The goal of AMEA is to collaboratively build upon recommendations from Healthy People 2020 to develop a pathway for understanding and supporting healthy pregnancy outcomes by focusing on systemic issues in maternal care delivery for minority women.

Nationwide, Maternal Mortality is three times more common for Black and Indigenous women than White women. Oklahoma is ranked 39 (of 50) for its maternal mortality outcomes. Between 2018-2021 Arkansas had the worst MMR at 43.5 per 100,000 live births and California had the best outcomes with an MMR of 10.1. (Metriarch).

In our state Black (67.5 deaths per 100,000 live births) and Indigenous women (58.9 deaths per 100,000 live births) are over 3x as likely to die from childbirth or childbirth-related complications than their White counterparts (21.2 deaths per 100,000 live births). (Metriarch)