Fridays at Newcomb: Policy interventions to address structural racism and disparities in severe maternal morbidity and mortality — Kelli Hall

Kelli Stidham Hall PhD MS is the Thomas Keller Professor in Diversity in the Departments of Social,Behavioral, and Population Sciences and Epidemiology, the Associate Dean for Research of the School ofPublic Health & Tropical Medicine and the Co-Director of the Mary Amelia Center for Women’s HealthEquity Research at Tulane University. A social epidemiologist and advanced practice nurse, Dr. Hall'sresearch program addresses the social and structural determinants of and solutions for maternal andreproductive health equity in the U.S. and globally. She currently leads five NIH-funded projects focusedon the effects of health and social policies, poverty, structural racism, health systems factors, and toxicsocial stress on disparities in maternal morbidity, mortality, mental, and reproductive health. Her workadvances policy-relevant, community-engaged, and multi-level interventions, including integratedmodels of women’s healthcare, through interdisciplinary teams and multisector partnerships. Inaddition to her leadership roles at Tulane, Dr. Hall is also the Co-Director and MPI of ColumbiaUniversity’s NIH U54 Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence, the former Founding Director ofthe Center for Reproductive Health Research in the Southeast at Emory University, and was elected as aNational Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine in 2020.