Jen Goldberg

Jen Goldberg, RM, MPH (they/she) is a queer Registered Midwife and PhD candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Jen’s program of research uses critical qualitative methodologies to examine 2SLGBTQAI+ reproductive health equity at the intersection of midwifery and perinatal health services.

Jen’s doctoral research examines stories of queer, trans, and nonbinary people who have used midwifery services in Ontario. Using Critical Narrative Inquiry guided by poststructural feminist theory and queer theory, the project examines where and how cisheteronormative discourses are recycles and/or resisted within the narratives of birth and midwifery stories. For this work, Jen was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2022-24) and the Wayne F. Placek Grant (American Psychological Foundation 2022). Jen has also led a funded project that examined Ontario midwives attitudes towards sexual and gender minorities, which included understanding how these attitudes translate into practices around asking patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).

Jen is also a sessional instructor in the Midwifery Education Program at McMaster University, practiced midwifery for over 20 years, and has been on the Re:Searching for 2SLGBTQ+ Health team since 2018.