Event Description
Join the Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program for their Health Equity Seminar series, a Drexel-wide forum to discuss exciting work and ideas related to health equity.
This monthly series includes Drexel-based and invited external speakers whose work is relevant to health disparities research, ranging from etiology to intervention and policy.
In January, attendees will hear from Irene Headen, PhD, MS, an assistant professor of Black Health in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health.
Neighborhood context is a key multilevel
determinant of racial disparities in maternal health. However, neighborhoods
themselves are multidimensional in nature and their impact on health extends
beyond simple additive accumulations of individual factors across the social,
physical, and built environment. Employing methods that better account for this
complex and multidimensional nature of neighborhood context can facilitate
improved understanding of neighborhoods as a driver of maternal health
disparities as well as lead to ways in which they can be better leveraged to
enhance the effectiveness of interventions to improve Black maternal health.
This talk will explore insights from my research
using composite measures of neighborhood opportunity access that allow for more
complex characterization of neighborhood context in relation to racial/ethnic
disparities in key weight-related maternal health outcomes, including
gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention. The talk will conclude
by proposing systems-based methods as a next step in continuing to capture the
complex and dynamic aspects of neighborhood context in ways that can facilitate
translation of evidence into action to improve Black maternal health.
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