- van der Waal, R., Mayra, K., Horn, A. and Chadwick, R. (2023). Obstetric Violence: An Intersectional Refraction through Abolition Feminism. Feminist Anthropology, 4(1), pp. 91–114. doi:10.1002/fea2.12097.
- Ashley, R., Goodarzi, B., Horn, A., de Klerk, H., Ku, S.E., Marcus, J.K. … van der Waal, R. (2022). A call for critical midwifery studies: Confronting systemic injustice in sexual, reproductive, maternal, and newborn care. Birth, 49(3), pp. 355–359. doi:10.1111/birt.12661.
- Peters, H., Francis, K., Sconza, R., Horn, A., Peckham, C.S., Tookey, P.A. … Thorne, C. (2016). UK Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Rates Continue to Decline: 2012–2014. Clinical Infectious Diseases. doi:10.1093/cid/ciw791.
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About
Overview
Anna Horn is certified doula and maternal health scholar-activist, currently undertaking a PhD in anthropology of health at the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research at City, University of London. Anna’s current research investigates Black and South Asian women’s experiences of group antenatal care in the UK through Black feminist and abolitionist perspectives, exploring the group care model’s potential to disrupt colonial legacies embedded within the maternity care system.
Furthermore, Anna holds nearly a decade of experience in the maternal, infant and HIV/sexual health fields, ranging from epidemiological surveillance on pregnant women living with HIV to frontline work on a busy National Health Service infant feeding team. Anna has also worked as a maternity service user representative for England’s national Maternity Transformation Programme, co-producing maternal and infant health policies and guidelines.
Other interests include race-gender equity initiatives in higher education.
Qualifications
- MSc, University College London, United Kingdom
- BA, William Peace University, United States
Languages
English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Spanish - Latin American (can read, write, speak and understand spoken).
Research
Title of thesis: Centring Liberation: A Black Feminist Ethnography of Group Antenatal Care
Oct 2020 – May 2025
Summary of research
Set within a wider, multi-national study on the implementation and sustainability of group antenatal and postnatal care, as a part of the Group Care 1000 project, this PhD research aims to hone in on Black and South Asian women’s experience of group antenatal care in England. Underpinned by an abolitionist framework, I utilise critical race and postcolonial theories to investigate the implications of colonialism on maternity care in the United Kingdom, and explore how the group care model may disrupt or maintain the status quo in maternity care.