Blavatnik Women's Health Research Institute

03/17/2021

Was the first wave of COVID associated with exacerbated racial disparities in preterm birth in NYC?

Find out in this paper: a collaboration of BFWHRI faculty as part of our continued commitment to use EMR data to inform racial inequity.

This cross-sectional study uses a difference-in-differences analysis to assess whether racial/ethnic disparities in very preterm birth or preterm birth increased in the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic vs the year prior to the pandemic among women who delivered in New York City.

03/02/2021

Welcome to the Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute! We are so looking forward to sharing our mission: to optimize quality of care for women across the life span and to narrow gaps in treatment and outcomes in marginalized populations.