Sandra Meadow, MA, MSc
Postgraduate Student
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
c/o 1940 Runnymede Ave
Victoria,
BC
Canada
V8S 2V4
Email:
sandra.meadow@gmail.com
Biographical Sketch: Sandra Meadow has an MSc in health communication from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and is a postgraduate student in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She relocated home to Canada recently after 16 years in Singapore, where she worked as a doula. Sandy is now a trainer and course developer for Childbirth International, which offers training in decision support for doulas, childbirth educators, and breastfeeding counselors, and serves students online in 103 countries. Sandy is interested in decision-making at both ends of the lifespan: around childbirth as well as for end-of-life care, particularly in third-party decision support. She has published on the role of birth doulas in fostering relational autonomy in pregnant women.
Papers:
PM11
PROMOTING PATIENTS’ AUTONOMY BY MAKING SPACES FOR THE FAMILY’S VOICE IN MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING