The BMC Program for neonatal-perinatal health equity investigates drivers of racial, ethnic and linguistic disparities in evidence-based care practices including safe sleep, breastfeeding, and family-centered care in the preterm infant population. Current projects include national, state and local studies. National projects include a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study examining social determinants of health screening and referral in the NICU setting, and a randomized controlled trial of to examine the effect of cash transfers during the NICU hospitalization on maternal and infant health outcomes. State and local projects focus on investigating equity-focused implementation strategies to integrate social care innovations into a safety-net NICU context including evaluation of a breastfeeding peer counseling/social needs navigation program; and investigating modifiable determinants of infant care practices among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic mothers with limited English proficiency to inform intervention development.
Contact
Principal Investiagor
Erika (Gaby) Cordova Ramos
gabriela.cordovaramos@bmc.org
Research Faculty
Erika (Gaby) Cordova Ramos, MD
Genevieve Guyol, MD, MAT
Current Research Projects
- Implementation of a SDH screening and referral intervention in 5 safety-net NICUs in MA (CDC NU58DP007251)
- Effect of support for low-income mothers of preterm infants on parental caregiving in the NICU (1 R01 HD109293)
- Modifiable Mediators of Infant Care Practices Among Black and Hispanic Mothers of Preterm Infants (1KL2TR001411)
- Leveraging trusted breastfeeding peer counselors to conduct social needs navigation in the NICU (BMCHS health equity accelerator)
- Understanding the impact of racism on neonatal care quality (March of Dimes)
- Impact of a transportation program on maternal caregiving among low-income mothers of premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (Alpert Grant Endowment)
See all of our Pediatric Research programs.