Karen Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG

Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG (she/her), is the Chief Black Feminist Physician-Scientist of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, with nearly 30 years of supporting women, girls, and gender-expansive people across the sexual, reproductive, and perinatal life course. Her work interrogates and transforms quality and patient safety paradigms using participatory, multilevel quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods that operationalize Black feminism, reproductive justice, and research justice at the intersection of cultural humility and scientific rigor—what she terms cultural rigor. An improvement and implementation scientist-activist, board-certified “dissident and recovering” OB-GYN, and applied epidemiologist, she led the development of the first validated Patient-Reported Experience Measure of obstetric racism© (PREM-OB Scale® Suite), now available for implementation, spread, and scale as prevention and mitigation against obstetric racism during childbirth hospitalization. Dr. Scott is the author of SACKRED Birth: Mobilizing A New Quality Paradigm in Obstetric Care, a vital call for prioritizing Black mothers’ expectations, expressions, and experiences in clinical practice, decision making, and care delivery using new quality norms and methodologies to amplify the humanity and power, not pathology, of Black reproducing bodies and Black births.
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Type of financial relationship:There are no financial relationships to disclose.Date added:02/09/2026Date updated:02/09/2026

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