Meet the Participants of the IPOV Traineeship Programme
This page presents the members of the IPOV Traineeship Programme, an initiative linked to the IPOV – Respectful Care project that promotes learning, collaboration, and the active participation of people involved in training, research, and professional practice.
Each participant brings their experience, perspective, and commitment to the development of content, resources, and proposals that strengthen the platform and contribute to more respectful pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care.
Bruna Fani Duarte
PhD in Social Anthropology
Specialist in qualitative research, reproductive justice, and human rights, with experience in translating research into advocacy, policy insights, and digital knowledge for respectful maternal care.
Elena Ceccarelli
PhD candidate at the Department of Communication Sciences, Humanities and International Studies
University of Urbino (Italy)
Her research focuses on the representation and negotiation of motherhood in digital spaces from a gender perspective.
Research Interests
Since her Master’s degree, she has developed a research interest in obstetric violence, particularly in relation to social media campaigns and the ways experiences of mistreatment are articulated and processed online.
Specific Research Focus
Specifically, she examines how epistemic injustice related to obstetric abuse is recognized and challenged through digital testimonies.
Giulia Stolfi
PhD candidate in “Human Rights Theories – Law and Society, Genealogy and Perspectives of Legal Thought”
Department of Legal Sciences of University of Florence (Italy)
Interdisciplinary Approaches
During her PhD, she conducted research on obstetric violence, analysing the phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines legal, sociological, and philosophical approaches.
Conceptual and Legal Frameworks
In particular, she examined the social, cultural, and epistemic frameworks that shape violence against women in childbirth, while also analysing its legal framing within the broader framework of international human rights law.
Latin American Regulation and Humanized Models
She also spent six months in Brazil, where she further explored the Latin American regulatory framework and alternative models of maternity care inspired by the paradigm of humanization.
Research Collaboration
She was also a member of the University of Florence research unit within the PRIN “Giving Birth with Care: Conceptions of Motherhood and Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology for the Prevention of Obstetric Violence”.
Mariana Holanda Rusu
PhD student in Human Sexuality
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto
Academic Training and Doctoral Research
woman, mother, Brazilian, and racialized. She is a PhD student in Human Sexuality at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, where investigates maternal healthcare for Latin American immigrants in Portugal. Holds postgraduate training in Psychoanalysis, Perinatality, and Parenthood from Instituto Gerar (São Paulo, Brazil).
Research Memberships
Member of the research team of the MIGAP Project – Migrations in Porto (UMAIA, CIEG/ISCSP-ULisboa, ISCAP, CEOS.PP), the Laboratory of Social Studies on Birth (nascer.pt – CIES_ISCTE), and the Transnational Research Network on Dispossessed, Violated, and Assaulted Maternities (REMA – UFF, Brazil).
Research Interests
Her research focuses on obstetric violence/racism, maternal healthcare for Global South immigrants, and the intersections between mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and maternal health promotion. Her main interests include decolonial and intersectional feminisms, maternities, migration, race, gender, perinatal mental health, reproductive justice, and sexual and reproductive rights.
Marina Vilarmau Prados
Health Education Specialist and Project Manager in SoHO training and ethics
Freelance, collaborating with UAB, UManresa and EU-funded projects such as TRANSMED and IMAGINE-HMB
Health Education & Training Design
Designs and coordinates academic and professional training programmes in transfusion medicine, tissue and cell therapies, breastfeeding, and human milk banking.
European Projects & SoHO Capacity Building
Manages and contributes to EU-funded projects such as TRANSMED, TRANSMED AFRICA and IMAGINE-HMB, focused on professional training, quality systems and international cooperation.
Ethics, Human Milk Donation & Research
PhD candidate in Philosophy at UAB, researching the ethical and biopolitical dimensions of human milk donation, with a background in medical anthropology, pedagogy and clinical simulation.
Nadia Ferrari
Degree in Obstetrics adn specialist in Social and Community Health
Perinatal Mental Health and Clinical Simulation
Academic Qualification
Nadia Ferrari has a degree in Obstetrics, is a specialist in Social and Community Health, a professor of Higher Education, and holds diplomas in Perinatal Mental Health and Clinical Simulation. She is a teacher and researcher in Argentina. She is currently studying for a Master's Degree in Education at the National University of Cuyo.
University Teaching and Hospital Practice
She is a professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the National University of Entre Ríos and works on call and in the low-risk prenatal care clinic at the J.J. de Urquiza Hospital in the city of Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Research
Her research focuses on the study of obstetric violence, respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth, comprehensive preparation for motherhood, the implementation of support tools during labor, prenatal education, and the promotion of sexual and reproductive rights from a gender perspective.
Natali Meck
Degree in Obstetrics and specialist in Community Obstetrics
Doctoral student in Medical Sciences at the UNER and UNL
Professional Background
Natali Meck has a degree in Obstetrics, is a specialist in Community Obstetrics, and is a teacher and researcher in Argentina. She is currently a doctoral student in Medical Sciences at the UNER and UNL. Her research focuses on the role of healthcare teams and professional practices in developing more humanized models of care that respect women's autonomy in their sexual and reproductive processes.
Collaborative Research
She is a member of science and technology research teams that focus their academic work on studying women's experiences in sexual, reproductive, and non-reproductive processes, as well as preparation for motherhood and parenting.
Key Research Areas
Her main research interests include obstetric violence, respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth, self-efficacy in breastfeeding, comprehensive preparation for motherhood, prenatal education, and the promotion of sexual and reproductive rights.
Paula Guillermina Chilotegui
Social Communication Technician, specialized in Graphic Design and Writing
National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), Argentina
Diploma holder in Institutional Communication and Social Media Management (UNER), with experience in graphic design, institutional communication, and content development.