Dr. Kristin Tully is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, which is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Additionally, she Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her expertise is engaging perinatal patients, family members, and clinicians to understand and address their health needs. Broadly, this work advances health equity by strengthening systems of care to address what individuals need to know, feel, and have happen over time to be safe and well.
Dr. Tully’s program of research leverages community engagement, mixed methods, and human factors engineering to iteratively shape understanding of healthcare strengths/problems and co-develop solutions for effectiveness, sustainability, and spread. She led development of a patented medical device for use with mother-newborn couplets during inpatient postpartum care, the Couplet Care Bassinet. Currently, Dr. Tully represents the UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at the National Quality Forum.
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