What’s Going On With Black Maternal Health? | Health Equity Mondays #HEM2

Hosts: Jasmine Leonard, MPH & Omari Richins, MPH

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Highlights from this episode:

– East Palestine Train Derailment
– Maternal Health, specifically Black maternal health

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In this month’s episode of Health Equity Mondays (HEM), with co-hosts Jasmine Leonard aka Health Equity Jazz, MPH and Omari Richins, MPH, we talk about:

East Palestine Train Derailment
Maternal Health, specifically Black maternal health

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Links from the show:

East Palisade Train Derailment

USA Today article
CNN Timeline article

Maternal Health

Fatherly Article “Study: Wealthiest Black Moms More Likely To Die In Childbirth Than Poorest White Moms”
NBC news article, “Black Maternal Deaths and Disparities Increase in Mississippi”
NY Times article, “Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They’re Rich, Expansive Study Finds”
MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH INEQUALITY study data
Forbes article, “Black Women Are Dying During Childbirth And No One Seems To Care”

Reasons for disparities in Maternal Health

AAMC racist bias in healthcare
Atlantic article historical trauma article
UCLA article about lack of diversity
AAMC article on specialty of doctors
Weathering Hypothesis by Dr. Arline Geronimus

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