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Description of Event
2025-01-30T09:00:00Z 2025-01-30T20:00:00Z Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Reaching Rural Women: Implications for Research on Pregnancy Event Information
The January 2025 session of Diverse Voices: Intersectionality and the Health of Women is titled “Reaching Rural Women: Implications for Research on Pregnancy.” The session will feature presentations by Kara Whitaker, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Karina Shreffler, Ph.D.
Dr. Whitaker will present on “Rural Health Inequities in Lifestyle Behaviors and Psychosocial Factors in Pregnancy” and Dr. Shreffler will present on “Data Challenges and Resources for Rural and Tribal Maternal Health.”
Dr. Whitaker will share her research on the Pregnancy 24/7 Study, a large, multi-site cohort study examining associations between 24-hour activity (physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep) with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and other adverse pregnancy out-comes. She will talk about the design and implementation of this study, describe preliminary findings examining inequities in health behaviors (24-hour activity and diet) and psychosocial factors between rural and urban pregnant women, and discuss public health implications of this work to address rural maternal health disparities.
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