Emeritus Member of NSAG
Heather Jeffery AO, MB BS, PhD, MPH, FRACP, MRCP (UK). Professor of International Maternal and Child Health (Hon), Sydney School of Public Health and until recently. Paediatrician – Neonatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Gates Foundation Clinical Trials Manager, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney.
Heather has extensive experience in Maternal and Child Health/ Neonatology in low/middle income countries.
Educational interests have focused on capacity building in perinatal care in Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, The Balkans (Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia) working with governments, the World Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP and the Hok Mai Medical Foundation, University of Sydney.
Research interests are currently focused in 4 areas:
- A multidisciplinary nutritional body composition research program to identify newborns and young children at risk of mortality and morbidity from low fat stores using near infrared technology (Bill & Melinda GATES Foundation Funding)
- Prevention of neonatal infection and neonatal mortality and morbidity in four South East Asian countries (Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia) – the SEA URCHIN project – (Funded by NHMRC in collaboration with Cochrane Centre at Monash University)
- Educational methods to translate best evidence into practice (SCORPIO) This has been trialed in NSW and applied to capacity building in Macedonia, Vietnam and the SEA URCHIN project (SCORPIO: a medium for teaching that is Structured, Clinical, Objective Referenced, Integrated and Organised).
- Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy. Future directions for prevention and research.
Since her PhD many years ago on SIDS she has maintained a research and community interest in the prevention of SIDS and Sudden Unexpected Death in Infants. She currently is a member of the National Scientific Advisory Group of Red Nose, Australia; Child Death Review Team, Ombudsman’s Office NSW, the Sudden Infant Death Advisory Committee NSW Health.
Awards
AO Officer Order of Australia, bestowed by the Governor General of Australia:
“Professor Heather Elizabeth Jeffery – For distinguished service to medicine and tertiary education in the field of paediatrics, and to improved maternal and child health in rural and remote Australia and in developing countries”.
Read about the other members of the Red Nose National Scientific Advisory Group
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