List of Works

Communiques

• Transform-Blog version and all 45 previous email issues

Recent Published articles

Cowan, S., Pease, A., & Bennett, S. (2013). Usage and impact of an online education tool for preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy. Journal of paediatrics and child health, 49(3), 228-232.

Cowan, S., Bennett, S., Clarke, J., & Pease, A. (2013). An evaluation of portable sleeping spaces for babies following the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011. Journal of paediatrics and child health, 49(5), 364-368.

Cowan, S. (2010). Creating Change: How Knowledge Translates into Action for Protecting Babies from Sudden Infant Death. Current Pediatric Reviews, 6(1), 86-94.

Full list

Conference Presentations

2014 International Stillbirth, SIDS and Baby Survival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(Sept 18-21) 

• Beyond innovation (Oral presentation)
• Moving on: Engaging teen parents (Oral presentation)
• Safe to Breathe (Workshop)
• Conference summary report (Oct 2014)

2012 International Stillbirth, SIDS and infant Survival, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
(Oct 4-7 2012)

• People have spoken (Poster presentations)
• Womb for improvement (Poster presentation) WINNER of BEST POSTER
• Aligning with Industry (Poster presentation)
• The Power of Networks (poster presentation)
• SUDI endgame strategies and the need to innovation (Round table discussion)

2010 International Stillbirth, SIDS and infant Survival, Sydney, Australia (Oct 2010)

• 6+1: communicators on the inside of priority groups (Oct 2010)
• Cleaning up the environment: aligning product promotion with safe sleep advice (Oct 2010)
• Baby Essentials: protecting the first 1000 sleeps (Oct 2010)
• Close and Safe: from knowledge to enablers for preventing sudden infant death (Oct 2010)
• Global Strategies for the SUDI Endgame (Oct 2010)
• Womb for improvement: towards more smokefree pregnancies (Oct 2010)

Reports

• First Days: Report on a trial run of a small-sized infant sleep space for safer co-sleeping in postnatal facilities (26 Jan 2016) NEW
• The Rainbow Report: understanding recent infant mortality changes in New Zealand (2001-2014)
• 'Their First 500 Sleeps' a full report of the first three years of implementation of the Pepi-Pod Sleep Space Programme (2012-2014)
  • The Pepi-Pod Programme:2013 Report
  • The Pepi-Pod Programme: 2012 Report 
• 'Using Pepi-pods' (22 Feb, 2012) A report on feedback from families who used protected sleeping spaces for babies following the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011.
• 'Baby Essentials' (12 Jun 2012) Report on a blitz approach to education for aligning health and community sectors with essential knowledge and action for preventing sudden infant death in New Zealand
• Baby bed innovations (2011) A report of a trial of clip on cots in Canterbury, prepared for the Bioengineering Department of Canterbury DHB)

Articles

• Babies, grandparents and safe sleep (published in 'Town and Country' the official magazine of the NZ Federation of Women's Institutes, Nov/Dec 2012)
• Safe Sleep Questions and Answers for Childbirth Educators (published in the CENZ Newsletter) (February 2011)
• Watch out for graffiti signs and signals that invite risk-taking by parents of young babies (October 2010)
• Review of internet images of sleeping babies for adherence to New Zealand safe sleep recommendations (August 2010)
• Review of images of sleeping babies published in NZ magazines for adherence to New Zealand safe sleep recommendations (June 2010)
• The Safe Sleep Enablers Project Outline (Updated August 2010)
• The babies to watch (July 2010)
• Wellington Babies (July 2010)
• Eggs or rubber balls? (June 2010)
• Baby Slings:from products to principles (2010)
• Please tell my parents (2009)
• Dying for Respect (2009)
• Dying for Safe Sleep (2009)
• Fathers as protectors (2009)
• Thank you for our lives (2009)

Resources

• 'It matters where you grow' interactive presentation with voice over (August 2010)
• 'Yes you can!' rack card (2009, reprinted 2010)
• Safe Start Education (2004-10)
• Click the link to view 'Safe Sleep' leaflet, cot card or poster (2013)
• Click for 'Baby Essentials Online' 15 minutes SUDI Prevention course(Updated1stJan 2013)

• For 'Baby Essentials' project materials click here (2009-10)
• For 'Baby Essentials' summary materials in 20 languages, click here(2010)
• 'Just Imagine'- a booklet of eleven stories on becoming smokefree in pregnancy

Archived (Smokefree Hospitals materials)