Judith M. Lumley
Australian public health academic
Judith Mary Lumley (15 February 1941 – 25 October 2018) had a career as an academic, author, public health advocate and perinatal researcher, retiring as Professor Emerita at La Trobe University in December 2008.
Early life and education
Lumley was born Judith Mary Casey in Cardiff, Wales in 1941. She graduated first from Cambridge University in 1962 and married Peter Lumley in 1964, emigrating to Australia a year later. She completed a medical degree at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She gained her PhD in fetal physiology working on fetal acidosis in labor at the Monash Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and became a Fellow of both the UK and Australian Faculties of Public Health Medicine and Professor at La Trobe University.
Career
Lumley worked in academic teaching and research in both pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology for several years, before establishing and directing the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection in 1982. In 1988, she chaired the Victorian Ministerial Review of Birthing Services. In 1991 she established a research centre at Monash University, which later moved to La Trobe University. Lumley was director of that Centre until 2008, with the exception of two years as Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University (1994-1995). Originally called the Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, then Mother & Child Health Research, the name was changed to the Judith Lumley Centre in 2013.
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