اولین مجمع عمومی انجمن در شهریور ۱۳۸۱، اولین هیئت مدیره انجمن انتخاب شد و هیئت مدیره به اتفاق آرا نجمه تهرانیان که همزمان رئیس جمعیت مامایی ایران را نیز به عهده داشت به عنوان رئیس انجمن و دکتر ناهید خداکرمی دبیر و خانم فاطمه ناهیدی بعنوان خزانه دار انجمن انتخاب شد‏ند و دفتر انجمن در سازمان نظام پزشکی واقع در خیابان طالقانی (تخت جمشید سابق) خیابان سرپرست مستقر شد. لگو و آرم انجمن در اردیبهشت سال ۱۳۸۳ به ثبت رسید. مجمع عمومی انجمن بصورت سالانه برگزار می شود که از سال ۱۳۸۵ تا کنون ۴ دوره انتخابات برگزار شده که ریاست هر ۴ دوره انجمن بر عهده دکتر ناهید ‏خداکرمی می باشد. آخرین انتخابات انجمن علمی مامایی ایران در ۱۹اردیبهشت سال ۱۳۹۸ ‏ برای ‏اولین بار به صورت الکترونیک برگزار شد که با حضور۵۳ درصدی اعضای انجمن همراه بود.‏
با وجود اینکه جامعه مامایی یک عضو با نام جمعیت مامایی ‏ در ‏(‏ICM‏) داشت ، انجمن علمی مامایی ایران تمام تلاش خود را جهت‎ ‎ثبت دومین تشکل ‏در این فدراسیون به کار گرفت و در نهایت ‏ در سال ۱۳۹۸ ‏ موفق به ثبت عضویت خود ‏در ‏international confederation of midwives‏ شد.‏

Among the objectives of the Scientific Association of Midwifery of Iran are as follows:

  • Expanding public confidence in the skills of midwives as an independent profession
  • Sharing ideals, skills and professional information with members
  • Support and care of midwives and midwifery service providers
  • Leadership and management to advance the vision of the association
  • Encouraging midwives to support women's active participation in childbirth and continuity of midwifery care
  • Evaluation and promotion of the quality of midwifery education in the country
  • Promotion of the scientific development of the midwifery profession
  • Professional empowerment of members through the provision of scientific, educational, research and technological services based on existing standards
  • Improving the scientific level of members in the field of women's health, midwifery and newborns
  • Supporting the union and professional rights of all member midwives
  • Development of communication network with midwives all over the country
  •  Development of a system of suggestions to improve the care of women, maternity and newborns
  •  Holding short-term and long-term educational courses (continuous midwifery education)
  • Holding annual and quarterly workshops, seminars and conferences in order to improve the academic level of students, employees and faculty members of the university.
  • Cooperating with the health system to implement the country's general health and population goals and policies
  •  Communication with international organizations and institutions
  • Seeking support from national and international organizations and institutions to promote the profession of midwifery
  • Reducing inequality in access to maternal and newborn services and professional inequalities
  •  Improving the level of community health literacy and increasing public awareness in the field of self-care, family health, women's, mothers' and babies' health, sexual health and reproductive health
  • Cooperation with the Ministry of Health and other related institutions to improve and promote the centers providing mother and baby services
  • Cooperation with the Ministry of Health in developing protocols and clinical guidelines related to maternal and newborn health and reproductive health