BATON ROUGE — Louisiana faces one of the highest rates of pregnancy-related deaths in the country, with many of these deaths being preventable. 

The Louisiana Center for Health Equity is hosting a webinar raising awareness of the ways these deaths can be prevented. The webinar — Louisiana’s Maternal Crisis: Answer the Call to Action — is happening on Thursday at 6 p.m.

Registration for the webinar can be found here.

President of the Louisiana Center for Health Equity Alma Stewart Allen, and Autumn Percival, a high school student raising awareness about pre-conception health and wellbeing, visited 2une In to share more about the webinar and the importance of maternal health.