Black populations have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Studying within a state with a generally high maternal mortality rate, Joann Fafowora, a Master of Public Health (MPH) and PhD student in the Purdue University Department of Public Health, wants to better understand the stories behind this statistic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,13],"tags":[1960,263,386,425,1959,1807,1026,240,176,1961],"class_list":["post-43623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-students","category-public-health","tag-black-maternal-health","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-health-and-kinesiology","tag-department-of-public-health","tag-joann-fafowora","tag-kathryn-laroche","tag-master-of-public-health","tag-purdue-university","tag-research","tag-sickle-cell-disease"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n