Health Equity and Maternal and Child Health with Dr. Kyrah Brown

In our inaugural episode, I am joined by Dr. Kyrah Brown, a community psychologist, evaluator, and Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology’s Public Health Program. She is the Director of the Maternal and Child Health Equity Lab. 

Her research focuses on addressing social and structural factors that shape racial inequities and disparities in women’s/maternal health across the life course. As a trained evaluator, she regularly works with coalitions and organizations to build their evaluation capacity and perform evaluations. 

Dr. Brown is an alumna of Spelman College and earned her PhD in Community Psychology from Wichita State University.

In this episode we talked about:

Episode Outline.

·         What is a community psychologist?

·         What most interests her about working in communities?

·         How she came to be interested in maternal and child health (MCH).

·         About her work in the MCH Equity Research Lab.

·         Why is maternal and infant death a problem in the US?

·         Why are Back and Indigenous women are 2 to 3 times more likely to die from complications of childbirth?

·         And most importantly, why do these disparities exist?

·         What should communities do about these disparities? 

·         What community possibilities she sees?

 Dr. Brown's Bio: Dr. Kyrah Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology’s Public Health Program and is the Director of the Maternal and Child Health Equity Lab. At the intersection of public health and community psychology, her research focuses on addressing social and structural factors that shape racial inequities and disparities in women’s/maternal health across the life course. She has expertise in mixed-methods research, community-based participatory research, evaluation, and capacity-building with nonprofits and coalitions. She holds leadership positions on local, state, and international coalitions and association committees. As a trained evaluator, she regularly works with coalitions and organizations to build their evaluation capacity and perform evaluations. Dr. Brown is an alumna of Spelman College and earned her PhD in Community Psychology from Wichita State University.

Want to connect with Kyrah?

Facebook: mchequitylab
 Email:kyrah.brown@uta.edu

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