Manavi Handa

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Associate Professor Faculty of Community Services Midwifery Education Program Toronto, Ontario mhanda@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 557684

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Manavi’s key area of research focuses on the access healthcare and perinatal outcomes for pregnant women with precarious immigration status. Her research program focuses on issues facing uninsured pregnant women in Ontario. Manavi personifies midwifery activism by challenging current health polic...

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Bio/Research

Manavi’s key area of research focuses on the access healthcare and perinatal outcomes for pregnant women with precarious immigration status. Her research program focuses on issues facing uninsured pregnant women in Ontario. Manavi 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.

Manavi is one of the founding midwives of West End Midwives, a practice group which serves a high proportion of immigrants, refugees and uninsured women. Manavi has served as past Head Midwife at Etobicoke General Hospital. She 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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