Webinar

Doulas offer a critical opportunity to address disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity within Black, indigenous, and Latino populations. As many states seek to improve pregnancy and childbirth outcomes among people of color, strategies to expand the maternity care workforce and implement an accessible doula network are increasingly a priority. New Jersey, for example, began […]

The DNPAO Seminar Series showcases the latest research, guidelines, and successes. The Seminar Series is for partners, public health practitioners, and other professionals interested in nutrition, physical activity, and obesity. Our March seminar will highlight community actions to improve breastfeeding rates. Breastfeeding initiation rates vary geographically, with large racial/ethnic disparities nationally and at state and […]

Learn about social media algorithms' impact on youth eating disorders, barriers to identification for youth of color, and bipartisan policy solutions to keep young people safe & thriving.

The community engagement series will highlight activities, including webinars and videos, fostering breastfeeding equity between state agencies and community organizations. This series will underline the importance of community engagement, pathways, or courses of action to engage communities. It will challenge participants to understand and recognize their role in fostering breastfeeding equity. Topics will include levels […]

On Wednesday, April 13 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET, join the nation’s top policymakers, experts, and advocates who are leading the fight to end the maternal mortality crisis among Black women in the United States. The event, which falls during the fifth anniversary of Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW), will feature a keynote address from Vice […]

Resources for successful outreach, technical assistance, and effective communications

As part of NYAM’s 175th anniversary celebration in 2022, we’re introducing Then & Now, a new event series that looks back in order to look forward. Then & Now will explore historical roots of critical and timely issues to both understand how we got to where we are today, and to also explore bold new […]

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and Wichita State University will share results from a collaborative project focused on non-Hispanic Black mothers’ birth experiences (services, treatment, and health priorities), including strategies to improve maternal care of Black mothers. KDHE will also discuss the Maternal Anti-Violence Innovation and Sharing (MAVIS) Project, a cross-sector initiative […]

Access to affordable healthy food is challenging given the economy, inequities, the pandemic, and more. Join a (virtual) conversation with Secretary Vilsack about how USDA nutrition programs are evolving to meet these challenges. Hosted by the Department of Health Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, American University. Moderated by Margo G. Wootan, DSc, Adjunct Faculty […]

Let’s talk about race in the anti-hunger workplace! Specifically, how organizations are working to normalize, organize, and operationalize racial equity in the workplace. Please join the Alliance to End Hunger and Maryland Hunger Solutions for an interactive discussion of the current state, successes, failures, and possible improvements to the movement to end hunger in the […]

The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) invites you to learn more about the complex and ongoing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis. The current systemic response to violence against Native women is inadequate and the rate at which we are losing our women is devastating to our tribal communities and to the Nation […]