Morehouse School of Medicine’s Center for Maternal Health Equity is launching a research study designed to explore the causes and issues behind health inequity among pregnant and post-partum Black women in the U.S. Starting in July 2021, Black mothers in Georgia, New Jersey, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia, will be invited to take part in an interview process to discuss Maternal Near Misses (MNM), a condition that occurs when a woman nearly dies, but survives from a complication occurring during pregnancy, childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy. The research project will also incorporate incarcerated women. To date, this important perspective has been missing from the maternal health studies.
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