Manavi Handa
Associate Professor
Faculty of Community Services
Midwifery Education Program
Toronto, Ontario
mhanda@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 557684
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Proferssor Handa's key area of research focuses on the access health care and perinatal outcomes for pregnant women with precarious immigration status. Her research program focuses on issues facing uninsured pregnant women in Ontario. Proferssor Handa personifies midwifery activism by challenging...
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Bio/Research
Proferssor Handa's key area of research focuses on the access health care and perinatal outcomes for pregnant women with precarious immigration status. Her research program focuses on issues facing uninsured pregnant women in Ontario. Proferssor Handa personifies midwifery activism by challenging current health policies and problematizing structural discrimination in the healthcare system. She forms an important link in a network of midwives who regularly deliver pro bono midwifery services to uninsured pregnant women.
Proferssor Handa is one of the founding midwives of West End Midwives, a practice group which serves a high proportion of immigrants, refugees and uninsured women. She has served as past Head Midwife at Etobicoke General Hospital and served on the Ontario Hospital Relations Taskforce for the Association of Ontario Midwives and the National Advisory Committee, Migration and Reproductive Health Research.
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Proferssor Handa is one of the founding midwives of West End Midwives, a practice group which serves a high proportion of immigrants, refugees and uninsured women. She has served as past Head Midwife at Etobicoke General Hospital and served on the Ontario Hospital Relations Taskforce for the Association of Ontario Midwives and the National Advisory Committee, Migration and Reproductive Health Research.
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