Information about the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Midwifery
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Last updated: October 8, 2025
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Midwifery is holding its first in-person (hybrid) meeting on Thursday, October 16. Preregistration is required by October 14. Details are posted on the Board’s official state web site.
What is the Board of Registration in Midwifery (aka “Midwifery Board”)?
The 2024 Midwifery and Maternal Health Law signed by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey established the Board of Registration in Midwifery to oversee CPM licensure. You can read more about the applicable laws here.
The Midwifery Board sits within the Division of Health Professions Licensure at the Department of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Midwifery Board is required to abide by the state’s open meeting laws which include public access to meetings, public posting of agendas and minutes, and more information can be obtained through public records requests.
Following Midwifery Board activities
The Board has been meeting monthly since February 2025. Their activities include drafting regulations for CPM licensure and scope of practice. The regulations drafted by this board will go through various levels of legal review within the Department of Public Health and state administrative bodies, and then go to a public comment period including a hearing before they are finalized and put into effect, (aka “promulgated).
Board of Registration in Midwifery (official web site) - includes announcements, links to meeting agendas and minutes, livestream links during a meeting, a list of board members, contact information for the board.
If you have questions or need information about Midwifery Board activities, we would recommend emailing them at midwifery@mass.gov
Midwifery Board Meetings
Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month at 10 AM and last about 3 hours
Board meetings are usually virtual and sometimes hybrid in-person and virtual. A livestream link to observe the meeting is posted on the Board’s official state web site before the meeting under the meeting announcement in “Upcoming Events”
Each meeting has an agenda and minutes posted on the state web site
Video recordings and additional documents from Board meetings are not posted on the state web site, but we have obtained some through public records request. MA Midwifery Board records