Our final EMBRACE book club session will take place on Thursday, July 24th, facilitated by Dr. Jackie Ellison! This session will be hybrid – an in-person option is available at the Homewood CEC, Room 103 for those who would like to mingle! This will be a potluck-style event – please bring a snack to share, as well as any […]
Join Drs. Katherine Quinn and Marian Jarlenski in a virtual journal club discussing the implementation of doula care. Katherine Quinn | Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Implementation Barriers to Incorporating a Community-Based Doula Program to Improve Birth Outcomes for Black Patients in an Academic Medical Center - PubMed Marian Jarlenski | Professor and […]
Join EMBRACE and CONVERGE for dedicated time for researchers, community members, and advocates focused on sexual and reproductive health in Allegheny County to socialize and co-work. We will meet at Bakery Square and have signage at the tables (indoor or outdoor tables will be dependent on weather). There are plenty of food options, free Wifi, […]
The Shaping of My Identity Workshop with Martina Anto-Ocrah, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Anto-Ocrah is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a co-investigator in the EMBRACE Center’s Training Component. Her lab focuses on reproductive epidemiology, social media & digital health, and […]
Celebrate your growing body and honor your birthing journey in this intimate prenatal belly cast workshop designed for mothers and birthing people. This 2-hour morning session invites you and a partner to co-create a beautiful keepsake—a 3D plaster cast of your pregnant belly, capturing this sacred moment in time. Guests will be provided with all […]
The Data Justice Working Group aims to share power, improve coordination, and build capacity with the community in making decisions about data and the research process to promote research and knowledge justice and equitable data accessibility, transparency, utility, and impact across the center and community.
The EMBRACE Center invites you to a Reproductive Justice 101 Training alongside our policy and advocacy partners at New Voices for Reproductive Justice! This interactive session will connect clinicians, researchers, health advocates, and community members, equipping participants to activate a personal and professional mission to impact reproductive and maternal health equity. Certificate of completion available […]
The EMBRACE 4th Trimester Interconception Care (4TM-ICC) research study aims to evaluate the effects of the current interconception care and 4th Trimester model on perinatal health outcomes. Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Stacey Bartlett will give us an overview and update of the 4TM-ICC Study. Co-Investigator Dr. Tamar Krishnamurti will also join her in discussing the background […]
Lisa S. Parker, PhD Professor and Director, Center for Research Ethics Ethics in Reproductive Health Research Dr. Lisa S. Parker, a philosopher, is a Professor of Bioethics, Professor of Human Genetics in the School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Research Ethics, and an Associate Director for Bioethics in the Institute for Precision […]
Bring in the New Year by attending the EMBRACE Center's first seminar of the spring semester! Dr. Monica McLemore will be joining us in person on Thursday, January 22 at 1:00 PM to discuss how to increase community voices in scientific publishing.
