Table 1.

Organization of SCHME by objectives and aims.

	Objectives	Aims	Principle of community-led research for reproductive justice
Overall	Improve maternal health through testing community-prioritized strategies that improve maternal health and strengthen community-based maternal health research capacity in Louisiana and Mississippi.	Establish a maternal health research center embedded within ongoing community partnerships and the existing maternal health research infrastructure to build and strengthen the network for improved maternal health in the Gulf South and nationally.	1. Center the marginalized community members most affected by maternal health inequities as leaders of research. 2. Facilitate equitable, collaborative partnership through all phases of maternal health research. 3. Honor multiple ways of knowing (experiential, cultural, empirical) for knowledge justice and cross-directional learning across the team. 4. Build on strengths (not deficits) within the community. 5. Implement the tenets of reproductive justice including structural-level analysis and the human rights framework. 6. Prioritize disseminating useful findings to community members first then to other audiences.
Research Core	Assess social, structural, and policy interventions that combine to create a multilevel approach to advancing maternal health equity.	Test multilevel strategies for improving maternal health at the individual, interpersonal, community, and policy levels via three research projects.
Research Project 1	Demonstrate a multifaceted, evidence-based intervention will reduce hospital disparities in maternal outcomes.	Determine the effect of a multifaceted respectful maternity care intervention on hospital maternal outcome and patient satisfaction disparities.
Research Project 2	Examine the potential of enhanced remote care for pregnancy-induced hypertension to improve maternal health.	Test implementation, process, and health outcomes of the enhanced remote care package.
Research Project 3	Elucidate and evaluate effective implementation strategies that aim to improve maternal postpartum health in a vulnerable population with high risk of cardiovascular disease.	Examine the overall effectiveness of Medicaid postpartum extension (Louisiana, Mississippi) and postpartum depression screening mandate (Louisiana) on the rates of biomedical markers of maternal morbidity and healthcare utilization.
Training core	Build maternal health research capacity via innovative educational programming, emphasizing bridging diverse scholars to research positions.	Develop innovative and transdisciplinary educational and training opportunities for early career and junior scholars aimed at developing a research workforce that can reduce maternal morbidity and mortality locally, regionally, and nationally.
Community partners core	Incorporate community perspectives into all aspects of the research and training components and translate research findings to the community for their advocacy and other efforts.	Integrate community priorities, vision, and expertise in all areas of the project, and to return results and benefits of research and training directly to impacted communities.