Research Collaboration with Accompany Doula Care

Accompany Doula Care is proud to contribute data, strategy, and expertise to many deliverables that have helped to advance the field of community doula research, policy, and implementation.

Below, you will find several articles, presentations, and policy papers that Accompany has played a role in shaping.

Peer-reviewed Publications, Oral Presentations, White Papers, and Posters with Contributions from Accompany Doula Care Past & Present Staff

Names of past and present Accompany Doula Care staff are denoted in bold type.

2021

  • Larson E, Cornely RM, Falade E, Dodge LE, Ezekwesili C, Gebel C, Ferguson T, Byatt N. Doulas provided needed emotional support during the perinatal period. Oral presentation as a result of a selected abstract. COVID Generation (COVGEN) Research Summit. Chicago, IL.

  • Falade E, Cornely M, Ezekwesili C, Musabeyezu J, Amutah-Onukagha N, Larson E. The Weight of Culture and Race: Concordance Versus Competence in Doula. 2021. Oral presentation at the American Public Health Association 2021 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

  • Musabeyezu J, Ezekwesili C, Gebel C, Falade E, Dodge L, Wu M, Ferguson T, Larson E. Patient Preferences when Choosing a Birth Doula: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment. 2021. Oral presentation at the American Public Health Association 2021 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.​ 

2022

  • Gebel C, Larson E, Olden H, Safon CB, Rhone TJ, Amutah-Onukagha N. Learning Across Implementation Stages: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals & Payers Implementing Community Doula Support. 2022 Poster presentation at the American Public Health Association 2022 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

  • Gebel C, Olden H, Safon CB, Rhone TJ, Larson E, Crevecoeur T, Amutah-Onukagha N. “Without nursing support, we’d be doomed”: The critical buy-in from nursing when integrating doula care into clinical settings. 2022 Oral presentation at the American Public Health Association 2022 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

2023

  • Falade E, Cornely RM, Ezekwesili C, Musabeyezu J, Amutah-Onukagha N, Ferguson T, Gebel C, Peprah S, Larson E. Perspectives on Cultural Competency and Race Concordance from Perinatal Patients and Community-Based Doulas in Massachusetts, USA. Birth. 2023;50(2):319-328.

  • Myrick J, Gebel C, Larson E. Evaluating clinician trust in doulas. September 6, 2023. Presented as a poster at the annual BIDMC Research Retreat, Boston, MA.

  • Larson E, Germano Toledo R, Schneider L, Herlihy M, Myrick J, Gebel C, Clarke K, Zera C. Applying implementation outcome measures framework to doulas in the operating room. December 10-13, 2023. Presented as a poster at the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Arlington, VA.

  • Larson E, Crawford S, Schneider L, Gebel C, Clarke K, Chie L, Crafts S, Zera C. Using implementation mapping to increase doula support at the health system level. December 10-13, 2023. Presented as a poster at the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation and as an oral presentation at the Annual Meeting for Implementation Science for Maternal Health, Arlington, VA.

  • Myrick J, Schneider L, Gebel C, Crawford S, Germano Toledo R, Clarke K, Zera C, Larson E. Enhancing perinatal care: The impact of implementation strategies on collaborative outcomes for doulas and clinicians. December 10-13, 2023. Presented as a poster at the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Arlington, VA.

  • 2023 Doula Data Time Use Study Accompany submitted time use data in partnership with SisterWeb, Health Connect One, and the Doula Data Consortium.

2024

  • Crawford S, Myrick JC, Privott C, Ezekwesili C, Larson E. Doula Link: Reimagining Perinatal Mental Health Support with Doulas. Invited talk as a result of a selected abstract Vital Villages 11th Annual National Community Leadership Summit. October 1, 2024. Boston, MA.

  • Gebel C, Larson E, Olden HA, Safon CB, Rhone TJ, Amutah-Onukagha NN. A qualitative study of hospitals and payers implementing community doula support. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health. 2024.

  • Myrick JC, Schneider L, Gebel C, Clarke K, Crawford S, Chie L, Zera C, Emmons KM, Larson E. The system can change: a feasibility study of a doula-clinician collaborative at a large tertiary hospital in the United States. Implementation Science Communications 2024. doi: 10.1186/s43058-024-00682-w

  • Goldfarb C, Daddario S, Pichardo L, Royce C, Myrick J, Larson E. Interprofessional Simulation to Improve Preclinical Medical Student Understanding of the Doula Role. March 1, 2024, Oral presentation at the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

  • Goldfarb CN, Logendran R, Bloom E, Larson E. Obstetric care team perspectives on the potential role for doulas providing cesarean support. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the New England Perinatal Society. March 3, 2024. Newport, RI.*

  • Myrick J, Larson E, Macharia A, Gebel C, Amutah-Onukagha N. Everyday discrimination scale scores and infant health outcomes in black families in the US. October 27, 2024. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Minneapolis, MN.

2025

  • Goldfarb CN, Royce C, Daddario S, Myrick JC, Pichardo L, Campbell K, Larson E. Simulation to improve medical student understanding of doulas’ role. The Clinical Teacher 2025;22(3). doi: 10.1111/tct.70085.**

  • Larson E. Cornely RM, Gebel C, Falade E, Ezekwesili C, Peprah-Wilson S, Dodge LE, Julce C, Byatt N. A qualitative study of doulas providing emotional support during the perinatal period: an unharnessed opportunity in the United States. SSM-Health Systems 2025;4. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmhs.2025.100077

  • Bloom E., Goldfarb C, Smith NA, Williams A, Logendran R, Clarke K, Gebel C, Zera C, Larson E. Can doulas improve equity in the operating room? A clinician perspective. Presented as a poster at the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2025 February 10-14; National Harbor, Maryland USA. Presented as a poster at the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine Annual Pregnancy Meeting; 2025 January 31; Denver, CO.*

  • Bowman J, Ford T, Warner G, Myrick JC, Goldfarb C, Bloom E, Crawford S, Larson E. Doula and patient perspectives on doulas in the operating room. September 9, 2025. Presented as a poster at the annual BIDMC Research Retreat, Boston, MA.*

  • Biswas N, Musabeyezu J, Myrick JC, Gebel C, Royce C, Farolfi G, Larson E. Patient preferences when choosing a birth doula: Results from a discrete choice experiment. September 9, 2025. Presented as a poster at the annual BIDMC Research Retreat, Boston, MA.

  • Myrick JC, Royce C, Ham Z, Watkins A, Larson E. Co-education through simulation to improve comfort caring for patients with doulas. September 9, 2025. Poster at the annual BIDMC Research Retreat, Boston, MA.**

    * Accompany Doula Care is an active member of the Supportive Birth Collaborative at BIDMC (Boston), which shaped the policies and procedures for doulas to be present at c-sections with their clients.

    ** Accompany Doula Care helped shape and participated in medical education simulations to help learners understand the role and benefit of having a doula as part of the care team.