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Over-policing linked to higher odds of preterm birth
New research links the stress of living in an over-policed neighborhood with higher odds of preterm birth for both Black and white birthing people — but most severely for Black residents. Preterm birth, defined as birth before 37 weeks of gestation, raises the risk of long-term health problems for babies.
The study, led by MPC member Rachel Hardeman, associate professor and director of the SPH Center for Antiracism Research and Health Equity (CARHE), was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Open Network. Hardeman is a national expert in racial reproductive health disparities, including the role of over-policing in Black birth disparities. The work was co-authored by MPC members and trainee alumni, including Tongtan Chantarat, Morrison Luke Smith, J’Mag Karbeah, and David C. Van Riper as well as Dara D. Mendez from University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
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Sarah James
Sarah James is a Population Health Science Postdoctoral Fellow here at the Minnesota Population Center. She studies racial and socioeconomic disparities in health behaviors in the United States. Using a life course and developmental perspective, she describes how these patterns originate in childhood, considers how acutely stressful experiences contribute to differences, and evaluates the consequences of differences in health behavior for subsequent health and wellbeing.
Samantha Gailey
Samantha Gailey is a Population Health Postdoctoral Fellow here at the Minnesota Population Center. Sam’s research examines social and environmental determinants of health, including how neighborhood conditions “get under the skin”and shape maternal and perinatal health disparities.
Given her focus on neighborhoods and health – relations often biased by selection and confounding – Sam seeks to use novel, innovative approaches to strengthen causal inference. Her interdisciplinary work is motivated by the belief that society’s most intractable problems cannot be solved from the narrow silos of traditional disciplinary perspectives.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023) funded through a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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