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Anne Maranta has done paid and unpaid work in the area of women’s health for greater than 25 years.

She obtained her Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, at the University of Western Ontario in 1984. Her primary area of inquiry was Sexuality and Reproduction. From 1984 through 1988 she focused on acquiring the necessary theoretical and clinical skills to work as a direct-entry midwife (DEM) in Ontario through attendance at midwifery conferences, intensives, and workshops, as well as through an informal apprenticeship. In 1988 she completed a clinical internship at Maternidad La Luz, a birth centre located in El Paso, Texas. She consolidated her studies in midwifery at the Bachelor of Independent Studies Program, University of Waterloo, graduating in 1991. Her thesis topic was '“A HISTORY OF MIDWIFERY IN ONTARIO, 1795 TO 1988”. ' Anne has worked as a doula, childbirth educator, midwife, and midwifery educator, primarily in Ontario and Quebec since 1984. She strongly supports and advocates for the basic tenets of midwifery – woman as primary decision-maker, informed choice including choice of birth place, personalised care, and appropriate use of technology. She maintains her registration as a midwife in Ontario; she is currently on leave from clinical practice.

In preparation for international work, Anne took a short educational leave to complete a public health course “Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP)” at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, July 2001. In 2003, she worked with Medecins Du Monde, Canada, as a midwifery educator in Zaranj, Afghanistan. Her role included developing, implementing and evaluating an advanced obstetrical skills curriculum to traditional midwives in the province, as well as provision of primary women’s health care.

In the summer of 2004, Anne worked in Nunavik, Quebec, as a clinical midwife and as a midwife educator at the Salluit Maternity. The Inuulitsivik Maternity midwifery education programme enables Inuit women to train in midwifery in their home communities. The Salluit site opened in early 2004.

Anne joined the [Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project] as Associate Project Manager in August, 2004. She is Chair of the Harmonisation Working Group of the National Primary Maternity Care Committee which is tasked with developing guidelines for the harmonisation of terminology, legislation and regulations addressing scopes of practice for maternal health care providers.

Anne’s interests are quite diverse including in no particular order of importance the impact of poverty, HIV/AIDS, race, religion, culture, sexuality and sexual orientation, violence and other factors on the health and wellbeing of women and their children; developing, implementing and evaluating curricula; mothering; the impact of childbearing experiences on mothering; mothering disabled children; mothering with a disability; professionalisation; historical and cultural perspectives on midwifery; woman’s ways of knowing; feminist organisational development; feminist and other anti-oppression pedagogy; and vegetarian food preparation and nutrition.