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Centering Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color: 7 Keys to Confronting  the Maternal Health Crisis
April 10, 2024
Centering Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color: 7 Keys to Confronting the Maternal Health Crisis

Advocate Shakima Tozay discusses the Black maternal health crisis and how we can improve outcomes for BIWOC patients with preeclampsia.

Promise Walk Wherever uses individual action to fuel research, raise awareness of preeclampsia
August 22, 2023
Promise Walk Wherever uses individual action to fuel research, raise awareness of preeclampsia

Preeclampsia survivors and their supporters will hit the pavement with a purpose on Saturday, August 26, as part of the fourth annual Promise Walk Wherever event sponsored by the Preeclampsia Foundation.

Preeclampsia volunteer and survivor Jasmine Mago pens new children's book on prematurity
April 24, 2023
Preeclampsia volunteer and survivor Jasmine Mago pens new children's book on prematurity

Foundation advocate Jasmine Mago writes children's book about the prematurity experience.

"Knowing her story saved my life": Twins suffer postpartum preeclampsia
March 24, 2023
"Knowing her story saved my life": Twins suffer postpartum preeclampsia

Twin sisters Ilana and Samantha were stunned to discover that their family risk of preeclampsia could result in identical postpartum preeclampsia experiences.

AFTER PREECLAMPSIA: What do I do when my risk is not gone, but my healthcare plan is?
December 23, 2022
AFTER PREECLAMPSIA: What do I do when my risk is not gone, but my healthcare plan is?

While on the road this summer for the Reconnect Tour 2022, I met with academic and clinical centers of preeclampsia excellence whose leadership recognize that there is a gap between our pregnancy care and everything that happens beyond pregnancy.

Promise Walk Wherever uses individual action to fuel research, raise awareness of preeclampsia
August 24, 2022
Promise Walk Wherever uses individual action to fuel research, raise awareness of preeclampsia

Preeclampsia survivors and their supporters will hit the pavement with a purpose on Saturday, August 27, as part of the third annual Promise Walk Wherever event sponsored by the Preeclampsia Foundation.

How can we improve our support to empower dads? Reflections from the Road
August 11, 2022
How can we improve our support to empower dads? Reflections from the Road

CEO Eleni Z. Tsigas reflects on preeclampsia's impact on dads and how we can improve our support to empower them as partners in mom's health.

Balancing Hope & Concerns: Reflections from the Road
July 05, 2022
Balancing Hope & Concerns: Reflections from the Road

CEO Eleni Tsigas shares the first half of her ReConnect preeclampsia roadtrip, while asking the question: is innovation enough?

Take Charge of Your Future Health Beyond Pregnancy for World Preeclampsia Day
May 18, 2021
Take Charge of Your Future Health Beyond Pregnancy for World Preeclampsia Day

May 18, 2021 - Melbourne, FL – About one in ten women, globally, will experience a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, including preeclampsia, eclampsia, and HELLP (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes, and Low Platelet count) Syndrome. Each year,...

May’s Preeclampsia Awareness Month focuses on health "Beyond Pregnancy"
April 30, 2021
May’s Preeclampsia Awareness Month focuses on health "Beyond Pregnancy"

This year's campaign focuses not just on repeating that preeclampsia survivors have a risk but recognizing its emotional impact and educating and empowering the community on what they can do to be their own best advocate beyond pregnancy.

Preeclampsia is Focus of  SMFM Presidential Workshop
January 22, 2021
Preeclampsia is Focus of SMFM Presidential Workshop

On Jan. 25-26, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) and the Preeclampsia Foundation will bring together leading national and international clinicians and researchers for an in-depth look at how to better predict, prevent, and manage preecla...

National Racial Disparity Task Force Tackles Preeclampsia
August 21, 2020
National Racial Disparity Task Force Tackles Preeclampsia

The Preeclampsia Foundation has launched a racial disparities task force to create recommendations to address these issues as they relate to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP).

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