Commencement Highlights

Faculty and clinical preceptors congratulate the Class of 2020-21

Congratulations - Class of 2020-21

Midwifery Alum was the 2018 CHRP Convocation Speaker

Martine Jean-Baptiste speaking at Commencement

Martine Jean-Baptiste, CNM, LM, MS has been involved in women's health since 1986 after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the College of Mount Saint Vincent. She has worked with women and their families throughout the lifecycle in a variety of settings. Her professional roles have included working as a registered nurse at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, Allen Pavilion, Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center (a free-standing birth center) and the Center for Community Alternatives. She started a solo private childbirth education and professional labor support (doula) service in New York City.

In 2000, Ms. Jean-Baptiste graduated from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center with a Master of Science degree in Midwifery. As a licensed midwife (LM), she worked at St. Barnabas Hospital as well as the Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center. In 2002, Ms. Jean-Baptiste and her business partner, Karen Jefferson, started their home birth practice, JJB Midwifery. They provide pre-conceptual counseling, well woman gynecology services, contraception and home birth in New York City.

Ms. Jean-Baptiste strongly believes in women's innate ability to care for themselves and their families. She believes in "supporting women's right to safe, supportive, and informed healthcare throughout the lifecycle."

She is a founding board member and president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Haitian Midwives (FAHM), a non-profit organization established in 2013, that promotes midwifery and the midwifery model of care in her home country.