Opportunities in the Postpartum Period to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk After Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Jul 12, 2024

Jennifer Lewey, Theresa M Beckie, Haywood L Brown, Susan D Brown, Vesna D Garovic, Sadiya S Khan, Eliza C Miller, Garima Sharma, Laxmi S Mehta; American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in Women and Underrepresented Populations Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation; and Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing

Circulation. 2024 Feb 13;149(7):e330-e346. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001212. Epub 2024 Feb 12.

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Breastfeeding and Infant Mortality in Indiana: Changing the Culture and Saving Lives: A Model for Other States

Jul 11, 2024

Jerome M Adams

Breastfeed Med. 2017 Oct;12(8):456-458. doi: 10.1089/bfm.2017.0108. Epub 2017 Aug 14.

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Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Social Determinants of Health at Individual and Area Levels

Jul 10, 2024

Mengying Xia, Jaejin An, Monika M Safford, Lisandro D Colantonio, Mario Sims, Kristi Reynolds, Andrew E Moran, Yiyi Zhang

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Apr 1;7(4):e248584. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.8584.

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Health equity is a widespread concern for people as #AI interventions scale more widely

Jul 9, 2024

“Health equity is a widespread concern for people as #AI interventions scale more widely.” Thrive AI Health partnered with @GbengaOgedegbe to test and iterate a new AI health coach on underserved populations. Learn more in the recent @WellatFortune article https://bit.ly/464P7DJ

Institute for Excellence in Health Equity

AddREssing Social Determinants TO pRevent hypErtension (The RESTORE Network): Overview of the Health Equity Research Network to Prevent Hypertension

Jul 9, 2024

Tanya M Spruill, Paul Muntner, Collin J Popp, Daichi Shimbo, Lisa A Cooper, Andrew E Moran, Joanne Penko, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Chidinma Ibe, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, George Howard, Brandon K Bellows, Ben R Spoer, Joseph Ravenell, Andrea L Cherrington, Phillip Levy, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Stephen P Juraschek, Nancy Molello, Katherine B Dietz, Deven Brown, Alexis Bartelloni, Gbenga Ogedegbe

Am J Hypertens. 2023 Apr 15;36(5):232-239. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpad010.

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Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Cesarean Birth and Maternal Morbidity in a Low-Risk, Nulliparous Cohort

Jul 8, 2024

Michelle P Debbink, Lynda G Ugwu, William A Grobman, Uma M Reddy, Alan T N Tita, Yasser Y El-Sayed, Ronald J Wapner, Dwight J Rouse, George R Saade, John M Thorp Jr, Suneet P Chauhan, Maged M Costantine, Edward K Chien, Brian M Casey, Sindhu K Srinivas, Geeta K Swamy, Hyagriv N Simhan; for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network

Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Jan 1;139(1):73-82. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000004620.

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Grobman joins Care New England and Brown

PBN, Jul 7, 2024

PROVIDENCE – Dr. William Grobman, a nationally recognized maternal-fetal medicine expert, has joined Care New England Health System and Brown University.

Beginning July 1, Grobman serves as Care New England’s chief scientific officer and the associate dean of research for the health system and Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School. Grobman will also serve as the executive vice chair for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology beginning Dec. 1.

By Katie Castellani, PBN.com

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Diversifying Doulas Initiative: Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in People of Color Through Doula Care

Jul 5, 2024

Sharee Livingston, Cherise Hamblin, Crista Johnson, LaShekia Chatman, Kayla Bolden

Health Equity. 2024 Jul 1;8(1):455-460. doi: 10.1089/heq.2023.0082. eCollection 2024.

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Racism and perinatal health inequities research: where we have been and where we should go

Jul 5, 2024

Irene E Headen, Michal A Elovitz, Ashley N Battarbee, Jamie O Lo, Michelle P Debbink

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Oct;227(4):560-570. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.05.033. Epub 2022 May 18.

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