Reimagining Care That’s Centered on the Community: Focus on Midwifery

Everyone deserves safe, respectful, and dignified healthcare that offers choices tailored to their preferences and circumstances.

Midwifery and birthing centers are disrupting the status quo for many people by offering more choices and focusing on autonomy, cultural knowledge and lived experience.

What lessons may apply to other types of care—whether it’s diabetes, cancer, cardiology, or overall public health?

Join leaders from community-based organizations and healthcare who are reimagining how care can be delivered in ways that are more flexible, responsive, and equitable for everyone.

The conversation will explore:

• Lessons on disrupting the status quo from maternal health
• Centering autonomy, dignity, and lived experience to improve health outcomes
• Addressing social and structural barriers that limit equitable access to care
• Ways to encourage health systems to offer choices for individual needs and preferences

Convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Intersection brings together people who work inside and outside of healthcare to build anti-racist health systems. It’s a place where community and justice advocates, healthcare providers, and public health experts can share their experiences, provide feedback on how to tackle challenges, and talk about what’s working.