April 2 – 4, 2024 Meeting

Federal Register Notice
Agenda (PDF - 547 KB)

Presentations

MCHB Updates (PDF - 1 MB)
Michael Warren
Associate Administrator
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration

Emerging Issues in Infant and Maternal Health: Congenital Syphilis (PDF - 1 MB)
Babak Yaghmaei
Deputy Director Region 3 & 4 Engagement Team Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH)
Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Shannon Dowler
Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Consultant to OASH National Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis Syndemic (NSCSS) Federal Task Force
Office of the Assistant Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Improving the Health of Black and African American Birthing People and their Infants in St. Louis
Matifadza Hlatshwayo-Davis
Director of Health
City of St. Louis Department of Health

Kanika Cunningham (PDF - 1 MB)
Director
St. Louis County Department of Health

Advancing Racially Just and Equitable Outcomes in Black Maternal and Infant Health in St. Louis (PDF - 90 MB)
Kendra Copanas
Executive Director
Generate Health

Lora Gulley
Director of Community Mobilization/Advocacy
Generate Health

State Approaches to Improving Outcomes for Black and African American Birthing People and their Families
Martha J. Smith (PDF - 2 MB)
Maternal Child Health Director
Public Health Nursing Manager,
Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services

Heidi Miller
Chief Medical Officer
Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services

Priscilla M. Mpasi Chair (PDF - 2 MB)
Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium (DHMIC) Member,
Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative (DPQC)

Shelby Weeks (PDF - 249 KB)
Infant and Community Health Branch Head
Division of Public Health
NC Department of Health and Human Services

Breanna Grant (PDF - 1 MB)
Perinatal Health Educator
Guilford County Health Department
Every Baby Guilford

Federal Healthy Start Program: Missouri Grantees
Cynthia Dean (PDF - 90 MB)
CEO/Project Director
MO Bootheel Regional Consortium, Inc.

Federal Updates
RDML Felicia Collins (PDF - 1 MB)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health Director
Office of Minority Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Kevin Koenig (PDF - 847 KB)
Health Insurance Specialist
Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Black Women’s Health Panel
Kanika Harris (PDF - 18 MB)
Senior Director of Maternal and Child Health
Black Women’s Health Imperative

Ronke Faleti (PDF - 2 MB)
Founder & Chief Experience Officer (CEO)
Korédé House

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