Prematurity Collaborative
The Prematurity Collaborative has transitioned to the Mom and Baby Action Network. Click here to learn more.
The March of Dimes Prematurity Collaborative aims to achieve equity and demonstrated improvements in preterm birth. Premature birth (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) and its complications are the leading contributors to infant death and disability in the United States.
The Prematurity Collaborative has 480 member organizations and over 700 individual members all working together to achieve equity and demonstrated improvements in preterm birth prevention. A strategic map identifies the critical strategies that guide Collaborative Work Group activities. March of Dimes provides backbone support.
Recent Events
Equity in Action: Moving from Theory to Practice
On July 8, 2019, the March of Dimes' Prematurity Collaborative held a one-day training supported by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The purpose of this training was to engage and convene a wide array of organizations, draw on their unique expertise to create solutions together and drive improvements in preterm birth and equity, using our collective action and shared strategy and metrics.
Building a Results Framework
The Collaborative is working to build a results framework to drive improvements in equity in preterm birth. Since our May 2018 Summit, The Prematurity Collaborative has been moving towards the development of this framework and transitioning to results-based work. We are operationalizing our strategic map to measure and demonstrate our efforts and progress. We have been crowd-sourcing the development with our 700+ individual members as well as cross sector and interdisciplinary experts. Once the framework is built, our progress and results will be available in a national scorecard or dashboard. The Prematurity Collaborative aims to take the following steps into this framework:
- Identify root causes driving racial and ethnic inequities in birth outcomes
- Identify strategies and solutions to address those root causes
- Identify additional research and data needs that present as barriers towards improvements
- Create a container for our collective action as a national Collaborative
- Root our efforts in results based action
- Collectively create tools and resources to advance local and national solutions
- Develop shared measures to collectively advance solutions
- Support local efforts via best practice sharing and support
Collaborative Steering Committee Members
Birth Equity for Moms and Babies Consensus Statement
Collaborative meetings
View the 2019 meeting schedule for the full Collaborative, steering committee and workgroups. The Collaborative has transitioned into the Mom and Baby Action Network. Learn more here. To receive meeting notices and join the Mom and Baby Action Network, complete this sign-up form or email us at [email protected].
Collaborative Work Group Resources and Accomplishments
Clinical and Public Health Practice Workgroup
Communications Work Group
- The March of Dimes has been working on evidence-based equity messaging with the Frameworks Institute®-a group of social scientists who develop evidence-based ways of framing issues for the public. View Dr. Julie Sweetland, VP for Strategy and Innovation at the FrameWorks Institute®, discuss how to talk about health equity for moms and babies on this recording and use the slide deck and this two-page document for additional information.
- Upcoming meetings
Health Equity Workgroup
For more resources and guides, click here.
Policy Work Group
In This Topic
- Health Care Professionals
- Mom and Baby Action Network
- Birth Equity for Moms and Babies Consensus Statement
- Prematurity Collaborative Newsletter
- Progesterone (17P) to reduce recurrent preterm birth
- Collaborative steering committee
- Prematurity Collaborative workgroups
- Policy workgroup
- Health equity workgroup
- Clinical and public health practice workgroup