On Birth Centres, Midwifery and the Female Body / Cristina Alonso
“It really has to do with designing services around women and women's lives… For us as women, we live our lives inside our bodies…”
Cristina Alonso is a midwife, who believes that all women can make informed choices about their bodies and lives. She advocates for the design of a healthcare system that serves women where they are and in a way that makes sense to them.
Cristina Alonso is a midwife specializing in out of hospital care. She founded the Luna Maya Midwifery Centers in Mexico to bridge safe and evidence-based health care, to respectful midwifery care than puts women´s values and choices at the center. Cristina is currently finishing her Doctorate in Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
For more information on Luna Maya: http://lunamaya.org/
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