Stacy Bartlett
University of Pittsburgh, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology
The United States has the worst maternal health outcomes among high-income countries. Deaths and severe complications fall hardest on at-risk communities.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
maternal health
postpartum care
fourth trimester
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2030
What they work on
- Evaluate current postpartum care models, including Fourth Trimester Care (4TM) with its two-week first visit, using quantitative electronic health record data from local health care sites.
- Identify barriers and facilitators to postpartum care through focus groups and in-depth interviews with patients, clinicians and staff.
- Co-develop with EMBRACE Center community partners a postpartum care model that joins well-child-visit maternal screening with 4TM, and test whether it increases uptake of postpartum care.
- Pilot an intervention that addresses postpartum financial stress, and measure patient satisfaction and clinical and implementation outcomes over multiple years.
More about the research
In Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, members of these communities are more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than in 97% of comparable cities. About 80% of maternal deaths are preventable, and 65% happen after birth, in the postpartum period. This makes care after delivery a key place to save lives. Current postpartum care has three main problems. It has gaps at the moments of highest risk, it was not designed with community input, and money troubles keep many people from attending visits.
Why it matters
Many maternal deaths occur after birth and could be prevented. A postpartum care model shaped by community input, with earlier visits and attention to financial barriers, could increase use of care and catch warning signs sooner. Birthing people in at-risk communities would benefit most. The development process could also serve as a blueprint for other health systems.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Paula Alio
University of Rochester, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Explore Black fathers' group and individual experiences with perinatal care in Rochester, New York, through listening sessions with 40 fathers and interviews with 20 fathers.
Kyrah Brown
University of Texas at Arlington, TX·Public Health & Epidemiology
Build a qualitative system dynamics model of the interconnected clinical and social factors that produce severe maternal morbidity among Black women, using group model building with patients, doulas, clinicians and community stakeholders.
Susan Perez
Tulane University of Louisiana, LA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Determine whether a multifaceted patient-centered maternity care intervention improves hospital maternal outcomes and patient satisfaction, compared with remote self-paced training alone, in a cluster randomized trial across 9 Ochsner hospitals.
The school
University of Pittsburgh: 83 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 403 research doctorates a year.
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