Clare Whitehead is the co-founder of PLATIPUS. She co-chairs the PLATIPUS Trial Management and Pregnancy Domains Committees, and leads the trial's first pregnancy domain, PROMOAT, investigating antibiotic use in preterm prelabour rupture of membranes.

Clare is a Maternal Fetal Medicine subspecialist and Head of Fetal Medicine at The Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne. She is also an Associate Professor and Head of the Perinatal Research Group in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on improving the detection and treatment of major pregnancy complications: preterm birth, fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia. She currently co-leads the Innovative Trial Portfolio, and was past Co-Chair (2020-2023) of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) Interdisciplinary Maternal and Perinatal Australasian Collaborative Trials (IMPACT) Network.

She is passionate about supporting the next generation of clinician researchers and integrating research into routine care to improve health outcomes.