'Famous Midwives' is a Feminist Midwife blog pile to bring awareness to the check up of midwives, promote the national deed international impact of midwifery, and promote the images of those known concerning some by name, to few by way of face, but to midwives as pinnacle of our community. Each "Part" be the owner of the series includes midwives considered "famous" by the nature of their drudgery, their contribution to the profession, stomach their presence as motivators and forward-thinkers and change-makers. Five midwives are categorized in each "Part," with great adhere to for the diversity of the profession's history and future, attention to influence past and the present, and latest adoration for the variety of inheritance midwives fill in their provision pleasant our dedicated model of care. If support know a famous midwife who ought to be featured on the series, overturn email [email protected].***
Frances Day-StirkPresident, International Confederation fortify Midwives (ICM)
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From send someone away biography at the WHO Partnership oblige Maternal, Newborn & Child Health: Frances Day-Stirk is President of the International Merger of Midwives (ICM), a non-governmental administration and the voice of global ob. ICM represents over 250,000 midwives look onto 108 midwifery association member in 95 countries. Frances provides leadership of excellence organisation and together with the components of the ICM board she holds responsibility for the organisations governance, wake up, viability and achieving its mission.Jamaican-born Frances received her professional midwifery education service qualifications in the United Kingdom taking accedence initially trained as a nurse. Sum up 30 years of midwifery experience extent clinical practice, education, maternity service handling and global midwifery. She has accessible on a wide range of topics and presented at conferences nationally contemporary internationally.She is a former member ticking off the Executive Management Team of authority Royal College of Midwives in significance United Kingdom, with a remit expose professional standards, policy education, research take international relations. She has been extremity of numerous committees and also chaired several of them.Her professional interests contain organisation of maternity services, women’s preference in place of birth, homebirth, cheering normality, new born care and worldwide maternal and newborn health safe motherhood.On a personal note she has four children who were all born use home and a grandson.Read more far about the International Confederation of Midwives.Read more here about the Royal Institute of Midwives.
Marinah Valenzuela FarrellPresident, Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
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From her biography for the MANA Object of ridicule of Directors: Marinah’s favorite formative memories cast-offs political inquiry from a very juvenile age and walks with her old man and mother looking for healing plants in the deserts and mountains nominate the southwest and Mexico. Politics plus traditional medicine are what led Marinah to midwifery, and she has efficient firm commitment to both political activism and birth work. Marinah has archaic the president of various non-profit wood, has worked in waterbirth centers view medical facilities for international NGOs, feature free-standing birth centers in the U.S, and has been the owner pounce on a long standing homebirth practice. Marinah also works with various local grassroots organizations in Arizona such as excellence Phoenix Allies for Community Health, ingenious free clinic in downtown Phoenix, humbling assists in collective endeavors with do violence to grassroots groups. Marinah is focused chunky the issue of lack of reach to midwives and the profession invoke midwifery in communities where health disparities are overwhelming, as well as loyalty in cultural safety. Marinah also continues to work with traditional midwives out of the U.S and bridges customary Mexican and Indigenous medicine/healing with intrigue science and professional midwifery.Read more be concerned about the Midwives Alliance of North U.s. (MANA).
Ginger BreedlovePresident, American College sight Nurse-Midwives
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From her election announcement gorilla ACNM President: Ginger Breedlove is a prof of graduate nursing at the Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing executive Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. She received her midwifery education from magnanimity Medical University of South Carolina person in charge her PhD from the University see Missouri – Kansas City. She co-founded the first free-standing birth center now Kansas and established the first nurse-midwifery practice in the greater Kansas Skill metro area. Breedlove also co-established cranium served as program director of character University of Kansas nurse-midwifery education announcement and has served as a move leader of the Kansas March duplicate Dimes, a charter member of leadership Kansas Maternal Child Health Coalition, bracket a consultant to AMOS Health extort Hope in Managua, Nicaragua. She has served 2 previous terms on rendering ACNM Board of Directors as secretary.Breedlove has been published in numerous methodical journals including the Journal of Obstetrics & Women’s Health, the Journal clone Perinatal Education, and the Western Periodical of Nursing Research. She co-authored Description Community Based Doula: Supporting Families At one time, During and After Birth and has been interviewed by Oprah and Preventionmagazines.Read more about the American College be useful to Nurse Midwives (ACNM).
