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Maria Jacqueline Small

Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine
4010 Duke South, Purple Zone, Box 3967, Durham, NC 27710

Research Interests


Severe maternal morbidity and mortality (SMM/MM)
--Racial and ethnic disparities/inequities in SMM/MM
--PTSD and SMM
--Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy


Selected Grants


Large-scale Implementation of Community Co-led Maternal Sepsis Care Practices to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality from Maternal Infection

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2021 - 2026

Analytics & Machine-learning for Maternal-health Interventions (AMMI): A Cross-CTSA Collaboration

ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2022 - 2026

Trajectories of Maternal Needs and their Impact on Mother Infant Interactions in the First Six Weeks Postpartum

FellowshipCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2023

Preventing Maternal Deaths: Supporting Maternal Mortality Review Committees: NC MMR

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC DHHS · 2020 - 2022

Human Resource for Health Program

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Yale University · 2015 - 2018

External Relationships


  • ACOG
  • Frontier Nursing University
  • UpToDate, Inc

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