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MomsRising has featured our article on the role of midwifery care and community birth during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Read the article & share! MOMS RISING: Midwives on the front lines of [...]

LINK TO THE POLICY STATEMENT: Out-of-Hospital Birth and Pandemic Planning As the world grapples with what feels like a big shift in the universe, FAM would like to share our thoughts about the [...]

Welcome to FAM’s inaugural edition of Generations, our newsletter! Lift and rise with us as we engage with the issues that impact maternity care in North America with curiosity, compassion, and [...]

    Thank you to all the individuals and companies who made our Annual Silent Auction a success at the 2018 MANA Conference in Portland, Maine. And thank you to all the conference attendees who [...]

Thank you to all the individuals and companies who made our Annual Silent Auction a success at the 2017 MANA Conference in Long Beach, California. And thank you to all the conference attendees [...]

Quite simply, without the support of FAM, the MANA Division of Research and its national birth registry—the MANA Statistics Project—would not exist. In 2003, at a time when the CPM credential was [...]

The Birth Place Lab (Coordinates FAM-funded projects) The Birth Place Lab, in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, enables multi-disciplinary and community-based participatory research on access to [...]

From June 1 to June 16th an anonymous donor has pledged to match donations dollar-for-dollar up to $5,000. FAM is determined to give voice to birth equity in the United States. We invite you to [...]

Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery Celebrate! Black History Month Honorees 2017 The history of African-American midwives serving their communities goes beyond the diaspora. Steeped in [...]