Raewyn Mutch
Honorary Research Associate
MBChB., DipRACOG., Cert.HPRT, FRACP., PhD
Raewyn Mutch is a specialist paediatrician qualifications in 3 disciplines: (i) General Paediatrics, (ii) Child and Community Paediatrics, and (iii) Respiratory Paediatrics. Raewyn undertakes and provides postgraduate education and research while maintaining 0.6 FTE in a tertiary paediatric health service in Perth, Western Australia (WA).
Raewyn has completed a progressive body of research across Refugee Health, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and Juvenile Justice (JJ) informing state, national and international best practice and policy for health and justice. She works within multidisciplinary teams nationally and internationally.
Raewyn's clinical leadership includes education, capacity building, research-translation and advocacy for improving paediatric health and juvenile justice, services and policy. She completes collaborative resource development about health and educates about social and cultural safety and determinants, developmental differences, lived-trauma and diagnoses, for and to health professionals and students, legal and judicial professionals, families and communities, state and international universities.
Projects
Ngulluk Moort, Ngulluk Boodja, Ngulluk Wirin (Our Family, Our Country, Our Spirit) Out-of-Home Care Study
We are co-designing an innovative evaluation framework to establish a comprehensive evidence base on what works, what does not work, when and for who, and why.
Education and Qualifications
- 2022 - Certificate, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), University of Cambridge
- Women Leading Change: Shaping our Future
- 2021 - Certificate Level 5, Te Wānanga o Raukawa.
- Poupou Huia te Reo Te Hōkairangi
- 2021 - Certificate Level 4, Te Wānanga o Raukawa.
- Poupou Huia te Reo : Certificate in Māori Protocol and language use in the home
- 2020 - Bayley™-4 Certificate, Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development | Fourth Edition
- For determining Developmental Delay
- 2016 - Certificate, Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma, (HPRT), Harvard Medical School
- Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery
- 2016 - FRACP Paediatrics, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
- General Paediatrics
- 2014 - FRACP Paediatrics, RACP
- Chapter Community and Developmental Paediatrics
- 2006 - PhD, UWA, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
- Familial Asthma and Allergy
- 2000 - FRACP Paediatrics, RACP
- Thoracic + Sleep Medicine
- 1994 - Diploma, Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians + Gynaecologists
- Obstetrics + Gynaecology
- 1988 - MBChB, Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou
- Medicine and Surgery
Additional: Annual mandatory CPD modules, 25 plus qualifications/certifications e.g; Bayleys Developmental Scales, etc.
Awards/Honours
- 2018
- Public Health Association, WA, Policy and Research Translation Award
- WA DoH Consumer Excellence Award, Mutch, PCH, WA
- 2017
- Commendation of Excellence for Compassion, PCH, WA
- 2016
- Runner-up Consultant of the Year, PMH,WA
- Kudos Award, Alcohol, Pregnancy and FASD team, The Kids Research Institute Australia, WA.
Active Collaborations
- 2023 Health Research Council of NZ (HRC), to determine the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) across Youth Justice in NZ with the University of Auckland
- 2022 Elder-Led Research: Changing the Paradigm for Out of Home Care, (NHMRC) at The Kids Research Institute Australia
- 2021 Collaborative capacity building culturally-informed developmental assessment with Aboriginal Health Services, (Curtin), with Curtin University and Derbyl Yerrigan.
- Raewyn is on a 2023 MRFF Grant Proposal under review with Aboriginal academic colleagues Williams, Eades, Eades and also with International colleague Badry titled "The Development of Solid Families Programme." Professor Badry is based at the University of Calgary, Canada. Dr Sandra Eades is now based at Melbourne University
- Expert Advisory Group and Clinical Advisory Group for the Revision of the National Guidelines for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australia
- Expert Advisory Group and Tāngata Whenua Advisory Group for the Revision of the National Guidelines for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- PhD student on extended long-COVID leave based in Aotearoa New Zealand and in collaboration with MIHI MIHI (Māori/Indigenous Health Institute), School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Christchurch. Dr Suzanne Pitama is the Dean and Head of Campus.
- Expert advisor invited into a Māori Rōpū to present to the Waitangi Tribunal Aotearoa, New Zealand about the harms of Waipiro (alcohol) and FASD.