A pioneer of preventing preterm birth: Professor John Newnham

A Professor of Obstetrics, Professor John Newnham has been instrumental
in making Western Australia an international hotspot for research and clinical excellence in pregnancy and life before birth.

In, 1989, he founded and led the pioneering Raine Study; the world’s first and most enduring pregnancy-focused lifetime cohort
project.

In 2014, he developed the state-wide program for preventing preterm birth,
The Whole Nine Months; a pioneering initiative which resulted in an 8% reduction in premature births across WA. In 2018, he would expand the WA
initiative by founding the Australian Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance – the
world’s first ever national program of its kind.

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