Women's health & reproductive medicine
Improving patient outcomes in rapidly expanding fields of practice
With almost one in 20 babies born through IVF in Australia, opens in a new window, reproductive medicine is offering hope and clinical support to many couples trying to have a child. Complications with HIV/STIs, infertility and unplanned pregnancy are consistent health issues that require addressing through new reproductive technologies and specialised professionals. Women's health medicine encompasses sexual, reproductive, pre-pregnancy and pregnancy care as well as the management of female specific conditions and malignancies.
Studying women's health & reproductive medicine at UNSW
Our women's health & reproductive medicine researchers are contributing and collaborating locally, nationally and internationally with novel and innovative discoveries. Our connections with the real world of ‘hands-on’ medicine brings validation across all the courses on offer. The discipline of obstetrics and gynaecology is largely based at the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick - one of Australia’s foremost specialist hospitals for women and babies. UNSW's other teaching hospitals include the St George & Sutherland Hospital, Bankstown Hospital and Liverpool Hospital. The National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit (NPESU), opens in a new window was formed in 1979 and is a leading source of statistical and epidemiological research in reproductive medicine, pregnancy, childbirth, and the health and care of newborns.