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Christine Newman

Senior Manager, Marketing at Blackbaud; host of The ENGAGE Podcast focused on nonprofit volunteer engagement and social good.

Jun 1, 2026

John Pemberton
John PembertonCORRESPONDENT
34:26
... around pregnancy across the island? What-
34:28
So I suppose, uh, for me specifically, obviously, uh, most of my work is in diabetes in pregnancy.
34:33
Most of that is gestational diabetes.
34:35
Um, and then a smaller amount, uh, but growing, is the women who enter pregnancy with preexisting Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.
34:41
So my personal priorities for, um, pregnancy are getting as many women as possible who live with Type 1 diabetes on hyper closed loop delivery systems for pumps, ideally CGM, for women who live with Type 2 diabetes, kind of similar to what you guys have in the UK already.
34:55
And then there's, not specific to the strategy today, but there's an ongoing bit of work to get free glucose meters and strips for women who have gestational diabetes in pregnancy, 'cause that's not something we have at the minute.
John Pemberton
John PembertonCORRESPONDENT
36:09
Mm-hmm.
36:09
They either enter pregnancy on them, or we start them in pregnancy, and then the remainder are on, on MDI, and I push really hard [laughs] for the pumps.

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