Advancing Maternal & Child Health Equity - Selected Videos*

“Health statistics represent people with the tears wiped off.”

– Sir Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991), Pioneer of the randomized clinical trial

*Warning: Several of these videos discuss experiences with bias, prejudice, trauma, racism, and racial/cultural violence.

The Risk of Giving Birth | Ep. 1, A Maternal Health Crisis | Rhode Island PBS (29:48), January 2024

The Risk of Giving Birth | Ep. 2, Black Maternal Health | Rhode Island PBS (29:54), January 2024

The Risk of Giving Birth | Ep. 3, Latina Maternal Health | Rhode Island PBS (26:13), January 2024

American Indian Alaska Native Maternal Health Past Present and Future Status | National Indian Health Board (1:02:16), April 2022

American Black Mothers Face ‘Maternal Mortality Crisis’ | Meet the Press Reports (32:29), November 2023

Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology | SmartHistory (6:10), January 2022

The “Mothers of Gynecology” counter-monument on 17 Mildred Street in Montgomery, Alabama, which commemorates the enslaved girls used in experiments by Dr. James Marion Sims in the 1800s. (Courtesy of Michelle Browder)

TED Talks - Personal Stories & Experiences*

*Warning: Several of these TED Talks discuss experiences with bias, prejudice, trauma, racism, and racial/cultural violence.

How Racism Harms Pregnant Women — And What Can Help | Miriam Zoila Pérez | TEDWomen (12:16), October 2016

How the US Medical Community Fails Black Mothers | Wanda Irving | TEDMED 2020 (14:57), March 2020

Words & Wombs Create Worlds: The Black Maternal Health Crisis | Shawnee Benton Gibson | TEDxBoston (16:12), May 2022

A Broken Healthcare System: Racism and Maternal Health | Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha | TEDxTufts (11:37), September 2022