Q&A: Harvard public health dean talks Medicaid expansion and heartbreaking mortality rates of Delta mothers

Michelle Williams caught up with health editor Kate Royals following the state Legislature’s decision to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage.

by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today March 19, 2023 Michelle Williams, a renowned epidemiologist and dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, caught up with health editor Kate Royals following the state Legislature’s decision to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage.  Harvard University’s School of Public Health has an active program focused on the maternal mortality rate in the Mississippi Delta.

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