Caroline Homer

Caroline Susan E. Homer is an Australian midwifery researcher and international advocate for women's health rights. She is Co-Program Director, Maternal and Child Health at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney.

Academic career Homer graduated from University of Technology Sydney with a masters in nursing (1997) She completed a masters of medical science at the University of Sydney in 2008.

Homer was appointed Co-Program Director, Maternal and Child Health at the Burnet Institute in 2018.

As of 2021 she is on the board of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand and is a former president of the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and has been editor of their journal, Women and Birth, since July 2018.

In 2020, the WHO's international year of the nurse and the midwife, she reviewed and wrote on care by midwives in low-, middle- and high-income countries and also answered the question, "What Would Florence think of midwives and nurses in 2020?"

Homer has been a Member of the Council of National Health and Medical Research Council since 2018 and chair for the current term, July 2021 to June 2024.

Honours and recognition In 2013 Homer was made a life member of ACM (NSW) and they set up the Caroline Homer Writing Prize in the same year in her honour. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2019.

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