MMRC Research Rounds, Dr. McKerracher "Community Engagement in Pregnancy with Racialized Newcomers"

Watch McMaster Midwifery Research Centre (MMRC) 2023 Research Rounds where Dr. Luseadra Joy McKerracher, PhD presents on "Community Engagement and Anti-Racist Approaches to Pregnancy Health Knowledge Exchange with Racialized Newcomers in Canada and Denmark" on May 31, 2023.
Luseadra McKerracher is a Junior Fellow at the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, an Assistant Professor at the Department for Public Health, and a member of the Platform for Inequality REsearch Aarhus University (PIREAU), all at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark.
She does community-engaged research and health promotion work focused on identifying and reducing nutritional, housing, and other environmental inequities that affect adolescent (i.e., preconception) and pregnancy/peri-natal health. This work is framed using a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) perspective, with a view towards supporting health and preventing disease throughout the life courses of parents and their children.