Harvard MIRT Program

African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States.

Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy

MIRT Fellows evaluate the Social Support Questionnaire during early pregnancy.

Construct validity and factor structure of a Spanish-language Social Support Questionnaire during early pregnancy A new research article written by our MIRT Fellows Ana Manriquez Prado and Gabriel Santos (Chile 2017) was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Women’s Health. Ana and Gab…

Scientists Start To Tease Out The Subtler Ways Racism Hurts Health https://buff.ly/2yxFyMY

African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women die of pregnancy-related causes at a rate about three times higher than those of white women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported

Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States.