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Using the National Standards as a Framework for Partnering with Others
Augusta Bilbro Director, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program, Mississippi Department of Health - augusta.bilbro@msdh.ms.gov Marsha Stepensky Program Analyst, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, AMCHP - mstepensky@amchp.org Paige...
Meeting Substance Use and Mental Health Needs
Meeting the Substance Use and Mental Health Needs of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Populations during COVID-19: Local and State Health Department Solutions Adelaide Appiah, MPH, NACCHO Jessica Cohen AMCHP Program Analyst, Health Systems Transformation Emily...
Establishing Health Equity through Partnership and Policy
Dr. Timika Anderson-Reeves, Director of Maternal Child Health & Women’s Health Community Integration and Westside Healthy Start, Project Director, PhD, MSW Community-led programs and organizations that focus on addressing the social drivers of health...
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment Season 2021
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment Season 2021: Educating the Public about their Health Insurance Options Atyya Chaudhry, AMCHP Senior Program Manager, Health Systems Transformation Sara Cariano, Virginia Poverty Law Center, Enroll Virginia In 2018, prior to...
2018 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Data Release
Kristina Wint, AMCHP Program Manager, Women & Infant Health Early this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the release of 2018 data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). Developed in 1987, the system aims...
Quarantine Exposure 2020
Ayanna T. Eggleston Parent Consultant Family Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs - Lansing, Michigan In March, Michigan quarantined. We all went into our homes to sit down and await further instructions on what life would be for...
My Thoughts on Racism as a Public Health Issue
Dr. Sheree Keitt Dr. Sheree Keitt - Senior Program Manager, National Healthy Start Association shares the importance of a father's involvement in family life, the repercussions of absent fathers, and the effort to include fathers in MCH. Dr. Keitt further discusses a...
Healthy Housing and Racial Equity
Ruth Ann Norton, President and Chief Executive Officer with Green and Healthy Homes shares her perspective and knowledge through video testimony.
Dismantling Racism in Public Health: Reconsidering the Role of Evidence
Audrey Loper, W. Oscar Fleming In response to the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, García and Sharif (2015) wrote that “these preventable deaths were only two recent examples of the stark racial injustices that have plagued our country’s history.”[1] Sadly yet...
Community-Based Doula Program is Using Storybook Narratives as an Educational Tool and Call to Action
By Jeretha McKinley, Interim Executive Director, HealthConnect One® As COVID-19 strains our health care infrastructure, pregnant women face severe isolation when family and community support is critical in birth outcomes. HealthConnect One worked with our network of...
Use the Good Hand Cream
I have a good relationship with my mom. I look to her for advice, we laugh, and have many shared jokes, even though she sometimes drives me a little nuts. Lately, I’ve been pondering a piece of advice she’s imparted to me throughout my life, which is to “use the good...
The Early Childhood Connector
The Early Childhood Connector: A Virtual Solution for Supporting the Early Childhood Field through COVID-19 Colleen Murphy, Vice President, Early Childhood Connector The Ounce of Prevention Fund As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our health care...
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Bright Futures National Center Have Galvanized Efforts to Provide Responsive Communication Strategies and Resources
Lauren Geary, M.P.H., American Academy of Pediatrics Kathy Janies, American Academy of Pediatrics Jane Bassewitz, M.A., American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is striving to provide vital support to pediatric health care professionals,...
Learning from Past Responses to Disasters and Epidemics to Respond in the Present
Deborah Klein Walker, EdD Adjunct Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and Tufts University School of Medicine Former President AMCHP, President APHA, and Title V Director in Massachusetts Department of Public Health Over the past three decades,...
COVID-19 and Health Care Transformation
Atyya Chaudhry Senior Program Manager Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. uninsured rate was approximately 8.5 percent or about 27.5 million people. Since the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020,[1] an estimated 12.7 million...
