Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

Rachel Hall-Clifford

Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Human Health and the Department of Sociology, Emory University

“Co-Design for Health Equity: Building Safe-Natal Through Community Partnership”

In this presentation, I will share my journey from traditional global health approaches to a community-centered co-design model through three ethnographic stories—a tragedy, a comedy, and a new reality. I will describe the co-design of safe+natal, a low-cost toolkit designed with Guatemalan midwives to reduce maternal and infant mortality. Fundamentally, I will argue that we must look to the lived realities and expertise of local communities as we reckon with global challenges like maternal mortality.