Sacred Birth
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Max is Joined by Karen Scott, MD, MPH, an obstetrician-gynecologist at UCSF. They discuss her work as a reproductive justice-informed perinatal epidemiologist and obstetrician, the concept of participatory quality improvement, and her ongoing study "SACRED Birth" aimed at addressing obstetric racism faced by birthing Black people.
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