Neha Mankani: Midwifery and the Climate Crisis

Neha Mankani is a community midwife and global health practitioner from Pakistan with a strong focus on reproductive health and rights in crisis situations, emergency response and climate-affected communities. 

Neha is the Humanitarian and Climate Engagement Advisor at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and the founder of the Mama Baby Fund; a financial emergency fund for maternal and neonatal healthcare in Pakistan. She has extensive experience in SRHR and maternal and neonatal health clinical practice, programming, and midwifery advocacy both at the local and global levels.

In this episode, Neha shares stories from her work with the coastal communities outside of Karachi, Pakistan and why she stared Mama Baby Fund. As a midwife with the ICM, Julia and Neha talk about how to build resilience in communities affected by the climate crisis and the critical role that midwives have.

Julia’s first job after university was to support emergency maternal health response after the floods in Pakistan in 2010, and as a child she lived a while in Lahore, so this was an episode of particular connection for her.

Learn more: 

• Mama Baby Fund website and Instagram
• International Confederation of Midwives website and Instagram 

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