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Biography
Farzaneh Pazandeh is an Assistant Professor in the Midwifery professional group at the School of Health Sciences and a Maternal Health & Wellbeing Research Group member. Farzaneh has worked for over 25 years as a midwife, lecturer and researcher of Maternal and Reproductive Health in Iran. She holds an MSc in midwifery education and obtained her PhD in Maternal Health from the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (University of Leeds-2014) in Maternal Health. Her PhD was a mixed-methods study, evaluating the quality of care during labour and childbirth using evidence-based care standards and women's experiences.
Expertise Summary
Her methodological expertise is qualitative research, mixed methods, action research and Randomised Controlled Trial. Farzaneh has provided consultancy in developing countries as a Midwifery and SRH consultant. She worked in the UNFPA Kabul and Tehran offices as a Midwifery and SRH consultant. She evaluated the midwifery program and developed a strategic plan in the Kabul Medical University and designed the project of assessing Afghan refugee women's maternal health in Iran. She also supervised some projects on reducing maternal mortality.
Teaching Summary
As a lecturer at the Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Farzaneh developed and delivered midwifery, maternal Health and research methods modules for undergraduate and… read more
Research Summary
Farzaneh conducted qualitative and quantitative research on midwifery and reproductive health and published the papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
Her research interests include care during early labour and childbirth, promoting evidence-based practice and respectful maternity care, and women's care experiences, particularly from a disadvantaged background (refugee, migrant and ethnic minority groups). Her current research concerns evaluating and using interventions for improving Global Maternal Health quality in developing countries.
As a lecturer at the Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Farzaneh developed and delivered midwifery, maternal Health and research methods modules for undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervised MSc and PhD thesis.