Dedicated to reducing health disparities and promoting respectful maternity care.
Registered Nurse-Midwife
Community Service and Engagement, Cultural Diversity, Feminist Policy and Politics, Women’s Affairs, Health and Medical, Indigenous Affairs, International Development and Issues, LGBTIQ Rights/Issues, Social Justice and Human Rights, Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights
I am a Registered Nurse-Midwife and the founder of the Shifra app, a digital health product, designed to improve sexual and reproductive health access for refugee and migrant populations. Shifra is currently available in Arabic and English and available at www.shifra.io.
I am a passionate leader in reducing health disparities in underserved communities and promoting respectful maternity care. I have volunteered as a nurse-midwife in rural/remote Australia, the Philippines, PNG and the US. I currently work as a midwife and for Birth for Humankind, a charity that partners volunteer birth companions with women experiencing socio-economic disadvantage who are journeying through pregnancy and labour alone.
My research is grounded in the social ecological model and utilises both anthropological and geographic inquiry using a feminist lens. I employ human centred and strengths-based approach to all my work and practice ‘Lean’ methodologies in designing and evaluating the Shifra health intervention.