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- This oral history interview was conducted with Kim Q. Đâu on October 19, 2022 by Josephine McRobbie as part of the Duke Midwifery Service and Durham Maternal Health Oral History Project, which was funded by The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund. During the interview, Đâu discusses her background and education; the impact Amy MacDonald had on her as a guest lecturer during Đâu's House Course as an undergraduate at Duke University and her subsequent career as a midwife; Đâu's interest in Vietnamese and other non-Western medicine practices; her first post-graduate job as a staff midwife in Duke Midwifery Service; the Centering Pregnancy modality including training, later work with the program at Durham County Health Department, and the influence of Margy Hutchison and Rebekah Kaplan's Centering Pregnancy program work had on her; Đâu's reflections on power, exchange, healthcare as a partnership, and working in a relational way with people of different backgrounds from one's own; her move back to San Francisco and the pandemic "pause" on many Centering programs; Đâu's work in the education and training of midwifery students; learning from midwives; partnerships with other practitioners; and reflections on Duke and how midwifery has and can be incorporated into large medical institutions.
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