Epidemiology Seminar Series: Empowering Transitions to Motherhood: Co-Creating an Integrated Matrescence and Childbirth Education Curriculum for Birthing People along the Carceral Continuum 

Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology

Empowering Transitions to Motherhood: Co-Creating an Integrated Matrescence and Childbirth Education Curriculum for Birthing People along the Carceral Continuum 

presented by:

Regan Moss, MPH

Regan Moss, MPH (Columbia University) is a Social and Behavioral Sciences PhD Student at Tulane, where she leads the HRSA-funded Southeastern Collaborative for Women Impacted by Prison, is a Doctoral Leader with the Center of Excellence in Maternal-Child Health and a researcher with the Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research and in the Epidemiology Department. Through the Mary Amelia Center, she is leading the endowed lectureship series, Women, Systems, and Power: The Carceral System. Her research integrates maternal/reproductive psychology, motherhood studies, feminist theory, and social/behavioral science to explore maternal and reproductive health experiences and needs related to gendered criminality and morality, the carceral system, policing, surveillance, and social stigma. Her research is predominantly focused on sex workers, women along the carceral continuum, and mothers navigating stigma around their motherhood. She holds a pre-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University in the Khora Lab and is a consultant at Johns Hopkins University for work on incarceration and health.

Monday, November 9th, 2026 at 12:00 PM

Tidewater Room 1210

Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/91383981289?pwd=2bGcm74ShF2ARohKZ9ZvDnbg8upkof.1

For additional information, please contact Therese Carter at (504)988-6809 or tcarter1@tulane.edu.