SoS 165 - Maternal Stress from a Doula's Perspective with Dr. Holly Horan

Dr. Holly Horan is a clinical, biocultural, and medical anthropologist at the University of Alabama studying how lived experiences contribute to perinatal health and birth outcomes . She chats with Chris and Cara about how her experience as a trained doula parallels her research investigating maternal stress and how her fieldwork has shaped the direction of her studies. You can find Dr. Horan's AJHB paper on cortisol levels across the pregnancy and postpartum period here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23718 Learn more about Dr. Horan's work at https://hhoran.people.ua.edu and contact her at hhoran@ua.edu Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra