Rachael McGraw DNP, N Women’s Health Consultant, MDH

Dr. Rachael McGraw (she/her/hers) has been invested in the well-being of childbearing families for over 25 years. In her current role at the Minnesota Department of Health she is the Women’s Health Consultant where she coordinates the Maternal Mortality Review Committee and leads the state’s innovative pilot on severe maternal morbidity. Prior to coming to the State, she held a professorship in the graduate school at St. Catherine University where her scholarship focused on the intersection of social justice, clinical practice, and forward-thinking educational practices. As a visiting researcher at Children’s Minnesota, she piloted simulation training on evidence-based implicit bias mitigation strategies. Her clinical background includes caring for childbearing families in acute care, free-standing birth centers, and home births. In all these settings her focus was on relationship-centered care that strives to partner with families of all types to meet the needs of the parent-child dyad. At the heart of her work is the belief that the way we care for families during the childbearing years deeply matters.