Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology Sneha Thamotharan was recently awarded a K-23 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Her project, titled, “Mitigating Reproductive Health Disparities in Young Women of Color: Remote Learning to Foster Cultural Responsiveness in Medical Residents,” will study why young women of color are heavily burdened by poor reproductive health outcomes. Thamotharan will study how these health inequities are perpetuated, in part, by provider-level factors operative in healthcare disparities that result from inadequate medical training. The aim of this study is to improve health care quality for young women of color by targeting this training gap. The study will develop an mLearning course and utilize simulation-based assessment to facilitate training and assessment in effective and high-quality reproductive healthcare for young women of color.
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