Conference Speakers
Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:
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Annet Mulder first became interested in breastfeeding in the year 2000, when she became a mother for the first time. During and because of her own breastfeeding experiences, in 2002 she became a volunteer with the Dutch breastfeeding Organization and in 2008 sat for and passed the exam administered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, she now
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Malina Garner (she/her) is the FireSmart Home Partners Program Coordinator for the First Nations’ Emergency Services Society (FNESS). In this position, she supports the integration of the Home Partners Program into Indigenous communities, including training Wildfire Mitigation Specialists.
Malina is also a volunteer firefighter and previously worked for the National Indigenous Fire Safety Council. Her FireSmart experience comes from her former role as a Local FireSmart Representative (LFR) where she implemented local FireSmart programs. Malina has a Bachelor of Science with combined Honours in Biology, Environment Sustainability and Society from Dalhousie University and accreditation from the Justice Institute of British Columbia (NFPA 1001, Fire and Life Safety Educator). She is also an accredited Silviculture Surveyor (Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resources Operations and Rural Development). Malina is currently working on a micro-certification in Co-Management of Natural Resources (UBC Forestry).
Malina is of Denesųłiné and European ancestry and is a member of the Buffalo River Dene Nation in Saskatchewan. She is grateful to live, work and play on the unceded traditional territory of the Secwépemc Peoples.
