MEMBER
DEBRAH LEWIS
Debrah has been a nurse since 1978 and a midwife since 1984 when she graduated from Columbia University, in the USA, with a major in Maternal-Child Health. She is a founder and current Executive Director of Mamatoto Resource & Birth Centre, the only freestanding, midwifery-led birth centre in the Caribbean, where she remains in active midwifery practice.
She is a member of the World Health Organization Strategic and Advisory Technical Group of Experts (STAGE) Subgroup; on the Board of the North West Regional Health Authority; and on the Trinidad & Tobago Nursing Council’s Midwifery Committee. She served on the Board of the International Confederation of Midwives for 9 years and remains on their Scientific Program Planning Committee. She is a UNFPA LACRO, and a Jhpiego International, Midwifery Consultant. She was a founder of, and remains active in, the Trinidad & Tobago Association of Midwives (1995), and the Caribbean Regional Midwives Association (2012).
She is the recipient of a National Award for The Development of Women – Gold – for her work in Community Service and Midwifery in Trinidad & Tobago; and was selected by Women in Global Health in 2020 as one of the 100 Outstanding Nurse and Midwife Global Leaders. Debrah has presented extensively regionally and internationally at workshops and conferences on midwifery and sexual reproductive health related topics.