Reproductive Health Equity & Birth Justice Core

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:

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.

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