Patience Afulani — Profile
Dr. Patience Afulani’s research focuses on social and health-system factors underlying inequities in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health globally. Her work in Ghana, Kenya, and the U.S. examines disparities in use and quality of maternal health services, develops tools to measure person-centered care, and evaluates interventions to improve outcomes. She led development of the Person-Centered Maternity Care (PCMC) scale.
Margaret Handley — Profile
Dr. Margaret Handley is a public-health-trained epidemiologist and implementation scientist at UCSF and ZSFG. She has expertise in community-engaged research, intervention design, quasi-experimental methods, practice-based research, health communication, and mixed methods.
Miriam Kuppermann — Profile
Dr. Miriam Kuppermann is a professor in OB/GYN & Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics. She directs programs in comparative effectiveness research and preconception/prenatal interventions at the UCSF California Preterm Birth Initiative, focusing on patient preferences and informed decision-making to reduce disparities.
Saraswathi Vedam — Profile
Dr. Saraswathi Vedam is Lead Investigator at the Birth Place Lab and Professor of Midwifery at the University of British Columbia. She has coordinated multi-stakeholder, community-led research projects internationally and developed measures on autonomy (MADM), respect (MORi), and mistreatment (MIST). She currently leads a national project on respectful maternity care, RESPCCT.