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Qualifications PhD, MPH, FRANZCOG, B.Med. (Hons) ,B.Med.Sci. (Hons), Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (O&G)

Amanda Henry is Program Head, Women's Health, The George Institute for Global Health, Professor (Education-Focussed) in the Discipline of Women's Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health, and an Obstetrician at St George Public Hospital. She is an active researcher and research supervisor in the areas of high-risk pregnancy and post-pregnancy health, clinical trials, and maternity systems of care, teaches pregnancy care to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and works as a high-risk Obstetrician at St George Hospital where she has also established a multidisciplinary Fetal Medicine service. Prior to commencing her academic career at UNSW in 2011, Prof Henry completed her specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at teaching hospitals both within Australia and overseas, focussing on high-risk pregnancy care.

Professor Henry has a wide-ranging interest in pregnancy care, including high-risk pregnancy (particularly hypertensive disorders of pregnancy), the relationship of pregnancy complications to later non-communicable diseases both in Australia and globally, the microbiome in pregnancy, translation of obstetric ultrasound research tools into clinical practice, and performance and evaluation of clinical trials to drive evidence-based care in obstetrics. She works closely with both the Obstetric Medicine Research Group at St George Hospital on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including leading projects on postpartum follow up of women and babies after hypertensive pregnancy (BP² study and Closing Knowledge Gaps after Hypertensive Pregnancy), and with the Microbiome Research Centre at St George Hospital on the role of the microbiome in pregnancy and infancy (MUMS and MothersBabies studies).��Her PhD��focussed on ultrasound evaluation of fetal cardiovascular function in high-risk pregnancy, and she continues to collaborate with the Perinatal Imaging Research Group at the Royal Hospital for Women. Prof Henry also researches collaboratively with medical and midwifery colleagues at St George Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women, as well as colleagues at The George Institute for Global Health, the Maternal, Newborn and Women's Clinical Academic Group of MBG SPHERE, NPESU UNSW, and local, interstate and international preeclampsia research teams.

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Specific research interests:

• Medical complications of pregnancy
• Pregnancy and non-communicable diseases
• Pregnancy and post-pregnancy healthcare systems

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Society Membership and Professional Activities:

• Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Councillor, 12th RANZCOG Council 2021-23��including Chair RANZCOG Research Grants Committee, Member Women's Health Committee, Member Global Women's Health Committee, Member Women's Health Foundation Committee and Councillor, 13th RANZCOG Council 2023-25 including Chair RANZCOG Research Grants Committee, Deputy Chair (Obstetrics) Women's Health Committee, Member Women's Health Foundation Committee, Member Research Assessment Subcommittee, Member Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group)
• Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ Executive Council, 2020-)
• Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (2004 onwards), PSANZ Academy member 2016-23
• Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine
• International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy
• ITP Co-ordinator and RANZCOG Training Supervisor, St George Hospital, 2016-
• RANZCOG e-learning Editorial Committee 2012-14
• Chair of RANZCOG Trainees’ Committee 2008-2009

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Teaching Interests

Prof Henry’s teaching interests are in increasing student knowledge and critical thinking in regards to evidence-based pregnancy care. She co-authors and convenes the Antenatal Care subject of the UNSW Master of Women’s Health Medicine, and has been Director of the Master of Women's Health Medicine program since 2023. Prof Henry teaches both undergraduate students and postgraduate clinical trainees critical thinking and research skills through active supervision of their clinical research projects. Professor Henry will supervise both postgraduate and undergraduate research students, and all her supervised students are encouraged and actively assisted to present and publish their work. Prof Henry was also academic lead on the student-staff working group to update the medical curriculum and teaching resources on sexual assault, domestic and family violence (2021-23), with the work of the group receiving a Faculty of Medicine and Health Education Innovation award in 2022. She has also been involved in the Medicine Program Redesign, including leading the Theme Clusters work on emerging areas of curricula.��

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Research Interests (Will supervise PhD, Masters, and Hons students):

• Preeclampsia/hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
• Pregnancy and non-communicable diseases
• High-Risk Pregnancy
• Evidence-Based maternity care
• Global Women's Health
• Learning and Teaching
• Obstetric Ultrasound
• Twin Pregnancy