Master of Advanced Healthcare Practice
Monash University, VIC
Janet has worked as the sister-in-charge and/or a midwife across PNG’s healthcare system, including at Daru General Hospital, Alotau General Hospital, and in the family planning unit of Port Moresby’s St Therese Clinic.
Janet would like to address PNG’s high maternal and infant mortality rates by creating a system within antenatal departments that identifies and communicates risk factors early into pregnancies, so that these risks are managed and the women can be referred as soon as possible. She also intends to empower women to take charge of their reproductive health and to educate them about their rights to choose the number of children they have – that this decision is not made by their parents, husbands, in-laws or any other relatives.
