Author

Greg Roth

Greg Roth

Gregory A. Roth, MD, MPH, is Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health and Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Associate Professor of Medicine-Cardiology in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. At IHME, he leads cardiovascular disease modeling for the institute’s landmark Global Burden of Disease Study. Dr. Roth’s research focuses on global cardiovascular health surveillance, population health, and quality of care and outcomes for cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure. His research has been funded by the American Heart Association, NIH, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US

By: , , and - August 21, 2023

Black women were more likely to die during pregnancy or soon after in every year from 1999 through 2019, compared with Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander and white women. That is a key finding of our recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. […]