A/Professor Miranda Davies-Tuck is the Head of Epidemiology and Clinical Trials, Hudson Institute of Medical Research and co-lead of the Pregnancy Discovery and Translation Collaborative.

She is also a Chief Investigator on the Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence where she co-leads the Stillbirth CRE’s Equity Program.

Miranda is also the current President of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) and executive member of the PSANZ Interdisciplinary Maternal Perinatal Australasian Collaborative Trials (IMPACT) Network.

Miranda leads a dynamic and collaborative research program that spans the entire translational pipeline, including discovery science, epidemiology, randomised controlled trials, evidence synthesis, implementation, and evaluation.

Her work seeks to transform care, mitigating adverse events in pregnancy and guaranteeing equitable outcomes for every mother and her baby, irrespective of her background.

Current research:

Endometrial Origins of Stillbirth: This is a project aimed at better understanding the endometrium (lining of the uterus) in women who have experienced a pregnancy loss (either as a late miscarriage or preterm stillbirth) or other adverse pregnancy outcomes (placental insufficiency or preterm birth). We will compare this to the endometrium of women who have had a term, live birth. This will be achieved by collecting menstrual fluid from these women to see if we can identify differences between those who have experienced adverse pregnancy events to those who have not.

https://www.hudson.org.au/endometrial-origins-of-stillbirth-eos-study/

Your Period and Your Pregnancy: Longitudinal cohort to understand the association between a woman’s menstrual cycle and her pregnancy outcomes. Women in early pregnancy (13-15 weeks), free of known endometrial pathologies complete a validated menstrual history. Survey data is then linked with extensive clinical measures and birth outcomes. Collection and biobanking of tissue samples will also occur at birth to enable scientific studies.

PARADIGM: Personalised approaches to reducing adverse outcomes in pregnancy for migrant women

PARADIGM is a consumer, clinician, and partner co-led, multidisciplinary program that will identify, design, and evaluate strategies that target the multifactorial drivers of inequities in pregnancy care and outcomes experienced by migrant and refugee women in Australia.