The Reproductive Health Equity and Birth Justice Core was launched on May 5, 2020 to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities. We aim to understand how racism and other factors impact pregnant people with COVID-19 and work with BIPOC and queer communities to prioritize COVID-19 research that is most important to them.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are leading the Reproductive Health Equity and Birth Justice Core:
- Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu PhD, RN, IBCLC, Assistant Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, UCSF
- Brittany D. Chambers PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Medicine, UCSF
- Monica R. McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, UCSF
- Karen A. Scott MD, MPH, FACOG, Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, UCSF
- Andrea Jackson MD, MAS, Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, UCSF
- Judy Young MPH, Executive Director, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, UCSF
- Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Associate Director for the Arts in the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health in the Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA
The goals of the Reproductive Health Equity and Birth Justice Core are to:
- Support recruitment of BIPOC and queer study participants
- Create PRIORITY Community Advisory Council
- Measure the impact of racism and care experiences on adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes
- Deploy the Research Priorities of Affected Communities (RPAC) to determine research priorities that are important to BIPOC and queer communities.