… complications from delivery and an unsafe abortion, according to WHO.
Underwood says the caucus will come up with “creative” and “strategic” solutions to elevate black maternal health, which she calls a “unique issue.”
“Other issues have full NIH institutes. There’s a National Cancer Institute. There’s a National Child Development Institute. We don’t have that for this kind of a challenge,” she says. “We have to be strategic and work with our partners, community groups, and clinicians to elevate programs that we know work. Then we have to see if there’s models that we can develop to demonstrate projects, write and issue a bill, and give it a small pot of money. [We want to] see what works.