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Innovation in Systems of Postpartum Care

With other BELIEVE collaborators, Dr. Gibson published a chapter on the many social factors that contribute to good postpartum care in The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health. You can find the collected volume here.

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Valuing the mental health needs of Black birthing persons: Preliminary results from the BELIEVE Project

At the 2024 Black Maternal Mental Health Summit July 24–25, CEDI and UNC collaborators presented early findings from the BELIEVE project. The Shades of Blue Project has more information about the summit and Black Maternal Mental Health Week here.

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Media Policy for an Informed Citizenry: Revisiting the Information Needs of Communities for Democracy in Crisis

Dr. Gibson was a panelist for a Social Science Research Council, as part of its Media & Democracy program, to discuss how media and current information needs affects the health of democracies. The panel was on April 17; its program information is here.

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Prioritizing Black maternal mental health: Learning from the knowledge of experts

Dr. Garland McKinney presented at the North Carolina Maternal Health Innovation Initiative (NC MHI) Learning Community on Postpartum Care for NC Parents, on April 14th, as part of The 4th Trimester Project. You can register to attend on the project webpage.

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Building connections, crucial conversations & cross-cultural relationships – Twanna Hodge’s chapter on cultural humility in libraries

Twanna Hodge recently coauthored a chapter with Xan Goodman on how librarians can practice cultural humility and address diversity and inclusion issues within libraries and their wider community. The collected volume, Cultural Humility in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success can be found here.

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Birth Journeys: Facilitators and barriers to reproductive healthcare

Dr. Amelia Gibson recently coauthored a paper in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics on how engineering models for patient safety in healthcare need to better reflect patient needs and to consider social determinants of health. You can read the article here.

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Cultural humility and workplace wellness: Twanna Hodge writes on DEI in libraries

For a chapter in Fostering Wellness in the Workplace, titled “How Cultural Humility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Are Essential to Workplace Wellness,” Twanna Hodge analyzes the limits of “cultural competency.” The volume, and Hodge’s chapter, are praised in a recent International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion book review, which can be found here.

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Epistemic Justice, Communities, and Care: CEDI panel on communities in higher-ed

On March 4, Dr. Amelia Gibson moderated a panel on research that centers epistemic justice and consideration for communities and how universities themselves can be a site of epistemic justice (or harm). The panel abstract is here.

The problem with “most people”: Racism and ableism in U.S. COVID-19 public health communication

Dr. Gibson’s coauthored article in the The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science discusses how U.S. public-health communicators have failed to adjust public information efforts to serve marginalized communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. You can read the article here.