News - EMBRACE

Call for Presenters – Postpartum Health Equity: Bridging Gaps in the Fourth Trimester

Mar 11, 2025

We are excited to share an opportunity for you to contribute to our 2025 Education Symposium: Postpartum Health Equity – Bridging Gaps in the Fourth Trimester, hosted by Healthy Start, Inc. Pittsburgh and the EMBRACE Maternal Health Research...

Members of the EMBRACE team publish on the ‘Approach to Supporting Black Communities in Planning and Developing Pedestrian and Active Transportation Infrastructure to Improve the Built Environment’

Mar 10, 2025

Members of the EMBRACE team publish on the ‘Real-time experiences of racism and stress in association with postpartum weight retention: A longitudinal ecological momentary assessment study’

Mar 7, 2025

Congratulations to Sonya Borrero for receiving the Margaret Ragni Award for Advancement of Women in Medicine and Science

Mar 7, 2025

Congratulations to Ngozi Tibbs for receiving the 2025 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum’s Collaboration Champion Award

Mar 7, 2025

Tiffany Gary-Webb highlight’s data justice to improve lives of Black Pittsburghers

Mar 7, 2025

Rep. Mayes highlights EMBRACE’s work in a recent speech at the PA House of Representatives

Mar 7, 2025

EMBRACE’s graduate student researchers, Cindy Pan, MPH and Sade Tukuru, MPH, present on ‘The EMBRACE CoE and Implementing a Community-Informed and Equity-Centered Postpartum Care Model for Black Birthing People’ at the Center for Public Health Practice Student Practice Poster Showcase.

Dec 16, 2024

Dr. Méndez and her team found that the stress of lived experiences with racism and gender-based discrimination is linked to postpartum weight retention.

Dec 16, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Martina Anto-Ocrah for receiving Dr. Larry E. Davis Excellence in Mentoring Award by Pitt Faculty Diversity & Development!

Dec 16, 2024