Terry is a registered nurse and midwife and has worked in a wide variety of hospital and community settings in the UK. She is a former Senior Midwifery Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a former Supervisor of Midwives. She has over fifteen years’ international programme management experience in development, conflict, post conflict and complex emergencies in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Burundi, DRC and Lesotho.

Terry worked at the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health and was the Country Lead for the Making it Happen programme in Bangladesh and Pakistan. She completed a consultancy with the GFA/GIZ Muskoka Porject in Cambodia where she set up five EmONC skills laboratories in Kampot, Kampong Thorn, Kampong Speu and Kep and provided training and mentorship for the trainers and managers.

Terry was involved in a project conducting an evaluation of South Asia's current Community Health Worker (CHW) policies and support systems post-Astana as awell as a project based in Kenya to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths.

She also led the first multi-disciplinary skills drills Emergency Obstetric Care Training in Sri Lanka and is the in-house lead for the LSTM Life Saving Skills and Essential Obstetric Care.                         

In 2015, Terry was the recipient of the Wellbeing of Women/RCM International Fellowship Award.

Terry is a member of the Research Ethics Committee, Quality Management Committee and a mentor with the Social Mobility Fund and the Royal College of Midwifery.

Terry Kana’s doctoral research investigates the scope of practice and workload of midwifery cadres in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on Bangladesh and Malawi as case examples. Using a mixed-methods approach, she examines the roles, responsibilities, and work practices of midwives and nurse-midwives. Quantitative survey data capture their scope of practice, workload, and job satisfaction, while qualitative data from diaries, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions reveal the factors that support or hinder the provision of quality midwifery care in these settings.

Diploma in Tropical Nursing