Caroline Homer

Caroline Homer is Co-Program Director, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne and Honorary Emeritus Professor of Midwifery in the Faculty of Health at UTS.

She has more than 30 years of experience in practice, maternal and perinatal health research, midwifery education, guideline development and international work. She has been part of the team writing the State of the World's Midwifery 2021 Report.

Caroline is passionate about midwifery, especially the provision of midwifery continuity of care and she has written widely in this area. She is also committed to quality midwifery education as the means to improve maternal and newborn care. She currently works globally to improve midwifery care especially in the Asia Pacific region with UNFPA.

Caroline hopes the CRE is able to improve social and emotional wellbeing, family functioning and resilience in families and communities disproportionately impacted by intergenerational trauma and family violence.

She is committed to working with the CRE to address the rates of suicide, self-harm and mental health disorders in children and young people especially through pregnancy and the early parenting periods.

Caroline would like to acknowledge the Bunurong and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which she works and lives.

Exercise, being outdoors and doing work that makes a difference is what keeps Caroline strong and resilient.