DR JOY LAWN

Paediatrician and Perinatal Epidemiologist
Based in Cape Town as a Senior Research & Policy Advisor with Saving the Children – USA
Worked in several African Countries providing newborn care and training
Joy has worked at WHO in USA, Institute of Child Health in UK

PROFESSOR PHILLIDA NOMUSA NZIMANDE

Professor Nzimande is a nurse, public administrator, researcher & well-seasoned academic & businesswoman.
She graduated at the University of Natal, Durban in 1969 in Nursing Education, and holds a BA degree D. Lit et Phil
She is the co-owner and manager of Alberts Publishers cc
She is a board member of the International Council of Nurses and the Commonwealth Nurses Federation.
She is currently chairperson of the Natal Museum.
She is a strong development activist and is known nationally and internationally as a transformational and visionary leader.

Dr. MARGO PRITCHARD

Dr Margo Anne Pritchard is a neonatal nurse and midwife with a BA. (Political Science) and awarded a PhD from the School of Medicine, The University of Queensland.
Her research focus is in high-risk child-family surveillance and is currently validating and developing screening and NICU transition tools and interventions to optimise high-risk child neurodevelopment and behavioural outcomes.
Margo established and currently manages the first perinatal clinical trials unit within the Division of Women’s and Newborn Services Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital.
 

Dr. STEPHANIE FERGUSON

Dr. Ferguson is a registered nurse and a perinatal and neonatal clinical nurse specialist, and childbirth educator in the United States of America (USA).
She received her PhD in nursing from the University of Virginia in 1996 with a focus in health policy, community psychology, and multicultural education.
Currently, Dr. Ferguson is a Consulting Associate Professor for Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences in the Bing Stanford in Washington Program.
Dr. Ferguson also consults widely with a variety of organizations and associates such as the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the CGFNS, Inc. and the World Health Organization in her own private practice.