Date and Time
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2024 | 2 PM ET/11 AM PT | VIRTUAL
Speaker
Eugene Declercq
Ph.D., M.B.A., Professor of Community Health Sciences and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University
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Eugene Declercq, Ph.D., M.B.A., is a Professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health and Professor on the faculty of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He’s collaborated on 4 studies involving 6 reports on women’s experiences in childbirth entitled Listening to Mothers and is currently part of the team working on a new 2024 survey. Dr. Declercq is the creator of the website www.birthbythenumbers.org. His recent research has focused on maternal mortality and severe morbidity and he’s currently a member of the Massachusetts Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
Event Description
What can the recently released 2023 birth data tell us about current trends in U.S. childbirth? Has there been a change in the disparities by race/ethnicity and state? What about the surging rate of inductions and the plateaued C-section rate? How about community births (home birth and birth at freestanding birth centers)? Are midwives gaining momentum in the workforce? Join us for a presentation on the most recent data by Eugene Declercq, Ph.D., M.B.A.