Cynthia Bullock Flynn, CNM, PhD, FACNM

She has 20 years of experience practicing in home, birth center and hospital settings. She has led birth centers in four states, and she has consulted with birth centers in many more, providing help for organizations wishing to start, expand, sustain or replicate midwifery practices and/or birth centers in order to increase access for healthy women to a proven method of obtaining a safe delivery. At the national level, she was President of the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC), and she was also a member of the Health Professionals Council of the National Quality Forum. She is particularly interested in reducing national policy barriers to women’s access to community-based birth options: she serves on the Government Affairs and Industry Relations Committees of AABC and the Legislative and Policy Committee of the Midwives Association of Washington State (MAWS).