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International Women’s Day 2024
This year, as part of the worldwide celebrations of women’s achievements, there are two major themes. The IWD organization and UBC’s theme is #InspireInclusion to encourage us to imagine a gender-equal, diverse, equitable and inclusive world. The Government of Canada’s and United Nation’s themes are Invest in Women: Accelerate progress. Inclusion and progress go so well together. UBC’s…
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Zoë Hodgson to lead Midwifery work for the Ministry
Zoë Hodgson, an alumni, a preceptor, an adjunct UBC Midwifery Professor, and most recently Clinical Director for the Midwives Association of BC (MABC), has joined the NP and Midwives team in the Nursing Policy Secretariat as the Clinical and Policy Lead for Midwives and will lead Midwifery work for the Ministry. The Nursing Policy Secretariat…
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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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The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing: Faculty & Student Publication
Announcement: Professor Cecilia M. Jevitt and student Kiley Ketchum have co-authored a paper titled “Pairing Evidence-Based Strategies With Motivational Interviewing to Support Optimal Nutrition and Weight Gain in Pregnancy,” published in The Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing (JPNN). Known as the “Pink Journal,” JPNN is a peer-reviewed publication focusing on labour and delivery, intrapartum…
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UNESCO: Midwifery must be preserved
Midwifery has been entered into UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritages that must be preserved. You can read about the inscription in a short but insightful article here: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/midwifery-knowledge-skills-and-practices-01968. VIDEO Midwifery: knowledge, skills and practices (Germany, Cyprus, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Slovenia and Togo)Representative List – 2023
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THE LANCET: Post-doctoral fellow publication
Post-doctoral fellow Dr. Kaveri Mayra (Birth Place Lab) co-authored an article in a new Lancet series on maternal and perinatal health: Towards a better tomorrow: addressing intersectional gender power relations to eradicate inequities in maternal health
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ELSEVIER: Faculty Publication
Dr. Luba Butska co-authored Systematic Screening for Perinatal Anxiety and Why it Matters, along with Kathrin Stoll and Nichole Fairbrother, both of whom are part of Family Practice but tied to Midwifery. Anyone clicking on this link before December 24, 2023, will be taken directly to the latest version of your article on ScienceDirect, which…
