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Our thoughts on recent events - Chauvin Verdict, Ma'Khia Bryant, Daunte Wright

Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of fatal violence. Pictured: Paula Bryant, Ma'Khia Bryant's mother, speaks to media alongside other members of the Bryant family and their attorney, Michelle Martin, during a news conference in front of City Hall in Columbus, Ohio, April 28, 2021...

"Your Black Employees are Exhausted"

Loren Newman, PTBi's in-house designer, reminded our staff of how the recent murders of Black people feels like for Black moms and birthing people. She shared her truths with the full team in a “Thankful Thursday” email on Thursday, April 15.

Partnering With Bloomlife to Create Innovative Technologies to Serve Communities of Color

Bloomlife is a maternal health company developing remote prenatal care solutions to improve access to care, empower women, and provide clinicians with better information to improve birth outcomes.  Their current focus is commercializing a device that allows for remote monitoring of the baby to...

How are community-level evictions impacting birth outcomes?

The dramatic increase in evictions and threat of evictions during the COVID pandemic warrants further study of their community-level impact on important health outcomes. Previous work by Khadka et al. found increased levels of eviction case filings during pregnancy to be associated with increased...

Ask JAMA to Stop Perpetuating Racism in Medicine

Update as of 12:00 PM March 12, 2021: Edward H. Livingston, MD, has resigned as deputy editor of the journal of the American Medical Association after he and the journal faced significant backlash over a February podcast that questioned the existence of structural racism.

Our Journey Towards Reproductive Justice: The Story of the SOLARS Study

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PTBi Fellow Awarded UCSF Faculty Position

We are thrilled to announce that our current Transdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Martha Tesfalul, MD, has gained a faculty position in the UCSF Maternal Fetal Medicine Division!

PTBi's New Fresno Community Engagement Associate, Kendalyn Mack-Franklin

The UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative is thrilled to announce that we have appointed our new Fresno Community Engagement Associate, Kendalyn Mack-Franklin.

Police Violence Impacts the Health of Black Infants

Findings from Occurrence of fatal police violence during pregnancy and hazard of preterm birth in California are described by lead author Dana Goin. Additional authors include Anu Manchikanti Gomez, Kriszta Farkas, Catherine Duarte, Deborah Karasek, Brittany D. Chambers, Andrea V. Jackson, Jennifer...

Choosing to Challenge

Pictured: Solaire, her mother and brother. Source: Solaire Spellen* I was born and raised in the South Bronx.