Article features Elizabeth Howell, MD, MPP, and Sindhu Srinivas, MD, MSCE.
Hoag Levins for the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics: “Long outliers in the modern world of hospital maternity care units, doulas have been making increasing inroads into those clinical spaces as the U.S. struggles to address its maternal mortality crisis. Those advances are likely to be further broadened by the March of Dimes’ funding of a new University of Pennsylvania Research Center for Advancing Maternal Health Equity and its research project aimed at determining how doulas can be more closely integrated into maternal care teams.”