Rebecca Delafield

Assistant Professor Rebecca Delafield’s work primarily focuses on understanding and assessing health outcomes and health care experiences of Pasifika people. She is trained in community-based research approaches and maternal and child health. Her research examines socio-cultural, psychosocial, medical, and biological factors that influence health care quality and health outcomes, with a particular attention to pregnancy and the perinatal period.

Dr. Delafield utilizes quantitative and qualitative methods to identify factors that community members, community leaders, and academic researchers can address to advance health and well-being of birthing-people and families. She is currently Principal Investigator on a research study examining maternity care experiences among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. using a culturally adapted measure of patient-provider communication and relationship.

Education

  • PhD, Public Health - Community-based and Translational Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
  • MPH, Maternal & Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
  • BA, Sociology, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

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Selected Publications

Delafield R, Lim E, Chang A, VangTung C, Howard J, Dillard A, Chen S, Ebbay PL, Kaholokula JK. The cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Mothers on Respect Index for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024;24(1):702. doi: 10.1186/s12884-024-06857-7. PMID: 39455922.

Delafield R, Elia J, Chang A, Kaneshiro B, Sentell T, Pirkle CM. A cross-sectional study examining differences in indication for cesarean delivery by race/ethnicity. Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Feb 3;9(2): 159. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9020159. PMID: 33546153.

Delafield R, Elia J, Chang A, Kaneshiro B, Sentell T, Pirkle CM. Perspectives and experiences of obstetricians who provide labor and delivery care for Micronesian women in Hawaiʻi: what is driving cesarean delivery rates? Qual Health Res. 2020 Dec;30(14):2291-2302. doi: 10.1177/1049732320942484. Epub 2020 Aug 1. PMID: 32741340.