Jesse Davis

Dr. Davis is the Senior Clinical Advisor for Infant and Maternal Health Initiatives at the BJC Healthcare Office of Community Health Improvement. He is also the founder and director of the Fathers First Initiative at Saint Louis Children’s Hospital which supports Dads of critically ill babies in order to improve father engagement, strengthen the family structure, and improve maternal and infant health outcomes. He co-leads Generate Health STL and Jamaa Birth Village have partnered with Davis and STL Doulas of Color Collective to make a serious impact on maternal health inequities. This project seeks to intentionally scale the emerging local doula movement and Jamaa Birth Village’s licensed doula training to ensure long‐term capacity for culturally congruent doula care for Black pregnant people in St. Louis; while fundamentally restructuring the maternal care ecosystem to center the needs of Black St. Louisans during prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum periods.