wendy Fry & Dr Stephen Tucker- Cultural Change for Respectful Maternity Care

  • Nisha Khot- Informed Birth

  • Dr Elizabeth Martin: Implementing patient-reported outcome and experience measures in maternity services

  • Christine Marie Doolan & Yordanka Berg Blanc: Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe (Children’s Ground) Maternal Child Health team model. A 25-year approach

Important dates: 

  • Early bird ticket sales up to 31st Dec 2025

  • Conference Dates: 6-7 March 2026

For further information, please contact us at management@maternityconsumernetwork.org.au

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