Our Mission and Vision
We provide childbirth education and doula support services and ensure that every expecting couple feels empowered and ready to welcome their little one(s)!
We hope that every family may have a supported, informed, respectful, rights-based, and empowered birth experience.
Our Guiding Principles
ADVOCATE
Every family has the right to high-quality, patient-centered, rights-based, and evidence-informed healthcare. We advocate and work towards the elimination of obstetric violence
EDUCATE
We equip expecting parents with evidence and tools to know their options, understand their rights, and actively participate and advocate for informed-decisions during birth
EMPOWER
Births are powerful and transformative. We support families to create positive and empowered birth experiences, stories, and memories
Meet Our Founder
Merette Khalil, MPH
Merette is a lamaze-trained childbirth educator and DONA and BAI-trained birth doula. She is the founder of YourEgyptianDoula, and is deeply passionate about all things related to sexual and reproductive health, birth, and empowering women!
Combining her passion for childbirth and Egyptology, Merette dreamed up YourEgyptianDoula to remind each birthing person of the power of their ancestors as the first midwives, doctors, herbalists, and healers! Merette started her journey as a birth worker, and has attended births across different hospitals and birth centers around the world, in Egypt, Tanzania, Cameroon and in the USA.
Merette is a multi-lingual health systems researcher, gender and sexual reproductive health and rights advocate, feminist, doula, and birth educator, passionate about ensuring the right to health for all.
Merette is specialist on obstetric violence with her Master of Science in Public Health from the KIT Royal Tropical Institute. She has published her research on obstetric violence in Egypt and the Region, in book chapters and peer-reviewed publications, most recently in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Merette works as a consultant for the UN working on COVID-19 response, gender equity, and health systems strengthening working on achieving universal health coverage to ensure every person, mother and family secures their right to high-quality health care.
Merette has been recognized for her work in global health and SRHR advocacy, gender-equity, youth-empowerment, social impact, and leadership by both her alma maters
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