A Caregiving Forum for Black Maternal Health Week:
Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Dr. Taya Scott, MBA, EdD, and Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG
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Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG
https://www.birthingculturalrigor.com
With over 20 years of higher education experience, Dr. Taya Scott, MBA, EdD is committed to improving cultural intelligence and workforce transformation using a personalized, innovative approach to career pathing at the intersection of health equity, inclusion and operational excellence. Much of Taya’s work is central to public health through her lived experiences and by building community and cultivating talent so that people reach their highest potential. Her intellectual curiosity was first spurred by her mother, who taught Jackson Scott and her sisters the value of community.
Currently, Taya serves as the inaugural Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) in the office of Impact and Innovation at the Morehouse School of Medicine. She serves as the institution’s Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SASCOC) Liaison and is a member of the executive leadership team reporting to the President and CEO.
Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG (she/her), is the Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist, Founding CEO, and Owner of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, with more than 25 years of advocating for the dignity and sanctity of Black women and girls. She is an improvement and implementation scientist, activist, teacher, and mentor grounded in a Black feminist-reproductive justice praxis with formal training and experience as community-based OBGYN physician and applied epidemiologist. Dr. Scott’s ethical, theoretical, and methodological approaches interrogate health services design, provision, evaluation, and training in antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum units as sites through which obstetric racism is enacted against the humanity, bodies, and lives of Black women, girls, and gender expansive people, in the afterlife of slavery and passage of the Congressional Act of 1807 (which took effect in 1808, prohibiting further participation of the United States in the slave trade.).