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National and regional coverage of our research, advocacy, and impact on maternal health equity.
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National and regional coverage of the Center’s research, advocacy, and impact.
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8th Annual Black Maternal Health Conference (opens in a new tab)
CBS covers the Center’s eighth annual Black Maternal Health Conference.
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Online
Fierce Healthcare’s 2025 Most Influential Minority Executives (opens in a new tab)
Fierce Healthcare’s annual list recognizing eleven leaders across the healthcare industry.
Online
Doula Training Program Demonstrates the ‘Power of Support’ (opens in a new tab)
A student in the MOTHER Lab on doula work: “Sometimes that means just showing up to be by someone’s side, which can make the biggest difference.”
Podcast
Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice with Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Amutah-Onukagha joins the podcast to discuss Black maternal health and reproductive justice.
Print / Online
To Improve Black Maternal Health, Look To An Untapped Resource: Fathers (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Amutah-Onukagha argues that fathers “can serve as advocates, protectors, and partners” in addressing the maternal health disparities affecting Black women.
Broadcast
Tufts University researchers looking to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care (opens in a new tab)
A segment on the MOTHER Lab and the Center, with Dr. Amutah-Onukagha on how lapses and biases in care “are costing people their lives.”
Radio
Black Lives Matter NH maternal health conference brings disparities into focus (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Amutah-Onukagha delivered the keynote, on a year in which Black women were more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes.
Online
Black maternal health efforts face unclear future under Trump (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Amutah-Onukagha, an NIH-funded researcher studying maternal health inequities among Black women, on what federal policy shifts mean for the field.
Research
BMC Public Health collection on Black maternal health (opens in a new tab)
An open collection of research addressing Black maternal health.
Talk
A Broken Healthcare System: Racism and Maternal Health (opens in a new tab)
Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha’s TEDxTufts talk on racism as a driver of maternal health inequity.
Local
‘I cannot contain my rage.’ Abortion rights activists rally in Boston and across the country (opens in a new tab)
Coverage of the Boston rally quotes Dr. Amutah-Onukagha, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, who founded and directs the MOTHER Lab.
Online
New TUSM center to harness power of community, combat maternal health inequities (opens in a new tab)
Tufts Now on the launch of the Center — the piece that dates the Center’s founding to April 2022.
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