The MEND/MENDS team, in partnership with collaborators at UC Law San Francisco and UC Berkeley, has investigated laws and regulations in order to understand both past policy strategy and future policy opportunities for improving maternal health equity in California.
How do California’s recent laws & regulations address key drivers of maternal health inequities?
Conference slide deck here
Publication accepted in the Maternal and Child Health Journal: Link forthcoming.
What are promising policy levers to advance equitable maternity care?
In partnership with the MENDS study, graduate students in the Goldman School of Public Policy Master’s program conducted a policy analysis to identify policy levers to advance equitable maternity care:
Policy analysis of California's Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act (SB 464, 2019), which requires implicit bias training for perinatal care providers. In partnership with UC Law faculty and specialists: