Multilevel Community Engagement to Inform a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objective: To explore how patients, community-based perinatal support professionals, and health system clinicians and staff perceived facilitators and barriers to implementation of a randomized clinical trial (RCT) designed to optimize Black maternal heart health.

Methods: This article describes the formative work that we believed needed to occur before the start of the Change of H.E.

Breastfeeding Awareness and Empowerment (BAE): A Black Women-Led Approach to Promoting a Multigenerational Culture of Health.

1 Background: Critical gaps in the U.S. healthcare system perpetuate adverse reproductive health outcomes for Black people.