EBB 265 - Evidence on Anti-Racism in Health Care and Birth Work
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode we are celebrating the release of Part 3 of our BRAND NEW Signature Article, "The Evidence on: Anti-Racism in Health Care and Birth Work!"
EBB Research Editor Ihotu Ali, the lead author on this paper, talks with Rebecca Dekker about how Evidence-Based Equity Tools are solutions that can collectively move Black and Brown voices, leaders, innovative programs, accountability conversations, supportive funding, and legislation from the sidelines to the mainstream.
You can find all three parts of our NEW Signature Article, The Evidence on: Anti-Racism in Health Care and Birth Work here: www.evidencebasedbirth.com/antiracism
Join the conversation to learn more about:
- Equity vs equality and diversity vs mending broken relationships
- The Evidence Based Equity Triad
- The Midwifery Model of Care - What about midwives in birth centers or other community spaces
- Community-Based Doulas - Support and mentor a doula of color and expand sustainability of the doula profession through employee benefit models
- Reparations and Transformative Justice - Transformative Justice in Leadership Challenges
Additionally, learn how you can answer the call as a birth worker and become an ally in the fight for reproductive justice.
Resources:
Listen to EBB Episodes:
- EBB 136 – Solutions for the Crisis in American Maternity Care with Jennie Joseph here
- EBB 161 – Addressing Maternity Bias and Infant Care with Irth
App Founder, Kimberly Seals Allers Here
- EBB 170 Addressing Mistreatment in Childbirth Care with Birth Monopoly Founder, Cristen Pascucci here
- EBB 220 – Fighting Bias in the Birth Room with Irth
App Founder, Kimberly Seals Allers Here
- EBB 229 Evidence on Doulas: Community-Based Models, the Pandemic and Reimbursement with the Research Team Here
- EBB 251 – Naseema McElroy, Founder of Financially Intentional, Shares her Courageous Story of Speaking up as a Labor and Delivery Nurse Here
- Watch Adrienne Maree Brown discuss transformative justice here
- An example of Restorative Justice: (the Tinkerbell story) told in a YouTube video here
- The Sheppard Towner Act of 1921 here
- Maternal Mortality Review Commissions here
- The life and legacy of Loretha Weisinger , the mother and founder of the community-based doula here
- About HealthConnect One, who offers trainings for community-based doulas around the country
- The Birth Sanctuary
- Earth's Natural Touch doulas
- National Black Midwives Alliance
- Melanated Midwives
- The National Association for the Advancement of Black Birth
- Commonsense Childbirth
- A Wombman's Way Warrior Midwife training
- Jamaa Birth Village
- Birth Center Equity
- Kentucky Birth Coalition
- Learn Birthing Place BX and Womb Bus
- Follow Ihotu Ali's work on Instagram here
- Follow the Oshun Center for Intercultural Healing and their work in Minneapolis here
Go to our YouTube channel to see video versions of the episode listed above!!
For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the research evidence on equity tools |
| 0:05.6 | and anti-racism and health care and birth work. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my |
| 0:17.0 | PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:28.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:32.0 | See EB-B EB Birth.com |
| 0:33.4 | slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi everyone, my name is Rebecca Decker, |
| 0:40.0 | pronouns she her, and I'll be your co-host for today's episode. Today along with our |
| 0:45.8 | co-host Ihoto Ali we are so excited to bring some brand new evidence-based |
| 0:50.4 | information to you all about the evidence on equity tools and |
| 0:54.2 | anti-racism and health care and birth work. Yes, hello my name is Ihoto Ali |
| 0:59.7 | pronouns she-her and I'm excited to announce that this March and April of |
| 1:04.8 | 23 we published a brand new signature article here at EBB. So a title of that |
| 1:10.1 | article is The Evidence on Anti-Rism and health care and birth work. |
| 1:14.1 | So in today's podcast episode we're celebrating the release of this article by |
| 1:20.3 | talking about a major section of this article all about equity tools we talk about in |
| 1:25.2 | evidence-based equity triad that we found in the research and anti-racism research in general |
| 1:31.0 | and and ways to kind of fine tune and hone your skills as an advocate in this area. |
| 1:37.0 | So for those of you who have not yet listened to Ejo to Ali, She's been featured on multiple podcasts here at |
| 1:43.6 | evidence-based birth over the past few years. I Hotho is E.B. E.E. |
| 1:47.3 | 's research editor as well as founder of the Osshoon Center for Intercultural |
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