Amy Raines-Milenkov, DrPH

Dr. Raines Milenkov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology with expertise in maternal and child health. Her academic background is in the area of social work and public health. Her community-based research is focused on pregnancy and birth outcomes of vulnerable populations including refugee women, prostituting women, and women with previous adverse birth outcomes. In 2014, she was awarded a five-year grant from the U.S Department of Health and Human Services for the Healthy Start: Eliminating Healthy Start Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health program. This intervention uses outreach, education and home visitation case management to provide services to women, their infants and partners before, during and following pregnancy.

She was recently appointed by the Texas Commissioner of Health to serve a five-year term as a member of the Texas Department of State Health Services Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force. The task force is charged with studying and reviewing pregnancy-related deaths and trends in severe maternal morbidity, and with making recommendations to help reduce such incidents. Dr. Raines-Milenkov leads the Building Bridges Initiative, a three-year community-based project funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas that provides culturally and linguistically appropriate lay health educator outreach, education and woman-centered cancer screening services to refugee women.

Dr. Raines-Milenkov serves as Chair of the Tarrant County Infant Health Network, is a member of the Texas Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Association, and is a member of the Texas Collaborative for Healthy Babies.