Let’s see what Twitter is about. #FirstTweet ...bare w/ me.

Thank you Policies for Action. I welcome this opportunity to advance research with the potential to improve and to reduce disparities in maternal health.

I also want to recognize the 800+ #women who die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and #childbirth each day. #MaternalHealth #HappyMothersDay

Come work with me! We have a new and appropriately timed Center for Community and Global Health at Lewis & Clark, seeking an assoc. director lewisandclark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff/jo…

Thank you @AnitaRajUCSD for this recognition, and for valuing and conducting research on #sexualviolence and #reproductivecoercion.

Interesting thread on policies that reduce police brutality.

Interesting contrast between what men & women care about in NYT: “Women think about government in terms of the well-being of the country,...Men are much more likely to think about it in terms of their wallet. Their bottom line is, how does this affect me?” nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opi…

There has been some progress but still so far to go.

Pleased to share my research just out in World Development on poverty and child marriage. Suggests that mothers' assets, but not fathers' assets, lowered the rate of child marriage in Ethiopia. Available ungated (for now): authors.elsevier.com/a/1byNB,6yxDEM… #childmarriage #endchildmarriage

Does #CashPlus improve #gender equitable attitudes among young people in #Tanzania 🇹🇿? Yes! Our study in @JAdolesHealth finds that #CashTransfers + training had a significant impact on gender attitudes, particularly among males. Find out more 👉 jahonline.org/article/S1054-…

Yes, yes!!

Based in Panama, Senegal, or NYC! #jobs

My grandmother died during childbirth in the 1950s. Today, the maternal mortality rate in the US has more than doubled since the 1980s. I testified before USCCR on the glaring racial disparities in maternal health care. Watch my full testimony here: youtu.be/nTKssGjnDwY

I am listening to remarks by Heather McGhee based on her research in #TheSumofUsBook. The metaphor of a drained public pool is powerful: injury to one of us is injury to all. Looking forward to reading the book.

This study found that higher municipal spending on fire and ambulance, transportation, public health, housing, and libraries was associated with lower odds of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) whereas spending on police was associated with higher odds of SMM ja.ma/3kKRcy3

Thank you Policies for Action! A wonderful team made this research possible. Props to B Libby for the infographic.

New in AJE: Study by Felix Muchomba finds that primary schooling had a large protective effect against anemia among women in Ethiopia and was cost effective—based on WHO thresholds—as an anemia intervention. Rutgers University School of Social Work Rutgers Institute for Health doi.org/10.1093/aje/kw…

Hot off the press! We find -Higher housing costs are associated with severe maternal morbidity -More housing subsidy attenuates this association, and translates to a smaller gap in maternal morbidity between those w/ a college degree and those w/ less than high school education.

Really important new paper, "Racialized Police Use of Force and Birth Outcomes," out in Social Science & Medicine by Valentina Chegwin @joteitler of ColumbiaSocialWork and Felix Muchomba of Rutgers University School of Social Work and Nancy Reichman Rutgers University authors.elsevier.com/c/1gepU-CmUzeYV