2022 Grant Recipients
The AOM is pleased to announce another successful year of the Midwifery Research Grants program! Congratulations to Claire Dion Fletcher, Susana Ku, Kambili Husbands, Sophia Kehler and Simone Rosenberg, whose projects support client-centred care and capture the experiences of midwives and midwifery clients alike.
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 Ryerson (renaming in progress) 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.
Past Recipients
| Year | Career Midwifery Research Grant | Mentored Midwifery Research Grant |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 |
Mary Sharpe, RM, PhD |
Abigail Corbin, RM Ayeshah Haque, RM, MSc candidate Jessica Jones, RM, MPH candidate |
| 2020 |
Karline Wilson-Michell, CNM, RM, DrNP, MSN |
Angela Freeman, MSc candidate Kate Demers, MMid |
| 2019 |
Andrea Robertson, RM, MA PhD candidate |
Emma Seager, RM, MSc(c) |
| 2018 |
Nicole Bennett, RM, PhD candidate |
Jen Goldberg, RM, MPH candidate Ali McCallum, RM, MSc & Jenna Robertson Bly, RM, MA Angela Reitsma, RM, MSc |
| 2017 | Liz Darling, RM, PhD | Erica Elderhorst, RM Erika Arsenault, MSc & Sam Landry, MSc |