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- Title
Black Maternal Health Research Re-Envisioned: Best Practices for the Conduct of Research With, For, and By Black Mamas.
- Authors
Scholars, Black Women
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of a forthcoming report entitled Black Maternal Health Research Re-Envisioned: Recommendations for Improving Research on Maternity Care for Black Mamas1 which provides principles that should underpin the ethical design of clinical, epidemiological, health services, and public health research, specifically, with, for, and by Black Mamas. This article supplements the research rubric developed by the Research Working Group of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. The full report presents recommendations for improving research on maternal health outcomes for Black Mamas and integrates the BMMA Care Working Group's Black Paper: Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women. This article begins by defining the problem and the inherent assumptions necessary to determine the positionality of the research rubric and report. Fundamentally, we believe the conduct of research has historically been unethical and inhumane specific to Black Mamas. We then turn to historical perspectives and the conceptual framework used to develop the research rubric. The framework includes Birth Justice, Reproductive Justice, Human Rights, Black Feminism, Womanism, and Research Justice. Next, we synthesize the intersections of the holistic care report and use those principles to outline how they apply to research. Finally, we present the re-envisioning of research from the perspective of reproductive justice and why this approach is optimal in the current landscape of health services provision, law, policy, and science.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH of Black women; MEDICAL care of Black women; MATERNAL health services; MEDICAL care laws
- Publication
Harvard Law & Policy Review, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 2, p393
- ISSN
1935-2077
- Publication type
Article