To understand how global policy leaves behind some birthing parents, she gathered intel from doulas

As a global studies major, Chiddick learned how unaccommodating health care policies and guidelines can be for Black birthing people around the world. She also had heard family members’ stories of harrowing experiences giving birth in hospitals.

So with the support of the UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Awards program, Chiddick set out to investigate how doulas support Black women and birthing people. Her goal: to create a community-guided framework that global health organizations like the World Health Organization could adopt as part of their guidelines.

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