By Amy Yeboah Quarkume and the Reach Alliance A Reach Alliance research team from Howard University is addressing postpartum care gaps in the United States and Ghana. Their newly published research report, “Improving Black Maternal Health: Postpartum Care, Mental Health, and Technology in the U.S. and Ghana,” highlights persistent barriers to care in both countries, despite their distinct healthcare structures. “It is deeply troubling that the maternal health inequities affecting Black mothers today are rooted in enduring historical legacies and systemic trauma that can be referenced as far back to the shores of Elmina Dungeons in Ghana,” said Amy Yeboah Quarkume, Ph.D., faculty mentor at the Reach
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