Wanda Irving
Professor | Women's Health Advocate and Researcher
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Wanda Irving is a distinguished professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she leads research on racial disparities in maternal and infant mortality. Her work has been published in leading medical journals and she has been featured on NPR's Hidden Brain podcast. Irving's powerful talks give audiences a data-driven understanding of the systemic barriers that endanger the lives of Black mothers and infants, and provide actionable strategies for advancing equity in healthcare.
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How the US medical community fails Black mothers
In the US, Black women are nearly 300 percent more likely to die as a result of childbirth than white women. Sharing appalling statistics on maternal mortality as well as her own tragic story of loss, Wanda Irving explains how racism and bias in health care minimizes and dismisses Black women's pain -- and makes a personal plea for leaders in the medical community to take steps toward reform.
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