Can doulas help with our maternal health crisis? Promises and obstacles to impact
Phiona Nabagereka and Lilian Zhang
September 18, 2024
About the author: Phiona Nabagereka is currently a high school senior attending the Noble and Greenough School. She spent the summer of 2024 with Recon Strategy as a paid intern assigned a project to research doula integration into clinical care teams. Phiona plans to study biology and statistics in college next year, and is considering a career in healthcare. Significant inequalities in US maternal health today Maternal death rates in the US have more than doubled in the past two decades. Notably, women of color are very overrepresented in