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     Mary-Ann Davey      Mary-Ann Davey
RN, RM, DipAppSc, BEd, PGDipSoc, DPH, MEpi
Senior Research Fellow
 
Email: M.Davey@latrobe.edu.au
Telephone: +61 3 8341 8537
 
Mary-Ann came to health research from senior clinical roles in nursing, midwifery, and maternal and child health. She worked as a senior research officer at the Royal Children's Hospital Research Institute (now Murdoch) from 1993-99, primarily as an investigator on community-based infant vaccine trials. She has worked at MCHR since 1999 on a number of projects including COSMOS, the 2000 Survey of Recent Mothers, Early Births and PinC. She currently fulfils an epidemiology/biostatistics support role at the centre in addition to pursuing her own research interests. Mary-Ann also works part-time as an epidemiologist at the Victorian Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity.
   
MAJOR RESEARCH      
INTERESTS     		 Pregnancy and birth, intrapartum interventions, particularly their short and long term consequences on mothers and children, breastfeeding.
   
CURRENT PROJECTS      
COmparing Standard Maternity care with One to one midwifery Support (COSMOS): a randomised trial
Team: Helen McLachlan, Della Forster, Mary-Ann Davey, Lisa Gold, Mary Anne Biro and Michelle Newton in collaboration with Tanya Farrell and Jeremy Oats, Royal Women's Hospital, Ulla Waldenstrom, Karolinska Institute and Leah Albers, University of New Mexico
Funding: NHMRC project grant 2007–2010
Status: Data collection completed; Primary outcome paper submitted; secondary outcome data analysis in progress
   
 
WAVE: Women's and staff views: an evaluation of maternity care at Barwon Health
Team: Helen McLachlan, Della Forster, Mary-Ann Davey and Jane Morrow, in collaboration with Michelle Newton, Division of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University; and Therese Cotter and Kim Layton, Barwon Health
Funding: Department of Human Services Victoria and Barwon Health
Status: Final report completed August 2011, one manuscript accepted for publication (Midwifery), one manuscript in preparation
   
 
A pilot study to underpin a large trial on the role of acupuncture in reducing formal induction of labour and use of epidural analgesia in labour in women with uncomplicated pregnancies having a first birth at 40 plus weeks' gestation
Team: Mary-Ann Davey, in collaboration with Caroline Smith, University of Western Sydney
Funding: Faculty of Health Sciences Research Grant 2009
Status: Data collection underway
   
 
Evaluation of Victorian Homebirthing Pilots
Team: Helen McLachlan, Della Forster, Rhonda Small, Mary-Ann Davey, Ya-Seng (Arthur) Hsueh, Michelle Newton, Heather McKay and Felicity Lawton in collaboration with Fiona Cullinane, the Royal Women's Hospital; Colleen White, Southern Health; and Susan Gannon, Western Health
Funding: Victorian Department of Health
Status: Data collection and analysis
   
 
Birth outcomes and maternal and perinatal morbidity associated with induction and augmentation of labour in uncomplicated first births
Team: Mary-Ann Davey, previously with Judith Lumley and James King, University of Melbourne
Funding: Initially funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award 2002–2004
Status: conference presentations, further analysis and papers in preparation in 2011
   
 
Obstetric outcomes for immigrant women
Team: Rhonda Small, Mary-Ann Davey and Paul Agius, in collaboration with the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection Unit
Funding: none
Status: paper in preparation
   
 
South Asian Women's experiences of living with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
Team: Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Rhonda Small, Mary-Ann Davey, Della Forster in collaboration with Jeremy Oats, Amanda Aylward, The Royal Women's Hospital
Funding: La Trobe University Faculty of Health Sciences Research Grant 2009
Status: Completed, paper published
   
 
Lost in translation? Health care providers and South Asian women's views about management of diabetes in pregnancy
Team: Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Rhonda Small, Mary-Ann Davey; in collaboration with Jeremy Oats, Amanda Aylward, The Royal Women's Hospital; Catharine McNamara, Deborah Boyce, The Mercy Hospital for Women; Helena Teede, Southern Health
Funding: La Trobe University Faculty of Health Sciences Research Grant 2010–2011
Status: Analysis continuing, conference abstract and paper under preparation
   
Systematic Reviews      
Interventions for supporting women with decisions about vaginal birth after caesarean birth
Team: Dell Horey, La Trobe University; Mary-Ann Davey, Rhonda Small, Michelle Kealy
Status: protocol submitted
   
