Women's Health

Black women are more than three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

The county and Luminis Health want to build a $300 million facility that will partially focus on women’s health.

In the final episode of a three-part series, we hear two stories about the fight to make your own reproductive decisions.

On this episode, host Jason V. talks with Tanay Lynn Harris, Director of The Bloom Collective. Tanay spent her childhood up and down the East Coast living with different parts of her large family, and the communal lessons she learned now allows her to provide holistic care to pregnant families.

We hear from a reproductive health leader, a Baltimore city councilwoman, a Johns Hopkins U. medical historian and a Jewish rabbi who works with expectant mothers.

Johns Hopkins neurologist Dr. Michelle Johansen discusses her research of a particular kind of stroke that affects younger women, and psychiatrist Dr. Karen Swartz assures that as the stresses of the pandemic are piling up, there are ways we can support each other.