Virginia Stulz MN(Hons), PhD

Virginia is currently working in a conjoint position between Nepean Hospital and the University of Western Sydney. She has been working as a registered nurse and midwife for the past 25 years. In her previous role as the Senior Midwifery Advisor for Dept of Health, NT Govt, she has been working on a variety of projects in the NT including integration of maternity services and leading the implementation of Privately Practising Midwives in the NT in alignment with law reform in 2014.

She worked as the co-investigator on a national research project of evaluating organizational cultural competence in maternity care for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women, commissioned by the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council, from 2015 - 2017. She developed the NT Health Clinical Guidelines for Termination of Pregnancy and Consumer Guidelines to align with current changes in legislation in the NT and led an advisory committee for consumers.