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UBC Midwifery Director, Cecilia Jevitt was the invited keynote speaker at a virtual international midwifery conference hosted by the Universitas Sebelas Maret in Surukarta, Indonesia.
Dr. Jevitt presented on providing women’s health, specifically perinatal care, during the COVID pandemic to more than 270 attendees. Indonesia has approximately 250,000 midwives registered with the midwives association and more than 700 schools of midwifery.
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Congratulations to Michelle Turner for her 2021 Strengthening Mothers through Perinatal Research Award!
Michelle is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC and a Midwifery Clinical Instructor who will design and test a drama-based childbirth education program for grade 4 students to discover if and how it can increase understandings and reduce fears of birth, with the objective of improving health outcomes for women and newborns by…
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Financing for Your Education: A Conversation for UBC Midwifery Students
Meeting Information Date: Thursday, August 12th @ 6pm PSTMeeting link: https://rbcteams.webex.com/rbcteams/j.php?MTID=m33a693e127caca9a4993c20be201fa4fMeeting number: 180 926 2879Password: 3mtXiHdMh36
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Congratulations to Dr. Luba Butska for her two presentations during the 32nd Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives!
After hearing Luba’s presentation of the research about burn-out in Midwifery that she completed with Dr. Kathrin Stoll, Sally Pairman, the Chief Executive Officer of the International Confederation of Midwives, invited Luba to join a panel on enabling environments in Midwifery. This panel, chaired by Dr. Neel Shah, renowned Midwifery supporter from Harvard University, occurred…
