Donna Hartz is an Aboriginal Australian midwife, academic and member of the Kamilaroi peoples of north eastern New South Wales.[1] She grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney.
Hartz is currently an associate professor of midwifery at Charles Darwin University.[2]
Hartz is best known for her work on the "Birthing on Country" project, focused on Aboriginal maternal health. She is an investigator on an NHMRC Partnership Grant, ‘BOOSt: Building on Our Strengths’. Hartz has focused on developing and implementing community-controlled, holistic, continuity of midwifery care models and birth centres. She has been an advocate for women-centred continuity of care through caseload midwifery models.[3] Hartz is a registered nurse and midwife. She has been an academic leader at the University of Sydney’s National Centre of Cultural Competence,[4] an adjunct associate professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University[5] and a casual academic at the University of Technology Sydney. Hartz was on the Board of Trustees at the Rhodanthe Lipsett Indigenous Midwifery Charitable Fund.