Jenifer Fahey, CNM
Jenifer was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. She received her B.A. from the University of Texas and her Masters of Science in Public Health from Harvard University’s School of Public Health. After spending a year in England where she worked with British midwives, Jenifer trained as a midwife and received her Masters in Nursing from Yale University’s School of Nursing. Currently, she is a doctoral student in the PhD program in Maternal and Child Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Her dissertation work will be on the health of women in the year following childbirth.
She has participated in a series of initiatives to improve perinatal outcomes in Baltimore and throughout Maryland. These activities have included participation in the Baltimore Babies Born Healthy Leadership in Action (Baby-LAP), the Maryland Patient Safety Center’s Perinatal Collaborative, the revision of the State’s Perinatal Systems Standards, and in the development of Baltimore’s 10-year initiative to reduce infant mortality – B’More for Healthy Babies. She is a co-founder and current Board Member of PRONTO International – an NGO that provides Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care training internationally. She is an Associate Editor. For the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health and is one of the editors of Varney’s Midwifery, 5th Edition, the primary midwifery text in the U.S.
