Elizabeth Brandeis is a registered midwife and the Senior Project Leader and Labour Relations Specialist at the Association of Ontario Midwives. She graduated from the Toronto Metropolitan University Midwifery Education Program in 2003 and received her masters in Community Health at University of Toronto in 2013. She was a practicing midwife for 19 years and worked as a sessional instructor in the Midwifery Education Programs at Toronto Metropolitan and McMaster Universities. She served as AOM president from 2016-2020. She has played a key role in the landmark victory for midwives from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to remedy systemic gender discrimination on midwives’ compensation.
In her current role, she oversees the Midwifery Sustainability Project – the AOM’s response to unprecedented rates of burnout, mental health leaves and attrition in midwifery, as well as contract negotiations with the Ministry of Health and the ongoing implementation of the remedial orders from the Human Rights Tribunal decision.
