Jesse Brown is a lecturer in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation University. She teaches across the three pre-registration midwifery programs and brings extensive clinical experience to her teaching. 

Jesse is a Canadian-trained midwife with a strong background in continuity of care, informed choice, physiological birth and choice of birthplace. She combines her academic role with ongoing clinical practice in a regional hospital. Jesse is passionate about midwifery education, upskilling and supporting midwives to work to their full scope of practice, and mentoring students for safe, reflective and collaborative practice. 

Jesse completed a Master of Primary Maternity Care at Griffith University in 2024 and is an endorsed midwife. Prior to joining Federation University, and in addition to her clinical midwifery roles, she worked as a clinical midwifery educator at a regional hospital and as a midwifery clinical skills instructor at the University of British Columbia.