Jane Hirst
Dr Jane Hirst
Lecturer Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Sydney
Jane is a specialist Obstetrician/Gynaecologist with a strong interest in population health; particularly in the area of safe motherhood and stillbirth prevention globally. Working in Australia, Nepal, the United Kingdom and Vietnam has given her an appreciation of the cultural and contextual challenges faced in delivering best evidence based medical care in diverse settings.
With the Hoc Mai Australia-Vietnam Medical Foundation of the University of Sydney, she has conducted four teaching workshops in essential maternal and newborn health in remote and urban Vietnam. She was awarded the Shan S Ratnam Young Gynaecologist Award in 2008 for research into evidence based teaching in maternal and child health in remote Vietnam and currently holds a RANZCOG Research foundation scholarship to examine causes of stillbirth in Vietnam.
Currently she is working as a lecturer at the University of Sydney and is involved in ongoing Hoc Mai and AusAID collaborative programs with Vietnam.