Dr. Holly Horan is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama and a birth and postpartum doula. Holly's research focuses on maternal stress and birth outcomes in Puerto Rico. She is also the primary investigator on two projects in the state of Alabama: a state-wide, community-led MIH research needs assessment and the development of a prospective data collection project for community doulas in central Alabama. Holly recently served as the program coordinator for the Community Doula Program, a Medicaid-funded program providing doula services to priority populations in three counties in Oregon. Now, she leads the program's research team. Holly believes that through robust, interdisciplinary, community-engaged research that maternal stressors, and the health consequences because of chronic stress, can be mitigated through the scaling-up of appropriate social services and the provision of holistic, integrated perinatal care.