Frances M Howell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5124928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances M Howell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances M |
| FAMILY NAME | Howell |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELL F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1358-2922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Integrating health equity into obstetrics and gynecology education: Exploratory insights from students and community advocates
BACKGROUND: Equity content is increasingly included in medical education, yet learners report difficulty translating these concepts into clinical practice. Obstetrics and gynecology (Ob/Gyn) — given its legacy of reproductive inequity — offers a critical lens to examine current approaches to equity training. Thus, we ask how medical students and community advocates experience current efforts to teach equity and person-centered care in the Ob/Gyn …
Fostering Community Support for Breastfeeding: Implementation of a Neighborhood Level Breastfeeding Initiative in Brooklyn, New York
To share lessons learned from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Brooklyn Breastfeeding Empowerment Zone initiative to increase breastfeeding duration rates in the Brooklyn Community Districts (CDs) of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville, and to evaluate the degree to which the initiative mobilized community support, and impacted breastfeeding. These neighborhoods were chosen due to historically low breastfeeding rates. Hi…
Medicaid Eligibility Gaps and Pandemic-Era Postpartum Insurance Rates
This cohort study uses publicly available national survey data to estimate the association of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act with postpartum insurance rates
Immigrant Inequities in Uninsurance and Postpartum Medicaid Extension: A Quasi-Experimental Study in New York City, 2016–2021
Objectives. To determine if de facto postpartum Medicaid extension during the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) reduced immigrant versus US-born inequities in uninsurance. Methods. We assessed self-reported uninsurance at 2 to 6 months postpartum among people with Medicaid-paid births using the New York City Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), comparing immigrant and US-born people. We created a pre-FFCRA cohort of …
“Not that it makes you less of a mother, but …”: Navigating discourses of responsible motherhood in the context of VBAC
In the United States, pregnant people considering a vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC) face this decision in a highly contested environment where VBAC is simultaneously encouraged—situated within discourses promoting vaginal birth—and discouraged through discourses emphasizing reproductive risk. Woven through these competing discourses is a shared emphasis on maternal responsibility, reflective of a socially constructed belief that birt…
Resistance and Gendered Racism: Middle-Class Black Women's Experiences Navigating Reproductive Health Care Systems
A core issue in reproductive justice concerns how racism impacts reproductive health outcomes for Black women. However, the intersectional experiences of middle-class Black women navigating racism in reproductive health systems have not been fully captured in psychological literature. By utilizing a Black feminist approach to qualitative inquiry, this study situates the psychological dynamics behind middle-class Black women's interpretations of a…
Resistance and Gendered Racism: Middle-Class Black Women's Experiences Navigating Reproductive Health Care Systems
A core issue in reproductive justice concerns how racism impacts reproductive health outcomes for Black women. However, the intersectional experiences of middle-class Black women navigating racism in reproductive health systems have not been fully captured in psychological literature. By utilizing a Black feminist approach to qualitative inquiry, this study situates the psychological dynamics behind middle-class Black women's interpretations of a…
Immigrant Inequities in Uninsurance and Postpartum Medicaid Extension: A Quasi-Experimental Study in New York City, 2016–2021
Objectives. To determine if de facto postpartum Medicaid extension during the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) reduced immigrant versus US-born inequities in uninsurance. Methods. We assessed self-reported uninsurance at 2 to 6 months postpartum among people with Medicaid-paid births using the New York City Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), comparing immigrant and US-born people. We created a pre-FFCRA cohort of …
“Not that it makes you less of a mother, but …”: Navigating discourses of responsible motherhood in the context of VBAC
In the United States, pregnant people considering a vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC) face this decision in a highly contested environment where VBAC is simultaneously encouraged—situated within discourses promoting vaginal birth—and discouraged through discourses emphasizing reproductive risk. Woven through these competing discourses is a shared emphasis on maternal responsibility, reflective of a socially constructed belief that birt…
Resistance and Gendered Racism: Middle-Class Black Women's Experiences Navigating Reproductive Health Care Systems
A core issue in reproductive justice concerns how racism impacts reproductive health outcomes for Black women. However, the intersectional experiences of middle-class Black women navigating racism in reproductive health systems have not been fully captured in psychological literature. By utilizing a Black feminist approach to qualitative inquiry, this study situates the psychological dynamics behind middle-class Black women's interpretations of a…
Fostering Community Support for Breastfeeding: Implementation of a Neighborhood Level Breastfeeding Initiative in Brooklyn, New York
To share lessons learned from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Brooklyn Breastfeeding Empowerment Zone initiative to increase breastfeeding duration rates in the Brooklyn Community Districts (CDs) of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville, and to evaluate the degree to which the initiative mobilized community support, and impacted breastfeeding. These neighborhoods were chosen due to historically low breastfeeding rates. Hi…
Medicaid Eligibility Gaps and Pandemic-Era Postpartum Insurance Rates
This cohort study uses publicly available national survey data to estimate the association of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act with postpartum insurance rates
Immigrant Inequities in Uninsurance and Postpartum Medicaid Extension: A Quasi-Experimental Study in New York City, 2016–2021
Objectives. To determine if de facto postpartum Medicaid extension during the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) reduced immigrant versus US-born inequities in uninsurance. Methods. We assessed self-reported uninsurance at 2 to 6 months postpartum among people with Medicaid-paid births using the New York City Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), comparing immigrant and US-born people. We created a pre-FFCRA cohort of …
Integrating health equity into obstetrics and gynecology education: Exploratory insights from students and community advocates
BACKGROUND: Equity content is increasingly included in medical education, yet learners report difficulty translating these concepts into clinical practice. Obstetrics and gynecology (Ob/Gyn) — given its legacy of reproductive inequity — offers a critical lens to examine current approaches to equity training. Thus, we ask how medical students and community advocates experience current efforts to teach equity and person-centered care in the Ob/Gyn …
Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cohort (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (2 works) · Medicaid (2 works)