Jennifer Foster

About Jennifer Foster
Jennifer Foster, CNM, MPH, PhD, FACNM received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Rochester, her midwifery certificate from the University of Mississippi, her master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins University, and her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, in the School of Nursing at Emory University. After serving as a nurse in Peace Corps, Guatemala, Jenny (Whitman) Foster established the first midwifery practice on the island of Molokai, Hawaii, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010. current research focuses on maternal-newborn health in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her community-based participatory research in the Dominican Republic, supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research, engages community and health providers to provide maternity care aligned with the midwifery model. Jenny Foster is active in the Hispanic sub-community of the virtual Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery, with Lorena Binfa from Chile, and they are working to cultivate relationships with researchers interested in the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based maternal newborn care in the Dominican Republic, Chile, Paraguay, and interested nurses/midwives in other parts of Latin America