Peter Brandon Conférence inaugurale Toqueville Fulbright Chair

While much is known about the epidemiology of maternal mortality, little is known about the political economy of maternal mortality. This talk will cover three areas: First, he will show the strikingly divergent trends in maternal mortality rates and aspects of policy economy between France and the United States; then he will discuss the challenges confronting the researcher aiming to reliably measure maternal mortality and accurately portray the political economies of France and the United States; and third, he will propose hypotheses that can be tested empirically about the association between the two nations’ political economies and each one’s maternal mortality rates.