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We are pleased to announce the 2nd Respectful Maternity Care Conference, to be held on 9–10 March 2028 in Adelaide, Australia.
 

This important national event will bring together maternity care professionals, researchers, and consumers from across Australia to share knowledge, strengthen practice, and advance respectful maternity care.

 

 

Venue: To be advised (TBA)

Conference Themes:

Following overwhelmingly positive feedback, the 2nd Respectful Maternity Care Conference will seek to further amplify the voices of marginalised communities and strengthen equity in maternity care across Australia.

 

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


Focus on culturally competent care practices and how organisations are adapting protocols and services to better support First Nations, migrant, and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities within maternity services.

This may also include research, case studies, posters, or workshops demonstrating effective strategies to address racism and discrimination in healthcare and improve outcomes for First Nations and migrant women and families.

Day 2: Broadening the Scope of Respectful Maternity Care
Exploration of informed consent and respectful maternity care, including policies, education, and advocacy initiatives aimed at eliminating obstetric violence and strengthening consent practices.


This may also include insights into the causes of birth trauma, preventative approaches, and therapeutic responses, as well as examples of successful program implementation and measurable improvements in 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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