Black and Brown Women Need a Different Framework for Resiliency
December 16, 2019
Findings from A Transdisciplinary Conceptual Framework of Contextualized Resilience for Reducing Adverse Birth Outcomes are described by the author and PTBi researcher, Tijen Sumbul. Additional authors include Solaire Spellen and Monica McLemore.
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"Unstable Housing is as dangerous for pregnancy as smoking", SF Public Hearing on Homelessness and Pregnancy
November 25, 2019
A Picture Paints a Thousand Data Points: Inspiring Bay Area Health Improvements through Data Visualization
November 22, 2019
Should Progesterone Therapy to Prevent Preterm Birth be Withdrawn? FDA Considering
October 31, 2019
Could the only drug approved to prevent preterm birth be taken off the market? An FDA advisory panel has narrowly voted to recommend this for Makena. Read how panel members agonized over the decision and felt the data “were at best conflicting.”
The California Preterm Birth Initiative will be... 
New Study: Researchers Connect Premature Births to Possible Causes in Central California
By Xochitl Rojas-Rocha on October 17, 2019
New interactive map will show neighborhoods with low to high rates of premature births and potential drivers 
September Collaboratory - #BlackWomenKnow: Black Women's Recommendations to Address Structural Racism
October 17, 2019
New study: Unstable housing during pregnancy ups rehospitalization odds by 170%
October 16, 2019
The first large-scale, California data-driven study to look at the impact of unstable housing on a women’s risk for preterm birth and increased healthcare utilization was published this week online in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM. The study’s findings have important... 
New Study shows how Family Integrated Care Reduces Mothers' Stress in the NICU
October 07, 2019
Findings from Evaluating the effect of Family Integrated Care on maternal stress and anxiety in neonatal intensive care units are described by the author and PTBi researcher, Linda Franck. Additional authors include Chelsea Cheng, Xiang Y. Ye, Sarah A. Hutchinson, Shoo K. 