NIH R01 · 2024
Project Summary In Columbus Ohio’s Linden neighborhood, a historically segregated and disinvested community that has been devastated by decades of discriminatory race-based policies, infant mortality rates (IMR) are over 20 deaths per 1,000 live births (2%) with racial disparity ratios nearing three. Researchers have linked infant mortality and poor birth outcomes to maternal education, maternal experiences of stress and discrimination, pove rty, lack of access to healthy foods, lack of stable housing, and lack of access to prenatal/medical care. These risk factors are concentrated in majority minority neighborhoodsdue to historical and contemporary policies and practices rooted in…
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