Dr. Charles Irwin (center) receives MCHB’s Title V Lifetime Achievement Award and is joined by MCHB’s Associate Administrator, Dr. Michael Warren (left) and MCHB’s Deputy Associate Administer, Laura Kavanagh (right)

During the 2019 Title V Federal-State Maternal & Child Health Partnership meeting, our very own Dr. Charles Irwin was awarded the Title V Lifetime Achievement Award from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).  This award recognizes outstanding contributions made to the field of maternal and child health over a sustained period.  Dr. Irwin earned this award as a result of his decades of contributions to improving the quality of preventive care for adolescents and young adults. He has served as the Director of the Adolescent & Young Adult Health National Resource Center since its inception in 2014 and is a distinguished professor of pediatrics at the University of California School of Medicine and the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.  Check out Dr. Irwin’s bio to learn more about the breadth of his contributions to this field and join us in congratulating him on this well-deserved recognition!

Stay tuned for our next blog post: AMCHP’s Child & Adolescent Health Team is headed to the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) 2019 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA and we plan to share key adolescent and young adult behavioral health takeaways with you.  Follow us at @AMCHP_GrowingUp and let us know if you’ll be attending the APHA Annual Conference as well.

Happy Halloween, Adolescent & Young Adult Health Champions!