Black and white: What gives this doctor pause about having children

Doctors Jen Caudle, DO, Ebony Jade Hilton, MD, Evelyn Minaya, MD, and Juliana Hauser, PhD, discuss racial health disparities in pregnancy and birth.

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  • How race plays a role in medicine and infant mortality

  • The roots of systemic racism in healthcare and one doctor's hope

  • Why social determinants play a huge role in COVID-19

  • The power of sharing pregnancy loss

  • How racial disparities affect healthcare, through the eyes of one doctor

  • Chronic fear's toll on Black minds and bodies

  • Normal now: The power of documenting the life of your child

  • Minding our mental health as women & mothers

  • Fertility & family-planning - at any age

  • Infertility fears: here are the (little known) facts

Up Next

  • How race plays a role in medicine and infant mortality

  • The roots of systemic racism in healthcare and one doctor's hope

  • Why social determinants play a huge role in COVID-19

  • The power of sharing pregnancy loss

  • How racial disparities affect healthcare, through the eyes of one doctor

  • Chronic fear's toll on Black minds and bodies

  • Normal now: The power of documenting the life of your child

  • Minding our mental health as women & mothers

  • Fertility & family-planning - at any age

  • Infertility fears: here are the (little known) facts

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