Advancing Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Proceedings of a Workshop (2021) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
Pages 175-194
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Dr. Barfield's research focuses on maternal/infant morbidity and mortality; early child health services utilization; improving access to risk-appropriate perinatal care; and advancing the quality of maternal, infant, and reproductive health data for public health action.
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Dr. Borders serves on the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Executive Committee and is a member of the Illinois Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
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She is also the director and the co-founder of the Mississippi Perinatal Quality Collaborative and chairs the Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
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Echo-Hawk is part of multiple committees, boards, and work groups, including the Best Starts for Kids Board, the March of Dimes Health Equity Workgroup, the Tribal Collaboration Working Group with the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program, the Advisory Committee for Health Equity Research at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse American Indian and Alaska Native Collaborative Research Engagement Workgroup, and the Board of Data for Indigenous Justice. In the past, Ms.
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She also served as the past president for the Midwives Alliance of North America. Other current roles include board member for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice and the founder of Parteras de Maiz, an umbrella organization dedicated to advocacy for traditional birth work and health justice that includes projects such as the Dignity Birth Campaign and the Good Birth for All network and podcast.
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Flint is one of only a handful of Black women working on assisted reproductive technologies, biotechnologies, and their intersection with reproductive justice and cultural ethics. Elena Fuentes-Afflick, M.D.
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Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Reproductive Scientist Development Program, the Foundation for SMFM, the CDC Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Yellow Chair Foundation. Dawn Godbolt, Ph.D., is the policy director at the National Birth Equity Collaborative (NBEC)
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She is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, and previously led the program in support of state-based Perinatal Quality Collaboratives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Division of Reproductive Health, including leading the establishment of the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC)
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She has had fellowships in maternal/fetal medicine and The Commonwealth Fund/ Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy. She is the senior medical director for health equity at the Mass General Brigham integrated health system.
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, is a tenured associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department at the University of California, San Francisco; an affiliated scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health; and a member of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career.
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Her maternal-fetal medicine fellowship training was at UNC as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Nia Mitchell, M.P.H., is a birth equity research scholar with the National Birth Equity Collaborative.
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Porchia-Albert, CD, is the founder and the chief operating officer of Ancient Song Doula Services, a reproductive health organization of more than 70 full-spectrum, community-based doulas focused on providing resources and full-spectrum doula services to women of color and marginalized communities throughout New York City (NYC) and northern New Jersey.
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Scott, M.D., M.P.H., FACOG, is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences with a joint appointment in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. She is a social improvement and implementation scientist and activist grounded in a Black feminist–reproductive justice praxis with formal training and experience as a community-based OB/GYN and applied epidemiologist.
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She strives to use health policy change as a vehicle to promote cross-sector collaboration in addressing social determinants of health and to advance health equity. Previously, Dr.
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She is an expert in implementation science, women's health across the lifespan, minority health, community engagement, and health equity. She has been recognized with numerous awards for her substantial contribution to excellence in health equity scholarship, women's health and mentorship, including the Presidential Award in Excellence in Science Mathematics and Engineering Mentorship and as a Presidential Leadership Scholar.
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She serves as an elected advisory board member and reviewer for the State of Illinois Maternal Mortality Review Committee for violent deaths. Jamila Taylor, Ph.D., is the director of health care reform and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation (TCF)
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Dr. Tucker Edmonds's research interests are in shared decision making and health equity in reproductive health care.
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She most recently served on the Committee Assessing Health Outcomes by Birth Setting, which authored the 2020 consensus study report Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice. Saraswathi Vedam, Ph.D., RM, FACNM, Sci.D.
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In 2017, she was named Michael Smith Health Research Institute Health Professional Investigator. Laurie Zephyrin, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is the vice president for advancing health equity at The Commonwealth Fund.
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