In 2017–2019, the March of Dimes convened a workgroup with biomedical, clinical, and
epidemiologic expertise to review knowledge of the causes of the persistent Black-White …

The concept of “race” emerged in the 1600s with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, justifying
slavery; it has been used to justify exploitation, denigration and decimation. Since then …

Antiracist health policy research requires methodological innovation that creates equity-
centered and antiracist solutions to health inequities by centering the complexities and …

Rationale Preterm birth and other poor birth outcomes disproportionately affect women of
color. Emerging evidence suggests that socially-driven issues such as disrespect, abuse …

During the past two decades, the public health community's attention has been drawn
increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care …

Background Chronic stress is a known risk factor for preterm birth, yet little is known about
how healthcare experiences add to or mitigate perceived stress. In this study, we described …

Introduction This article presents an integrative review of the literature examining the
relationship between racial discrimination and adverse birth outcomes. Methods Searches …

In the United States, awareness is increasing that medical care alone cannot adequately
improve health overall or reduce health disparities without also addressing where and how …

Background Exposures to structural racism has been identified as one of the leading risk
factors for adverse maternal and infant health outcomes among Black women; yet current …

Objective: To summarize the ways in which researchers have quantified measures of
structural racism for the purposes of empirical, quantitative investigation of its associations …