Prematurity Collaborative workgroups

The Prematurity Collaborative is guided by an overarching steering committee and includes six workgroups, each focusing on one of the Collaborative's five strategic priorities.

Workgroups structure

The Collaborative workgroups include:

• Clinical and public health practice workgroup: Increase effective use of evidence-informed clinical and public health practice
• Research workgroup: Expand discovery and accelerate translation and innovation
• Health equity workgroup: Align multi-level support to improve health equity 
• Policy workgroup: Develop and implement messaging, policy and practice strategies
• Communication workgroup: Develop and implement messaging
• Funding and resources workgroup: Secure the funding and resources required for success

Full Collaborative Meeting Materials and Resources

APHA November, 2018 Prematurity Collaborative Presentation

Winter Full Collaborative Meeting

Summer Full Collaborative Meeting

Fall Full Collaborative Meeting

Prematurity Prevention Summit: Building a Birth Equity Movement

Thought leaders convened on May 21-22, 2018 in Arlington, VA to advance policy and practice, to mobilize community leadership, to share and spread emerging ideas and promising practices, and to energize stakeholders to achieve equity and reduce preterm birth. View agenda, session objectives and speaker bios and the Summit synopsis. Concurrent session presentations available here:

• Communities, Clinicians, and Collective Action: Opportunities to Reduce Preterm Birth and Maternal Mortality
• How Genetic and Social Influences Drive Poor Birth Outcomes and Disparities: Current Debates
• Spotlight on Promising Practices: Affecting Change in the Social Determinants of Health to Drive Improvements in Birth Outcomes
• Pre and Interconception Health, Intentionality and Birth Spacing: Emerging Issues 
• Meeting Women where they Live, Work and Play: Clinical and Public Health Best Practices in Community Settings 
• Improving Social Determinants of Health with Public Policy: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Recordings of the Plenary Sessions can be found here:

• A Fireside Chat with Dr. Jerome Adams, VADM, MD, MPH, Surgeon General, United States Department of Health and Human Services and Stacey D. Stewart, President, March of Dimes
• FrameWorks Institute Lunch Plenary with Dr. Julie Sweetland PhD, MA, Vice President for Strategy and Innovation, FrameWorks Institute
• PolicyLink Breakfast Plenary with Michael McAfee, EdD, EMPA, President, PolicyLink
• Closing Lunch Plenary with Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, MS, Senior Vice President of Community Health & Equity Chief Wellness & Diversity Officer, Henry Ford Health System. 

• Prematurity Collaborative

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