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UBC Midwifery Congratulates Tracey Mason!
Congratulations to Tracey on her recent induction into the UBC 25 Year Club, recognizing an important milestone of service to the Faculty of Medicine and the University. Tracey, Midwifery’s Administrative Coordinator, has worked with Midwifery 10 of those 25 years. She is the longest UBC employee within Midwifery. So many thanks Tracey!
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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…
