Molly Altman

Molly Altman (she/her) is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Washington (US). Her work has focused on respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth for marginalized communities, with a focus on the interaction between individuals and their health care providers. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco exploring how low income women of color experience interacting with health care providers in the Bay Area, leading to important work describing how providers use information and knowledge sharing to influence how patients make decisions and experience their care. She is currently leading the Giving Voice to LGBTQ+ Families study, which is using participatory methods to adapt the RESPCCT study specifically to capture the experiences of pregnant people and their families during the perinatal period (preconception to postpartum)