Report: Racial Disparities in Maternal Health
This report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights examines the federal role in addressing racial disparities in maternal health,...
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- Oct 18, 2021
AMCHP Maternal Health Bill Tracker
Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) has developed a maternal health bill tracker for the 117th Congress. The tracker...
- Jul 22, 2021
Medicaid Expansion Upheld by Missouri Supreme Court
Statement from Missouri Foundation for Health, released July 22, 2021: In August of 2020, a substantial majority of Missouri voters...
- Jul 1, 2021
Pampers Launches Maternal Health Equity Campaign
U.S. maternal mortality rates are among the highest of developed countries, and they are especially high among Black moms, who die from...
- Jun 23, 2021
New Safe Sleep Missouri Website
A one-stop shop for everything related to safe sleep in Missouri.
- Jun 14, 2021
New Book on the Science of Scaling Early Childhood and Public Policy
Written by leading experts in early childhood, economics, psychology, public health, philanthropy, and more, newly released The Scale-Up...
- Jun 5, 2021
New Resource: Racism Creates Inequities in Maternal and Child Health
New policy brief from ZERO TO THREE applies an even more targeted racial and ethnic equity lens to the review of the data.
- Apr 13, 2021
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Admin Announces Initial Actions to Address the Black Maternal Health Crisis
APRIL 13, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES Statement retrieved from: https://bit.ly/32diuUq Today—during Black Maternal Health Week—the...
- Mar 5, 2021
Paid Family Leave and Affordable Child Care Are Integral to a Strong Prenatal-To-3 SOC
RESEARCH BRIEF | B.004.0221 Paid family leave has a variety of benefits on its own, but it can also serve as a solution to infant care...
- Feb 9, 2021
Senators Unveil Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act to Address Maternal Health Crisis
"The Momnibus builds on existing maternal health legislation and the Black Maternal Health Momnibus of 2020 with 12 bills to...
- Feb 4, 2021
Brittany "Tru" Kellman of Jamaa Birth Village Featured in RFT
"Maybe you have seen this video by now: A Black doctor named Susan Moore lies in the bed of an Indiana hospital, reaching out to whoever...
- Feb 4, 2021
Hakima Tafunzi Payne, Uzazi Village Founder, Featured in Kansas City Star
"One mother’s fight on ‘the front lines of a revolution’ to save Black mothers, babies" "Portraits of Black, breastfeeding Kansas City...
- Feb 4, 2021
Lung Association Partners with Equity and Health Orgs to Provide Vaccine Toolkit
The American Lung Association is pleased to share their new Better For It Vaccine Toolkit. The Association partnered with The Center for...
- Jan 28, 2021
St. Louis Included in Merck's Next Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced its funding support of a second cohort of nine city-based projects...
- Jan 25, 2021
Business Case for Community-Based Maternity Care Model
This resource from Maternal Health Hub is intended to support maternal health stakeholders (e.g., health care providers, birth workers,...
- Sep 8, 2020
MO NAS Collaborative
MHA and the Missouri Telehealth Network are excited to announce Missouri NAS Collaborative, which will launch October 2020. This project...
- Aug 6, 2020
LOST MOTHERS
About a year ago, ProPublica and NPR launched Lost Mothers, a project investigating the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S.
- Aug 6, 2020
Center of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health
Saint Louis University Named a Center of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health.
- Aug 5, 2020
Missourians Say Yes to Medicaid Expansion
By: Missouri Foundation for Health Missouri voters have made clear that our state must move forward to expand Medicaid for the health of...
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