Second Annual Midwifery Health Equity and Justice Grand Rounds

Perinatal Stress and Resiliency:  Keys to reducing Maternal Child Health Disparities for Black and Brown Families

Heather Clarke CNM

Advanced Senior Lecturer

Midwifery Clinical Sites Coordinator

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate how racism accelerates allostatic stress and early health deterioration leading to significant short and long term physical and cognitive insults among BIPOC women and their offspring.
• Consider the impact of a trauma informed perinatal model of care that integrates pre and perinatal psychology beginning during preconception and could have upon reducing racially significant maternal-child health disparities.

Ms. Clarke indicated that she has no conflicts of interest to disclose.