About the Project

BELIEVE stands for “Building Equitable Linkages with Interprofessional Education Valuing Everyone.”

In the United States, more women die during childbirth than in other wealthy countries. Black women are 2-5 times more likely to die during childbirth than white women. This is caused by hard-to-solve social and structural problems in healthcare.

The BELIEVE team is working with birthing people and healthcare workers to learn how collaboration can help us to work together better. We want to make healthcare workers and healthcare systems safer and build trust between birthing people and healthcare workers. We want to understand how these complicated problems in the health system harm pregnant people and healthcare workers and we want to help fix them.

The goal of all this work is to make the healthcare system better so that every birthing person and healthcare worker is treated with respect and care.

Engaging with our Communities

Starting in the first year, we are talking to people who have been pregnant, and healthcare workers who work with pregnant people. We want to learn about their experiences with the healthcare system. We want to understand what makes birth experiences good or bad and how to create healthcare that values everyone.