Donna Hartz is an Aboriginal Australian midwife, academic and member of the Kamilaroi peoples of north eastern New South Wales. [1] She grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney.[ citation needed ]
Hartz is currently[ when? ] an associate professor of midwifery at Charles Darwin University. [2]
Hartz is best known for her work on the "Birthing on Country" project, focused on Aboriginal maternal health. She is an investigator on an NHMRC Partnership Grant, ‘BOOSt: Building on Our Strengths’. [2] Hartz has focused on developing and implementing community-controlled, holistic, continuity of midwifery care models and birth centres. [2] She has been an advocate for women-centred continuity of care through caseload midwifery models. [3]
Hartz is a registered nurse and midwife. She has been an academic leader at the University of Sydney’s National Centre of Cultural Competence, [4] an adjunct associate professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University [5] and a casual academic at the University of Technology Sydney. Hartz was on the Board of Trustees at the Rhodanthe Lipsett Indigenous Midwifery Charitable Fund.[ citation needed ]
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