Maryland Maternal Health Innovation Program (MDMOM)
This statewide program aims to improve maternal health across Maryland by coordinating innovation in maternal health data, professional training, and better access to available resources. The MDMOM program is on-going and has been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration since 2019.
Maternal Health Data Innovation & Coordination Hub
Part of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s (NICHD), Implementing a Maternal Health Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative, the Maternal Health Data Innovation & Coordination Hub supports 12 Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence across the United States conducting research to reduce preventable causes of maternal deaths and improve health for women before, during, and after pregnancy. This work started in 2023 and will continue until 2030.
Perinatal Epidemiology Research
- Using electronic health records and claims data, we work to develop and validate a refined comorbidity index for obstetric patients that allows severe maternal morbidity (SMM) rate comparisons across hospitals and adequate monitoring of quality improvement initiatives in obstetrics (NIH, R01HD112442).
- To examine causes of stillbirths in the United States, we use data from live births and fetal deaths records from the National Center for Health Statistics.
International Research Collaborations
- We collaborate with the International Network of Obstetric Surveillance Systems (INOSS), a multi-country collaboration established in 2010, to support studies of rare or severe complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
- As part of the international Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) network, we contribute to the Reproductive and Perinatal Workgroup, supporting efforts to standardize data elements and advance the development of robust condition phenotypes.