To continue to support the development and dissemination of Hear Her campaign materials that are culturally tailored to American Indian/Alaska Native communities. The CDC Foundation will support the distribution of campaign materials through culturally appropriate channels and strategies.
To identify, develop and promote respectful maternity care resources (i.e., webinars, learning cohorts, community of practice) and provide training and technical assistance to perinatal quality collaboratives for addressing respectful maternity care.
To provide obstetricians and gynecologists with fellowship training opportunities in infectious diseases and sexually transmitted diseases in women and in pregnancy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To support Perinatal Quality Collaboratives by providing technical assistance and resources to assess performance, identify best practices and optimize quality improvement initiatives.
To support the development and execution of activities to assess factors associated with CDC support of, and direction for, funded Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs) and PQC sustainability and/or challenges to sustainability.
To establish, expand and support strategic partnerships with organizations dedicated to improving maternal health outcomes. This project focuses on maternal, infant and young child nutrition micronutrient scientific and technical support; systematic review and evidence synthesis; breastfeeding and lactation support technical assistance and training for priority populations; and translation, dissemination and communicating support for breastfeeding.
To build capacity and provide field support for maternal-infant health (MIH) efforts by enhancing training and technical assistance resources that support organizations such as perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) to improve quality care.
To strengthen the Hear Her campaign by providing technical assistance to more community-based organizations (CBO) serving disproportionately impacted populations. Funding will be provided to up to 12 CBOs to adapt and implement the Hear Her campaign. Technical assistance will be provided to support these funded CBO partnerships to implement the campaign through educational and communication strategies tailored to their local communities.
To supplement CDC’s efforts to improve respectful maternal care at a system-level by supporting Perinatal Quality Collaboratives to leverage Hear Her resources as part of quality improvement initiatives with hospitals throughout their state.
To extend and augment an evaluation of the Hear Her campaign. This project will triangulate important insights related to the performance and effects of key campaign materials.
To establish, expand and support strategic partnerships with organizations dedicated to improving maternal health outcomes. This project focuses on engaging community-based organizations and subject matter experts to reduce maternal mortality while also fostering relationships with tribal-serving organizations.
To support state and local health departments in implementing Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), streamlining data collection and providing actionable insights to inform public health strategies.
To support Tribal Serving Organizations in adapting and implementing Healthy Native Babies materials, providing culturally informed training and expanding community engagement to reduce sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths.
To create centers of excellence and expand emergency obstetric and neonatal care capacity in regions of Tanzania. The CDC Foundation will implement activities to evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes and health facility improvements in Tanzania, and provide scientific expertise and technical assistance to partners in Tanzania, Malawi and Nigeria.
To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between folic acid intake and health outcomes, including various folate/folic acid exposures and folate mechanisms.
To continue strengthening and building opportunities for collaboration between nursing groups and associations. As part of this program, the CDC Foundation will provide support for nursing groups to pursue and develop promising partnership opportunities.
To create a long-term network of high-quality sites to collect robust and standardized primary data with the overarching objective of tracking the preventable causes of childhood death globally.
