Caroline is Co-Program Director of Women and Children’s Health and Co-Head for the Women’s and Newborn’s Health Working Group at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne. She is also the Visiting Distinguished Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Caroline has been involved in the development and evaluation of midwifery and maternal and newborn health services in Australia and in in a number of other countries in the Asia Pacific region, including Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and Timor Leste and across the small island nations of the South Pacific region. She has been part of the State of the World’s Midwifery reports and also the Lancet Series on Midwifery and on Caesarean section. She is passionate about the contrition midwives can and do make to the lives of women and babies, especially in the Asia Pacific region.