The Practical Playbook III

Dorothy Cilenti is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Alisahah Jackson is CEO of Why Health Matters. Natalie D. Hernandez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Morehouse School of Medicine. Lindsey Yates is a Postdoctoral Trainee in the Center of Excellence in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Sarah Verbiest is a Clinical Professor at the UNC School of Social Work. J. Lloyd Michener is Professor Emeritus of Community and Family Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine. Brian C. Castrucci is CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation.

Foreword by Brian C. Castrucci

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Section I. Introduction

1. Why a Practical Playbook about Working together to Improve Maternal Health?
Alisahah Jackson, Dorothy Cilenti, Lindsey Yates, Sarah Verbiest, J. Lloyd Michener, and Natalie D. Hernandez

2. Promoting Federal Partnerships for Effective Program Implementation
Clara E. Busse, Sandra Lloyd, Ashley Wilkes, and Catherine J. Vladutiu

3. How Academic Centers Can Accelerate Partnerships and Progress in Maternal Health
Alison M. Stuebe

4. Transformational Maternal and Child Health through Expanded Health Care Coordination and Community Engagement
Ahmed Calvo Lyndsey Stadtmueller, Anita Isama, Erica O'Neill, and Mark Loafman

5. Improving MCH Outcomes: An Opportunity for Expanded Primary Health Care Teams
Mark Loafman, Kenya Thomas, Anita Isama, and Ahmed Calvo

6. It's Not a Flip of the Switch: One Health Care System's Collaborative Approach to Engaging External Partners to Support the Maternity Journey
Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez, Christine Brocato, Manoja Lecamwasam, and Anuradhika Anuradhika

Section II. Collaboration

7. Collaborations to Improve Maternal Health
Dorothy Cilenti and Ruth Buzi

8. Extending the Reach of Maternal Health Practice into New Zones of Transformation with the Framework for Aligning Sectors
Daniel Lanford, Karen Minyard, Leigh Alderman, Japera Hemming, Chris Parker, and Tanisa Adimu

9. An Approach for Whole-person Health: Oral Health Care Integration for Improved Maternal Outcomes
Timothy L. Ricks and Zachary A. Brian

10. What it REALLY takes to Succeed: Practical Tips for Maternal Health Collaboration
Plia Hanson and Kimberly Sherman

11. Bringing together Clinical and Community Partners for Better Patient Care: Bootheel Perinatal Network
Barbara Gleason, Rebecca Burger, Morgan Nesselrodt, Susan Kendig, and Tanisa Adimu

12. A Community Approach to Addressing Inequities in Maternal Health
Deidre McDaniel, Valerie Newsome Garcia, Karen Chustz, Saanie Sulley, Deborah Frazier, and Haywood Brown

13. The Broward Healthy Start Program: Cross-Sector Collaboration: Improving Pregnancy Outcomes and Birth Equity Using a Collective Impact Framework
Marci Ronik, Monica Figueroa King, Sharetta Remikie, and Roneé Wilson

14. Impacting Maternal and Prenatal Care Together: A Harris County/Houston Collaborative
June Hanke, Jamie Freeny, and Ruth S. Buzi

15. Activating Our Village in LA County: Birth Equity and Black Families
Sonya Young Aadam, Deborah Allen, Brandi Desjolais, Melissa Franklin, Adjoa Jones, Helen O'Connor, Kaci Patterson, and Sylvia Swilley

Section III. Equity

16. Centering Equity: Systemic Racism and Social Determinants of Maternal Health
Natalie D. Hernandez and Tamaron Johnson

17. Historical Context Matters: Structural Racism, Maternal Health & Reproductive Justice
Christine M. Velez and M. Mercedes Ávila

18. Equity and Systemic Racism
Jonathan Webb

19. Maternal Health Equity: A Consensus-Driven Definition and Research Priorities
Elizabeth A. Mosley

20. Redesigning Systems with Black Women to Improve Maternal Health in Atlanta
Jemea Dorsey and Kaprice Welsh

21. Doulas and Incarcerated Populations
Crystal Hayes and Marisa Pizii

22. Environmental Impacts on Maternal Health
Michele Okoh

23. Re-Imagining Prenatal Care: Designing a Justice-Conscious Approach to Reproductive Health, Pregnancy, and Early Parenthood
Keegan Warren-Clem and Daphne McGee

