UCSF Certified Nurse-Midwife/ Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program

So grateful for our students' participation in creating Nursing Students of Color! https://scienceofcaring.ucsf.edu/we-are-ones-we-have-been-waiting- For more information about the organization see: https://orgsync.com/125736/chapter

Graduate Jyesha Wren Serbin getting due recognition for the article and presentation that resulted from her Master's comprehensive exam!

UCSF represents at the 62nd annual meeting of the American College of Midwives. Right now: Faculty Cynthia Belew, recent graduates Jyesha Wren Serbin and Liz Donnelly, with collaborator Felina Ortiz: Using the Structural Competency Framework to Understandand and Respond to Structural Racism in Midwifery Care and the Midwifery Profession. #ACNM17

Thank you, Monica McLemore!

Local CE opportunity: Don't miss the March 16-19, 2017 California Association of Nurse Practitioners annual educational conference in Burlingame this year. Sessions include a workshop on new depression screening and treatment guidelines in women's health. http://canpweb.org/events/annual-educational-conference/

"...poetic portrait of a black midwife and childbirth in the Deep South." In honor of Grand Midwives.

UCSF Nurse-Midwifery students recently participated in practicing hands-on breastfeeding support skills using case-based learning and the MamaBreast manikin at the Kanbar Simulation Center. A big shout out to the nurses and midwives from the community who volunteered their time and taught the students in small groups at this simulation. Elaine Christian, Amita Graham, Media Leones, Zoraida McNulty, Laura Todaro Thank you! It takes a village to educate the midwives of the future! Deena Mallareddy, Cynthia Belew

BLACK MAMAS MATTER. Please check out this new website!

UCSF nurse researcher Ifeyinwa Asiodu is bridging the breastfeeding disparity.

Midwives are health care partners regardless of pregnancy outcome.

Congratulations to current CNM/WHNP student Darcy Stanley! She and her work with the Birth Justice Project are highlighted in an article featured in Cal State East Bay Today.

The Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health just published a special CEU issue dedicated to health equity. It is an absolute must-see!!

Over the past 60 years, ACNM leadership and midwives of color have continued to explore new and effective means to create a workforce that reflects the communities in which midwives practice. http://ow.ly/N7lc306ny9r