Pulse is an AMCHP bi-monthly newsletter featuring a curated selection of insightful, story-driven articles and perspectives centered on critical topics in maternal and child health (MCH). Each edition showcases a collection of contributions authored by AMCHP’s subject matter experts, partners, and collaborators, including families and individuals with lived experience with the challenges AMCHP endeavors to solve.
This newsletter includes a special segment called Pulse Plus, which features articles on various MCH issues and topics relevant to our members and the broader MCH community.
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Roundtable Reveals Top Challenges in State MCH Data and Epidemiology
Jennifer Farfalla Senior Epidemiologist, AMCHP Bringing together epidemiologists to talk about needs and challenges at the state level is an insightful experience. In 2016 AMCHP held its first epidemiology roundtable discussion at our Annual Conference, where...
From the President
Michael Warren President of the Board of Directors, AMCHP Greetings, AMCHP colleagues and friends! Thanks to all of you who were able to join us last month in Kansas City for our 2017 Annual Conference. With registration approaching 900, this was by far our largest...
Health Systems Transformation: Evolving for Changing Times
Stacy Collins, Atyya Chaudhry, Emily Eckert, Sara Miller and Elliane Yashar Health Systems Transformation Team, AMCHP As we start the new year, this AMCHP team has a note-worthy announcement. In January, the AMCHP Health Reform Implementation (HRI) team formally...
Informing MCH Public Health Practice through Data, Assessment and Evidence-Based Practice
Cheryl Clark, Krista Granger, Jennifer Farfalla, Lynda Krisowaty and Charlotte Cleveland Epidemiology and Evaluation Team, AMCHP Data and information assist with descriptive measures of health and health-related services and can be used to demonstrate the impacts of...
Working with State Legislators to Advance MCH Priorities
Tips for Title V Professionals Emily Eckert Program Analyst, Health Systems Transformation; AMCHP Tahra Johnson, MPH Senior Policy Specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures Title V leaders are well-positioned to educate state policymakers on the unique...
Addressing the Zika Virus: The Texas Example
Rachel Jew, MPA Title V CSHCN Director Manager, CSHCN Systems Development Group Title V Maternal and Child Health Texas Department of State Health Services The 2017 AMCHP Conference brought together state and federal MCH leaders to discuss the response to Zika. This...
Workforce and Leadership Development: Building MCH Capacity
Ki'Yonna Jones and Nisa Hussein Workforce and Leadership Development Team, AMCHP Leadership Lab: The Leadership Lab is structured to allow Title V staff from across the workforce (family leaders, new Title V and MCH directors, CYSHCN directors, Next Generation MCH...
New Frontiers in Title V Implementation
How States Use National Standards to Improve Systems of Care for CYSCHN Kate Taft Associate Director, Child and Adolescent Health; AMCHP To foster action within states to improve the system of care for children and youth with special health care needs, the Lucile...
Updating the National Newborn Screening Contingency Plan
Perspectives from Advisory Committee Members at the 2017 AMCHP Conference Cori Floyd, Program Analyst, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs; AMCHP Nearly all of the 4 million infants born in the U.S. each year are screened by state newborn screening (NBS)...
Family Engagement: A Cross-Cutting Strategy
Michelle Jarvis Family Engagement and Leadership Development Specialist, AMCHP 2016 was a great year for family engagement at AMCHP! We started the year by reimagining the role of our family leader on staff to emphasize that family engagement is cross-cutting. This...
