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Diverse Maternity Care Workforce Essential to Advance Birth Equity

A conversation with midwife Angela Sojobi about her decades of experience and the urgent need for more Black midwifery students.

March 14, 2024

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Black Maternal Health Crisis Requires Support for Black Health Care Workers

A new report from the Urban Institute addresses structural barriers to entering and remaining in the maternity care field.

June 23, 2023

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The Untapped Power of Midwives in California’s Maternity Care Ecosystem

California has a skilled midwifery workforce that’s ready to plug gaps in patient-centered, high-quality birthing care.

October 24, 2025

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Midwives Help Fill Maternity Care Gaps as California Faces OB-GYN Shortage

Patients’ access to birthing services would improve if numerous obstacles to midwives’ efforts were removed.

October 31, 2025

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Doctor Builds a Diverse Health Care Workforce for California

As president of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, David Carlisle, MD, PhD, is making what may be his greatest impact in a stellar career in academia, clinical care, and state health policymaking. In…

April 2, 2019

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Maternity Workforce Insights

This series of conversations takes a look at the critical roles of doulas, lactation professionals, mental health professionals, and midwives.

February 13, 2025

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UCSF Favors Pricey Doctoral Program for Nurse-Midwives Amid Maternal Care Crisis

Midwives questioned the university’s motivations at a time when the state has serious shortages of maternity care workers.

September 6, 2024

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Maternity Care in California Almanac — 2023 Edition

Maternity Care in California: Delivering the Data provides an overview of the delivery of maternity care in California, using the most recent data. When available, comparisons of California data to national averages, as well as metrics by race/ethnicity and trend…

December 4, 2023

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Quality of Care: Maternal Health and Childbirth Almanac — 2023 Edition

While California continues to make progress on the quality of care provided to women during their pregnancies and deliveries, there is room for improvement. This set of quality measures focuses on maternal health and childbirth.

December 15, 2023

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California Health Care Almanac

Objective information on health care costs, coverage, quality, and delivery supports effective decisionmaking. The Almanac provides data and analysis on California’s health care system.

January 1, 2025

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Examining AI and Health Care: Implications for Equity and California’s Health Care Safety Net

This fact sheet examines the AI landscape in health care and its implications for Medi-Cal. It explores AI use cases in back-office operations, clinical support, population health, and health workforce solutions and explores the risks around data privacy, informed consent,…

April 23, 2024

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What Is a Midwife? — Policy at a Glance

Midwives, ob/gyns, and family physicians are trained to deliver babies in California. In California, a worsening ob/gyn shortage paired with hospital labor and delivery unit closures have generated urgency for expanding access to midwives.

April 8, 2025

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More Doulas Are Needed in California’s Health Workforce

An interview with health equity advocate Sayida Peprah-Wilson about the future of doula care.

April 15, 2024

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How We Can Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mental Health

Perinatal mental health specialist Anna King talks about the connections between maternal mental health and birth equity.

July 12, 2024

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Nurse Practitioners Can Offer More Abortion Care in Underserved Areas

A conversation with Sarah McNeil, family medicine doctor and family planning specialist focused on expanding health care access.

August 8, 2022

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Diverse Maternity Care Workforce Essential to Advance Birth Equity

Black Maternal Health Crisis Requires Support for Black Health Care Workers

The Untapped Power of Midwives in California’s Maternity Care Ecosystem

Midwives Help Fill Maternity Care Gaps as California Faces OB-GYN Shortage

Doctor Builds a Diverse Health Care Workforce for California

Maternity Workforce Insights

UCSF Favors Pricey Doctoral Program for Nurse-Midwives Amid Maternal Care Crisis

Maternity Care in California Almanac — 2023 Edition

Quality of Care: Maternal Health and Childbirth Almanac — 2023 Edition

California Health Care Almanac

Examining AI and Health Care: Implications for Equity and California’s Health Care Safety Net

What Is a Midwife? — Policy at a Glance

More Doulas Are Needed in California’s Health Workforce

How We Can Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mental Health

Nurse Practitioners Can Offer More Abortion Care in Underserved Areas

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