Research and Data
The Research and Data section of NACPM’s website brings together key studies, reports, and data resources that help document the outcomes, workforce conditions, and policy landscape of CPMs. By compiling research findings, national datasets, and evidence from community birth models, this page supports midwives, researchers, advocates, and policymakers in understanding the impact of midwifery care and using evidence to improve maternal health policy, strengthen quality improvement efforts, and expand access to community-based perinatal care.
Equity and Access Reports
Comprehensive analysis of state-by-state policies affecting licensed midwifery—including licensure, scope of practice, reimbursement, and workforce availability—to highlight barriers and opportunities for improving equitable access to midwifery care across the United States.
CPM Midwifery Drug Legend
National resource that maps state-by-state medication access and prescriptive authority for community midwives, helping clarify what medications Certified Professional Midwives can obtain, carry, and administer to support safe maternity care.
Mapping CPM Policies
Midwifery policy maps make complex state-by-state laws, regulations, and workforce conditions visible, helping advocates, policymakers, and midwives quickly understand where access to midwifery care exists—and where policy change is needed to expand equitable care.
Help Develop New Tools
Collecting practice and workforce data is essential for demonstrating quality outcomes, informing consumers and policymakers, improving midwifery practice, and advancing evidence-based perinatal care policy.
Importance of Collecting Birth Outcomes Data
Collecting outcomes data allows CPMs to demonstrate the safety, effectiveness, and value of community-based care, strengthen quality improvement, and ensure that policymakers and health systems have accurate information about the impact of midwifery services.
Community Birth Data
The U.S. has the opportunity to invest in what research shows works. Midwife-led community birth improves outcomes, lowers costs, and reaches communities too often left behind.
