On Birth Centres, Midwifery and the Female Body / Cristina Alonso

2021-03-11

“It really has to do with designing services around women and women's lives… For us as women, we live our lives inside our bodies…” Cristina Alonso is a midwife, who believes that all women can make informed choices about their bodies and lives. She advocates for the design of a healthcare system that serves women where they are and in a way that makes sense to them. Cristina Alonso is a midwife specializing in out of hospital care. She founded the Luna Maya Midwifery Centers in Mexico to brid...

“It really has to do with designing services around women and women's lives… For us as women, we live our lives inside our bodies…”

Cristina Alonso is a midwife, who believes that all women can make informed choices about their bodies and lives. She advocates for the design of a healthcare system that serves women where they are and in a way that makes sense to them.

Cristina Alonso is a midwife specializing in out of hospital care. She founded the Luna Maya Midwifery Centers in Mexico to bridge safe and evidence-based health care, to respectful midwifery care than puts women´s values and choices at the center. Cristina is currently finishing her Doctorate in Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

For more information on Luna Maya: http://lunamaya.org/

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