Area of Excellence: Maternal Health
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Ashley Gresh
Ashley Gresh is both a certified nurse-midwife and a public health nurse, whose research focuses on addressing inequities in maternal and child health outcomes. Her current work examines the effects of perinatal group-based care on maternal and child health in the postpartum period, and examines ways for adapting, implementing, and sustaining group care in Baltimore […]
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Noelene Kimiko Jeffers
Noelene K. Jeffers has over 10 years of experience as a nurse-midwife serving families in federally qualified health centers, hospitals, and free-standing birth centers in Washington, DC. In her research, Dr. Jeffers utilizes a reproductive justice lens to examine the structural and social determinants of Black maternal and perinatal health. She currently leads or collaborates […]
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Cecília Tomori
Cecília Tomori is an anthropologist and public health scholar whose work investigates the structural and sociocultural drivers that shape health, illness, and health inequities. Tomori is internationally recognized for her expertise on breastfeeding, infant sleep, and maternal child health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has supported numerous organizations focused on maternal child health and advocated […]
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Laura Lucas
Laura Lucas is an advanced practice nurse, clinical faculty member, and coordinator of the Birth Companions program that offers nursing students the opportunity to provide labor support and advocacy services to mothers from various backgrounds. She most recently worked as a clinical nurse specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital while serving as adjunct clinical faculty in […]
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Erin Wright
Erin Wright is passionate about helping students understand and develop excellence for nursing in women’s health areas. She is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and a board-certified Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse. Dr. Wright provides clinical care to patients in Baltimore City. Her clinical areas of expertise include mind-body medicine, Centering Pregnancy, labor support, breastfeeding, adolescent pregnancy, and […]
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Nicole E. Warren
Nicole Warren is a certified nurse midwife with more than two decades of combined research, clinical practice, and teaching experience in reproductive health. Her work is guided by a commitment to Respectful Maternity Care and eliminating mistreatment of childbearing persons. Current projects include addressing disparities in maternal health in Maryland, evaluating the impact of educational interventions […]
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JoAnne Silbert-Flagg
JoAnne Silbert-Flagg’s scholarship focuses on promoting breastfeeding from pregnancy through weaning via direct patient care and the education of health care professionals. Dr. Silbert-Flagg is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Human Lactation. She is editor of the textbook Maternal and Child Health Nursing (8th ed.), 2017, Wolters Kluwer, authoring five chapters, […]
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Deborah Gross
Deborah Gross is best known for her work designing and scaling behavioral health interventions that support families of young children from low-income, underserved communities and who may have experienced trauma and adversity. At Johns Hopkins, she holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and in the Bloomberg School […]
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Jacquelyn Campbell
Jacquelyn Campbell is a national leader in research and advocacy in the field of domestic and intimate partner violence (IPV). She has authored or co-authored more than 230 publications and seven books on violence and health outcomes. Her studies paved the way for a growing body of interdisciplinary investigations by researchers in the disciplines of nursing, medicine, […]
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Deborah Busch
Deborah Busch is a national leader in breastfeeding and lactation care, as well as pediatric primary and acute care. Her innovative Tri-Core Breastfeeding Model was adopted by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners as a standard of practice, refining healthcare providers’ approaches to lactation-consult support and maternal self-efficacy. Currently, Dr. Busch is implementing this […]