Erin Ryan MPH LM CPM IBCLC

Experience

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  Birth into Being

  Aug 2001 - Aug 2010

  Founder and Senior Midwife

  Co-Founded homebirth midwifery practice providing a full scope of midwifery services including prenatal education and support, attending childbirth, family planning, providing encouragement during labor and delivery, and supervising the general care of women and infants directly after birth to 6 weeks postpartum. Provided care to women during normal pregnancies and deliveries and partnered with obstetricians or other physicians if complications develop.

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  Yayasan Bumi Sehat

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2010

  Clinical Preceptor

  Oriented, mentored, educated, and developed novice, advanced beginner, and experienced student midwives to ensure knowledge integration, skills obtainment, and competency to be able to deliver high-quality maternal care while providing high levels of support to integration into clinic environment and culturally appropriate care.

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  Yayasan Bumi Sehat

  Jun 2012 - Jun 2014

  Midwife Director. International Division

  Provided strategic, programmatic, management & transitional support in free low resource clinic in Bali Indonesia. Oversaw strategy, delivery of health delivery services & international internship program with emphasis on capacity building of workforce through implementation of evidence based practices targeting in low resource setting.

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  Starry Night Midwife

  Jul 2014 - Apr 2018

  Founder and Executive Director

  STARRY NIGHT MIDWIFE • CENTRAL VERMONT • 2014 – 2018Founded homebirth midwifery practice serving rural and low-income populations. Responsible for providing direct primary maternity care from conception through 6 weeks postpartum. Highly effective independent worker with ability to lead or participate in team approach for best patient outcome. Implemented quality assurance and improvement program. Developed Quality Assurance initiatives and recommended solutions to problems and improvements to processes that impact patient satisfaction and outcomes. Show less

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  Global Aurora Foundation

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2018

  Consultant: Global Health

  PARTNERED WITH GLOBAL AURORA FOUNDATION AND BUIGA SUNRISE • Provided key strategic and programmatic capacity building and funding support for health system strengthening of maternity clinic to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Mukono region of Uganda. Coordinated training with partner grassroots clinics to upskill workers in management of physiologic respectful birth. Designed a mothers’ outreach program resulting in a 300% increase in deliveries.

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  NouSol: Midwife to Midwife

  Jan 2017 - May 2018

  Senior Technical Consultant

  PARTNERED WITH MIDWIFE TO MIDWIFE AND NOUSOL NGO • 2016Piloted initial program to increase the quality, availability, and effectiveness of perinatal health in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco. Led multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement capacity building workshops, interactive community education and infrastructure creation to support communication between providers.

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  National Midwifery Institute

  Jan 2018 - Aug 2021

  Executive Director

  Manages the overall success of the institution. Creates functional strategies school management and development of the program. Oversee the policy, legal strategies and budget. Assess programs’ participation, content, and execution, facilitating improvement in regulatory compliance, records management and retention. Liaise with accrediting bodies and compile relevant documentation to meet accreditation expectations. Oversees designs and implementations of the educational programs.

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  HOPE Foundation for Women & Children of Bangladesh

  Mar 2019 - Apr 2020

  Director of Midwifery

  Piloting initial educational program to increase the quality and effectiveness of midwifery education to serve the rural villages of Cox Bazzar region. Lead multi-disciplinary team to assess the current program which provided key strategic and programmatic insights and identified educational needs and innovative technology for educational redesign. Created curriculum to educate students in management of physiologic respectful birth within cultural needs and leadership.

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  Trotula Fund

  Mar 2021 - now

  Senior Program Advisor

  Advisor for philanthropy and strategic investments that support and expand greater access for women and girls to both education and reproductive healthcare, both domestically in the United States and internationally. Responsible for establishing and maintaining strong relationships with fund founders. Provide organizational analysis and grant management and conduct site visits, organizational assessments, and needs evaluations to inform the charity founders.

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  International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)

  Aug 2021 - Aug 2023

  Midwife Advisor - Education & Technical Specialist

  The Midwifery Advisor – Education & Technical Specialist for the International Confederation of Midwives.Responsible for providing overall technical support on all of ICM’s education initiatives; working to strengthen midwifery associations, education, and regulation worldwide. Lead development of workshops, technical guides, and implementation tools of ICMs approaches in RMNCH programming. Develop strategic working relationships with key partners, including UNFPA, WHO, Jhpiego, governments, and stakeholders. Consult on ICM’s work, new business efforts, and partner technical assignments. Contribute to maternal health technical advisory groups, conferences, and social media. Show less

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  PUSH Campaign

  Aug 2023 - now

  US Coordinator and Policy Lead

  PUSH is a decade-long global movement for women and the midwives who protect and uphold their rights and bodily autonomy. PUSH will work with key partners to accelerate progress on reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, advance SRHR, address key barriers to women’s leadership in the US health workforce, and shift underlying gender norms that undervalue women’s rights, lives, and work in the USA