Research area: Population Health > Intergenerational Health

Overview

The Group Pregnancy Care study is implementing and evaluating a new approach to antenatal and postnatal care that involves inter-agency collaboration between public maternity hospitals, refugee settlement agencies, and maternal and child health services.

The aim of the program is to provide multifaceted, culturally appropriate preventive health care, information and support to refugee women during and after pregnancy in a group setting.

The program is cost-free; provides care and information that is woman-directed, culturally appropriate and in women’s language; and facilitates links and referrals to services as necessary.

Find out more information about the Group Pregnancy Care Study at Stronger Futures.

Our Research Team

Associate Professor Elisha Riggs

Lead Investigator/Team Leader/ Senior Research Fellow

Intergenerational Health

Collaborators

Featured publications

• Cultural safety and belonging for refugee background women attending group pregnancy care: An Australian qualitative study. Riggs et al., Birth. 2017;44(2):145-152

• Group Pregnancy Care for refugee background women: a codesigned, multimethod evaluation protocol applying a community engagement framework and an interrupted time series design. Riggs et al., BMJ Open. 2021 Jul 19;11(7):e048271.

• Finding our ways of working together: reflections on implementing and facilitating an equity-oriented model of Group Pregnancy Care for women of refugee background. Hearn F et al., Midwifery 2023, 123, 103709.

Contact Us

Intergenerational Health Research Group
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Parkville VIC 3052 Australia

Associate Professor Elisha Riggs
Team Leader/Senior Research Fellow
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