Elizabeth Sullivan, MBBS, MPH, MMed

Associate Professor Elizabeth Sullivan is a highly experienced medical epidemiologist and public health physician with 18 years national and international experience in perinatal, reproductive and infectious disease epidemiology.

A/Prof Sullivan is Director of the AIHW National Perinatal Statistics Unit (NPSU), a collaborating unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The NPSU maintains and develops Australian national data collections on perinatal and reproductive health; produces national statistical reports on perinatal and reproductive health; and undertakes data development to enhance national data systems.

A/Prof Sullivan is also Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Epidemiology and Research Unit (PRERU), a population based research unit of the University if New South Wales’, Faculty of Medicine’s School of Women’s and Children’s Health that undertakes a program of research. PRERU is located at the Sydney Children’s Hospital. It maintains and reports on two Australian and New Zealand data collections on reproduction (Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database [ANZARD]) and admission to neonatal intensive care (Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network [ANZNN]).

A/Prof Sullivan is a member of five national committees and advisory groups and has published widely in the perinatal field with over one hundred peer review articles and published reports.