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Collaborative Team receives CRHN Rural Academic-Community Partnership Pilot Project Award

This year, Project SOAR (SIMULATION-based training support emergent OBSTETRIC capacity AND care in RURAL hospitals), an academic-community partnership with Faith Community Hospital and CONHI researchers, was funded by the Center for Rural Health and Nursing’s Academic-Community Partnership Pilot Grant funded. Our core research team includes Jessica G. Smith, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, Kyrah K. Brown … Continue reading “Collaborative Team receives CRHN Rural Academic-Community Partnership Pilot Project Award”

Dr. Brown recently featured in KERA News article

This recent KERA News article features D’Andra Willis, full spectrum doula at the Afiya Center’s Southern Roots Doula Services; Dallas mom, Tambra Morrison; and Dr. Kyrah Brown, director of the MCH Equity Research Lab. What overturning Roe v. Wade means for Black maternal mortality in Texas

MCH Equity Research Lab welcomes its new team members for the 2022-2023 academic year!

Last week, the MCH Equity Research Lab held its first set of meetings for the academic year. This marks the first time since March 2020 the team has met in person–although all meetings are offered in a hybrid format. Drs. Brown and Green met with lab members to discuss projects and plans for student research … Continue reading “MCH Equity Research Lab welcomes its new team members for the 2022-2023 academic year!”

MCH Equity Lab students present at 2022 UTHSPH Dallas Student Association Research Beyond Boundaries Conference

Congratulations to the eight CONHI students who presented recently at the Research Beyond Boundaries conference! And a special congratulations to Ariel Hall, who graduated in May shortly after the conference with a Master of Public Health degree, for being selected for first place with her research titled “Using Community-Based System Dynamics Modeling to Address Racial … Continue reading “MCH Equity Lab students present at 2022 UTHSPH Dallas Student Association Research Beyond Boundaries Conference”