Achieving equity in reproductive care and birth outcomes for Black people in Canada

#Key Points

• Canada has been slow to collect the robust race-based maternal–newborn data that could allow study of racial inequity in maternal morbidity and mortality at the population level.

• Peer countries such as the United Kingdom and United States have recently adopted systematic approaches to reducing racial inequities in reproductive and birthing care informed by race-based data collection.

• Substantive policy changes will be required to address the harms of health inequity in reproductive care faced by Black people in Canada, and race-based perinatal data collection according to best practice guidelines is foundational.