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Penny Haora Dip App Sci(Nurs), RN (Avondale/SAH) Grad Dip Mid, RM (UWS -Macarthur) MPH (UNSW) Current Position: PhD Student Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 5618 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: penny.haora@anu.edu.au

PhD Title

Maternal Health and Birthing Outcomes in Thailand: Where have we come from? Where are we now? And where do we need to go?

Supervisors

Professor Terence Hull (Chair)
Dr Sharon Friel
Dr Emily Banks
Dr Julie Smith (Advisor)

Research Interests

• safe motherhood / maternal mortality
• reproductive health
• international health (esp. Policy & Projects related to safe motherhood)
• women's health
• women in refugee contexts
• women's access to, use of and satisfaction with health services related to pregnancy and childbirth in less industrialized countries
• the medicalization of birthing
  

Selected Recent Publications

Haora PJ. Thadakant S. Birthing and the birthing transition in Thailand. International Midwifery, 2006; 19 (4).