Dame Professor Tina Lavender
Professor of Midwifery and Director of the Centre for Global Women’s Health at the University of Manchester
Dame Tina Lavender is Professor of Midwifery and Director of the Centre for Global Women’s Health at the University of Manchester. She also holds an honorary contract at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Nairobi. She leads a programme of research, Midwifery and Women's Health; her main research focus being the management of prolonged labour and partogram use. Dame Tina has published extensively in this field. She is Co-editor in Chief of the British Journal of Midwifery, Associate Editor of the African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, Editor of the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group of the Cochrane Collaboration and on the editorial team of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Dame Tina is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives and European Academy of Nurse Science. Dame Tina also acts as a regular Advisor to the World Health Organization, particularly in relation to guideline development.
Aisha Salim Rashid Al-Mamari
Senior Tutor and the Academic coordinator of the Midwifery Program
Higher Institute of Health Specialities, Ministry of Health in the Sultanate of Oman
Ms. Aisha Salim Rashid Al-Mamari is Senior Tutor and the Academic coordinator of the Midwifery Program delivered by the Higher Institute of Health Specialities for the Ministry of Health in the Sultanate of Oman, apposition she has held since 2011. In this position she has been a key member of several state-wide working groups and committees including: the Oman Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Midwifery Core Group, the Obstetric and Gynaecology Committee and the Human Resources Taskforce.
She graduated as a nurse in 1996 from the Muscat Nursing Institute and undertook further study by attending the Oman Specialised Nursing Institute to become a qualified midwife in 2001. In 2006 she was awarded a master’s degree in Professional Practice from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) in the UK. Currently, Aisha is completing the final stage of a PhD exploring midwives’ roles in primary health screening for gestational diabetes in Oman at Cardiff University in Wales, UK.
