Research Justice for Parents of Color: Prioritizing Their Unanswered Questions About Pregnancy and Birth

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Date | Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Time | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST

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The California Preterm Birth Initiative takes a different approach to research by co-creating our research agenda with those most affected by the preterm birth epidemic: namely families and communities of color. By working together at all stages of the research process, we hope to uncover effective solutions more quickly.

In honor of Mother’s Day, we are unveiling the research priorities of parents of color in San Francisco, Oakland, and Fresno. By sharing these detailed lists of unanswered pregnancy and birth questions, as well as the process of co-creating these lists, we are calling on funders, researchers, as well as social and clinical providers to refocus their work to include the input of those most impacted by preterm birth.

Remote Access:

https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/357712961

Meeting ID: 357 712 961

Telephone: 
US: +1 669 900 6833
 or +1 646 558 8656

Facilitator:

Shanell Williams

Shanell Williams


Shanell Williams is the Community Engagement Specialist for the California Preterm Birth Initiative and a member of the Board of Trustees at City College of San Francisco. Over the past 16 years, Shanell has served thousands of San Franciscans as an informed, passionate and dedicated public advocate, nonprofit leader and community organizer. From mentoring youth trapped in cycles of incarceration—to saving city college from a near loss of accreditation and closure for the past four years— Shanell has worked tirelessly to improve all San Franciscan’s quality of life. 

 Speakers:

James Barrientez

James Barrientez

James Barrientez is a proud member of the Fresno County Preterm Birth Initiative Dads' Council and has been committed to their monthly meeting since it began. James graduated with honors from Kaplan College with an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice. He currently works as an Associate with Amazon.com, Incorporated. He enjoys spending time with his family, drawing and doing tattoos.

 

Linda Franck

Linda Franck

Dr. Franck holds the Jack and Elaine Koehn Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing and is the Co-Principal Investigator of the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi). Dr. Franck has a particular interest in improving the patient and family experience of health care and has pioneered interventions to engage parents and children as partners in pain management and in research to improve quality of care and quality of life for children and their families.

Monica McLemore

Monica McLemore

Monica McLemore is an assistant professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department, an affiliated scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, and a member of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. She maintains clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health, rights, and justice. 

Lynell Taylor

Lynell Taylor

Lynell Taylor is a husband, father of three and lives in Fresno California. He has been working in Social Services for the past 15 years and has been very passionate about volunteering with PTBi Fresno ever since his youngest child was born two months premature. Lynell meets with PTBi Fresno Dad's Council on a monthly basis to discuss and learn about statistics and how to lower the rate of premature birth in Fresno County. Lynell is also very honored to co-chair the policy committee. 

Schyneida Williams

Schyneida Williams

Schyneida  Williams was born and raised in the Bayview District of San Francisco. Schyneida is a member of PTBi-CA's Community Advisory Board and comes from a place of understanding, empathy, and compassion for her community and others like it around the world. A mother of a preterm, low birth weight baby at 35 weeks, Williams had to figure out many things on her own, such as knowledge that contributed to her professional development as a Case Manager at the Homeless Prenatal Program. 

 

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