Margaret Haworth-Brockman has been Executive Director of Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence since 2000. She is involved in all areas of community-based policy and advice, Aboriginal women's health, women who live in poverty, women in rural, remote and northern communities, and gender in health planning. One of her most recent projects is A Profile of Women's Health in Manitoba, a comprehensive gender-based analysis of over 150 indicators of women's health. Concurrently Ms. Haworth-Brockman and her co-authors prepared the Manitoba Field Testing of the Gender Sensitive Core Set of Leading Health Indicators for the World Health Organization (2006), and two manuals (Guide for Gender-based Analysis in Health Surveillance, and Guide for Developing a Population-based Gender and Health Profile) for the Pan-American Health Organization (2009). Most recently, she was a co-writer and editor for Rising to the Challenge: Sex and Gender-Based Analysis for Health Planning, Policy and Research in Canada.

She is a member of Women and Health Care Reform www.womenandhealthcarereform.ca. Her collaborations with the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health has included considerable work in Gender and HIV/AIDS, with training sessions delivered in Senegal, South Africa and at the World Aids Conferences in Bangkok and Toronto. Work with PAHO included GBA training in Belize in 2008.

Trained as a wetland biologist, Ms. Haworth-Brockman began her career working at Ducks Unlimited Canada for nearly 10 years. In 1994 she was named Chair of the Equity and Access Committee of the Manitoba Midwifery Implementation Council, and then became the first Registrar for the College of Midwives of Manitoba. She is a past Board member for Klinic, a community health clinic, and currently serves on a number of committees including Make Poverty History Manitoba; Expert Advisor for the Canadian Midwifery Regulators Consortium; Mother of Red Nations Women's Council; and Ka Ni Kanichihk.