RESEARCH INTERESTS: Global health, midwifery, sexual and reproductive health, task shifting

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Global health, midwifery, sexual and reproductive health, task shifting

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Midwifery scope of practice, maternal and neonatal outcomes, health policy

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Midwifery scope of practice, maternal and neonatal outcomes, health policy

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Shared Decision-Making, Skin-to-skin contact and the maternal experience, skin-to-skin contact and interprofessional collaboration

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Shared Decision-Making, Skin-to-skin contact and the maternal experience, skin-to-skin contact and interprofessional collaboration

RESEARCH INTERESTS: 2SLGBTQAI+ reproductive health equity, midwifery, critical qualitative methodologies

Research Collaborator, Re:searching for 2SLGBTQ Health 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: 2SLGBTQAI+ reproductive health equity, midwifery, critical qualitative methodologies

Research Collaborator, Re:searching for 2SLGBTQ Health 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: scope of practice, reproductive health, interprofessional collaboration, expanded midwifery models

RESEARCH INTERESTS: scope of practice, reproductive health, interprofessional collaboration, expanded midwifery models

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Physiologic birth, midwifery services, postpartum hemorrhage

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Physiologic birth, midwifery services, postpartum hemorrhage

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Perinatal Epidemiology, Medical Education, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Midwifery

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Perinatal Epidemiology, Medical Education, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Midwifery

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Maternal Child Health, Epidemiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Maternal Child Health, Epidemiology

Susana Ku is a Registered Midwife in Ontario, Canada.  Before starting her career in Canada, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Midwifery in Peru and obtained a master’s degree in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Peru. In addition to her academic background, she has also performed as a clinical preceptor and Midwifery instructor in the Midwifery education program in Peru and Canada. She is a Committee Member in the Virtual International Day of the Midwife Conference. She is currently involved in global health projects because global midwifery is one of her research interests.  Her other main areas of interest childbearing and human rights, promotion of equity in health, use of technology for continuing education, provision of quality midwifery care during crisis and choice of birthplace. Susana has recently been accepted as a student on the PhD program in Global Health from McMaster University.

Susana Ku is a Registered Midwife in Ontario, Canada.  Before starting her career in Canada, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Midwifery in Peru and obtained a master’s degree in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Peru. In addition to her academic background, she has also performed as a clinical preceptor and Midwifery instructor in the Midwifery education program in Peru and Canada. She is a Committee Member in the Virtual International Day of the Midwife Conference. She is currently involved in global health projects because global midwifery is one of her research interests.  Her other main areas of interest childbearing and human rights, promotion of equity in health, use of technology for continuing education, provision of quality midwifery care during crisis and choice of birthplace. Susana has recently been accepted as a student on the PhD program in Global Health from McMaster University.

Caroline Matteo is a midwife trained in France. After some years of clinical practice both in hospital settings and community practice, she became a midwifery lecturer in Aix-Marseille University midwifery department in 2020. She has MSc in Public Health and a Professional Doctorate in Health, Nursing and Social Sciences both from Glasgow Caledonian University.  Her doctoral research, completed in 2022, was on postpartum perineal pain when the perineum is diagnosed to be intact. Her commitments to the cause of midwifery and women’s health in France and abroad have led her to be elected as international representative of the French National College of Midwives (CNSF). Future prospects include involvement in research around the postpartum experience, as well as working on a new French curriculum for midwifery education which has recently been changed from a 5-year course to 6 years.

Caroline Matteo is a midwife trained in France. After some years of clinical practice both in hospital settings and community practice, she became a midwifery lecturer in Aix-Marseille University midwifery department in 2020. She has MSc in Public Health and a Professional Doctorate in Health, Nursing and Social Sciences both from Glasgow Caledonian University.  Her doctoral research, completed in 2022, was on postpartum perineal pain when the perineum is diagnosed to be intact. Her commitments to the cause of midwifery and women’s health in France and abroad have led her to be elected as international representative of the French National College of Midwives (CNSF). Future prospects include involvement in research around the postpartum experience, as well as working on a new French curriculum for midwifery education which has recently been changed from a 5-year course to 6 years.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Risk communication, client decision making, advanced maternal age, stillbirth, maternal and perinatal health epidemiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Risk communication, client decision making, advanced maternal age, stillbirth, maternal and perinatal health epidemiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: midwifery services, health science education, quality improvement

RESEARCH INTERESTS: midwifery services, health science education, quality improvement

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Global Midwifery, Decolonial epistemologies, knowledge/epistemic dialogue, critical theory, participatory action research, midwifery education

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Global Midwifery, Decolonial epistemologies, knowledge/epistemic dialogue, critical theory, participatory action research, midwifery education