Project Type: Research
Prevent Maternal Mortality through Mobile Technology
Project Type: Research
The goal of the project is to increase the effectiveness of postpartum discharge education and improve rural women’s compliance with postpartum care recommendations using our PM3 mobile app. This study is for Black women by…
SAAVY HER: A mobile app to optimize HIV prevention and sexual and reproductiveNational Institute of Mental Health (NIH)
Project Type: Research
Sexual/HIV Health Electronic Empowerment Resource (Savvy HER) focuses on an HIV prevention priority: Black women in the South. One in 48 Black women will be diagnosed with HIV in her lifetime. Although HIV incidence in…
Georgia IMPROVE on Maternal Health, Structural Racism and Discrimination, & COVID 19
Project Type: Research
This project will expand the work to learn what has caused maternal health inequities during COVID-19 and in the context of racism and discrimination. As highlighted by events of 2020, Black women have faced dual…
Georgia Implementing a Maternal health and Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE)
Georgia-IMPROVE will establish a community focused multidisciplinary perinatal care research and intervention network (PCRIN) to inform priorities on preventable maternal mortality (MM), severe maternal morbidity (SMM), and to promote health equity. The overall goals of…
The Fertility Equity Study
Project Type: Research
Today, infertility affects 10% of Black women trying to conceive. When many of them are experiencing challenges getting pregnant, they are given inaccurate information about their fertility situation and don’t know there are accessible options…
Southeastern Maternal Health Community Implementation Project
Project Type: Research
The objective of this project is to test implementation of Pre-pregnancy Counseling with father involvement in community-based settings to improve cardiovascular health outcomes before and during pregnancy in Georgia and South Carolina. We will conduct…
Narrative-based Medicine “Maternal Near Miss” Project
Project Type: Research
The goal of this project is to learn from Black and other women of color’s lived experiences regarding their maternal near-death experience during pregnancy and childbirth. This is done through storytelling, which offers women a…