Join EMBRACE's Seminar Series with Muffy Mendoza. Muffy Mendoza is the founder of Brown Mamas, Inc. An online and in-person village for Black mothers. To-Date Brown Mamas is 3,000 Black moms strong. Muffy is a mom of 3 sons. She's been a single mom and a married mom. She's been a poor mom and a not-so […]
Join EMBRACE's seminar series with Dr. Cynthia Salter who will present on EMBRACE 4th Trimester-ICC Project, which aims to evaluate the effects of the current interconception care model on perinatal health outcomes. As one of the Principal Investigators for the EMBRACE 4th Trimester-ICC Project, alongside Dr. Stacy Bartlett, which aims to evaluate the effects of […]
A long-running partnership between the University of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the City of Pittsburgh, the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) has been sharing open data from their partners and publishers for nearly 10 years. WPRDC's mission is to make local data publicly accessible, machine-readable, and free to use, modify, and share. WPRDC provides […]
Ms. Killings is an equity strategist and maternal and child health advocate who speaks, teaches, and facilitates on topics related to equity and dismantling bias across various sectors. She is also the founder of The Melanated Mammary Atlas®, the world’s largest database of clinical reference images showcasing conditions on brown breasts and chests!
The Shaping of My Identity Workshop with Martina Anto-Ocrah, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Anto-Ocrah is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a co-investigator in the EMBRACE Center’s Training Component. Her lab focuses on reproductive epidemiology, social media & digital health, and […]
The Data Justice Working Group aims to share power, improve coordination, and build capacity with the community in making decisions about data and the research process to promote research and knowledge justice and equitable data accessibility, transparency, utility, and impact across the center and community.
The EMBRACE 4th Trimester Interconception Care (4TM-ICC) research study aims to evaluate the effects of the current interconception care and 4th Trimester model on perinatal health outcomes. Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Stacey Bartlett will give us an overview and update of the 4TM-ICC Study. Co-Investigator Dr. Tamar Krishnamurti will also join her in discussing the background […]
Lisa S. Parker, PhD Professor and Director, Center for Research Ethics Ethics in Reproductive Health Research Dr. Lisa S. Parker, a philosopher, is a Professor of Bioethics, Professor of Human Genetics in the School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Research Ethics, and an Associate Director for Bioethics in the Institute for Precision […]
Bring in the New Year by attending the EMBRACE Center's first seminar of the spring semester! Dr. Monica McLemore will be joining us in person on Thursday, January 22 at 1:00 PM to discuss how to increase community voices in scientific publishing.
Please join us for the final Spring 2026 EMBRACE Seminar on Thursday, April 23 at 1:00 PM! We will have a special guest presentation by Rochelle Jackson, founder and CEO of the Black Women's Policy Center!
