| 词条 | Comfort Momoh |
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| name = Comfort Momoh |image = Comfort_Momoh MBE.jpg |caption = by Julie Gough | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}} | birth_date = {{circa}} 1962[1] | birth_place = Lagos, Nigeria[2] | residence = London, England | education = BSc (2002), women's healthcare, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London.[3] | occupation = Midwife | years_active = | employer = | known_for = Working with FGM survivors | spouse = Robert Momoh[1] | children = Two[1] | awards = {{plain list|
}} Comfort Iyabo Amah Momoh, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born {{circa}} 1962) is a British midwife who specializes in the treatment of female genital mutilation (FGM). Born in Nigeria, Momoh is a member of the British FGM national clinical group, established in 2007 to train health professionals in how to deal with the practice.[2] Until 2017 she served as a public-health specialist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London.[7] She is the editor of Female Genital Mutilation (2005). Early life and educationMomoh was born in Lagos, Nigeria,[1] to a Nigerian-Ghanaian family.[3][4] Her maternal grandmother died days before Momoh's birth,[1] and she was mostly raised by her paternal grandmother.[5] In 1981 she moved to the UK to train as a nurse at North Middlesex Hospital. It was at Middlesex that she first studied FGM, which is not practised by her tribe in Nigeria.[6][3] In 2002 she obtained a BSc in women's healthcare from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London.[7] She received a Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarship in 2007 to conduct research into FGM in Africa,[16] and in 2015 the foundation awarded her a travel scholarship to visit the United States to study their approach to FGM.[5] Career{{see also|Female genital mutilation in the UK}}In 1997 Momoh set up the African Well Women's Clinic at St Thomas's Hospital, dedicated to caring for women affected by FGM.[7][8] As of 2013 the clinic was seeing around 300 women a year and performing two defibulation operations a week, which involves opening a vagina sewn shut as a result of FGM Type III.[9][1] Momoh worked as a temporary adviser to the World Health Organization in 1999 and represented the UK at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2001.[10] From around 2007 she worked as a public-health specialist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, before retiring in 2017.[7][11] Momoh also runs Global Comfort Ltd., a private consultancy.[12] She was included in 2014 in the London Evening Standard{{'}}s list of 1000 most influential people in London.[13][14] AwardsIn the 2008 New Year Honours, Momoh was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to women's healthcare.[15] She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University in 2008.[6] In 2011 she won a Gathering of Africa's Best (GAB) award.[16] She was chosen as 2015 Alumna of the Year by King's College London,[17] and in 2016 she was awarded a fellowship by the Royal College of Midwives.[18] 2017 complaintThe Nursing and Midwifery Council confirmed in September 2017 that it had received a complaint about Momoh. That month, BBC Newsnight suggested that the weight given by the authorities in the UK to the physical examination of girls for FGM was causing trauma to children who had not in fact experienced it. Families were fearful of being accused and split up. The programme raised questions about the examination of at least five children by Momoh. Since 2012 the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has required that child-abuse victims be examined by specialist doctors. Newsnight reported that Momoh had been referring to herself as "Dr", although her doctorate is an honorary one, not a medical degree, and that during a 2014 court case, the judge, James Munby, had criticized her evidence as unreliable.[19][20] Momoh responded that she had done nothing wrong and had nothing to hide. Nimco Ali, an anti-FGM activist, told The Times: "Comfort has led work to end FGM for over 30 years and has enriched the lives of countless women and girls. Attempts at character assassination of such a great woman [are] shameful."[21] Selected works{{refbegin|25em}}
