Black pregnant women encounter structural racism and intersectional bias from healthcare providers. By centering their perspectives and experiences of racial discrimination in healthcare settings, public health and medical professionals can utilize anti-racist frameworks to create more equitable, just practices in reproductive healthcare.
Read more about Drs. Ashley Hill and Natacha De Genna's findings here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38106375/
Despite high uptake of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, Dr. Jill Demirci and her team found that many participants held concerns about safety and that many reported a lack of direct counseling from providers around lactation. Future research should investigate how variability in provider counseling affects SARS-CoV-2 vaccine uptake in perinatal populations.
Drs. Ashley Hill, Natacha De Genna, and their team found that young Black women who desired pregnancy and birthing support during Covid-19 encountered structural racism and intersectional bias from healthcare providers.
Read more about their research findings here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523001178?via%3Dihub
Dr. Jill Demirci and her team researched Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy of pregnant and recently pregnant people, finding that among this group safety concerns persisted, with many reporting a lack of direct counseling from providers.
Learn more about their findings here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37009722/
Drs. Ashley Hill and Natacha De Genna qualitatively examined coping mechanisms and desired supports in pregnant and birthing Black and biracial adolescent and young adult women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their team found that nearly half the interviewees reported mental health symptoms consistent with postpartum depression and that several were afraid to disclose their symptoms to a healthcare provider due to fear of child protective services involvement and their belief they would be treated unfairly because of their race.
![Gender differences in household responsibilities by parenting status. Overall, there was no significant difference in reported time spent on household responsibilities by gender (46.4% [104/224] women vs 37.8% [45/119] men reported increased household responsibilities, P = .14). When examining time spent on household responsibilities by parenting status, there was no significant difference between women and men without children (14.6% [18/123] vs 24.5% [13/53], P = .17). However, in physicians with children](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2023-01/FkmlxoBWQBM0lpI.jpg?itok=7JpeHZFd)
Dr. Kazmerski and her team found that the Covid19 pandemic impacted men and women physicians differently. Women physician parents were more likely to report decreased academic productivity than men with children, often citing unreliable childcare.
Faculty member Dr. Sara Baumann used collaborative filmmaking to understand the mental health stressors and supports in the lives of youth during the Covid19 pandemic.
Faculty members Dr. Judy Chang and Dr. Elizabeth Miller recently surveyed sexual violence advocates about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the needs and lived experiences of intimate partner violence survivors in the US.
Read more about their findings here.
Looking at Dr. Dara Mendez, Dr. Esa Davis, and their team's study on stress trends throughout pregnancy and postpartum, the COVID-19 pandemic may have adverse implications for birthing populations in the U.S.
Little is known about the differential effects of COVID-19 on pregnant women with and without substance use disorders. Associate Dir. Marian Jarlenski, PhD, MPH, faculty member Elizabeth Krans, MD, MSC, and their team did a retrospective cohort study to find out.
