b'P U LT E I N S T I T U T E forG L O B A L D E V E L O P M E N T 2021 - 2022A N N U A L R E V I E WGLOBAL HEALTHExamining person-centered maternity care in Kenya Peri-urban settings, areas located adjacent to a city or urbanDame International in Nairobi, Kenya. The authors encouraged area, have high maternal mortality and the quality of careproviders to focus on aspects of supportive care, as well as received varies in different types of health facilities. In theseeffective communication and womens autonomy, to improve environments, women seeking maternal care face long waitquality of care for the women of Kenya.times, overcrowded and under-resourced facilities, abuse and disrespect from doctors, nurses and hospital staff.Person-centered maternity care (PCMC) is a scale that can assess the interpersonal dimensions of quality of care, womens involvement in decision-making about their care, if and how women are communicated with while receiving care, andmost importantlyif they are treated with dignity.In November 2021, a team of several Notre Dame researchers published an article in PLOS ONE exploring the results of a study on PCMC in a peri-urban setting in Kenya. The article, Examining person-centered maternity care in a peri-urban setting in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya, came out of a study done through the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity and was co-authored by Danice Guzmn, associate director of the Pulte Institutes Evidence and Learning Division; Laura Miller-Graff, Professor of Psychology and PeaceThe Social Side of Health Studies; Cindy Makanga, research project manager with the Ford Program; and Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, director of Notre In 1961, twenty-year-old Peter Sterling left Cornell UniversityThis spring the Pulte Institute for Global Development and to join the Freedom Rides in Jackson, Mississippi, where he wasthe Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights were proud arrested and jailed. That experience shaped his eventual careerto host Peter Sterling on-campus for a public talk. During his One methodological finding I thought was interesting was that scoresas a neuroscientist, and for the next 20+ years, Sterling splitvisit to South Bend, he also spent time in the local community, his time between the laboratory and the streets and homes ofparticipating in the Community Book Club at the St. Joseph varied based on the mode of interview: women rated their maternalpoor communities. What he found is an alarming correlationCo. Public Library and the St. Joseph County Cares journal careexperiencelowerwhentheywereinterviewedbyphonevsinbetween social tension and hypertension that challenges theclub. Throughout the visit, Dr. Sterling shared his view of what the health facility itself.This suggests positive bias when they weretraditional way America views health. A lifelong politicalhealth is: equality, education, community, and the belief that interviewed in the facility they were describing. activist and prominent neuroscientist, Sterling believes thatyour life actually matters. Watch Dr. Sterlings presentation society has narrowed the opportunities for Americans toonline at pulte.nd.edu/sterling.- Danice Brown Guzmn, associate director of evidence and learning,exercise our innate giftsespecially those who are in poor Pulte Institute for Global Development and marginalized communitiesand that this mismatch has only increased deaths of despair. 18 19'