CO-CREATH WINTER WEBINAR SERIES
Culturally Responsive Primary Care for Black Birthing People
Advancing Perinatal Mental Health Across the Care Continuum
Webinar Overview
The webinar discusses perinatal mental health disparities from the perspective of a family medical physician, Dr. Danielle Brown-Shreves. Dr. Brown Shreves presents the structural factors that drive inequitable perinatal health outcomes across African, Caribbean and Black communities. She discusses the imperative for culturally responsive, affirming care environments to measurably improve mental health outcomes, and examines the bidirectional relationship between pregnancy complications and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Brown-Shreves offers practical strategies for integrating standardized mental health screening into primary care and explores how collaborative, community-centered continuous care models can advance perinatal mental healthcare across the perinatal period.


