Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Statement Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

To see our full nondiscrimination statement, click here.

Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

Neonatal-Perinatal Health Equity Research

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

  1. Implementation of a SDH screening and referral intervention in 5 safety-net NICUs in MA (CDC NU58DP007251) 
  2. Effect of support for low-income mothers of preterm infants on parental caregiving in the NICU (1 R01 HD109293) 
  3. Modifiable Mediators of Infant Care Practices Among Black and Hispanic Mothers of Preterm Infants (1KL2TR001411) 
  4. Leveraging trusted breastfeeding peer counselors to conduct social needs navigation in the NICU (BMCHS health equity accelerator) 
  5. Understanding the impact of racism on neonatal care quality (March of Dimes) 
  6. 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.