Dr. Karen Cowgill is an epidemiologist based in Seattle, whose Fulbright Fellowship to the Democratic Republic of Congo led to important collaborative research on maternal hospital detention with Professor Abel Ntambue of the University of Lubumbashi. Dr. Cowgill sat down with China Tolliver and Dr. Alissa Jordan (remotely) to discuss hospital detention, her research, and maternal health. In this clip, Cowgill describes why hospital detention is a gendered violence, and how she came to the decision to name it as such in her co-authored article (with Abel Ntambue), “Hospital detention of mothers and their infants at a large provincial hospital: a mixed-methods descriptive case study, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo”, Dr. Cowgill and Dr. Ntambue call hospital detention a “gendered violence”.