Professor Virginia Schmied
School of Nursing and Midwifery
v.schmied@westernsydney.edu.au
Virginia Schmied is Professor of Midwifery and Director of Research in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She also holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Central Lancashire (UK). Professor Schmied has a strong national and international reputation in the field of maternal and child health and her research addresses the social and emotional health and well-being of women and men in the transition to parenthood, perinatal mental health, infant feeding, and researching improvements in service delivery and professional practice. She is particularly interested in how relationship-based care leads to improved health outcomes for women and families.
Professor Schmied has held 10 national competitive grants from ARC and NHMRC and has conducted consultancy work including leading the development of the national framework for universal health and development services to children and families for the Australian Government. She has published over 170 refereed journal articles, book chapters and published reports and regularly presents (including as a key note speaker) at national and international conferences. Her research has been translated to policy and practice, for example through the development of health policy, models of care, teaching resources for consumers and health professionals.
