Online School

Humanizing birth

In the summer of 2022 the collective organized a summer school inviting participants from all over the world to share experiences, and learn from experts of all kinds of backgrounds (medical, non-medical, science, indigenous). Now we want to share this information with you. Scroll down to start learning, or click here to get a quick visual overview of the contents.

Introducing Humanizing Birth

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Fatimah Mohamied

Fatimah Mohamied is a midwife, mother and muslim woman living in London (United Kingdom)

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Elizabeth Newnham

Dr. Elizabeth Newnham is a is a mother of four, a grandmother of two, and senior lecturer and director of midwifery programs at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

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Angela Nguku

Angela Nguku, BScN, MA, MSN, is a passionate maternal, newborn and adolescent health champion whose career spans over 14 years of dedicated work towards ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths globally.

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Heba Farajallah

Heba Farajallah is a midwife and a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen

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Inge van Nistelrooij

Inge van Nistelrooij is a Professor occupying an endowed chair in Metaphysics and philosophical anthropology.

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Rodante van der Waal

Rodante van der Waal (she/they, 1992) is an independent midwife in Amsterdam and PhD-candidate in care ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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Part 1: Anti-racist perspectives

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Jennie Joseph

Jennie Joseph is a British-trained midwife who fights to ensure every person has their healthiest possible pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience with dignity and support.

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Natali Valdez

Natali Valdez is a medical anthropologist by training and her research lies at the intersections of anthropology, gender studies, science studies, and public health.

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Lucia Rocca-Ihenacho

Dr Lucia Rocca-Ihenacho studied anthropology in Italy where she also qualified as a midwife and worked in independent practice offering holistic care.

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Dána-Ain Davis

Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology. She is the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center.

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Cassandra Yuill

Dr Cassandra Yuill is a medical anthropologist specialising in research on maternal health and maternity services in the UK.

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Anna Horn

Anna Horn is PhD candidate in anthropology at the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research at City, University of London.

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Amrita Banerjee

Amrita Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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Part 2: Queer and Decolonial Perspectives

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Shehnaz Munshi

Shehnaz Mushi (MPH) is a health policy and systems researcher and activist with a particular interest in feminist, decolonial scholarship and praxis.

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Jason Marcus

Jason Marcus is a specialist midwife and health professions educationalist

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Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso

Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology Department, University of Pretoria, and Book Review Editor for Feminism & Psychology.

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Rachelle Chadwick

Dr Rachelle Chadwick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Pretoria.

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Lance Louskieter

Lance Louskieter is a health systems and policy researcher with a particular interest in queer and decolonial scholarship.

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Part 3: Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives

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Image above is a collage using a beautiful photo of Natalie Lennard’s Birth Undisturbed series, with permission.

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Ivonne Johanna Orejuela Ramírez

Ivonne Johanna Orejuela Ramírez is a ancestral cultora, wise woman and midwife, dedicated to the research, practice and safeguarding of Afro cultural traditions, carrying out processes in natural medicine, healing and midwifery.

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Héctor Kemble Molina

Héctor Kemble Molina is a midwife graduated from the University of Chile with a degree in sexuality.

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Michelle Sadler

Michelle Sadler, PhD in Medical Anthropology. She is an adjunct researcher in the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile; and a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

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Susana Ku Carbonell

Susana Ku Carbonell is a Peruvian and Canadian registered Midwife. She is currently a PhD Candidate in the Global Health department at McMaster University.

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Rosalynn Adeline Vega

Rosalynn Adeline Vega is a medical anthropologist and social epidemiologist. She is associate professor of global health and director of medical humanities at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

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Maria Jose Sanchez

Maria Jose Sanchez is a teacher and is currently working as a teacher consultant in public schools

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Bianca Zorzam

Bianca Zorzam is a midwife graduated in obstetrics (USP-2008), living in São Paulo.

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Camila Videla Amaro

Camila Videla Amaro, qualified midwife from the University of Chile, with a diploma degree in sexuality and comprehensive health of adolescents

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Part 4: Postcolonial Perspectives

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Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma is a PhD student at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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Kaveri Mayra

Dr. Kaveri Mayra is a midwifery, nursing and global health researcher from India with a PhD in Global Health from the University of Southampton, UK, where she explored the experiences and determinants of obstetric violence in India through an arts-based method called ‘birth mapping’.

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Kanchana Mahadevan

Kanchana Mahadevan is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai.

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Asha Achuthan

Asha Achuthan presently teaches at the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, TISS.

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Amrita Banerjee

Amrita Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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Part 5: Futurist Perspectives

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Mars Lord

Mars Lord is a life coach, doula educator, birth activist and reproductive justice warrior.

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Sabia Wade

Sabia Wade (she/they), is a Black, Queer, CEO, Investor, Author, Educator, Full Spectrum Doula, and expander of Black Luxury.

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Bahareh Goodarzi

Bahareh Goodarzi is a midwife, lecturer at the Midwifery Academy Amsterdam Groningen and a PhD candidate at the department of Midwifery Science at Amsterdam UMC location VUmc.

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