Tina Lavender

Professor Dame Tina Lavender DBE (born 1965 or 1966) is a British midwife and professor of maternal and newborn health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).[1] She is the director of the Centre for Childbirth, Women's, and Newborn Health which is a collaboration between WHO and LSTM.[2] She is also chief investigator at the NIHR Global Health Unit on the Prevention and Management of Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.[3]

Early life and education

She attended Roby Comprehensive School and trained in nursing at Broadgreen Hospital. She has an M.Sc. and a Ph.D., her thesis title being "Managing prolonged labour using different partogram action lines: obstetric outcome and maternal satisfaction".[4][5]

Career and research

She has been professor of midwifery and the director of the Centre for Global Women's Health at the University of Manchester until 2020.[2][4]

She was awarded DBE "for services to midwifery" in 2012[6][5] and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives.[7] In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Professor Dame Tina Lavender". LSTM. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "LSTM welcomes Professor Dame Tina Lavender". LSTM. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  3. ^ "NIHR Global Health Research Unit on the prevention and management of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia". LSTM. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Dame Tina Lavender (PhD, MSc, RM, RGN)". University of Manchester. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Liverpool midwife Tina Lavender to collect Damehood at Buckingham Palace today". Liverpool Echo. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Birthday Honours List". London Gazette (60173: Supplement 1): 6. 16 June 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  7. ^ "Tina Lavender". Royal College of Midwives. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  8. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2015: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2019.


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