611 - Public Health in the Field: The Grassroots Revolution in Maternal Health
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Concluding our 3-part series dedicated to addressing the Black maternal health crisis in the United States, co-hosts Dr. Rachel Bervell and Annalies Winny will explore the revolution in maternal health that's happening outside the policy space – but that also informs it. They'll investigate how Black moms, community advocates, and a new generation of medical trainees are taking this issue into their own hands—and how everyone can contribute to solutions.
Access the resources and organizations mentioned in this episode, including suggested reading: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/solving-the-black-maternal-health-crisis
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:06.1 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.4 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu. |
| 0:23.9 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.1 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome back to this special series of public health in the field dedicated to addressing the black maternal health crisis in the United States. |
| 0:40.8 | Before we begin, be sure to check out the first two episodes which cover how and why the nation came to a new reckoning with deep maternal health disparities in recent years and how government policy can provide solutions. |
| 0:56.1 | To conclude the series, |
| 1:01.6 | co-hosts Dr. Rachel Burvell and Annalise Winnie will explore the revolution in maternal health that's happening outside the policy space, but that also informs it. They'll investigate |
| 1:06.9 | how black moms, community advocates, and a new generation of medical trainees are taking |
| 1:12.1 | this issue into their own hands and how everyone can contribute to solutions. And a quick note about |
| 1:19.0 | the language used in this series. While we use the terms maternal and women throughout the podcast, |
| 1:24.9 | we acknowledge that not all individuals who give birth identify as women. |
| 1:29.5 | Let's listen. |
| 1:31.1 | On Mother's Day 2017, Jonnaie Benjamin found herself fighting for her life, just days after giving |
| 1:36.9 | birth to her second child, a baby girl. |
| 1:39.4 | Her dangerously high postpartum blood pressure was a stark reminder of the dire maternal |
| 1:43.8 | health outcomes faced by many black birthing persons in the United States. |
| 1:48.4 | As she lay in the hospital at just 32 years old, Johnny worried that she would become a statistic, leaving her two daughters motherless. |
| 1:56.0 | Thankfully, she would survive. But this wasn't the journey to motherhood she'd come to expect. |
| 2:01.4 | I had taken all the classes and understood really well how to care for my child, |
| 2:06.0 | but did not have a really good expectation of what would happen to me. |
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