Rosie Murphy is a midwife with expertise in tackling inequalities of care in NHS maternity services and across the wider NHS system.
Rosie graduated as a midwife from Leeds University in 2009 and her first midwifery posts were in London. It was the contrast in population needs and service provision that first highlighted to her the inequity of maternity care in England.
Since these early days Rosie served nearly 10 years as a community midwife. She holds an MRes in Clinical Research and is an alumnus of the prestigious Darzi fellowship, bringing a unique perspective on leading change, systems thinking and co-production.
In more recent roles such as Population Health and inequalities lead, she worked with two integrated care systems in London to support the development of anti-racism within maternity and wider healthcare services.
Rosie’s extensive experience of working in and designing NHS services has provided her with a deep understanding of challenges and opportunities for addressing inequalities. She has also benefitted from creating a wide network of people who share her vision of healthcare services that meet people’s unique and expressed needs.
Rosie is passionate about the first 1001 days of life (the period of pregnancy and the first two years of life), knowing that they are crucial period for setting up lifelong health and wellbeing. She believes that creating the right economic and social conditions is imperative for this and has observed how increasingly difficult this is becoming for so many families.
Utilising her experience in strategy and delivery, Rosie is looking forward to supporting the Equality Trust to continue their work to create a society that affords a good basic standard of living, enabling everyone to thrive.