189 Promoting equity in migrant maternity care across Europe: how to actively involve migrant women in the design and implementation of interventions?

Rationales and Purpose: Migrant women across the European re-gion face persistent barriers to equitable maternity care, including exclusion from service design, language barriers, racism, and a lack of culturally responsive care. These inequities can contribute to poorer maternal and infant outcomes. This workshop aims to ex-plore practical, effective, and sustainable methods for meaningfully involving migrant women in the co-design and implementation of maternity care interventions across the European region. It seeks to challenge existing research practices, encourage more inclusive, par-ticipatory approaches, and promote responsiveness in maternal health care services.
Methods/Process of Workshop: Using a roundtable format, this 60-minute session will be co-facilitated by a migrant woman with lived experience and an academic researcher. Five discussants will present brief case examples, including intervention research from the UK, Germany, and Denmark, alongside findings from a systematic re-view and qualitative study. A ‘Creative Thinking’ framework will guide participant engagement through mind mapping, live polling, and facilitated discussion to stimulate new ideas and capture diverse perspectives.
Projected Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
1. Gain insight into innovative, participatory approaches for engag-ing migrant women in research.
2. Understand how co-production can enhance intervention rele-vance and sustainability.
3. Consider the role and perspectives of health care services and professionals in this field.
4. Reflect on the influence of structural determinants on migrant maternity care.
5. Leave with practical strategies to strengthen equity and inclusion in their own research or practice.