Lauren Osborne
Columbia University, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Many preventable maternal deaths happen during childbirth or in the weeks right after. Common causes include missed or undertreated mental health conditions and heart and blood vessel events.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Psychology
- Topics
maternal health
postpartum depression
maternal mortality
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2030
What they work on
- Test whether the doula-delivered LHMoms program lowers postpartum depression, improves cardiovascular health and raises quality of life compared with an attention control, in a randomized trial of 450 patients at three New York City hospital sites.
- Analyze how LHMoms affects postpartum healthcare use and patient satisfaction among trial participants in Brooklyn, Queens and Northern Manhattan.
- Examine how LHMoms is carried out at each of the three sites, using mixed methods to assess implementation processes and outcomes and to tailor the program to each setting.
- Build doula capacity to deliver the LHMoms components, including health-emergency detection in the first 7 days after discharge and phone-based cognitive behavioral support over six months.
More about the research
In New York City, maternal death rates vary greatly by neighborhood, and some areas see rates many times the national average. Most community programs for new mothers in high-risk groups offer basic services such as breastfeeding help and social support, with limited evidence-based care. Programs that combine physical, mental and social needs, and that build on strengths rather than risk, are needed.
Why it matters
Postpartum patients in New York City neighborhoods with high maternal death rates could benefit if a doula-led program lowers postpartum depression and improves heart health in the months after birth. Findings on effectiveness, healthcare use and implementation could help hospitals, community organizations and policymakers decide how to scale doula care and strengthen links between hospitals and neighborhoods.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Jacquelyn Taylor
Columbia University, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test a doula-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy program for postpartum people in a Type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial, measuring cardiovascular, mental health and social-determinant outcomes while building trauma-informed service models and hospital-community care linkages.
Michelle Roley-Roberts
West Virginia University, WV·Psychology
Test in a randomized controlled trial with 100 at-risk pregnant women in rural West Virginia whether the online Preventing Postpartum Onset Distress program reduces prenatal anxiety and other postpartum anxiety risk factors more than an anxiety education control.
Stephen Schueller
University of California-Irvine, CA·Psychology
Test whether digital cognitive behavioral therapy delivered with peer support improves depression and anxiety outcomes compared with the same platform used alone, among Spanish-speaking Latinx patients in safety-net primary care.
The school
Columbia University: 89 labs on PI Pages, $1.4B a year on research, 625 research doctorates a year.
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