 
Risk scoring systems for predicting preterm birth with the aim of reducing associated adverse outcomes
Team: Dell Horey, La Trobe University; Mary-Ann Davey, Rhonda Small, Michelle Kealy
Status: Cochrane Systematic Review published 2011
   
 
Pharmacological interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy
Team: Tim Coleman, UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, University of Nottingham, Medical School, UK; Catherine Chamberlain, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne; Sue Cooper, UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, University of Nottingham, UK; Mary-Ann Davey, MCHR; Jo Leonardi-Bee, UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK
Status: Full review submitted April 2011
   
Collaborative Work      
Advanced maternal age
Team: Mary Carolan, Victoria University; Mary-Ann Davey, MCHR; Michelle Kealy, Department of Health and Families, Darwin; Mary Anne Biro, Monash University, Melbourne
Funding: none
Status: 2 papers published; 2 papers submitted; other papers in preparation
   
 
Reproductive Outcomes And Migration (ROAM): an international collaboration
Team: Rhonda Small, Mary-Ann Davey and Mridula Bandyopadhyay;
ROAM Steering Group: Anita Gagnon, McGill University, Canada; Rhonda Small, MCHR; Mika Gissler, Institute of Health, Finland; Carolyn Roth, University of Keele, UK; Jennifer Zeitlin, INSERM, France and EURO-PERISTAT
http://migrationandreproductivehealth.org
Funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research International Collaboration grant 2007–2008 and Systematic Review grant 2010; further funding sought in 2011
Status:

Five papers published; one in press; several in preparation
   
 
Dying to be counted. A mortality profile of Victoria's Aboriginal (and non-Aboriginal) children, 1998–2008 using an innovative method and research process
Team: Ian Anderson, Murrup Barak - Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development, The University of Melbourne; Jane Freemantle, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne; Joan Ozanne-Smith, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University; Jane Halliday, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne; Jill Gallagher, Victorian Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisation; Mary-Ann Davey, MCHR; Mary Sullivan, Department of Health; Pam Muth, Department of Health
Funding: ARC
Status: on-going; one report published
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
 

Morrow J, Forster D, McLachlan H, Davey M-A, Newton M. Redesigning postnatal care: exploring the views and experiences of midwives. Midwifery 2012 (in press).  Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0266613811001859

Biro MA, Davey M-A, Carolan M, Kealy M. Advanced maternal age and obstetric morbidity for women giving birth in Victoria, Australia: A population-based study. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 2012 (in press).  Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1479-828X.2012.01427.x

Carolan M, Davey MA, Biro MA, Kealy M. Maternal age, ethnicity and gestational diabetes mellitus. Midwifery 2011 (in press).  Available from: http://www.midwiferyjournal.com/article/S0266-6138(11)00130-6/abstract

McDonald K, Amir LH, Davey M-A. Maternal bodies and medicines: a commentary on risk and decision-making of pregnant and breastfeeding women and health professionals. BMC Public Health 2011; 11(Suppl 5): S5. Available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/S5/S5

Doyle LW, Roberts G, Anderson PJ, Callanan C, Carse E, Charlton MP, Davey MA, Davis N, Duff J, Hunt R, De Luca C, Hayes M, Hutchinson E, Kelly E, McDonald M, Opie G, Stewart M, Ung L, Watkins A, Williamson A, Woods H. Changing long-term outcomes for infants 500-999 g birth weight in Victoria, 1979-2005. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2011;96(6):F443-F7.  Available from: http://fn.bmj.com/content/96/6/F443

Davey M-A, Watson L, Rayner Jo A, Rowlands S. Risk scoring systems for predicting preterm birth with the aim of reducing associated adverse outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011; (11): Art. No.: CD004902. Available from: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD004902/frame.html

Davey M-A, Flood MM. Perinatal mortality and planned home birth. Am J Obstet Gynecol [Letter to the Editor] 2011;204(4):e18.  Available from: http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378%2811%2900076-7/fulltext

Carolan M, Davey M-A, Biro MA, Kealy M. Older maternal age and intervention in labor: A population-based study comparing older and younger first-time mothers in Victoria, Australia. Birth 2011;38(1):24-9.  Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2010.00439.x/full

Bandyopadhyay M, Small R, Davey MA, Oats JJ, Forster DA, Aylward A. Lived experience of gestational diabetes mellitus among immigrant South Asian women in Australia. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 2011;51(4):360-4.  Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1479-828X.2011.01322.x/full

