Dr. Gloria Bachmann of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's Women's Health Institute, left, expectant mother Michelle Leighton, and Rutgers-New Brunswick Honors College student Zoe Reich review the Mother's Touch app, a student project led by Reich that launched in June.Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the 2018 and 2020 numbers for New Jersey’s maternal death rate.
Zoe Reich was writing an essay for the Women’s Health Institute at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as part of her internship, when she came across the data on maternal mortality in both New Jersey and the country.
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