Community Education and Outreach

This core program tackles issues in regard to, but not limited to:

• Diseases of the reproductive system and other reproductive health conditions
• Medical practices discounting Black women’s pain levels and concerns
• Preconception health, birthing rights, and postpartum health
• The impact of the chronic stress of racism (“weathering”)
• Preventative reproductive health screenings
• Equitable access to reproductive health care
• The role of empathy in medical settings

We also focus on in-depth education about postpartum as well as underdiagnosed and
undertreated reproductive diseases and other reproductive conditions such as, but not limited to:

• Fibroids
• Endometriosis
• Infertility
• Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) or Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovary Syndrome
  (PMOS)
• Gynecological cancers such as breast, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer
• Mortality and morbidity in pregnant Black women
• Eclampsia and preeclampsia
• Precocious and early onset of puberty