Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom joined “In Focus” to discuss the Women’s Health Summit held Thursday and what came of it.

It convened top experts in the field to discuss how the city can become a model for women’s health.

Williams-Isom explained how the Adams administration prioritizes women’s health.

The mayor’s women’s health agenda aims to help undo decades of systemic inequity.

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the city passed legislation that safeguards and increases access to abortion services.

It also expanded access to medication abortion at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene clinics.

In New York, Black people are nine times more likely than their white counterparts to die from pregnancy-related illnesses.

Williams-Isom discussed maternal mortality in the city and what’s being done to fix the implicit disparities.

She talked about the city’s new initiatives to train doulas and provide them to New Yorkers in underserved neighborhoods at no cost.

Williams-Isom explained how this individualized care helps moms-to-be.