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Welcome! Newest Additions to UBC Midwifery
Our team is growing, and we are excited to add two new instructional assistants to the team. They will be onboarding in the coming weeks and getting up to speed with the administrative work. Marisa Ortiz (she/they) – Instructional Assistant Hi everyone, my name is Marisa (she/they), and I’m a recent grad of UBC Science.…
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BMJ Open Faculty Publication: Co-contributors Vedam. S & Bayrampour. H
UBC Midwifery Professor and Lead Investigator for The Birth Place Lab Saraswathi Vedam and UBC Midwifery Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator for our Perinatal Wellbeing Research team Hamideh Bayrampour, have, along with other UBC faculty and alums, contributed to a protocol “Teaching by texting to promote positive health behaviours in pregnancy: a protocol for a…
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IJERPH Student & Faculty Publication: K Ketchum and CM Jevitt
Announcement: Kiley Ketchum, registered dietician and third-year midwifery student and Professor Cecilia M. Jevitt have recently co-authored a paper titled “Evidence-Based Eating Patterns and Behavior Changes to Limit Excessive Gestational Weight Gain: A Scoping Review,” published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). IJERPH is an open-access journal published monthly online…
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In December 2023, UNESCO inscribed “Midwifery: knowledge, skills and practices” onto its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This recognition underscores the universal significance of midwifery across diverse cultures.
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