SWHR spoke with Taiwo Ajao, MPH, RN, IBCLC CD (DONA) a maternal-newborn nurse, lactation consultant and doula, and Jenifer LaNore, MSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C, a trained full-spectrum doula (DTI) and owner of Gracefully Balanced Perinatal Counseling, LLC, on postpartum depression.
In the United States, around 390,000 infants are born prematurely (before 37 weeks of gestation) each year, accounting for 42% of all preterm births (PTB) across high-income countries.
Updated January 18, 2022. The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) has joined the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) and […]
SWHR convened an interdisciplinary working group to elucidate how to eliminate barriers to access and reduce health disparities related to treatments for infertility in women.
Maternal mortality rates in the United States continue to grow, with widening disparities in outcomes for Black, Indigenous, People of […]
SWHR convened an interdisciplinary working group in September 2021 for a closed two-day roundtable meeting to discuss how to eliminate barriers to access and reduce health disparities related to treatments for infertility in women.
SWHR convened a diverse working group of clinicians, genetic counselors, patient advocates, policy professionals, and industry representatives for a three-day roundtable meeting on eliminating barriers to access and, by extension, reducing health disparities in prenatal care as they relate to ECS and NIPS.