Tanya Khemet Taiwo CPM, MPH, PhD

Tanya Khemet Taiwo, CPM, MPH, PhD lives in Sacramento, CA where she has practiced in community clinic settings for over 20 years and counts herself blessed as the mother of three beautiful girls who were all born at home into the hands of midwives. She comes from a family tradition of midwifery stretching back at least two generations, was trained at Seattle Midwifery School, and apprenticed with midwives in Seattle, Senegal and Jamaica. An Associate Professor in the Department of Midwifery at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA, Dr. Taiwo is an epidemiologist whose dissertation research examined the role of maternal prenatal stress on child neurodevelopment, and how these stressors interact with environmental exposures. She serves as co-lead of Project TENDR (Targeting Environmental Neuro-Development Risks) a unique collaboration of leading scientists, health professionals and children’s and environmental advocates. She currently works in a Federally Qualified Health Center, caring for low-income families in a multi-disciplinary setting, where reproductive health care is enhanced with health education, nutrition and social services.