THE WOMBAT (Women and Babies Wellbeing: Action through Trials) Collaboration

The WOMBAT Collaboration promotes and supports high quality randomised clinical trials in the perinatal area in order to improve the health and wellbeing of women and their children. The Australian perinatal researchers and practitioners who act as the WOMBAT Collaboration Advisory Board have been awarded an NHMRC enabling grant to enhance the national health and medical research effort.

The WOMBAT Collaboration through ARCH continues to:

• Provide high level support to researchers undertaking multicentre trials in the perinatal area.
  This support spans assistance with formulating trial questions, to trial design, methods and conduct, through to dissemination of the results of the trial.
• Identify research areas and encouraging appropriate clinical and methodological trials.
  Cochrane reviews and other sources will be systematically used to identify research gaps in perinatal evidence and WOMBAT will assist researchers to develop trial protocols to address these gaps.
• Provide education and training in trial design and conduct.
  WOMBAT offers workshops and other educational resources on the various aspects of trial design