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Meet Our Strategic Advisory Board

We are proud to have a cohort of inspiring and influential thought leaders to support our mission of reducing preterm birth rates and improving outcomes for babies born too soon. 

Help Us Understand the Link Between Stress and Preterm Birth

The Supporting Our Ladies and Reducing Stress to Prevent Preterm Birth (SOLARS) study is one of the first, large-scale studies, led by women of color and by women who have had a preterm birth, designed to help understand the impact of stress, anxiety, and racism - in addition to resilience and...

Cash During Pregnancy: A Promising Approach for Improving Health Inequities at Birth

We need to be talking about wealth, not income. Wealth is what allows us to live with dignity and have freedom of choice. It is also passed down from generation to generation. Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Vice President of Programs and Strategy Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Research Justice for Parents of Color: A Webinar Unveiling the Research Questions that Parents Want Answered

On May 25th we unveiled the detailed lists of unanswered pregnancy and birth questions, as well as the process of co-creating these lists in our first webinar, Research Justice for Parents of Color: Prioritizing Their Unanswered Questions About Pregnancy and Birth.

A Conversation with Lynell Taylor: Fathers Supporting Each Other After Preterm Birth

Lynell Taylor has been a member of PTBi Fresno's Dads' Council for the last three years. The Dads' Council is a group of fathers who have experienced preterm birth or may be at risk for preterm birth. The council gives parents in the community an opportunity to come together and discuss their...

9 PTBi-CA Abstracts Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting

Congratulations to our team members who are presenting at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting April 24 - May 1, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. We are proud to be showcasing nine abstracts, four of which are podium presentations. We are also presenting two oral presentations on our work in Uganda...

Placental Infection and Prematurity: Community Engagement Across the Globe

In Nairobi, you are supposed to be buried where your placenta is buried. People deliver at home because they don’t want the placenta to be left at the hospital. Moses Obimbo Madadi, MD, PhD PTBi Fellow

A Conversation with Linda Franck: Helping Preterm and Low-Birth-Weight Babies Survive and Thrive

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PCORI to Fund PTBi-CA Group Prenatal Care Study

We are thrilled to announce that the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved a $5.6 million research grant for “GLOW!”

Understanding Abuse and Preterm Birth: What Can Be Done?

More than 1 in 4 women experience domestic abuse. When a woman becomes pregnant, the frequency and severity of this abuse may be at risk of increasing (1). Domestic abuse has also been shown to increase a woman's risk of delivering before 37 weeks, potentially putting her child in danger of...