Please for the love of God get your mammograms and do your self exams. I want you to thrive my sisters. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

During COVID, state legislatures got busy reforming public health emergency powers laws...

...and, mostly, made them worse.

My analysis in The BMJ, w/PublicHealthLawRsrch colleagues: bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Thank you Commonwealth Fund Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social Ana V. Diez Roux

Stanford Law School StanfordHealthPolicy

We can improve #maternalhealth outcomes for #Black & #Indigenous women. Here's how:

Five Steps To A Maternity Value-Based Payment Demonstration That Advances Racial Equity Health Affairs buff.ly/40lu6BR Pooja Mehta Laurie Zephyrin MD via Cityblock Health Commonwealth Fund

So great teaming up with you Pooja Mehta

I loved teaming up with Laurie Zephyrin MD Commonwealth Fund to summarize 5 learnings from our work @CityblockHealth. Confession: as OBGYN leaders, it was past time to talk about non-MD-led models of care as the path to addressing inequity. 🧵healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

📢Our new paper in JAMA shows, in 2018, the cost of health inequities by race and ethnicity was $421B and $940B for education-related health inequities. We also explain the difference between a health inequity and a health disparity. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

also- check out our latest work on midwifery integration Commonwealth Fund commonwealthfund.org/publications/i…

Gains in coverage over last few years already at risk due to Medicaid redetermination, now this proposal further puts people at risk when past and current evidence doesn’t support this approach. We shouldn’t leverage debt ceiling against vulnerable populations. Evidence and…

This is brilliant for Instacart to embrace a 'Food as Medicine' strategy and Amazon should have done it with Whole Foods.

instacart.com/company/update…

My go-to resources postpartum:

- Oath for questions related to baby acne, breastfeeding & sleep.
- Carbon Health for primary care.
- WhatsApp for connecting with moms in a similar stage of life for q’s around getting back to work etc.

Really excited to share that tomorrow Dillard University I will be moderating this amazing panel on the #maternalmortality crisis in the US and especially in the Gulf South, for @BirthEquity. #NewOrleans folks be sure to RSVP here: bit.ly/NBEC-birthing-…

New Orleans Public Radio WBHM 90.3 FM MSPublicBroadcasting

Day One. And so it begins. Great mission, incredible team…let’s go.