Published work
Evidence-Based Public Health Article: Using Modernized Medicaid Data to Advance Evidence-Based Improvements in Maternal Health
An article recently published online in the American Journal of Public Health provides an overview of the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System Analytic Files (TAF), an underused data set in maternal health research. The article, …
Proceedings of the AAMC Center for Health Justice’s inaugural Maternal Health Incubator Report Now Available
From the AAMC Center for Health Justice: The AAMC Center for Health Justice’s inaugural Maternal Health Incubator, held in May 2022, covered a wide array of topics that impact maternal health outcomes, particularly among women …
Black Mamas Matter Alliance releases Centering the Experiences of Black Mamas in the Workplace: How the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Can Support Black Maternal Health
From The Black Mamas Matter Alliance: The Black Mamas Matter Alliance is pleased to present a joint report with A Better Balance, titled “Centering the Experiences of Black Mamas in the Workplace: How the Pregnant Workers …
Senderowicz’s Contraceptive Autonomy Work Influences New International Guidelines
Doctors Without Borders recently revised their contraceptive care guidelines, incorporating 2020 Small Grants recipient, Dr. Leigh Senderowicz‘s concept of contraceptive autonomy — the factors necessary for a person to decide what they want in relation …
As Covid surges, health officials must remember that in-person postpartum care is essential: UWPRC Affiliate, Tova Walsh
UWPRC Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Social Work, Dr. Tova Walsh, recently authored an article with NBC News. Dr. Walsh discusses the importance of postpartum follow-up care and the need to expand rather than constrict …
CCHE publishes new report on their Research Ambassador model
Building Sustainable Organizational and Community Capacity for Research Partnerships: A Decade of Experience is published in the Winter 2021 issue of Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research Education and Action. The purpose of this article …
Advancing Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Proceedings of a Workshop
The United States faces an alarmingly high rate of maternal morbidity and mortality, distinguishing it from other high-income countries that have achieved decreases in these rates in recent years. U.S. maternal morbidity and mortality rates …
Using RQA for population health surveillance: The Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Experience
Spatialized Intersectionality: Gendered and Racialized Residential Segregation and the Milwaukee Lead Crisis
In this recently published article, Dalvery Blackwell, Executive Director of UWPRC community partner African American Breastfeeding Network (AABN), and her colleague introduce the term spatialized intersectionality to connote interlocking, geographically embedded forms of social identity marginalization. …