Report: Racial Disparities in Maternal Health
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- Oct 18, 2021
AMCHP Maternal Health Bill Tracker
Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) has developed a maternal health bill tracker for the 117th Congress. The tracker...
- Jul 1, 2021
Pampers Launches Maternal Health Equity Campaign
U.S. maternal mortality rates are among the highest of developed countries, and they are especially high among Black moms, who die from...
- Jun 22, 2021
Press Release: YCHC and Phelps Health are Elevating Local Pregnancy Services
YCHC now offers walk-in free pregnancy tests with no appointment needed.
- Jun 7, 2021
Association of Eviction With Adverse Birth Outcomes Among Women in Georgia, 2000 to 2016
Housing, social, and medical assistance to pregnant women at risk for eviction might improve birth outcomes & health across the life course.
- Jun 5, 2021
New Resource: Racism Creates Inequities in Maternal and Child Health
New policy brief from ZERO TO THREE applies an even more targeted racial and ethnic equity lens to the review of the data.
- Apr 13, 2021
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Admin Announces Initial Actions to Address the Black Maternal Health Crisis
APRIL 13, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES Statement retrieved from: https://bit.ly/32diuUq Today—during Black Maternal Health Week—the...
- Mar 4, 2021
March of Dimes partners to launch Better Starts for All
On February 25, 2021 March of Dimes, together with their partner RB’s Enfa portfolio of brands, launched Better Starts for All, a...
- Feb 9, 2021
Senators Unveil Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act to Address Maternal Health Crisis
"The Momnibus builds on existing maternal health legislation and the Black Maternal Health Momnibus of 2020 with 12 bills to...
- Feb 8, 2021
New Publication on Maternal Transport
“Maternal transport: an opportunity to improve the system of risk appropriate care” has been published in the Journal of Perinatology. ...
- Feb 4, 2021
Brittany "Tru" Kellman of Jamaa Birth Village Featured in RFT
"Maybe you have seen this video by now: A Black doctor named Susan Moore lies in the bed of an Indiana hospital, reaching out to whoever...
- Feb 4, 2021
Hakima Tafunzi Payne, Uzazi Village Founder, Featured in Kansas City Star
"One mother’s fight on ‘the front lines of a revolution’ to save Black mothers, babies" "Portraits of Black, breastfeeding Kansas City...
- Jan 28, 2021
St. Louis Included in Merck's Next Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced its funding support of a second cohort of nine city-based projects...
- Jan 25, 2021
Business Case for Community-Based Maternity Care Model
This resource from Maternal Health Hub is intended to support maternal health stakeholders (e.g., health care providers, birth workers,...
- Jan 25, 2021
COVID-19, TTC, and Pregnancy: A Roundtable Discussion
On January 14, 2021, Modern Fertility hosted a roundtable discussion with Dr. Jane van Dis, Dr. Eduardo Hariton, and Dr. Temeka Zore on...
- Oct 5, 2020
Hear Her. You Can Help Save Her Life.
CDC’s Hear Her campaign seeks to raise awareness of potentially life-threatening warning signs during and after pregnancy.
- Sep 8, 2020
MO NAS Collaborative
MHA and the Missouri Telehealth Network are excited to announce Missouri NAS Collaborative, which will launch October 2020. This project...
- Aug 6, 2020
LOST MOTHERS
About a year ago, ProPublica and NPR launched Lost Mothers, a project investigating the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S.
- Aug 6, 2020
Center of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health
Saint Louis University Named a Center of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health.
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