Tina Lavender
{{Short description|British midwife}}
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Professor Dame Tina Lavender {{postnom|country=GBR|DBE}} (born {{birth based on age as of date|46 |2012|11|07|noage=1}}) is a British midwife and professor of maternal and newborn health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).{{Cite web |title=Professor Dame Tina Lavender |url=https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/professor-dame-tina-lavender |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=LSTM |language=en}} She is the director of the Centre for Childbirth, Women's, and Newborn Health which is a collaboration between WHO and LSTM.{{Cite web |title=LSTM welcomes Professor Dame Tina Lavender |url=https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/news/lstm-welcomes-professor-dame-tina-lavender |access-date=2022-03-14 |website=LSTM |language=en}} She is also chief investigator at the NIHR Global Health Unit on the Prevention and Management of Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.{{Cite web |title=NIHR Global Health Research Unit on the prevention and management of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia |url=https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/NIHR_SBNDU |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=LSTM |language=en}}
Early life and education
She attended Roby Comprehensive School and trained in nursing at Broadgreen Hospital. She has an M.Sc. and a Ph.D., her thesis title being "Managing prolonged labour using different partogram action lines: obstetric outcome and maternal satisfaction".{{cite web |title=Professor Dame Tina Lavender (PhD, MSc, RM, RGN) |url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Tina.lavender/personaldetails |publisher=University of Manchester |accessdate=3 September 2016}}
Career and research
She has been professor of midwifery and the director of the Centre for Global Women's Health at the University of Manchester until 2020.
She was awarded DBE "for services to midwifery" in 2012{{cite journal|title=Birthday Honours List|journal=London Gazette|date=16 June 2012|issue=60173: Supplement 1|page=6|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/60173/supplement/6|accessdate=3 September 2016}}{{cite news|title=Liverpool midwife Tina Lavender to collect Damehood at Buckingham Palace today|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-midwife-tina-lavender-collect-3329019|accessdate=3 September 2016|work=Liverpool Echo|date=7 November 2012}} and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives.{{cite web|title=Tina Lavender|url=https://www.rcm.org.uk/about/who-we-are/tina-lavender|publisher=Royal College of Midwives|accessdate=3 September 2016}} In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-34745739|title=BBC 100 Women 2015: Who is on the list?|date=17 November 2015|work=BBC News|access-date=17 August 2019|language=en-GB}}
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External links
- [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Tina.lavender/personaldetails Tina Lavender: University of Manchester page]
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Category:Academics of the University of Manchester
Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Category:NIHR Senior Investigators
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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