{"id":691,"date":"2024-11-19T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T09:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/?p=691"},"modified":"2024-12-04T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:28:25","slug":"amie-shao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/2024\/11\/19\/amie-shao\/","title":{"rendered":"Amie Shao"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2024\/11\/Amie-Shao_150px-min.jpg\" alt=\"Amie Shao, MASS Design Group\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p><br><p><strong><em>Principal, MASS Design Group; USA<\/em><\/strong><\/p><br><p>Amie Shao is a Principal at MASS Design Group. She champions safe, culturally reverent childbirth spaces, promoting community engagement and awareness of how design affects health outcomes. Blending human-centered practices with evidence-based research, Amie has designed maternal-newborn facilities in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Kenya; evaluated the impact of improved maternity waiting homes in Malawi; worked with Ariadne Labs to investigate how birth spaces influence c-section rates; and coordinated the development of National Health Infrastructure Standards in Liberia. Currently, Amie is collaborating with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on a toolkit for co-designing safe birth spaces in low and middle-income countries and is designing the Neighborhood Birth Center in Boston. Amie holds a Master of Architecture and a Certificate in Urban Policy and Planning from Princeton University.<\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal, MASS Design Group; USAAmie Shao is a Principal at MASS Design Group. She champions safe, culturally reverent childbirth spaces, promoting community engagement and awareness of how design affects health outcomes. Blending human-centered practices with evidence-based research, Amie has designed maternal-newborn facilities in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Kenya; evaluated the impact of improved maternity waiting homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}