RESOURCES
Learn more about the issues presented in BIRTHING JUSTICE and find out how you might help.
Organizations
Black Women's Health Imperative
BWHI is the first and only national non-profit solely dedicated to achieving health equity for Black women in America. BWHI has evolved into a nationally recognized organization leading health policy, education, research, knowledge and leadership development and communications designed to improve the healthy outcomes of Black women.
Bicycle Health
For new parents currently undergoing medically assisted treatment to overcome opioid addiction, deciding whether or not to breastfeed during treatment educational guide to breastfeeding and OUD treatment.
Birth Injury Center
Birth injuries can transform the celebratory moment of a child’s birth into a lifelong nightmare that includes serious health complications, permanent disability, or death. The Birth Injury Center provides support and resources to families that have been impacted by birth trauma.
Quilted Health
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
Black Girls’ Breastfeeding Club
Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA)
Black Maternal Heath Caucus
Black Women Birthing Justice
Black Women for Wellness
The Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute (Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital)
Center for Black Women’s Wellness
Community of Hope’s Family Health and Birth
Every Mother Counts (EMC)
Feminist Women’s Health Center
Jamaa Birth Village
Mamatoto Village
Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
Moms Rising
Morehouse School of Medicine’s Center for Maternal Health Equity
Mothers and Offspring Mortality and Morbidity Awareness Act (MOMMA’s Act, 117th Congress, 2021-2022)
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM)
National Association to Advance Black Birth (The NAABB)
National Black Equity Collaborative (NBEC)
National Black Doulas Association (NBDA)
Sista Midwife Productions
SisterLove
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative
Books & Reports
Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis in California
by Chinyere Oparah, Linda Jones, Dantia Hudson, Talita Oseguera and Helen Arega

Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte

Infants of mothers with higher physiological stress show alterations in brain function
by Sonya v. Troller-Renfree, et al., Developmental Science (March 31, 2020)

The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity
by Sonya V. Troller-Renfree, et al., The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (January 24, 2022)
