Australia leads industrialized nations in achieving optimal perinatal health outcomes. Global study creates opportunities for adapting lessons learned from other countries. My Fulbright research aims to inform perinatal care practice and policies in Australia and the United States by contributing to scholarly and community discourse about perinatal healthcare inequities.
Tanika is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at The Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University. Her clinical and research interests include: reflective supervision and other workplace supports promoting workforce well-being, culturally responsive parent-infant psychotherapeutic interventions, and achieving equity in maternal-infant health and mental health outcomes.
Tanika’s Fulbright Scholarship will see her partner with midwifery faculty at the University of Newcastle’s College of Health, Medicine and Well-Being to investigate the impacts of midwifery-led and standard perinatal health care on Australian pregnant, birthing and parenting individuals and their infants.