Professor Dame Tina Lavender DBE (born 1965or1966) is a British midwife and professor of maternal and newborn health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). [1] She is the director of the Centre for Childbirth, Women's, and Newborn Health which is a collaboration between WHO and LSTM. [2] She is also chief investigator at the NIHR Global Health Unit on the Prevention and Management of Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. [3]
She attended Roby Comprehensive School and trained in nursing at Broadgreen Hospital. She has an M.Sc. and a Ph.D., her thesis title being "Managing prolonged labour using different partogram action lines: obstetric outcome and maternal satisfaction". [4] [5]
She has been professor of midwifery and the director of the Centre for Global Women's Health at the University of Manchester until 2020. [2] [4]
She was awarded DBE "for services to midwifery" in 2012 [6] [5] and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives. [7] In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. [8]