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Exploring the ways community-led research, population data science, and ethnography can combine to imagine and implement more equitable reproductive futures.

Joined June 2020
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Now hiring! The #QMNC Senior Research Manager will support our online community members, with the goal of facilitating our #QMNCresearch agenda & developing research capacity across the QMNC Research Alliance. Learn more: qr.link/gaptkm #birthresearch #midwiferyresearch
🤱🏽CALL FOR PAPERS!🤱🏽 The 22nd international normal labour normal birth research conference 2023 call for abstracts is open! 24, 25th April Grange over Sands. Theme - ‘Evidence knowledge and creativity; optimising safety and personalisation in maternity care’ 1/2
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*ICYMI*: #COVID19 contributed to 25% of maternal deaths in the first two years of the pandemic, with Black pregnant people experiencing a mortality rate nearly 3x higher than their white peers, according to an oversight report to Congress. axios.com/2022/10/19/covid-m…
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#JobOpening: Senior Technical Lead on #Gender at @WHO Help lead & oversee research, product development, training and technical assistance on #GenderEquality & mainstreaming More details & apply now: bit.ly/3VU4CZG DEADLINE 10 November #NowHiring #JobPosting
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‘Optimum safety – physical, psychological, social & cultural - requires universal access to respectful, empowering, individualised, skilled, evidence-based care together w appropriate use of technological interventions’ outstanding paper ✅ #ockeneden. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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What do birthing people want from their care? Panel discussion on what quality #pregnancy & #birth care looks like. Moderated by @NzingaBlake w/panelists @TatyanaAli, @JennieJoseph, Dr. Chandra Adams, @NRubashkin & @mi_niles Free: birthplacelab.org/voices
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We are in the midst of Black Maternal Health Week & there are still plenty of events to join in on! You can find a comprehensive list of events hosted by @BlkMamasMatter on our website, plus relevant research on perinatal health inequities. Learn more → birthplacelab.org/
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"Respectful #MNH care is achievable." 👏 👏🏽 👏🏿 Catch these amazing experts, including @BirthPlaceLab's @Mayra_K11, at the #April22Collective on the Insightful Respectful Care Asia & Africa Dialogue panel. Register here for the recordings: alignmnhcollective.conferenc…
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Our partners at @ComDoulaPr & @TheUpliftLab helped us develop a Spanish-language video about #cesarean decision making featuring #doulas Analuz, Yesenia, & Tina & their clients. This OR program provides culturally-aligned doula support in 10 languages 8/n youtu.be/BPc3KDvMbuY
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🏳️‍⚧️ Today is #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍🌈 The "Birth Includes Us" survey will explore experiences of LGBTQ2S+ people in pregnancy-related care, particularly in terms of stigma, bias, racism, & discrimination. Questions? Want to participate? Contact → [email protected]
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Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!💫💕 @JennieJoseph
Replying to @TIME
"You cannot stand by and tolerate injustice. Not when you’ve found ways that do actually make a difference." Midwife and teacher @JennieJoseph is working to combat racism in maternal care ti.me/3HE6vRO
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This #BHM we are celebrating the 16 courageous women who defined #reproductivefreedom for Black women and took a stand against abortion restrictions in 1989 with the "We Remember" letter. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackRJAgenda
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"Imagine if we could reduce neonatal mortality by 12% - just by intergrating midwives into the system." ~ Saraswathi Vedam at #ICAN #MAM conference #midwives #birth #integration
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1 WK FROM TODAY! Find S. Vedam @ Integrating the Art & Science of Birth conference, starting Tue. 2/22. In addition to her keynote speech on Genome Variation Mapping, she will be a panelist on Patient/Client Centered Perinatal Health Team. Register → ican.ua.edu
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This #BHM we are celebrating the 16 courageous women who defined #reproductivefreedom for Black women and took a stand against abortion restrictions in 1989 with the "We Remember" letter. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackRJAgenda
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Please share widely! BIPOC candidates strongly encouraged to apply ❤️
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Replying to @Todaysparent
@Todaysparent spoke w/S. Vedam & K. Stoll on behalf of BPL, spotlighting our investigators' research into pregnant people's experiences of declining care in the perinatal period. Read the article here → todaysparent.com/pregnancy/g… #InformedConsent #DecliningCare #RespectInBirth
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This #UHCDay leaders are calling for equitable health systems that #LeaveNoOneBehind. We can only achieve this by listening to the needs of women and girls. #Whatwomenwant most for their health is #Respectfulcare. Who will act on women’s demands? @PMNCH @WHO @UN
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Universal Health Coverage by 2030? Invest in #midwives. #UHCDay #HealthForAll #SDGAction Investing in midwives increases women’s & children's access to health care, strengthening the primary healthcare system and providing a pathway to universal health coverage.
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"Medicine and healthcare do not value the bodies of women and experiences of women because it is founded in patriarchy. Which is why 
United States has the worst
 maternal mortality rate in 
the developed world." - @doccrearperry #RJRoundTable
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