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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Introducing S5:E5 The Maternal Health Crisis: Investing for Change from Unseen Upside: Investments Beyond Their Returns.

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There’s a maternal health crisis in the United States, with high rates of maternal mortality, especially among marginalized communities. But what is being done to improve it?

Through conversations with those on the front lines, we uncover the stark health inequities that exist in maternal healthcare and the developments created to tackle them. We also hear from mothers who have firsthand experience with Preeclampsia—a serious pregnancy complication and one of the many causes of maternal mortality— and one company on a quest to cure it.

Guests include:

Scott Gottlieb, MD, Partner at New Enterprise Associates and Former FDA Commissioner
Scott Johnson, MD, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Comanche Biopharma
Jennell Lynch, Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Executive Doula Agency
Theresa Hajer, Head of US Venture Capital Research at Cambridge Associates

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0:00.0	Going into the birth of my first child, I actually had very little fear about the birth itself.
0:11.2	I was far more concerned about keeping that baby alive than I was about getting the baby out.
0:17.6	I knew labor could be difficult and painful, but never in my wildest dreams did I expect
0:24.2	life-threatening complications. Minutes after delivering my son in November 2021, I suffered severe
0:32.6	bleeding, something the doctors call a stage three postpartum hemorrhage. I ended up being rushed to the OR,
0:41.4	receiving a blood transfusion, and ultimately having a uterine artery embolization, or UAE, to stop the
0:49.4	bleeding and preserve my uterus. My doctors reassured me it was unlikely to happen again. Now, fast forward
0:57.8	to September 2024 when I delivered my daughter, and it was like the worst kind of deja vu.
1:05.6	She came quickly and easily, but my placenta did not.
1:14.6	Yet again, I was taken away from my baby and my husband. I was rushed into the OR, another stage 3 hemorrhage, another blood transfusion, and another
1:22.4	UAE.
1:24.1	I couldn't believe it.
1:27.3	This time, I was diagnosed with something called placenta acrita.
1:32.2	It's a life-threatening condition whereby the placenta actually grows into the uterine wall
1:37.6	and fails to detach after childbirth.
1:41.1	I was lucky to have delivered my babies at two top-tier hospitals with the resources
1:47.2	and expertise to manage hemorrhages. But I often think about what would have happened had I not.
1:57.1	Every year in the U.S., hundreds of women lose their lives due to complications from pregnancy
2:03.6	and childbirth.
2:05.6	According to the World Health Organization, nearly 75% of all maternal deaths are caused by complications
2:13.6	that include severe bleeding, like what happened to me, infections, and preeclampsia.
2:20.3	Pregnancy is a natural thing, of course. But you don't have to go back too far to find that
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