Webinars

New webinar series launching in July 2025:

Preparing for perinatal loss – steps to care for families and health care providers

Upcoming sessions for implementing respectful care with the World Health Organization, legal frameworks to protect women’s autonomy, and promoting autonomous midwifery — dates and details to be posted shortly. Register now:

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Presentadores de hospitales de Quito, Ecuador, compartirán sus experiencias de introducción de ICI en sus hospitales públicos. El coordinador de ICI para América Latina, Sarah Hinton, guiará a los participantes en el proceso de solicitud de ICI.

Past sessions:

Aug 21, 2024 –  Standards for doula training and certification around the world: a panel discussion. 
This webinar unites partners from the U.S., Europe, Africa, and India to describe the necessary components for doula training. Our ICI partners will share their work to increase families’ access to doula services, and address what providers need to understand to collaborate and create effective partnerships with doulas within health systems. Featuring Commonsense Childbirth, Fernandez Foundation, and the European Doula Network.
Aug 23, 2024 “Valoración de Experiencias de Parto de un Modelo Humanizado Respetado en el Hospital de La Florida,”
23 de agosto – 8:00 Ciudad de México/ 9:00 Colombia/ 10:00 Chile
Ynez Kerley, becaria de ICI, presentará una investigación cualitativa basada en más de 150 entrevistas con mujeres que dan a luz en el Hospital Eloísa Díaz La Florida, un centro de ICI desde 2021.

Past sessions:

Aug 7, 2024 –  New WHO Recommendations for PPH & Introduction to the Nonpneumatic Antishock Garment (NASG)

Recording:

This session provides support for Step 9, introducing the postpartum hemorrhage care bundle that was recommended by WHO at the end of 2023. We will also review the tranexamic acid and NASG recommendations, with input from ICI facilities who have integrated the interventions.

July 24, 2024 – Initial findings on patient experience of birth within a humanistic model of care at Hospital Dra Eloisa Diaz La Florida, Chile

Recording

May 29, 2024 – Training providers through Storytelling: Skills for clinical empathy and internal bias
with Project ARIISE (Utah Black Birth Workers Collective and the University of Utah School of Medicine)

An interactive panel discussion about the ways bias and lack of training to build empathy contributes to maternal health inequities. Team members from Project ARIISE will discuss their collaboration, screen their film: Storytelling to Address Racial Bias and engage participants in self-reflection, bias recognition and repair, and offer strategies for improved quality of care.  This panel with the Utah Black Birth Workers Collective and University of Utah School of Medicine centers the voices of birthing individuals’ and birthworkers of color highlighting their expertise in the conversation surrounding equitable, respectful and quality care.

June 12, 2024 – Applying to become an ICI facility & presentation from Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, India

Recordings of part 1 & part 2:

Powerpoint slides

 

You may view recording of past webinars at https://www.youtube.com/@internationalchildbirthini2273