Christine Morton is a medical sociologist in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. She is affiliated with both the CMQCC and CPQCC programs (California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative / CA Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative. Since 2008, Dr. Morton’s work has focused on maternal mortality and morbidity and collaborating with clinical, patient advocate and public health stakeholders in translating research findings into maternal quality toolkits (e.g., hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, obstetric hemorrhage and more). Dr. Morton has conducted research on women/pregnant individuals’ experience with severe maternal complications (morbidity) and introduced these critical patient perspectives into the first CMQCC maternal quality toolkits.
Dr. Morton also examines racial disparities in quality of care in the NICU, collaborating with Dr. Jochen Profit.
Dr. Morton’s past work explored social meanings of maternal health quality among diverse stakeholders. She is the author of Birth Ambassadors: Doulas & the Re-emergence of Woman-Supported Childbirth in America (Praeclarus Press, 2014), and founded ReproNetwork.org in 1998, an international listserv with over 1000 subscribers, mostly social scientists interested in reproductive/maternal practices, policies and ideologies.
She has a son and a daughter, whose births were empowering, thanks to great teamwork between midwives, doulas and obstetricians.
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