Author Archives: Oluoma Obi, Sharla Smith, Joi Wickliffe

About Oluoma Obi, Sharla Smith, Joi Wickliffe

Joi Wickliffe, MPH currently serves as a Project Director of the Sexual Health Empowerment Team at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Over the past 10 years, her research has focused on the delivery of sexual health interventions among adolescents and the development of jail-based sexual health interventions. Currently, Joi helps to lead multiple NIH funded grants that focus on understanding the natural history of cervical cancer and prevention among women with histories of criminal legal system involvement (CSLI). To learn more about the Sexual Health Empowerment (SHE) Projects, visit www.kumc.edu/she

Words Matter in Creating Birth Equity – Birth Equity Series Part 2

By | February 10, 2022
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Illustration of various individuals,. Illustration is used in a blog post titled "Words Matter in Defining Birth Equity"

While some health outcomes improve in the United States, racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related outcomes persist. In the United States, Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related complication than white women. In Kansas, Black women are more than three times as likely to die of pregnancy-related complications compared to… Read More »