Please see the attached PDF for more information about this opportunity and share widely with
your professional networks. The current editor, Diony Young, is retiring at end of 2012 after a very long career at this journal. Her contact information: Diony Young <[log in to unmask]
Editor – Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care
Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care
is an international, independent, multidisciplinary, refereed journal devoted to issues and practices in the care of childbearing women, infants, and families. It is written by and for professionals in maternal and neonatal health, nurses, midwives,
physicians, public health workers, doulas, psychologists, social scientists, childbirth educators, lactation counselors, epidemiologists, and other health caregivers and policymakers in perinatal care. This top-ranked journal has
been making an impact on this area of research for nearly 40 years.
The successful candidate for the position of Editor will be recognized as a person who has demonstrated leadership in work and research in the field of maternal
and newborn health, will have worked at a strategic level within academia or health care, will have an impressive track record of publications and conference presentations arising from research and scholarship, and demonstrate commitment to the effective dissemination
of new knowledge and advocacy for the care of childbearing women and their infants.