Diversity Matters; What Are Our Challenges?

March 30, 2017

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As we think about the changing demographics of our country, the critical difference that midwives of color make in improving health, and the future of midwifery, we must ask serious questions about how we can expand and diversify the profession. Policymakers and other health professionals are asking similar questions. This webinar explores the evidence supporting the imperative of diversity in the health professions and examines more closely the experiences of student midwives and midwives of color entering the CPM profession.

Keisha Goode, PhD discusses her research entitled Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism.

Keisha is on the Board of NACPM.  She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at The State University of New York College. Her primary research area is Medical Sociology with specific attention to the medicalization of childbirth and the historical and contemporary complexities of black midwifery in the United States. She is completing a book proposal for the publication of her dissertation research. View Keisha Goode’s presentation slides here

Nancy Anderson, MD, MPH, shares her research project/needs assessment sponsored by NACPM that aims to understand the barriers that women of color experience with respect to the midwifery profession, and to describe the optimal structure for a midwifery education scholarship program aimed at women of color.

Nancy is originally from New York City, and attended Barnard College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.  She is a board certified pediatrician with an MPH in Maternal-Child Health from the University of Washington. Nancy spent five years working in Mozambique, and worked for the Department of Social and Health Services in Washington State for twelve years. She has taught public health in the division of Evening and Weekend Studies at The Evergreen State College and was adjunct faculty in the department of Midwifery at Bastyr University. Nancy is currently on the core faculty in a brand new program, a Master’s program in Maternal Child Health Systems in the Department of Midwifery. Her particular interests are health equity, global health issues, and the health of women and children, with a particular focus on the elimination of maternal infant health inequities in the US. View Nancy Anderson’s presentation slides here