International Confederation of Midwives

Her work focuses on advancing the role of midwives in health systems, emergency preparedness and crisis response, while ensuring that women, newborns, families and communities receive the highest level of evidence-based care.

She's involved with the International Confederation of Midwives and the Israel Implementation Science and Policy Engagement Center, And her research focuses on strengthening maternity care, midwifery scope of practice, and implementation of evidence-based models of care.

That is a lot and a great introduction.

Gila, thank you so much for being with us today.

So back in COVID days, we started to realize that sometimes reaching a hospital may become difficult and.

Around the year 2023-2024, we created this initiative with Maguén de Vida Dome that midwives, when there is a call for a women's health emergency, midwives are dispatched.

The WHO and the International Confederation of Midwives, the World's Health Organization, International Confederation of Midwives, declared that midwives should be responsible, should be taking care of 90% of women's health.

There's a lot of misconceptions about Israel and there's a lot of misconceptions about midwives and I'm sitting smack in the middle.