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Arlington, TX 76019-0162
Students Tackle Health Inequity
Inspired by what they learned in a class on urbanization and vulnerable populations, two public health students teamed up with their professors on a three-year project aimed at addressing the high rates of maternal morbidity among Black women and children in Texas.
Under the mentorship of Assistant Professors Kyrah Brown and Jaquetta Reeves and Clinical Assistant Professor Brandie Green, students Rebecca Jackson and Tiara Pratt are leading a study focused on 18- to 30-year-old cisgender Black women and Black men to identify their needs when it comes to reproductive health resources. The students are providing cameras to the study’s subjects for them to document their environment and show how their daily life experience impacts their reproductive health.
“Texas is one of the worst places for Black women to give birth because of how high the mortality rate is,” Jackson says. “Knowing that affects me personally. That’s what really motivated me.”