These Grand Rounds presentations are provided as a courtesy of CDC’s Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship (PMR/F) program with the goal of sharing concrete examples of applying systems-based approaches and leadership practices to population health interventions in a broad range of diseases and health conditions.
Presentation 1: Doulas are trained birth workers who provide non-clinical emotional, physical, and informational support to pregnant people and their families before, during, and after birth. Doula support has been recognized as a cost-effective intervention to improve maternal and fetal outcomes. Therefore, increasing accessibility to doulas may reduce inequities in these outcomes.
In this presentation, Dr. Meagan Chuey will describe how increasing accessibility to doulas promotes equities in health outcomes, and efforts in the state of Michigan to increase and support the doula workforce.
Presentation 2: Evaluating Collaborative Actions for Change – Utilizing the Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health.
Multi-sector coalitions often leverage shared resources and collective action to address complex population health problems. While these models are promising, evaluation of these initiatives may prove challenging. In this presentation, Makeda Vanderpuije describes how CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health has been applied to DC’ Calling All Sectors Initiative, a multi-sector collaborative effort to improve birth outcomes by examining and enhancing the systems that serve residents at the intersection of experiencing homelessness and pregnancy.
Speakers:
Meagan Chuey, PhD, CNM, RN, Preventive Medicine Fellow
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Lansing, MI
Makeda Vanderpuije, MPH, CPH, Public Health Analyst
Office of Health Equity, DC Department of Health, Washington, DC