Auteur: Melissa Cheyney

Melissa Cheyney, Ph D, is both a professor of clinical medical anthropology at Oregon State University and a practicing licensed midwife. She is a leading expert on the many ways parents » cultural backgrounds affect their goals for, and experience of, birth. She has served on the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine »s « Birth Settings in America Study,  » and the « Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) Statistics Project. » She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care and the mother of a daughter born at home.