Amanda Henry

About Professor Amanda Henry

Program Head, Women’s Health, Australia

  • Professor, Discipline of Women’s Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health
  • Obstetrician, St George Public Hospital, Sydney
  • PhD,
  • MPH,
  • FRANZCOG,
  • B.Med.(Hons),
  • B.Med.Sci(Hons),
  • DDU (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)

Amanda Henry is Program Head, Women’s Health at The George Institute for Global Health and Professor of Obstetrics in the Discipline of Women’s Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health. Her professional background is as a Clinical Academic and Obstetrician, with a clinical practice focussed on high-risk pregnancy at St George Hospital, Sydney.

Her research focus, including her current NSW Health Early-Mid Career Cardiovascular Fellowship, is on how pregnancy complications, particularly hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes, can affect women’s lifelong health.  She leads a program of work on early intervention and improving systems of care to advance long-term cardiovascular health outcomes for women after a hypertensive pregnancy. Amanda is also an active researcher and research supervisor in the areas of high-risk pregnancy and pregnancy/postpartum clinical trials, and teaches pregnancy care to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Amanda has a strong emphasis on collaborative research projects to drive improvements in Women’s Health, and in addition to her role with the George Institute, researches collaboratively with medical, midwifery and Allied Health colleagues, as well as consumer and community partners, both locally and nationally. She also promotes Women’s Health research translation into guidelines, policy and practice through her professional society roles, including as Councillor for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand. 

 

‘It’s a challenging environment’ health worker perspectives on domestic violence presentations to emergency departments in New South Wales hospitals in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Health Services Research Date published:

Stroke in young women: the need for targeted prevention and treatment strategies

Medical Journal of Australia Date published:

Early pregnancy maternal blood pressure and risk of preeclampsia: Does the association differ by parity? Evidence from 14,086 women across 7 countries

Pregnancy Hypertension Date published:

Mental health in the two years following hypertensive and normotensive pregnancy: The Postpartum, Physiology, Psychology and Paediatric follow-up (P4) cohort study

Pregnancy Hypertension Date published:

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