Pregnant/ Postpartum

Telehealth represents a promising opportunity to reducing disparities in maternal health access, quality, and outcomes, given its substantial range of opportunities.

A “shovel ready” project leveraging the existing longitudinal data collected in the Fragile Families and Childhood Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the longest running population-based US birth cohort, collected before and throughout the pandemic linked with multilevel COVID-19 related health, social and economic measures, and prospective COVID-19 impact assessments to examine these issues.

The overarching goal of this study is to improve our understanding of resilience processes related to the economic, social, and personal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and their downstream mental health outcomes in National Guard soldiers.

This study enrolls pregnant and postpartum women into a multi-wave study to assess medical, economic, psychosocial and substance use risk across pregnancy and the perinatal period, studying associations of these factors to infant neurobehavioral development during the first year of life.

This project will build on an existing national pregnancy cohort study of women with a wide range of underlying health conditions to address COVID-19 symptoms, testing and antibody status, as well as the behaviors of participants during the pandemic.

This project aims to evaluate Nursery2Home, a patient-informed digital healthcare intervention that is is specifically responsive to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on new families, with a focus on health equity for racial/ethnic minority and low income families.

This project aims to characterize neurodevelopmental profiles in infants born to mothers with and without antenatal Covid-19 infection and examine the concurrent impact of social, economic, and substance use factors.

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a debilitating and costly condition affecting over 20% of postpartum women and disproportionately impacts Blacks and Latinas. The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a severe increase in the rate of depression while the US is already struggling with deep-seated inequities in mental health care for Black and Latina populations.

Using existing healthcare data, this study seeks to quantify the effects of healthcare system responses to COVID-19 on outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women with OUD and describe how COVID-19 infection influences morbidity among pregnant women with OUD.

There is an urgent need to longitudinally study the impact of the pandemic on pregnant women and the care they receive, and to understand the consequences for their children’s birth outcomes and neurobehavioral development.