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Our newsletter this week features visions for birthing equity from NPQ’s Winter 2022 magazine, “New Narratives for Health: Evolving a Culture of Healing for All.” First, a reimagining of birth centers as healing spaces for Black women. Next, highlights from a Native community codesign of the local birthing experience. Following, a dialogue on health justice between NPQ Editor-in-Chief Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix, former Managing Director for Leadership for Better Health at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Lastly, a podcast episode highlighting Black women leaders in birth equity.
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“Together, we are building community among birth center leaders of color, growing efforts to transform the culture of birth, and stewarding capital to seed vibrant and lasting community birth infrastructure for generations to come.” Read more…
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“Too often, the joy of a Native family’s birth experience is tainted by fear, ignorance, and racial bias. Over the last year, parents and leaders from tribal lands in and around Humboldt County in Northern California and medical practitioners from the local Providence St. Joseph Hospital have been working to better the birthing experience of Native parents.” Read more…
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“When I saw patients in Washington Heights, in New York City, Black and Brown people would come in about their blood pressure—they were worried about the violence in their communities, they were worried about their grandchildren in jail. It was the violence in the streets, it was the family problems they were having that consumed them... Upstream is where small, just actions can have big impacts on many people.” Read more…
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Maternal mortality for US Black women is four times that of white women. This podcast explores this, and speaks to a midwife and nonprofit CEO working to fix it. Read more…
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