MURFREESBORO, Tenn. —An MTSU professor will present research on extreme heat and its impact on pregnant women and their fetuses.
The latest lecture in the Women’s and Gender Studies Research Series, “Environmental and Birth Justice: Promoting Heat Safety to Pregnant Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in Room 100 of the James Union Building.
Off-campus visitors attending the event should obtain a special one-day permit from MTSU’s Office of Parking and Transportation at 1403 E. Main St. or online at http://www.mtsu.edu/parking/visit.php. A searchable campus parking map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Adelle Monteblanco, an assistant professor of sociology, will deliver the lecture. Her broad research interest is in inequality at the intersection of health, gender and the environment.
“This presentation will focus on how frontline maternal health professionals in El Paso, Texas, perceive extreme heat risk to pregnant women and fetuses,” Monteblanco said.
Monteblanco has found that gaps in these providers’ heat risk knowledge leave pregnant women and developing fetuses at risk of preventable harm. In addition to her research, Monteblanco also will discuss a workshop she co-developed to train maternal health providers to promote heat wave safety among pregnant women.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Women and Gender Studies Program at 615-898-5910 or womenstu@mtsu.edu.
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