Formed in 2020, CHCF’s Birth Equity Advisory Group comprises health care and public health thought leaders and practitioners who work to advance birth equity for Black birthing people from many different vantage points. Advisers provide input on the direction of CHCF’s portfolio at least twice per year and engage in additional ad hoc discussions as needed.

Current Members

Nedra Gayles, RN
Labor & Delivery Nurse
MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach

Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH
The Miriam Jacobs Chair in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
The Helping Hand of Los Angeles
Vice Chair, Women’s Healthcare Quality and Performance Improvement, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division & Fellowship Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Professor
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Fielding School of Public Health, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Khailylah “Kiki” Jordan, LM, CPM
President
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives
Founder
Birthland Midwifery

Niambi Lewis, MSW
Chief, Health Equity Initiatives
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Division, California Department of Public Health

Sayida Peprah, PsyD
Psychologist and Doula
Executive Director
Diversity Uplifts

Angela Sojobi, DNP, CNM, RN
Assistant Professor
California State University, Fullerton, School of Nursing

Thank you to past members for their time and guidance.

Joia Crear-Perry, MD, FACOG*
President
National Birth Equity Collaborative

Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG*
Associate Professor
OB/GYN Hospitalist
PI of SACRED Birth Study
Co-I PTBi Discovery, Aim 1 and SOLARS Study
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF

Tammy M. Turner, BSN, MA*
Perinatal Nurse Manager
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital

Judy Young, MPH*
Executive Director
National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, UCSF

*Job titles listed are the ones they held while on the Birth Equity Advisory Group and may have since changed.