Barbara Vernon (activist)

Barbara Vernon is an Australian maternity activist and a government lobbyist[1] who seeks to improve provisions for maternity services; in particular, she advocates for the use of midwives. Born in New South Wales, she moved to Canberra in the mid-1970s. She earned an Honours Degree in Political Science at the Australian National University and in 1997 was awarded a PhD in public policy from Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland.

Vernon worked in the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, before becoming the President of the Maternity Coalition, a position she held for two years. While President, she and Tracy Reibel drafted the National Maternity Action Plan. In 2003, she was appointed Executive Officer of the Australian College of Midwives, a position which she held from 2002 to 2010. In 2008, she was appointed by Nicola Roxon, the Minister of Health, to the External Reference Group developing the National Primary Health Care Strategy.[2]

Publications
  • Midwifery in Australia - emerging from the shadows with Jenny Gamble in "Midwifery - freedom to practise?", ed Lindsay Reid, Churchill Livingston Elsevier, 2007, ISBN 978-0-443-10312-4

Notes
  1. Australian Birth and Postnatal Services Conference Speech by Senator Lyn Allison, 28 April 2007
  2. National Primary Health Care Strategy, Press Release, Nicola Roxon
gollark: Of course.
gollark: I have to use a small model due to VRAM constraints so it MAY not be very good.
gollark: This is in progress.
gollark: I just read about a way to sort of give long term memory to GPTous things and thought "wow, I could totally use this and the underpowered GPU I have available to do things".
gollark: No.

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.