Rogie Royce Z. Carandang, PhD, RPh, Featured on Science & Medicine Podcast to Champion Obstetric Life Support

Rogie Royce Z. Carandang, PhD, MPH, MSc, RPh, faculty in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Kate Marmion School of Public Health, was recently featured on the Science & Medicine podcast from Texas Public Radio. Carandang is leading efforts to mitigate maternal health challenges, championing Obstetric Life Support, designed to adapt specialized emergency training for healthcare workers in resource-limited environments. 

In nearly half of Texas counties considered maternity care deserts, few health care workers are trained to handle a pregnancy emergency like maternal cardiac arrest — a gap that Carandang's simulation-based training program directly addresses by allowing health care workers to practice treating cardiac arrest during pregnancy. 

The goal is to arm those in maternity care deserts with the kind of knowledge that will reduce preventable deaths.

Read the story and listen to the podcast here:

Science & Medicine: Training health care workers to save lives in Texas maternity care deserts