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 Lucy Bannerman, [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mutilated-scarred-by-fgm-dr-comfort-will-heal-the-wounds-s5t8kgw0swz "Mutilated, scarred by FGM — Dr Comfort will heal the wounds"], The Times, 2 April 2014 ([https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c8df11e4b0224a2d6f86d0/t/54c8ea3ee4b0e2ea816ec02f/1422453310686/lucy_bannerman_writing_2.pdf courtesy link]). 2. ^"Our Team", FGM National Clinical Group. 3. ^1 [https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/girls-born-here-can-say-no-to-being-cut-so-families-are-doing-it-to-them-as-babies-8526037.html "‘Girls born here can say no to being cut — so families are doing it to them as babies’"], London Evening Standard, 6 March 2013. 4. ^Miriam Dalli, "Maltese doctors facing up to reality of female circumcision in pregnant refugees", Malta Today, 28 July 2010. 5. ^1 "Influencing Practice Locally, Nationally and Internationally", Florence Nightingale Foundation Alumni Association Magazine, 2, Autumn/Winter 2015, p. 6. 6. ^1 Dan Howard [https://www.iawp.org/campaigns/VAW/FGM-WomenPoliceMay2012pp1011.pdf "On The Frontline: Tackling FGM in a Western Country"], WomenPolice, International Association of Women Police, May 2012 – July 2013. 7. ^1 2 [https://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/comfort-momoh "Comfort Momoh: a carer and campaigner"], King's College London, December 2014. 8. ^"Top women named as health inspirations", Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, 10 July 2014. 9. ^{{cite web |author=Jess Frampton| url=http://www.unwomenuk.org/from-taboo-to-talking-point-%E2%80%93-an-eye-opening-insight-into-female-genital-mutilation/ |title=From taboo to talking point – an eye-opening insight into Female Genital Mutilation |publisher=UN Women|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027031004/http://www.unwomenuk.org/from-taboo-to-talking-point-%E2%80%93-an-eye-opening-insight-into-female-genital-mutilation/ |date=18 June 2013|archive-date=27 October 2014 |dead-url=yes}} 10. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.thewomens.org.au/ComfortMomohLectureSeries |title=Comfort Momoh lecture series |publisher=The Royal Women's Hospital, Australia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310051217/http://www.thewomens.org.au/ComfortMomohLectureSeries |archive-date=10 March 2011 |dead-url=yes}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=http://guysstthomashospital.newsweaver.co.uk/Connect/1mzdxakrkk2 |title=Female genital mutilation (FGM) clinic at Guy's and St Thomas' |publisher=Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170908155035/http://guysstthomashospital.newsweaver.co.uk/Connect/1mzdxakrkk2 |date=March 2015 |archive-date=8 September 2017 |dead-url=no |access-date=8 September 2017 |df=dmy-all }} 12. ^[https://glocomfort.com/about-us/ "About us"], Global Comfort. 13. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20141021205438/http://www.standard.co.uk/staticpage/the1000/ "London's stars are a global force for good"], London Evening Standard. Archived 21 October 2014. 14. ^"FGM midwife in London's Top 1000", Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, 17 October 2014. 15. ^Suzi Dixon, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/men_shealth/3352713/Health-and-beauty-New-Year-Honours.html "Health and beauty: New Year Honours"], The Daily Telegraph, 31 December 2007. 16. ^"GAB-Awards-winning midwife honoured for FGM work", Trumpet Media Group, 27 July 2016. 17. ^[https://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/news-features/alumna-of-the-year-2015 "Dr Comfort Momoh, King’s Alumna of the Year 2015"], King's College London, December 2015. 18. ^[https://www.rcm.org.uk/news-views-and-analysis/news/london-midwife-receives-national-midwifery-honour-for-fgm-work "London midwife receives national midwifery honour for FGM work"], Royal College of Midwives, 27 July 2016. 19. ^1 2 [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41159096 "Questions raised about prominent FGM campaigner"], BBC News, 5 September 2017. 20. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eGGneWL6j4 "'I knew my children hadn't had FGM'"], BBC Newsnight, 5 September 2017. 21. ^1 Lucy Bannerman, [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fgm-campaigner-comfort-momoh-hits-back-at-attack-on-her-qualifications-9jdv5wffv "FGM campaigner Comfort Momoh hits back at attack on her qualifications"], The Times, 6 September 2017. Further reading
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