A Few Features
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Article Features
Will the FDA-Approved Blood Test for Preeclampsia Decrease Maternal Deaths?
MARGO SNIPE | July 11, 2023
With Black Women At Highest Risk of Maternal Death, Some States Extending Medicaid
CHRISTINE HERMAN | May 25, 2021
U.S. Medical Schools Are Struggling to Overcome Centuries of Racism in Health Care
JAMIE DUCHARME | AUGST 29, 2022
Time Magazine
As Pregnancy-Related Deaths Rise In The U.S., Experts Say Expanding Medicaid Is Key
CHRISTINE HERMAN | April 26, 2021
Heard on All Things Considered
Long-Lasting Birth Control Is Already Hard to Get. Advocates Worry It May Only Get Worse
JAMIE DUCHARME | MAY 12, 2022
Time Magazine
Rethinking Race In Medicine: ACOG Removes A Race-Based Cutoff For Anemia In Pregnancy
Michele Cohen Marill | August 19, 2021
Womanhood Is Not a Pre-Existing Condition
Leslie Goldman (for Helm.Co) | September 14, 2021
New legislation addresses long-standing Black maternal health crisis in America
Shivani Majmudar (for Northwestern University’s Medill Reports) | December 2, 2020
Rachel Shares Love With Ghanaian Children
By Daily Guide | 25 Jul 2007
Lectures and Keynotes
Delivering the Keynote Address at HHS’s Black Health Forum | 28 February 2024
We Can Wear White Panel Discussion | 15 July 2023
Op-Ed, Articles, and Written Pieces
The mental health safety net should be a bridge, not a trap
By Rachel Bervell, MD, MPH | 7 July 2025
Louisiana Illuminator
How Can We Solve the Black Maternal Health Crisis?
RACHEL BERVELL, MD, MPH and ANNALIES WINNY
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Sharing the immigration status of Medicaid patients betrays Hippocratic oath
By Rachel Bervell, MD, MPH | 28 June 2025
Local News Matters
How Should Clinicians Respond to Race-Based Algorithms as Sources of Iatrogenic Harm?
AMA Journal of Ethics
Podcasts & Audio Projects
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Take charge of your gyno visit | 16 MAY 2024
Featuring Dr. Rachel Bervell for NPR’s LifeKit
"Who's at Risk for Uterine Fibroids? Most Women" | 22 May 2024
Featuring Dr. Rachel Bervell for NPR’s ShortWave
Black during a pandemic (Part 1-4)
Hear Me Now Stories as part of StoryCorps
Click Above For Media Coverage of The Black ObGyn Project
Episode 120: Systemic Racism and Bias in Medicine with The Black Ob/Gyn Project
CREOGs over Coffee | April 25, 2021
The Dose: What Support for Women and Families Really Looks Like
RACHEL BERVELL, MD, MPH with DR JAMILA TAYLOR
The Commonwealth Fund
Receiving Silver at the 2023 Signal Awards, New York City, NY, October 2023
“When I see... change in medicine, it reminds me that [adapting to transitions in the discipline] might be slow, but we can have transformation for the betterment of our patients.”
The Black OBGYN Project founders on inequity, advocacy, and Instagram
Moder Fertility | Dec 02, 2020
Speaking at NMA Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2021
As MC of the Chicago SNMA/LMSA Banquet, IL, 2018