Reducing Maternal Mortality: Harnessing Multilevel Approaches to Reduce Maternal Death
Opening Remarks:
Holly Harner, PhD, MBA, MPH, RN, WHCNP-BC, FAAN
The Afaf I. Meleis Director of the Center for Global Women’s Health
Practice Professor of Women’s Health
Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Keynote Address:
Birthing Without Bias: Centering the Lived Experience to Address Racism in Maternity Care
Kimberly Seals Allers, MA
Maternal & Infant Strategist
Founder of Irth
Expert Panel:
Medicaid and Maternal Health: A National Crisis at the Intersection of Health Systems and Structural Racism
Jennifer E. Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN
Founding Executive Director, Institute for Medicaid Innovation
Research Professor, University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Maternal Mortality in Philadelphia: It’s an Everyone Problem
Aasta D. Mehta, MD, MPP
Medical Officer of Women’s Health
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Use of a Non-Invasive Wearable Medical Device for Early Identification of Postpartum Hemorrhage
Kimberly Kovach Trout, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN
Assistant Professor of Women’s Health
Director, Nurse-Midwifery Track
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Stefanie Modri, MSN, RN, C-MNN
Obstetric/Newborn Clinical Instructor,
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Staff Nurse, Garbose Special Delivery Unit,
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia