2024 perinatal grand rounds

To Reduce Perinatal Inequities: Leverage Appreciative Inquiry, Black Feminism, and Radical Imagination

The 5D Cycle for Health Equity calls us to redefine measures of harm and health equity, discover new understandings of wellness, dream of equitable care, design solutions the embody the liberatory practices of oppressed groups, and deliver solutions that strive to free everyone. This presentation challenges us to consider this cycle through lenses of Appreciative Inquiry, Black Feminism, and Radical Imagination.

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Meet the instructor

Lauren Arrington, CNM, DNP

Lauren Arrington is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University School of Nursing, co-chairing the Taskforce on Inclusive Pedagogy. She serves as a commissioner for the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education and associate editor for the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. She leads health equity initiatives in maternal care and practice at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.


The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Identify three ways traditional quality improvement approaches perpetuate racism.
  • Describe the steps of Appreciative Inquiry and relate them to radical imagination and Black feminism.
  • Apply Appreciative Inquiry, radical imagination, and Black feminism to reframe a health equity problem into a possibility-centered question and develop one health equity goal for your practice.


Accreditation Statement

Continuing Medical Education

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Content

Planning Committee

No one in control of content has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Course Information

This webinar was recorded on March 21, 2024.

The expiration date for this course is October 6, 2028.

*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients.