EPIDEMIOLOGY & EVALUATION

Current Initiatives

Our Equity, Epidemiology and Evaluation team advocates for the effective use of evidence-based strategies, quality data, valid and reliable measures, and effective data translation and communication.

Current Initiatives

AMCHP believes that leaders can be developed by enhancing one’s natural ability with learned skill development through formal and informal learning opportunities, experience, dialogue, role modeling, feedback, mentoring, coaching, and more.  For over 20 years AMCHP has had leadership development programs for Families, MCH, Title V and CYSHCN Directors. 

All members of the state and territorial MCH programs are entrusted with carrying out the mission of Title V. As such, all Title V staff must exhibit leadership skills on a daily basis, from interacting with stakeholders to communicating the importance of Title V. AMCHP’s Leadership Lab program develops the entire Title V workforce. The program allows Title V staff to learn from one another across the workforce (Family Leaders, new Title V and MCH Directors, CYSHCN Directors, Next Generation MCH Leaders, state Title V Epidemiologist and Adolescent Health Leaders), as well as those with similar roles.

P2P MCH Epi-Net aims to build/enhance leadership competencies used in combination with epidemiology, analytic, and other professional skillsets to have positive impacts on: On Self, On Others, and On a wider community.

Benefits

Increased understanding of how effective leadership skills can enhance epidemiology/data specialist career and professional pathways.

  1. A widening of network of MCH epidemiology/data specialists, and other Title V professionals.
  2. Receiving one-on-one mentoring from MCH epidemiology/data professionals.
  3. Enhancement of critical thinking skills on how to combine and utilize leadership skills and knowledge of MCH epidemiology/analytic topics and methods to maximize leadership impact.
  4. Increased understanding of AMCHP and increased knowledge and utilization of available tools and resources.

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs held its 2021 Annual Conference virtually on May 24-27, 2021. There were 1337 registered attendees at the 2021 AMCHP Annual Conference, which is an attendance record. The conference evaluation survey was sent to 1274 registered attendees who agreed to be contacted while registering for the conference. By the end of a three-week survey period (June 1-21), AMCHP had received 305 survey responses for a survey response rate of 23.9%. 

Annually, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) surveys its membership to obtain assessments of AMCHP services/products and collect suggestions on how AMCHP can improve the value of their membership.

  • 2021 Member Assessment: In September 2021, AMCHP administered an Annual Member Assessment survey to 372 members and received 123 survey responses. This document is a summary of assessments of the overall AMCHP membership experience and a detailed focus on two areas identified as top system-level priorities by member respondents: equity and workforce retention.
  • 2020 Member Assessment: In July 2020, AMCHP administered an Annual Member Assessment survey to 314 members and received 142 survey responses. This document is a summary of assessments of the overall AMCHP membership experience and an overview of other topic areas.

With funding provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in 2013, an expert panel of MCH members from seven states—Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, and North Carolina—compiled a list of 59 Life Course Indicators (LCI). The primary purpose for creation of the LCI was to provide states’ Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programs the abilities to measure and assess factors that can influence health trajectories over the life course. The Life Course Indicators cover a broad swath of topics including oral health, breastfeeding, bullying, unemployment, household food insecurity, mental health among adults, smoking and alcohol use among adolescents, and homelessness.

Currently, the team offers technical assistance (TA) support in life course indicator analysis, calculations, and location of data components, among other TA requests.

View the Life Course Indicators Online Tool​

The Graduate Student Epidemiology Program (GSEP) is a Maternal and Child Health leadership program and internship opportunity. GSEP is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a department of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and has been around since 1997.  The program has trained over 400 students. After a four-year hiatus from 2017 to 2020, GSEP relaunched in Summer 2021 with a cohort of 20 students. The application process, orientation, and 10-week summer internship experience are led by the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP). Students will receive a $7,000 stipend provided by AMCHP.

GSEP 2022 will be a full-time, 40 hour per week remote experience requiring no relocation. While the internship will be remote, student interns will have the opportunity for optional in-person site visits during the first three weeks of their internships, with travel and lodging covered by AMCHP. Although different than in past years, this creates an opportunity for a more inclusive program.  Students who might have been unable to relocate for the summer due to expense or commitment will be able to participate this year. Remote work also expands the list of possible host sites that may have been limited due to location or cost of living (e.g., those in Hawaii, Alaska, U.S. Territories, or Freely Associated States).

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