Date: Tuesday, March 8, 5:30-8pm CT
Location: Join us at PHR 3.106 or live streamed via Zoom
As practitioners, educators, and healthcare professionals we MUST understand cultural and historical contexts that inform or misinform our practices in medicine, research, and care.
This is PART TWO of a THREE PART SERIES across this academic year that will help inform that understanding, and it includes discussions around midwifery, the crisis that is Black maternal mortality, and maternal health disparities/ inequities in the United States. We will identify the histories, current challenges, holistic approaches to care, and possible solutions as a learning community.
Through the use of scholarly research, testimonies and personal stories we will examine the current climate of black maternal health and the practice of midwifery. We will analyze how the re-emergence of midwifery and the use of doulas can help change the narrative for black maternal health outcomes. During this presentation we will:
- Examine the re-emergence of midwifery and doulas.
- Examine the current climate of black maternal health.
- Examine the current climate of the practice of midwifery
- Explain how the re-emergence of midwifery and doulas has the potential to change the narrative for black maternal health outcomes.
- Examine the difference between the midwifery and medical model of care
- Discuss the benefits of midwifery care