Tina Lavender
British midwife
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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]
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