Alice Tuson is a registered midwife in the birthing unit at The Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, Sydney. Alice was awarded the ‘best new talent’ nationally with the Australian College of Midwives in 2022. She is highly regarded as a clinician who is passionate and committed to the human rights of childbirth. Still considered an early career midwife, Alice brings a wealth of experience prior to being a midwife. She was a founding trustee of the pregnancy charity, ICP Support and has been published in several journals writing about intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP). Her contributions to policy and directive committees in the UK as well as NHS maternity reviews as an antenatal educator / lay representative set a foundation for her being an advocate of evidence-based care the moment she stepped into the role of a student midwife. She regularly speaks at conferences and enjoys engaging with all discussions relating to how we can provide gold-standard care for women and their families.

Registered Midwife & Director of Calmbirth Pty Ltd

Dr Kate Levett is a researcher, educator and maternal health research specialist, focusing on childbirth education practices. She is a Senior Research Fellow, at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney School of Medicine, and an adjunct Fellow at the NICM Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University and an Honorary Fellow at the Collaboration for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, at the University of Technology Sydney. She has received a NSW Govt Ministerial appointment and has over 20 years’ experience in clinical trials, public health research and epidemiology, education and a clinical practice.

She is involved with international collaborative research networks in maternal health, complementary therapies, and obstetrical acupuncture with a focus on promoting physiological birth practices for integration into childbirth education programs. She is a mentor in the MAMPS Program (Maternity Acupuncture Mentoring and Peer Support), a research advisor for the New Zealand School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a board member of the Obstetrical Acupuncture Association (OBAA) Canada, and is the Australian Ambassador for the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR), and co-lead for the SAR Women’s Health SIG. She is a member of the Science of Physiological Birth Cluster at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Maternal Infant Health Canada (MIHCan), where she collaborates in the delivery of international programs for humanised birth care using Traditional Chinese Medicine skills.