The IL Maternal Health Task Force (Task Force), organized by I PROMOTE-IL, held their last meeting on June 5th, 2024. The Task Force came together to celebrate everything they have accomplished over the…
Rural facilities that no longer provide planned maternity care face challenges in providing safe, high-quality services to pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people who arrive needing care.
The First Lady and Ms. Berry teamed up to come to UIC to bring continued visibility to the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, and to showcase the work of Dr.…
Katherine Craemer, MPH, presented our work developing the Maternal Health Emergency Department Toolkit as part of the panel “Emergency Obstetric Care Models/Solutions Panel” on August 2nd, 2023. The presentation discussed organizing over 30…
Dr. Hunter Holt, a current BIRCWH Scholar was featured in a December 2022 article for the New York Times entitled “Why Many Older Women Are Getting Pap Tests They Don’t Need.” Dr. Holt co-authored a…
Society for Women’s Health Research presented the Health Education Visionary Award to Dr. Pauline Maki on April 26, 2023. Dr. Maki serves as Senior Director of Research at the University of Illinois Chicago…
On April 17, 2023, the University of Illinois Center for Research of Women and Gender along with Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology hosted…
