Brittany D Chambers
· Associate Professor of Human Development and Family StudiesUniversity of California, Davis · Human Development
Active 2014–2026
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About
Dr. Brittany D Chambers is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of California, Davis. She was born and raised in Oakland, California, and is a first-generation college student who completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley, majoring in Anthropology with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. She further earned an MPH in Health Promotion from Fresno State and a PhD in Community Health Education from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Dr. Chambers is a community health scientist dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health equity among Black, Indigenous, and Other People Of Color (BIPOC). Her work merges critical and public health theories to partner with BIPOC women and birthing people and organizations to better understand, operationalize, and dismantle racism. Her research includes a cell-to-society approach to understanding how racism impacts preterm birth among Black and Latina/x women in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she has led community-based participatory projects to reconceptualize and measure structural racism. Currently, she is developing and piloting a racial equity training for perinatal care providers, with a focus on reproductive justice and centering BIPOC women and birthing people throughout the research process.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Sociology
- Internal medicine
- Gerontology
- Demography
- Gender studies
- Environmental health
- Nursing
- Pediatrics
- Endocrinology
Selected publications
Optimization of Metformin in the GRADE Cohort: Effect on Glycemia and Body Weight
Diabetes Care · 2020 · 25 citations
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the effect of optimizing metformin dosing on glycemia and body weight in type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: during run-in. RESULTS: = 1,894). CONCLUSIONS: values ≥6.8% (51 mmol/mol). These findings may help guide efforts to optimize metformin therapy among persons with type 2 diabetes and suboptimal glycemic control.
Health Equity · 2023-09-01 · 17 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorIntroduction: In an attempt to address health inequities, many U.S. states have considered or enacted legislation requiring antibias or implicit bias training (IBT) for health care providers. California's “Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act” requires that hospitals and alternative birthing centers provide IBT to perinatal clinicians with the goal of improving clinical outcomes for Black women and birthing people. However, there is as yet insufficient evidence to identify what IBT approaches…
The Journal of Pediatrics · 2023-05-19 · 17 citations
articleOpen accessObjectiveTo evaluate structural racism in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by determining if differences in adverse social events occur by racialized groups.Study designRetrospective cohort study of 3290 infants hospitalized in a single center NICU between 2017 and 2019 in the Racial and Ethnic Justice in Outcomes in Neonatal Intensive Care (REJOICE) study. Demographics and adverse social events including infant urine toxicology screening, child protective services (CPS) referrals, behavi…
Women s Health Issues · 2025-02-19 · 12 citations
articleOpen accessBACKGROUND: The association between economic insecurity and mental health among low-income pregnant people is understudied. We examined the relationship between economic insecurity and perinatal stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among a low-income, racially/ethnically diverse study population, and differentiated associations by nativity status. METHODS: We used cross-sectional data from the EMBRACE Study that enrolled Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) eligible pregnant people in th…
Parent and staff perceptions of racism in a single-center neonatal intensive care unit
Pediatric Research · 2024-01-02 · 7 citations
articleOpen accessIMPACT: In alignment with previous literature, NICU parents reported experiencing racism and NICU staff reported witnessing racism in the NICU. Our study also uniquely describes personal experiences with racism by staff in the NICU. NICU staff reported witnessing and experiencing racism more often than parents reported. Black staff reported witnessing and experiencing more racism than white staff. Differences in reporting is likely influenced by variations in lived experience, social identities,…
Frequent coauthors
- 35 shared
Rebecca J. Baer
University of California, San Diego
- 25 shared
Laura L. Jelliffe‐Pawlowski
University of California, San Francisco
- 23 shared
Deborah Karasek
- 22 shared
J. Dennis Fortenberry
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
- 21 shared
Larry Rand
W. M. Keck Foundation
- 19 shared
Steven E. Kahn
University of Washington
- 18 shared
Naji Younes
Milken Institute
- 18 shared
Alice Ma
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Education
- 2017
PhD, Public Health Education
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- 2013
MPH, Public Health
California State University Fresno
Awards & honors
- UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Building Interdisciplinary Research C…
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