Approximately 4 million women give birth each year in the U.S. Yet, traditional public health approaches have continued to consider maternal and child health together. How do we put the needs of mothers at the heart of public health? And how do we ensure attention to the health of all persons who give birth?

At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
– Describe the limited reproductive choices that black women, women of color, and immigrant women have due to structural racism.
– Define reproductive justice and discuss the right of all people to have or not have children under safe conditions.
– Discuss the need for culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare for achieving reproductive autonomy.
– Analyze the role popular visual culture has in depicting the fetus and the pregnant body.
– Assess the maternal mental health difficulties during the perinatal period and identify the impacts this has on fetal health.
– Discuss how campaigns and interventions used in the UK can be applied to the U.S. to improve maternal mental health outcomes.