Elsie Gayle is a midwife in private practice in the United Kingdom.
Along with the Mimosa Midwives Group Practice, she facilitates and manages the delivery of ‘culturally safe’ maternity care; to help any woman choose services which are safe for them to use.
Elsie initiated ‘Midwifery Conversations’ a Community of Practice NGO which supports clinicians, students and interested others who work at birthing services. facilitates learning and updating clinical and regulatory practices.
In 2017 she received Honorary Fellowship of the University of Wolverhampton, in recognition of her contribution to midwifery, women’s rights in childbirth and mental health services within the Black community.
Recipient of the prestigious Iolanthe Jean Davies Award, Elsie and colleagues held the first United Kingdom’s Black Maternal Health Conference “Reproductive Sankofa” at the Wellcome Institute, in London, 2019.
A Reproductive Justice advocate, Elsie was Mimosa’s lead as Co-Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group for the (now defunct) Black Maternal Health at the United Kingdom House of Commons.
She is a working member of the International Civil Society Working Group of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent which was inaugurated in Geneva, December 2022.
