Susan Hubbard, MIA, CM

• Centre for Continuing Education Institute in Management and Community Development, Concordia University: Certificates in Planning for Social Change, Community Movements, and Organizational Life Cycles, June 2004
• Training in the use of Open Space Technology, Columbia University, February 2004
• Centering Pregnancy training, February 2017
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification
• Neonatal Resuscitation certification

I am a certified midwife serving in an ambulatory setting in Bronx NY, where I provide prenatal, postpartum, and gynecologic care. Before deciding that I wanted to become a midwife, I worked for more than two decades in foreign policy, with most of that time spent focusing on international development and global health. Visiting global health projects around the world convinced me that I wanted to be working more closely with people and providing clinical care instead of spending my time researching and writing about the work that healthcare workers around the world were doing. It was when a midwife got up to speak at a meeting at a clinic on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, that I knew that midwifery was my calling. I have been teaching a course on global health at the Midwifery & Women's Health Programs at Jefferson since 2019 and love the opportunity it gives me to keep a foot in global health.

Books:

• Doing Well by Doing Good: Innovative Corporate Responses to Communicable Diseases, co-edited with Satoko Itoh (JCIE, 2010)
• Building Resilience: Human Security Approaches to AIDS in Africa and Asia, co-authored with Tomoko Suzuki (2008)
• Human Security in the United Nations, co-edited with Tadashi Yamamoto and Tomoko Suzuki (2004)

Reports and articles:

• Leveraging Disease Funding to Advance Health for All: The Global Fund and Universal Health Coverage, co-authored with Maya Wedemeyer (December, 2017)
• Health, Resilience, and Human Security: Moving toward Health for All, with Marcelo Korc, Tomoko Suzuki, and Masamine Jimba (2016)
• “Health and Human Security,” with Keiko Watanabe. Global Health Governance, vol. 6, no. 1 (Fall 2012)
• “Human Security Approaches for Disaster Recovery and Resilience,” with Masamine Jimba, Eriko Sase, Tomoko Suzuki, and Keiko Otsuka. Japan Medical Association Journal, vol. 54, no. 5 (September/October 2011)
• Revitalizing US-Japan Collaboration on Global Health, with Eriko Sase (2011

• Midwifery
• Maternal health
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Global health, infectious diseases
• Universal health coverage
• Public health
• Human security