Research
The Women and Infants Research Foundation (WIRF) is the sole organisation in this State dedicated to research and education in the fields of women’s health and reproduction.
WIRF provides the infrastructure and support that enables our premier clinicians and scientists to attract project money from competitive funding bodies in Australia and elsewhere.
The Foundation has a specific objective to promote, sponsor and conduct high quality research and to foster new researchers.
We do this by providing:
- Generous funding through our scholarships and grants program
- Infrastructure support for clinical and basic researchers and their students
- Biostatistics/bioinformatics services, study coordination and study design advice
- Hosting of research networks, conferences and symposia
- Mentoring of students and young investigators
- State-of-the-art research facilities
Our Researchers
WIRF consists of a broad multidisciplinary team of medical professionals, scientists and specialists. Our team includes:
- Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
- Paediatricians & Neonatologists
- Fetal Physiologists
- Reproductive Biologists
- Geneticists and Molecular Geneticists
- Biostatisticians
- Immunologists & Endocrinologists
- Research Midwives & Nursing staff
- and many others involved in service delivery
Research Links:
Prime Research Areas:
- Prevention of preterm birth
- Fetal origins of adult and childhood diseases
- The placenta in healthy and complicated pregnancies
- Prediction of preeclampsia
- Improving maternity healthcare delivery
- Anaesthesia and pain relief in pregnancy
- Health and nutrition of the newborn
- Fetal and neonatal heart and lung function
- Breastfeeding
- Drug use in pregnancy
- Gynaecological cancer