Seeks proposals to address social and clinical determinants of maternal health.

Included Special Area of Emphasis on optimizing prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage.

Sought proposals to improve early detection of, and timely care for, risk factors for postpartum complications.

This session aimed to provide a better understanding about the barriers researchers and stakeholders face in addressing social and structural determinants of health with relation to maternal health outcomes, and to hear ways in which PCORI and others can address these barriers and meaningfully include the communities' experiencing disparities in research on strategies to improve maternal health outcomes.

Historical racism in health care has contributed to barriers in access to quality care and higher levels of distrust among Black women toward the health care system. The research study team is testing a program called Melanated Group Midwifery Care, which aims to improve the care Black women receive before and after giving birth.

The research study team is seeking to decrease pregnancy complications for all patients, but especially for Black patients, by decreasing institutional racism and bias in health care and improving community-based social support during pregnancy.

Talk therapy is effective for treating depression and anxiety, and women often prefer it over medication. The research study team is comparing the effectiveness of behavioral activation (BA), a form of talk therapy, provided by a mental health professional versus a nurse or midwife, in addition to the comparison of in-person BA with BA given through telemedicine, or by videoconference.

Depression can be a major pregnancy complication that can cause adverse outcomes for both mothers and their infants if left untreated. This engagement project will explore ways to engage participants in patient-centered and clinical effectiveness research and build the capacity to engage stakeholders in the research process.

Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) and other pregnancy complications have a high risk for chronic illnesses in later life. This engagement project uses GDM as a case in point to galvanize diverse stakeholders to build systems-based bridges addressing the fragmentation in women’s health care.

Doulas are trained professionals who provide educational, physical, and spiritual support before, during, and after childbirth, and they are often associated with improved maternal and infant outcomes. This engagement project is creating a collaborative of stakeholders in California to facilitate equitable, ethical, and patient-centered outcomes research on community doula care.

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