Biography:

 

Dr Kate Levett is an epidemiologist, educator, Chinese medicine practitioner and maternal health research specialist, focusing on childbirth education practices. She is a Senior Research Fellow, at the University
of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney School of Medicine, and an adjunct Fellow at the NICM
Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University and an Honorary Fellow at the
Collaboration for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, at the UTS Sydney. She is an executive board member of the Women’s Health SIG for the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) and the Society for Acupunctire Research (SAR). She has a NSW Govt Ministerial appointment to the Chinese Medicine Council of NSW, and has over 20 years’ experience in clinical trials, public health research, epidemiology, education and clinical practice.
She is involved with international collaborative research networks in maternal health,
complementary therapies, and obstetrical acupuncture with a focus on promoting
physiological birth practices for integration into childbirth education programs. She is an executive member of the Obstetrical Acupuncture Association (OBAA), an invited member of the Science of Physiological Birth Cluster at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Maternal Infant Health Canada (MIHCan), where she collaborates in the delivery of international programs for humanised birth care using Traditional Chinese Medicine skills.