School of Nursing Faculty
Jody Rae Lori, PhD, CNM
Clinical Assistant Professor
 University
of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Room 3220
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482
Telephone: (734) 763-0097
FAX: (734) 647-0351
jrlori@umich.edu
Education
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 2009 PhD
MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1992
BSN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1980
Research Focus:
Improving maternal and reproductive health outcomes
in sub-Saharan Africa and developing countries
Keywords:
Safe Motherhood, maternal mortality, maternal morbidity,
birth outcome disparities
Currently Funded Projects:
2009-2010: Strengthening Midwifery Education in Family Planning/Comprehensive Abortion Care at Two Midwifery Schools in Cambodia and Ghana; Anonymous Donor
2009-2010: Michigan-Ghana Charter; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2009-2010: Liberian Women's Experience of Hospital Birth; Support for Scholarly Activities on Women & Gender, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
2009: Community Care Nursing: Bridging Classroom and Community Community Care Nursing: International Institute
2007-2008: A Critical Analysis of Maternal Mortality in
Liberia; UM-IRWG
2007-2008: Maternal Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, Liberia; UM-GHRT
Brief Autobiography
Jody Lori, PhD, CNM is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Nurse-Midwifery Program and the Office of International Affairs. Her commitment to improving women’s health care has been evidenced by her work with vulnerable populations ranging from inner city
women with limited resources to women living in rural, isolated settings in the United States, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
She has field work experience in Ghana, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mexico and Zambia. She recently completed a 3 year, USAID-funded project in post-war Liberia, West Africa to increase access to basic obstetric life saving measures within the home and community. She also recently took part in an international, multi-center, NIH-funded randomized controlled trial of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in six developing countries.
Her program of research focuses on community-based interventions to address the high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work is based on a human right’s approach to reduce the disparities between the levels of maternal mortality in developing and developed countries. She currently has a study underway to develop a baseline data management strategy to inform and target culturally relevant interventions using verbal autopsies of maternal mortality and severe morbidity cases in one rural county in Liberia.
Jody is currently working in collaboration with the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) with funding from a private donor on a major multi-year project addressing midwifery pre-service education and faculty retention in Ghana and Cambodia. Additionally, she is the School of Nursing representative to the Ghana-Michigan Collaborative Health Alliance for Reshaping Training, Education & Research (CHARTER). This charter serves as the guiding framework to design an evidence-based roadmap for academic-government collaborative interventions that will strengthen the training and deployment of human resources for health in Ghana. Her research in Ghana is focused on describing pathways for posting professional midwives to underserved and deprived rural areas to encourage rural service for the Ministry of Health.
Jody loves to sail and be anywhere near or on the water. She also enjoys traveling, gardening, cooking, and spending time with her family.
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