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Dr. Ravi Chandran, Executive Committee

Dr Ravi Chandran is a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in active practice at the Gleneagles Medical Center in Kuala Lumpur and the president-elect of the International Federation of Gynecology & Obstetrics. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of O&G UK as well as the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and underwent subspeciality training in Maternal Fetal Medicine at King’s College Hospital London and the John Radcliffe Hospital at Oxford.

Dr Chandran is a past President of the Asia Oceania Federation of OBGYN and served as FIGO Regional Trustee for Asia Oceania from 2021-2023. He is also a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the FIGO-BMGF Leadership Development Initiative, and he is committed to leveraging his expertise and passion in governance and leadership, to empower and benefit women and girls in most need.

Geraldine Nyaku, Executive Committee

Geraldine Nyaku is an ardent women’s rights advocate who has worked in civil society for over seven years. She is currently the National Coordinator for White Ribbon Alliance Zimbabwe. Geraldine brings extensive experience in advocacy for children and women’s rights, gender-based violence, and national legislation to the Alliance. She holds a BA Law degree from the University of Johannesburg and professional trainings on advanced human rights from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; comprehensive sexuality education from ActionAid Zimbabwe; and is an alumna from the Young African Leaders Initiative from USAID and the University of South Africa. She has worked with diverse communities at grassroots level and with different government structures from local authorities to ministries and policy makers to advocate for the rights of women and children. She brings her multifaceted leadership style and innovative solutions to improve and promote maternal and newborn health and rights both in the national and global alliance.

Soo Downe, Executive Committee

Soo is a member of the International Mother Baby Childbirth Organization, and of the ICI Board. She spent 15 years working as a clinical and research midwife. In 2001 she joined the University of Central Lancashire where she is now the Professor of Midwifery Studies. Her main research focus is the nature of, and cultures around, normal birth. She has been a member of the Technical Working Group of the World Health Organization antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and optimising caesarean section guidelines. She has published over 160 peer reviewed papers, and has undertaken research using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods. She is a member of the NHS England Better Births national Stakeholder group. She was the founder of the International Normal Birth Research Conference Series.

Early registration now open for FIGO XXIII

Join ICI at the virtual FIGO Congress on October 3rd (Precongress Workshop) and Oct 21-28, 2021. Early registration is open now until September 8th.

ICI will hold its first full-day interactive workshop during the Precongress, featuring guest speakers from the International Confederation of Midwives and the White Ribbon Alliance. More speakers from ICI will be featured throughout the Congress.

Carlos Fuchtner, FIGO President

Dr. Carlos Fuchtner was Extraordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hospital Municipal de la Mujer from 2009 to 2015 in Bolivia, President of the Bolivian Obstetrics and Gynecology Society from 2000 to 2002, President of the FLASOG from 2005 to 2008. In 2010 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship Society SOGC and in 2014 MAESTRO of Latin American Obstetrics and Gynecology in Ecuador.

Dr Fuchtner has been actively involved in numerous aspects of FIGO’s work for many years, including being a member of FIGO’s Executive Board from 2002 to 2005 when he represented FLASOG, and from 2012 to 2018 representing SBOG. Dr Fuchtner became President FIGO on 19 October 2018. Dr. Fuchtner selected ICI as the Presidential Initiative for his term.

Spinning Babies features ICI sites in the Philippines, Indonesia, and the United States

We were grateful to Spinning Babies for inviting Jennie Joseph, Vicki Penwell, Robin Lim, and our ICI Co-Chair Debra Pascali-Bonaro, to participate in the Spinning Babies 2020 Confluence on behalf of their participating ICI sites. Now that the conference has ended, the recording of the panel is available. To watch more from the ICI, please follow our Youtube channel.

Donate

Your donation provides you with an opportunity to show a large amount of compassion even with a small monetary investment that will amplify the ICI dream of healing ailing maternity systems, starting with quality safe and respectful care.

Donations to ICI can be made through the International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization using Paypal. Donations made through this link will be designated for the International Childbirth Initiative.

IMBCO is registered in the US as a 501(c)3 organization, EIN 80-0409828. Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law the United States.

For questions about donations, please contact info@icichildbirth.org.

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The International Childbirth Initiative (ICI) thanks you for getting involved.

Your gift shows that, as we do, you also believe that true quality maternal and newborn care can be achieved when we all take responsibility for the health of mothers, babies and families throughout the world. Your gift contributes to supporting those care providers on the work floor who want to provide the best evidence-based care possible within a system for quality improvement that is easy to implement and visible to all. Your gift helps us to support health systems to strive for rights-based, equitable and safe and respectful maternity care.

Your name will be listed as ICI donor on our website unless you explicitly express to us that you want your donation to be anonymous.

Thank you again for being part of this Initiative!

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Claudia Hanson, Executive Committee Member

Claudia Hanson is an Associate Professor (Obs & Gyn, PhD) working in Maternal Newborn health research at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. She is working on global maternal and newborn health since the early 1990s. She leads several research projects in Africa and Asia focusing on quality improvement, capacity building, and health system strengthening and is passionate to make delivery a safe and joyful event everywhere in the world.