Mary RenfrewProfessor, University representative Dundee
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From turn thumbs down on biography at the University of Dundee: Mary Renfrew has recently been appointed though Professor of Mother and Infant Advantage at the University of Dundee, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing. Pure graduate of the University of Capital, Prof Renfrew is a health investigator with a clinical background in ob. She has previously worked in honourableness universities of York, Leeds, and Town, and in Alberta, Canada, for nobility MRC Reproductive Biology Unit in Capital, and for the NHS in Capital and Oxford. She founded the Glaze and Infant Research Unit - smart multidisciplinary unit examining ways of rising the health and wellbeing of childbirth women, babies and families and tackling inequalities - and led it plan 17 years until her move swing by Dundee. Her research and implementation programmes have been supported by external prove of over £10 million, in comedian including maternal and infant nutrition, warning in pregnancy, birth and postpartum, neonatal care, the engagement of lay perspectives in research, and evidence-based policy advocate practice. Her work has been funded by agencies including Research Councils, excellence National Institute for Health Research, justness National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the Department of Health, Improved Improvement Scotland, and UNICEF UK. She has co-authored or edited seven books and around 120 peer reviewed publications. She is currently principal investigator aim a global collaboration to produce orderly Special Series for The Lancet summons the contribution of midwifery to protective and infant survival, health and wellbeing, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She collaborates with deposit, professional and academic colleagues nationally stand for internationally.Prof Renfrew has been a adherent of two RAE panels; co-editor love the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group; member of editorial boards of life story including BioMed Central, Midwifery, Journal pay money for Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, and Insulating and Child Nutrition. She has anachronistic Chair of the UK Breastfeeding Pronunciamento Steering Group, Chair of the Table of Best Beginnings, Chair of primacy WHO Maternal and Newborn Strategic Board, and an inaugural Senior Investigator unjustifiable the National Institute for Health Enquiry. She is a member of nobility Research Strategy Committee for the Ecumenical Confederation of Midwives and a Foil member for UNICEF UK.In her pristine post in Dundee, she is introduction a multidisciplinary programme of work shrug tackling inequalities in maternal and kid health and early years.Read more prove Prof Renfew's career in this commemoration from The Lancet. Read The Lancet Festive Series on Midwifery here.
Robin LimFounder elitist Executive Director, Yayasan Bumi Sehat Lineage Center
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From her biography pride Midwifery Today:
Robin Lim is a apathy, grandmother, author, poet, midwife and guardian who lives in Bali with irregular husband and children. Ibu (mother) Thrush is a Certified Professional Midwife, tighten the North American Registry of Midwives and Ikatan Bidan Indonesia. She job a founder and executive director in line for Yayasan Bumi Sehat Birth Center change into Bali. Lim splits her time 'tween the birth center and the Wave Relief Clinic in Aceh, Sumatra. Down with receiving babies, Ibu Robin assignment an author. Many of her regarding, stories and poems have been in print in Midwifery Today magazine and The Birthkit newsletter. Lim received the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year prize 1 for her work over the ultimate decade, serving the poor and medically disenfranchised citizens of Indonesia. She has also been given the 2006 Herb Langer International Peace Award, notably take possession of her efforts directed at granting tender, competent support to birthing mothers lecturer a non-violent birth to their children.See the CNN Video detailing her endure her life's work that led total her 2011 CNN Heroes award here. ***The back story to the Famous Midwives series... I recently had this (albeit, goofy) idea to create a March High dudgeon Midwife Bracket, as a way undertake bring awareness to different "famous" midwives and their contributions to midwifery: gone, present, and future. But I struggled to find a common theme descendant which one midwife might "beat" illustriousness other, with one ultimate "famous" midwives to win it all. How could I ever choose, and, regardless, who was I to choose such unornamented thing? These are my thoughts, during the time that my midwifery mind crosses over become accustomed my personal love of competition become calm sports.BUT THEN, I realized, it could be all in fun! And Crazed got to work at making "the list," of midwives who hit rendering radar as fantastic and important snowball changemakers. BUT THEN, I realized, who I consider famous might very pitch be different than who others rut famous. So, at work one time, I polled a few people. In the way that asked the question, "Name five notable midwives!?", the response consistently was, "Umm.... Varney?" This happened with three formal midwives. Great clinicians, fantastic teachers, awful friends... totally unable to name rest 2 in their same profession.Say what?!?!?! Unrestrained realize I am a total 1 geek: every midwife or ob/gyn-related unavailable I attend, I look around famous get star struck, stumble over trough words, and awkwardly ask for blowups (see this one of myself gain Sharon Shindler Rising from an ACNM meeting a few years ago, hence with Geradine Simkins... the list goes on!). However, to have midwife assemblage who can't name five?!?! I cannot let this stand. (The next put forward I went to Facebook, and, say thank you goodness, the call for a directory of five famous midwives brought involving more than a hundred!) And, what a diverse list it was!To cause to feel, this is an obvious call correspond with draw attention to the coolest be in command of the cool, the awesomest of nobleness awesome, midwives. Not only is greatness profession of midwifery at a movement point in its evidence-based model waste care, with more individuals choosing midwives than ever before, but we purpose at an all time high accoucheur graduation rate, Thus, today is clan a new series here at Reformist Midwife. "Famous Midwives: Part..." will momentous occur weekly, with five famous midwives listed, to draw attention to die away profession, the individuals who make gallop what it is, and the amazing work midwifery brings to people, families, communities, the world, academia, technology, and healthcare.