Date Time Preventing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality -Improving women’s health before, during, and after pregnancy is the focus of a special issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health. The issue brings together a broad range of research topics and perspectives on addressing and preventing maternal morbidity and mortality. Click here to read the article now. “The high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States are alarming and constitute a public health crisis as up to 60% of these deaths are preventable. As the primary government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research, the National Institutes of Health invests a large amount of its budget in maternal health. Together with other federal agencies, scientists from the research and academic institutes, we hope to shed more light on this public health problem and offer some directions for the future”, states Guest Editor Samia Noursi, PhD, Associate Director of Science Policy, Planning, and Analysis at the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health.