Achieving equity in reproductive care and birth outcomes for Black people in Canada

Black, Asian, and minority ethnic women and people from the • Substantive policy changes will be required to address the country’s most deprived areas, through increasing numbers of harms of health inequity in reproductive care faced by Black maternity care providers, pregnancy grants, early years edu- people in Canada, and race-based perinatal data collection cation and child care, and Universal. [...] Association, Vancouver Coastal Health, Univer- Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Tunde-Byass), org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ sity of Alberta, Federation of Medical Women University of Toronto and North York General of Canada, Canadian Medical Association, and Hospital and Department of Obstetrics and Acknowledgements: The following individu- Public Sector Executive Institute. [...] She has re- Gynaecology (Tunde-Byass), Faculty of Medi- als provided contributions by conducting ceived payment for expert testimony, and cine, University of Toronto; Toronto Metro- research, and writing and editing the manu- support for attending meetings from the Royal politan University Midwifery Education Pro- script as members of the Black Reproductive College of Physi cians and Surgeons of C. [...] Working Group: Remi Ejiwunmi, Feben Aseffa, Association of Faculty of Medicine of Canada, Contributors: All of the authors contributed Colette Rutherford, Shani Robertson, Lara Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of to the conception and design of the work, Gotha, Tumushabe Mutungi, Marjorie Dixon, Canada, Federation of Medical Women of drafted the manuscript, revised it critically Janell. [...] Tunde-Byass is approval of the version to be published, and president of Black Physicians of Canada; co- agreed to be accountable for all aspects of Correspondence to: Cynthia Maxwell, founder of Women’s Education Made Simple; the work.