Yasser El-Sayed
Stanford University, CA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Postpartum hemorrhage, heavy bleeding after childbirth, is one of the leading causes of serious illness and death among new mothers. Anemia during pregnancy, a shortage of healthy red blood cells, is a related risk.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
maternal health
postpartum hemorrhage
severe maternal morbidity
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2030
What they work on
- Adapt and implement an anemia prevention toolkit, previously piloted in California, for rural prenatal clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers (community clinics for underserved patients) in Alabama.
- Compare anemia prevention efforts across California and Alabama, two states with different maternal health systems, to identify universal strategies versus site-specific approaches.
- Develop, with University of Alabama at Birmingham partners, a virtual and in-person simulation-based training curriculum for two Alabama sites to prepare low-delivery-volume hospitals for postpartum hemorrhage and preeclampsia.
More about the research
Stanford PRIHSM is one of 12 Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence. It works through research, training, and community partnership to reduce hemorrhage-related harm to mothers. This supplement extends that work to Alabama, where maternal and infant outcomes are among the worst in the nation. About 70% of Alabama counties are maternity care deserts, places with no obstetric hospitals, birth centers, or obstetric clinicians, or they have inadequate access to care. Five labor and delivery units have closed in the past three years.
Why it matters
Pregnant women in rural and underserved parts of Alabama face closing labor units and few obstetric providers. Adapting anemia screening and treatment for small clinics, and training low-volume hospitals to manage emergencies like postpartum hemorrhage and preeclampsia, could improve care where access is weakest. This may reduce severe maternal illness and death and offer approaches other under-resourced regions could adopt.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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Tulane University of Louisiana, LA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Determine whether a multifaceted patient-centered maternity care intervention improves hospital maternal outcomes and patient satisfaction, compared with remote self-paced training alone, in a cluster randomized trial across 9 Ochsner hospitals.
Alexander Friedman
Columbia University, NY·Medicine & Clinical Research
Measure how closely care for severe hypertension, obstetric hemorrhage, sepsis and abnormal maternal vital signs follows safety bundle recommendations, using EHR data from eight consortium hospitals.
Sarah Miller
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Refine the eNav Toolkit, a web app for colorectal cancer screening decisions, reminders, bowel-prep instructions and education, through two rounds of field testing with 10 federally qualified health center (FQHC) patients each.
The school
Stanford University: 87 labs on PI Pages, $1.6B a year on research, 739 research doctorates a year.
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