Watson LF, Davey MA, Biro MA, King JF. Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia. Med J Aust [Letter] 2009;190(9):519.  Available from: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2009/190/9/adverse-outcomes-labour-public-and-private-hospitals-australia-0

Rayner JA, Forster D, McLachlan H, Yelland J, Davey MA. A state-wide review of hospital postnatal care in Victoria, Australia: The views and experiences of midwives. Midwifery 2008;24(3):310-20.  Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2006.10.008

McLachlan HL, Forster DA, Davey MA, Lumley J, Farrell T, Oats J, Gold L, Waldenstrom U, Albers L, Biro MA. COSMOS: COmparing Standard Maternity care with one-to-one midwifery support: A randomised controlled trial. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2008;8.  Available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/8/35

Davey MA, King JF. Perinatal outcomes in birth centers [2]. Birth [Letter] 2008;35(1):85-6.  Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2007.00219_2.x/abstract (

Watson LF, Brown SJ, Davey MA. Use of periconceptional folic acid supplements in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. Aust N Z J Public Health 2006;30(1):42-9.  Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00085.x/abstract

Forster DA, McLachlan HL, Yelland J, Rayner J, Lumley J, Davey MA. Staffing in postnatal units: Is it adequate for the provision of quality care? Staff perspectives from a state-wide review of postnatal care in Victoria, Australia. BMC Health Serv Res 2006;6.  Available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/6/83

Davey MA, Brown S, Bruinsma F. What is it about antenatal continuity of caregiver that matters to women? Birth 2005;32(4):262-71.  Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0730-7659.2005.00384.x

Brown SJ, Davey MA, Bruinsma FJ. Women's views and experiences of postnatal hospital care in the Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 2000. Midwifery 2005;21(2):109-26.  Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0266613804000907

Brown S, Bruinsma F, Darcy MA, Small R, Lumley J. Early discharge: No evidence of adverse outcomes in three consecutive population-based Australian surveys of recent mothers, conducted in 1989, 1994 and 2000. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2004;18(3):202-13.  Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3016.2004.00558.x/abstract

Bruinsma F, Brown S, Darcy MA. Having a baby in Victoria 1989-2000: Women's views of public and private models of care. Aust N Z J Public Health 2003;27(1):20-6.  Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00375.x/abstract

Brown S, Darcy MA, Bruinsma F. Having a baby in Victoria 1989-2000: Continuity and change in the decade following the Victorian ministerial review of birthing services. Aust N Z J Public Health 2002;26(3):242-50. Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2002.tb00681.x/abstract

Nolan T, Hogg G, Darcy MA, Skeljo M, Carlin J, Boslego J. A combined liquid Hib (PRP-OMPC), hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and whole-cell pertussis vaccine: Controlled studies of immunogenicity and reactogenicity. Vaccine 2001;19(15-16):2127-37. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0264-410X(00)00403-5

Darcy MA, Brown S, Bruinsma F. Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 2000. Report 2. Continuity of care: does it make a difference to women's views and experiences of maternity care? Melbourne: Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, 2001

Bruinsma F, Brown S, Darcy MA. Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 2000. Report 1. Women's views and experiences of different models of maternity care. Melbourne: Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, 2001

Brown S, Darcy MA, Bruinsma F. Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 2000. Report 3. Early postnatal care. Melbourne: Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, 2001

Nolan T, Hogg G, Darcy MA, Skeljo M, Carlin J. A combined liquid Hib (PRP-OMP), hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and whole-cell pertussis vaccine: Uncontrolled preliminary clinical trial of immunogenicity and reactogenicity. Vaccine 1998;16(20):2085-9. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0264-410X(98)00074-7

Nolan T, Hogg G, Darcy MA, Carlin JB, Skeljo M, Varigos J. Immunogenicity and reactogenicity associated with an 18-month booster dose of a new diphtheriatetanus-whole cell pertussis vaccine. J Paediatr Child Health 1998;34(4):346-8. Available from: http://0-onlinelibrary.wiley.com.alpha2.latrobe.edu.au/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1754.1998.00242.x/abstract

Nolan T, Hogg G, Darcy MA, Varigos J, McEwen J. Primary course immunogenicity and reactogenicity of a new diphtheria- tetanus-whole cell pertussis vaccine (DTP(w)). J Paediatr Child Health 1997;33(5):413-7. Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1997.tb01631.x/abstract

 
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