Dr. Olden is the new Postdoctoral Research Fellow tackling racial disparities in severe maternal mortality. She recently matriculated from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with a dissertation focused on hospital readiness for Medicaid expansion covering doula services, in Massachusetts. She specializes in qualitative data collection and analysis, organizational strategic planning, and community and patient engagement.
Her work has already been instrumental in several currently funded research projects including an R01 multi-year study on maternal mortality and morbidity funded by the National Institutes of Health, an interdisciplinary grant on maternal health equity funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Massachusetts Attorney General Maternal Health Equity Grant which, in anticipation of MassHealth’s plan to cover doula services, provides funding for the creation of an interactive toolkit to support doulas and enrolled MassHealth members in achieving equitable doula care.