Sally Tracy

Sally Tracy PhD is an Australian, midwife, midwifery researcher, author and activist.

Tracy is the Associate Professor of Midwifery Practice Development, Northern Sydney and Central Coast Area Health Service and University of Technology, Sydney and the Conjoint Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is based at the National Perinatal Statistics Unit as a senior research Fellow where her research projects include the safety of primary level (especially rural) maternity hospitals and Birth Centres in Australia and the evaluation of midwifery led units. She has authored numerous research articles. She was a joint author of the National Maternity Action Plan.

For the past ten years Sally has been at the forefront of midwifery politics in Australia. She has challenged the Australian maternity system through research and practice development in a bid to get a better deal for women in childbirth. She helped to set up the Ryde Midwifery Caseload Practice, in Sydney, in 2003. Her current research questions the acceptability of the increasing interference of obstetrics with the physiological birth process.

Selected bibliography

 * ''Midwifery - Preparation for Practice", Ed Sally Pairman, Jan Pincombe, Carol Thorogood & Sally Tracy, Elsevier, 2006 ISBN 978-0-7295-3756-8
 * Normal Birth - What are My Chances''
 * Foreword - With Women - an analysis of the differences between shift work and continuity of care, ed David Vernon, Australian College of Midwives, 2007 pXI
 * Rates of Obstetric Intervention among Private and Public patients in Australia - a population based study, Christine Roberts, Sally Tracy and Brian Peat, MJ 2000;321:137-141 ( 15 July )