Dr. Novick received her BA from Wesleyan University, her BSN from Columbia University, and her MSN in midwifery from Yale University. After receiving her PhD from Yale in 2009, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale in 2011. Her research and policy interests focus on understanding and implementing alternatives to conventional models of maternity care, including freestanding birth centers and group prenatal care. Her research examines the experience of low income, minority women receiving group prenatal care as well as barriers and facilitators to implementing, providing, and sustaining group prenatal care in prenatal clinics. Dr. Novick has provided midwifery care to women in a wide range of clinical settings over the last 30 years and currently practices with the Yale Midwifery Faculty Practice.