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Please join the Humanities Research Center's Health Humanities Lab for the 2025 History and Health Symposium, "Improving Access to Maternal Health Care: Solutions and Strategies."

This event is co-sponsored by the VCU Office of Health Initiatives and VCU Health.

About the Speakers

Elizabeth Howell, MD, MPP, is the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine. She is an NIH-funded OB/GYN health services researcher, and her major research interests are the intersection between quality of care, disparities in maternal and infant mortality, and morbidity and postpartum depression and its impact on underserved communities.She testified in Congress for maternal health care legislation. She currently co-chairs the National Quality Forum Committee on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality.