Alison Spillane

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About Alison Spillane

Midwife, social worker, and public health enthusiast. Desire for supporting LGBTQ+ clients and their families in fertility and gestation support, health promotion, and access to care. Experience in the management of chronic illness with special interest in sexual and reproductive health and focus on health outcomes-based interventions. Population focus on individuals impacted by HIV, refugees, the bereaved, survivors of intimate partner violence, sex workers, people who use drugs, and all folks isolated by stigma. Background in child-centered family services, volunteer management, program policy development, and international and interdisciplinary skills exchange. Advocate for children and families facing grief and loss. Passion for work with life transitions: pregnancy and birth support along with death and bereavement care. Interest in reproductive rights advocacy centered around sexual and gestational health and reducing infant and maternal mortality. Personally and professionally committed to dismantling systems and institutions of oppression in an effort to enhance health equity for all people, everywhere. Specialties: Sexual & Reproductive Health, Fertility and Gestation Care, Trauma-Informed Practice, LGBTQIA2-S Rights & Experiences, Chronic Disease Management, Family Support Services, Global Health, Death & Bereavement, Nonprofit Program Development, Advocacy & Policy Impact.