The purpose of this session is to review current frameworks for engaging in international midwifery work (for education, service provision, donation of services and equipment, consultancies).

We will also review the preparation involved for approaching international work in a respectful manner, involving mutually respectful partnership building, sustained capacity building, and intellectual exchange.  Examples from global health projects in Tanzania, Burundi, Jamaica and South Sudan will be presented e.g., (teaching emergency skills & HIV management, teaching respectful maternity care).


Biographical Sketch (200 words) / Biographie (200 mots): 
Dr. Karline Wilson-Mitchell DNP, MSN, CNM, RN, RM has practiced midwifery in the US and Canada since 1992 in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Ontario and Northern Quebec (Nunavik). She has taught in the MEP at Ryerson University since 2008.  She also serves on the Canadian Association of Midwifery Educators (the Board and Accreditation Committee).  She is a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (Division of Global health and Midwives of Color Committee).  Her doctoral studies placed a heavy emphasis on midwifery education.  And her capstone project focused on perceptions of Jamaican midwives of barriers to delivery of respectful maternity care. Karline’s advocacy for vulnerable families propelled her into global health and health policy research.  She’s participated with Tanzanian and Zambian midwives in the ICM Twinning Project.  She’s also volunteered in Jamaica, Tanzania and Burundi.  As a CAM consultant she has collaborated with the Tanzania Midwives Association in an intellectual partnership that produced set of workshops and companion facilitator and participants’ manuals to deliver respectful maternity care content to over 170 midwives in the Lake and Western Zones of Tanzania.  She is currently working with the South Sudanese midwives to develop a tutor’s manual to deliver their new three-year curriculum

How can international teams practice respectful knowledge sharing?