2022 Grant Recipients
Career Midwifery Research Grant recipients
Claire Dion Fletcher
RM
Claire Dion Fletcher is a Lenape- Potawatomi and mixed settler Registered Midwife practicing at Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto and Assistant Professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University Midwifery Education Program. This project will explore the role of an Indigenous-led midwife hospitalist team in increasing access to culturally safe pregnancy care for Indigenous families.
Mentored Midwifery Research Grant recipients
Susana Ku
RM, PhD candidate
Susana Ku is a Registered Midwife and a second-year PhD student in the Global Health Program at McMaster University. This research project aims to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted midwifery services in the GTA, Ontario and Lima Metropolitana, Lima, Peru
Kambili Husbands, RM, MA
Sophia Kehler, RM
Simone Rosenberg, RM
Kambili Husbands, Sophia Kehler and Simone Rosenberg work as Registered Midwives in a shared call model at The Midwives’ Clinic of East York Don Mills. Their project will evaluate the outcomes and care experiences of midwifery services at an urban community health centre providing care to racialized and immigrant women.