Join us as we speak with experts about ways we can better serve women and birthing people and advance maternal health equity. From what is going well to what needs […]
Maternal Health Podcast, Season 4
Advancing Health Equity and Anti-Racism in MCH Policy
Advancing Health Equity and Anti-Racism in MCH Policy
This e-learning module focuses on advancing health equity and anti-racism in MCH policy. This module is part of a series that provides Title V professionals with the tools, knowledge, and […]
Building a New Way Forward: The White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis
Building a New Way Forward: The White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis
On September 28th 2023, the Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center (MHLIC), The Reilly Group (TRG), and Postpartum Support International’s (PSI) Mind the Gap hosted a special roundtable webinar highlighting […]
Maternal Health Innovation Podcast Season 3
Maternal Health Innovation Podcast Season 3
Maternal Health Innovation Podcast Season 3 is live! Click on any of the images/links below to tune in to an episode. Episodes are released weekly! You can still listen to […]
Raise the Bar for Maternal Health Equity
Raise the Bar for Maternal Health Equity
Raising the Bar for Maternal Health Equity and Excellence offers a practical guide for healthcare institutions to improve maternal health outcomes. The new tools, developed by the National Partnership for Women & Families […]
Black Mamas Matter: In Policy and Practice – A Policy Agenda for the Black Maternal Health, Rights, and Justice Movement
Black Mamas Matter: In Policy and Practice – A Policy Agenda for the Black Maternal Health, Rights, and Justice Movement
Black Mamas Matter Alliance’s comprehensive, issues and values-based policy agenda. Asan Alliance of Black women-led organizations and multidisciplinary professionals, BMMA sees the development of a policy agenda as a unique […]
We are the Faces of Black Maternal Health
We are the Faces of Black Maternal Health
Leading Black Cardiologists and medical professionals share their professional and personal experience with Black Maternal mortality and morbidity – the health of women during preconception, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum – […]
Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health
Maternal Health Innovation Podcast: Season 2
Maternal Health Innovation Podcast: Season 2
Join us as we speak with experts about ways we can better serve women and birthing people and advance maternal health equity. From what is going well to what needs […]
Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project
Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project
Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project’s mission is to increase awareness of the Black maternal health crisis and develop and promote evidence-based strategies that improve health outcomes for Black birthing people […]
Virtual Symposium: Health Care Transformation to Advance Black Maternal Health Equity
Virtual Symposium: Health Care Transformation to Advance Black Maternal Health Equity
The Commonwealth Fund hosted a virtual symposium with leading experts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Century Foundation, Urban Institute and more and explored: ideas for financing […]
Listening to and Justly Partnering with Community-Led Perinatal Health Solutions
Listening to and Justly Partnering with Community-Led Perinatal Health Solutions
State Title V/Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programs across the United States are eager to implement solutions created with communities to urgently close racial disparities in maternal health outcomes. There […]
Maternal Mortality Review Committees: Sharing Power with Communities
Maternal Mortality Review Committees: Sharing Power with Communities
This report summarizes the findings of an environmental scan conducted by a project team within the Black Mamas Matter Alliance in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
The Cycle to Respectful Care: A Qualitative Approach to the Creation of an Actionable Framework to Address Maternal Outcome Disparities
The Cycle to Respectful Care: A Qualitative Approach to the Creation of an Actionable Framework to Address Maternal Outcome Disparities
Abstract Despite persistent disparities in maternity care outcomes, there are limited resources to guide clinical practice and clinician behavior to dismantle biased practices and beliefs, structural and institutional racism, and […]
Maternal Telehealth Access Project (MTAP)
Maternal Telehealth Access Project (MTAP)
Maternal Telehealth Access Project was funded in May 2020 for one year by the CARES Act to increase access to quality maternity care and services via telehealth during (and beyond) […]
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Midwifery
Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Midwifery
Research shows that there are specific care models that can make a concrete difference in improving maternity care quality and producing better outcomes, especially for birthing people of color. One […]
IRTH App
HealthConnect One
HealthConnect One
Advancing equitable, community-based, peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting. HealthConnect One is the national leader in advancing equitable, community-based, peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and early […]
Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
Reproductive Justice sheds light on the multiple combined forms of oppression that contribute to the reproductive oppression of women of color. This Agenda presents proactive policy solutions grounded in a […]
Bridging the Chasm between Pregnancy and Health over the Life Course: A National Agenda for Research and Action
Bridging the Chasm between Pregnancy and Health over the Life Course: A National Agenda for Research and Action
Abstract Background Many pregnant people find no bridge to ongoing specialty or primary care after giving birth, even when clinical and social complications of pregnancy signal need. Black, indigenous, and […]
Innovation Thursdays: Shades of Blue Project
Innovation Thursdays: Shades of Blue Project
This organization brings Black maternal mental health to the forefront. Learn more about their important work.
Achieving Breastfeeding Equity and Justice in Black Communities: Past, Present, and Future
Achieving Breastfeeding Equity and Justice in Black Communities: Past, Present, and Future
This paper was published in June 2021 in Breastfeeding Medicine. Authors: Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu, Kimarie Bugg, and Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist AbstractBackground: Breastfeeding is protective of maternal and infant health across the life […]
Black Birthing Bill of Rights
Black Birthing Bill of Rights
The Black Birthing Bill of Rights is a resource for every black person that engages in maternity care. Created by the National Association to Advance Black Birth (NAABB) want each […]
Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Sage and Respectful Maternal Health Care
Black Mamas Matter: A Toolkit for Advancing the Human Right to Sage and Respectful Maternal Health Care
A comprehensive clinical toolkit with resources and recommendations to improve maternal health, rights, and respect in the black population.
Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women
Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women
This paper provides a summary of recommendations that are essential in providing equitable clinical care to women of color.
It takes a Village: The Maternal Wellness Village
It takes a Village: The Maternal Wellness Village
There is a fundamental need for multilevel interventions emerging from the lived- experience and expertise of Black women that provide support from early pregnancy through the end of the first […]
State Strategies to Address the Black Maternal Health Crisis
State Strategies to Address the Black Maternal Health Crisis
The inequities laid bare by COVID-19 underscore the importance of states’ efforts to develop policies and interventions to address all health disparities. Systemic racism, a driver of these inequities, also […]
Cultural Humility and Black Maternal Health in Historical Context
Cultural Humility and Black Maternal Health in Historical Context
This webinar, presented by Dr. Jann Murray-García, MD, MPH is part of a 4-part series focusing on equity, inclusion, and engagement. MHI State teams and RMOMS sites requested training resources […]
Open Letter: National Call for Birth Justice and Accountability
Open Letter: National Call for Birth Justice and Accountability
In the United States, women are more likely to die from complications of pregnancy and birth than in any other high-resource country. Black and Indigenous women are 2 to 3 times more […]
Black Mamas Matter Alliance Newsletter
Black Mamas Matter Alliance Newsletter
Black Mamas Matter Alliance shares important resources in their newsletter. Sign up for their updates here.