Richelle Powell
Richelle Powell is the Recruitment and Assessment Team Leader for the NEW1000 Study.
Richelle is a Registered Midwife at Hunter New England Health's John Hunter Hospital and has enjoyed working with local families at the hospital since 2015.
She has worked in all areas of maternity within the hospital, including the birth suite, postnatal ward, maternity assessment unit, antenatal clinics, maternal-fetal medicine unit, first-trimester screening clinic, and the high-risk antenatal ward.
Richelle has enjoyed rotating through the different roles within the hospital and has gained a wide array of midwifery knowledge.
Richelle joined the University of Newcastle's Mothers and Babies Research Centre in 2020 as a Research Midwife and will lead the recruitment and ongoing assessment of NEW1000 families.