Jessica Tsipe Angelson, CNM

Jessica Tsipe Angelson, MS, CNM, PhD(c) is an Assistant Professor of Midwifery & Women’s Health. Since 2014, she has practiced clinically in public and private hospitals, homes, and a freestanding birth center. She is completing a PhD in Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she has conducted research with the Maryland Maternal Health Innovation Program (MDMOM) Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance Initiative since 2023. Her current research takes a multi-methods approach, exploring pathways to severe maternal morbidity and its increase in the United States. Her broader interests are in maternal health system and midwifery workforce development, the political economy of maternal health, reproductive justice, global trends in cesarean birth, and participatory action research. She is committed to educating the next generation of midwives to the highest standard and to advocating for the expansion of midwifery as an independent profession in the United States. She is a community midwife at heart. 

MS, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY - 2014

BS, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY - 2013

BA, Stanford University East Asian Studies, Stanford, CA - 2008