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.
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)