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Alcohol use in pregnancy

Dr Tracy Reibel

Tracy was formerly a Senior Research Fellow at the Telethon Kid’s Institute. In 2018, Tracy joined the Ngangk Yira Research Centre, Murdoch University and was appointed as the Principal Research Fellow in 2019. Her work then and now is focused on maternal and child health (for example, antenatal models of care and service delivery, maternity and early year’s services development, health literacy, cultural competency, and professional development). From a humanities academic grounding, Tracy has translated her critical enquiry and discourse analysis skills to health research, working in this field since 1997.

With her expertise in working with midwives over the past 20 years, she was appointed Lead Researcher for the midwives component of the Marulu Project for the Alcohol and Pregnancy Research Group at Telethon Kids Institute. The project developed and evaluated a training package for midwives, which was then made available to all health professionals in Western Australia. In 2018, WAPHA provided funding for the training package to be converted to videos aimed at providing professional development education for General Practitioners. These videos are available on the FASD Hub, as of July 2019.

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Having a conversation with pregnant women about alcohol use is important not only for their own health but their fetus. No level of maternal alcohol consumption is completely ‘safe’ or ‘no risk’ during pregnancy for the developing fetus. In her presentation, Tracy looks at the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of asking about alcohol use in pregnancy.

FASD is a diagnostic term for severe neurodevelopmental impairments (physical, language, memory, learning and behaviour) that result from brain damage caused by alcohol exposure before birth. Information and educational videos can be found at www.fasdhub.org.au

WA Primary Health AlliancePrimary Health Network: Perth North, Perth South, Country WA

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