Section IV. Data

24. Using and Improving Maternal Health Data to Achieve Equity
Lindsey Yates

25. Democratizing Data: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities for Community-Based Utilization of Maternal Mortality Data and Maternal Health Interventions
Athena Cross and Pam Silberman

26. Decolonizing Maternal Health Research: An Introduction to Indigenous Research Methods and a Decolonial Framework for Indigenous Maternal Health Research
Alayah Jennings-Johnson

27. Garbage In, Garbage Out: Examining How Maternal Health Data Tools Misuse Race
Marie V. Plaisime

28. Maternal Health and Gathering Evidence of Structural Racism
Lauri Andress

29. Using Narrative Medicine and Longitudinal Qualitative Research to Examine Maternal Health Outcomes
Burcu Bozkurt

30. Culturally Responsive Evaluation
Kimberley Broomfield-Massey, Rakiah Anderson, Calondra Tibbs, and Christine Tucker

Section V. Innovations

31. Innovations to Improve Maternal Health
Sarah Verbiest and Monica Beltran

32. Respectful Care and Reproductive Justice as Foundations for Maternal Health Innovation
Aja Clark Phoebe Wescott, Amy Ushry, Kiara Cruz, Christie Allen, and Inas Mahdi

33. Women's Health Before, Between, Beyond, and Regardless of Pregnancy
Sarah Verbiest, Suzanne Woodward, and Lindsey Yates

34. Innovation in Systems of Postpartum Care
Kimberly D. Harper, Nkechi Charles, Amelia N. Gibson, and Kristin P. Tully

35. The Integral Role of Community-Based Doulas in Supporting Birth Equity
Twylla Dillion and Zainab Sulaiman

36. From Grassroots to Telecommunication Innovation: Bridging the Gap in Perinatal Mental Health
Chris Raines and Wendy Davis

37. Using a Learning Community Model to Address Substance Misuse and Co-Occurring Mental Health Challenges among MCH Populations
Sanaa Akbarali, Ramya Dronamraju, Katrin Patterson, Ellen Pliska, and Christine Mackie

38. Innovations in Virtual Care
Leslie deRosset, Halle Neeley, and Aunchalee Palmquist

Section VI. Systems and Scalability

39. Scaling Up and Sustaining Improvements in Maternal Health Equity
J. Lloyd Michener

40. Role of HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau in Supporting States and Communities to Advance Maternal Health Equity
Michael D. Warren, Kathy K. Best Erin Patton, and Belinda Pettiford

41. Driving Access, Health Equity, and Innovation in Maternal Health Care through Medicaid
Jessica C. Smith, Emily Heberlein, Angie Snyder, and Karen Minyard

42. Role of Academic Health Systems in Improving and Sustaining Maternal Health
Olufunmilayo Chinekezi, Karey Sutton, Crista Johnson-Agbakwu, and Yhenneko Taylor

43. Building a Maternal Health Workforce to Advance Equity, Partnerships, and Healthy Communities
Amy J. Mullenix and M. Kathryn Menard

44. The Role of the Family Physician in Pregnancy Care: Striving for Birth Equity and Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
Julie K. Wood

45. Employing Policy and Advocacy for Sustainable Decline in Maternal Mortality and Maternal Health Inequities
Anna Kheyfets, Maria Gabriela Ruiz, Keri Carvalho, Candace Stewart, and Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha,

46. Sustainability and Finance: The Role of State and Territorial Health Agencies
Ellen Pliska, Britta Cedergren, Kristin Sullivan, Melissa Touma, Karl Ensign, Sowmya Kuruganti, Deborah Backman, Alex Wheatley, Shannon Vance, Sanaa Akbarali, and Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge

47. How State-Based Foundations Can Leverage Collaboration to Improve Maternal Health: A Case Study from California
Dana G. Smith and Stephanie Teleki

48. Role of AHEC in Improving Maternal Health
Adam J. Zolotor, Jill M. Forcina, Tara Owens Shuler, and Hugh H. Tilson, Jr.

49. Rural Local Health Departments as Critical Access Points for Maternal Health Equity
Lisa Macon Harrison and Abigail Kenney

Section VII. Conclusion

50. The Journey Forward
Dorothy Cilenti, Alisahah Jackson, Natalie D. Hernandez, Lindsey Yates, Sarah Verbiest, and J. Lloyd Michener