A Multilevel Approach
The MIRACLE Center’s groundbreaking work will be led by members of partnering communities and Michigan State University faculty. The work will reduce disparities by implementing and testing interventions to reduce maternal illness and death through three projects - each with novel designs covering the pregnancy through postpartum periods. These projects will all build off each other, address multiple levels needed to create meaningful change, and work across several health systems.
Levels Addressed by the Center
This Center will address the need for multilevel, community-centered, equity-focused interventions developed and tested with an emphasis on scalability and sustainment to address disparities in pregnancy-related illness and death.
In addition to information on how well the projects are running, the Center will collect information on pregnancy-related death and a wide range of pregnancy-related illnesses. The Center will also have access to a linked Michigan Medicaid dataset. This connection will allow the Center to organize information across projects and other national Centers. The Center will use this information to find the main effects of each project, the combined effects across projects, and ways to sustain and scale-up the work.
Overview of the Projects
This Center will reduce pregnancy-related and pregnancy-associated maternal morbidity and mortality (PRAMM) disparities in African American, Hispanic, and rural populations through innovative and culturally relevant community-partnered effectiveness and implementation research.
The Center tests multilevel, community-centered, equity-focused interventions for PRAMM disparities, with an emphasis on scalability and sustainment. It is also home to a community partnership consortium and training program.