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Programme<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n

The conference programme is now available.<\/a> Across three days, we explore how normal labour and birth can be enabled, protected and sustained in contemporary maternity care.<\/p>\n

Monday:<\/strong> Reclaiming the Conditions for Normal Labour and Birth<\/p>\n

Tuesday:<\/strong> Protecting Normal Labour and Birth in Practice<\/p>\n

Wednesday:<\/strong> Sustaining Midwifery-Led Systems for Normal Labour and Birth<\/p>\n

The programme brings together research on midwifery models, continuity, autonomy, respectful care, labour physiology, birth spaces, trauma-informed practice, induction, safety, workforce, education and systems for midwifery-led care.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Title of Keynote<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Anna Af Ugglas<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Chief Executive of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), based in The Hague. A Swedish midwife by background, she has worked for more than three decades in maternal and newborn health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and health workforce development across humanitarian and development settings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Too much, too soon \u2013 too little, too late:\u00a0<\/i>Midwives protecting women in a world of extremes<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Ank De Jonge<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Professor of Midwifery Science at Amsterdam UMC. She combines international quantitative and qualitative research on the quality, safety, and organisation of midwifery care with her work as a primary care midwife. She currently leads the Continuity of Midwifery Care (COMIC) study and is leading the Variation in Organisation of Integrated Care (VOICE) study on integrated maternity care.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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To be or to do, is that the question? – Maternal and newborn care in the 21st century<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Christine Rubertsson<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Professor in Reproductive, Perinatal and Sexual Health at Lund University in Sweden, and a working midwife at Skane University Hospital in Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n

Her research focuses on fear of birth, postnatal care, and women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

Her keynote explores midwifery models of care in Sweden and presents examples of midwifery model of postnatal care at home, midwifery continuity of care for women with vulnerability, and midwifery students learning relational continuity of care at Lund University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Scaling up Midwifery Models of Care in Sweden<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Doreen Kainyu Kaura<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Professor in the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and PhD in maternal health informatics.<\/p>\n

A midwife, researcher and educator, she has worked across Kenya, Botswana, Finland and South Africa, building academic and clinical bridges in maternal and reproductive health. Her research focuses on sexual, reproductive, maternal and neonatal health, midwifery education, digital innovations among many other areas of expertise.<\/p>\n

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The Role of Midwifery Obstetric Units (MOUs) in Promoting Physiological Birth in Africa<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Hannah Dahlen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Professor of Midwifery in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University.<\/p>\n

She has been a midwife for more than 35 years, and much of her research has focused on the short- and long-term impacts of birth interventions on maternal and child health.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cAudacious Creativity\u201c in a Post-Truth World<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Julia Seng<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A nurse-midwife in the US and a Professor in the School of Nursing, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Women\u2019s Studies.<\/p>\n

She studies the impact on experience and perinatal outcomes of childhood trauma and complex posttraumatic stress. Currently, she is advancing the use of interventions for maltreatment-related traumatic stress that can be delivered by perinatal staff.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Addressing traumatic stress in pregnancy to advance normal birth<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Mandy Mangler<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A physician, Professor of Women\u2019s Health and Obstetrics, and author of Das gro\u00dfe Gynbuch, a comprehensive guide on women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

She leads gynecology and obstetrics at two major clinics in Berlin and teaches at Evangelische Hochschule Berlin. She is also known for her work on feminist perspectives in women\u2019s health and her podcast GynCast<\/strong>. She advocates for a female-centred approach to obstetrics and gynaecology, aims to close knowledge gaps in women\u2019s health, and brings science into societal dialogue. Her work has earned her the Berlin Women\u2019s Prize 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Midwifery first: building sustainable care structures<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Mechthild Gro\u00df<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Professor of Midwifery and Founding Director of the Midwifery Research and Education Unit at Hannover Medical School (MHH). A trained nurse and midwife with a background in psychology, she has been shaping midwifery research in Germany since its beginnings. Her research focuses on the physiology and complexity of labour, early labour, labour duration, stillbirth, and variations in maternity care, and she has led large multicentre studies and contributed to WHO recommendations on intrapartum care. Her work has been recognised with the Pschyrembel Prize for outstanding contributions to midwifery science.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Upscaling midwifery: Global lessons learnt for Central Europe<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prof. Sue Carter<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and distinguished university scientist (emerita) at Indiana University, and executive director of the Kinsey Institute. She is a pioneer of oxytocin research on social bonding and attachment, including adult bonds. Her work spans birth, lactation, and parental behaviour, and she continues to study how oxytocin pathways shape social relationships and health across the lifecourse.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Oxytocin: the link between birth and longevity<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlbc-berlin-2026.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}