About
CHIME is uncovering how best to support maternal health during pregnancy and postpartum.
What is CHIME?
Comparing Health Interventions for Maternal Equity, or CHIME, is a community-engaged research effort to promote maternal health during pregnancy and beyond. With funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, CHIME’s core components include:
Comparative Effectiveness Research
The CHIME study is comparing the effectiveness of three interventions on postpartum weight retention at 12 months postpartum among pregnant mothers in NYC. Ultimately, these findings may hold the potential to change clinical practice by providing new packages of linked social and behavioral interventions for implementation in clinical and community practice to ensure maternal health equity.​
Community Engagement
We are guided by a Community and Patient Committee, Research Steering Committee, and Broader Award Partnership Committee of clinical, patient, and community partners who are actively involved with program decision making and implementation.
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CHIME grew out of new and existing partnerships among academic researchers, community organizations, clinicians and health systems, public health and policy groups, and other stakeholders across New York City (NYC) who are invested in improving maternal health equity:
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Public Health Solutions, one of the largest non-profit organizations serving in NYC Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership, a nationally recognized organization in the areas of maternal and child health,
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The Childhood Research in Obesity Program at Stanford University, researchers with longstanding NYC-based partnerships,
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center,
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New York-Presbyterian Queens,
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New York University Langone Health and its affiliates,
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Mentorship
Our CHIME Scholars program is mentoring postdoctoral fellows and early-stage investigators on community-partnered comparative effectiveness research.
​Contact us at chimeteam@stanford.edu to learn more.
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