PRIHSM
NIH Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence
About PRIHSM
Stanford PRIHSM: PRomoting Improvement in Hemorrhage-related Severe Maternal Morbidity is an NIH-funded Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence that aims to reduce postpartum hemorrhage in California and beyond.
Disproportionately affecting socially marginalized groups, postpartum hemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal death and severe maternal morbidity. PRIHSM aims to reduce postpartum hemorrhage by addressing two precursors to postpartum hemorrhage-related severe maternal morbidity and mortality: iron deficiency anemia and cesarean births.
The work of the center will involve community-university partnerships focused on improving maternal health and be driven by perspectives of patients, providers, and healthcare leadership. The PRIHSM center will provide training opportunities to build research and clinical expertise relevant to postpartum hemorrhage, especially among individuals who represent diverse perspectives and experiences within academic and community-based settings, and underserved areas.
This project team, led by Deirdre Lyell, MD, is addressing antenatal iron deficiency anemia by developing, implementing, and disseminating a patient-informed Anemia Prevention Toolkit.
This project team, led by Elliott Main, MD, is addressing disparities in rates of primary cesarean birth and cesarean-linked postpartum hemorrhage by refining and evaluating tools and approaches within the patient-informed CMQCC Hospital Action Guide and hospital learning initiative.
The community engagement component, led by Suzan Carmichael, PhD, MS, operates with the goal of ensuring that patients and key stakeholders are integrated into all phases of PRIHSM’s research to promote maternal health equity for all.
The training component, led by Suzan Carmichael, PhD, MS, is developing a diverse, multi-disciplinary team of trainees and mentors committed to improving maternal health, implementing specific activities tailored to meet the needs of trainees with a wide variety of experiences and interests, and leveraging existing programs within Stanford University.
Administrative and Research Team
Partners
Collaboration and partnership are essential to PRIHSM’s strategy for improving the health of individuals who give birth in California. PRIHSM strives to cultivate bi-directional partnerships that are process-oriented and outcome-focused, with the ultimate goal of reducing postpartum hemorrhage and complications related to hemorrhage.
There are four Community Advisory Boards (CABs) associated with PRIHSM who are also valued partners. The purpose of these CABs is to ensure that community voices guide the development, implementation and dissemination of the center’s research and activities. The boards include patients who have experienced the outcomes we study and providers who support them. Please click on each specific Project or component above to find out more about the CABs!
Community Advisory Boards
PRIHSM (1U54HD113142-01) is part of NIH’s Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) initiative which is funding centers to develop and evaluate innovative approaches to reduce pregnancy-related complications and deaths and promote maternal health equity. Learn more about the Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence established by NICHD under the IMPROVE initiative.