Patrice Mocny Onheiber, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and Millie Jones, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, wrote about several of Wisconsin's new initiatives to address infant mortality. The article is featured in the September 2009 Pulse newsletter from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.
The Center for Urban Population Health plays an active role in several of the initiatives that are highlighted, including:
- Ron Cisler participates in the Department of Health Services' statewide advisory committee on the Framework for Action to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Birth Outcomes. Trina Salm Ward also participates in the Data Workgroup of this committee.
- Trina Salm Ward is a member of the broader Partnership to Eilminate Disparities in Infant Mortality action learning collaborative, and
- Ron Cisler and Tina Mason serve on the steering committee of the Wisconsin Partnership Program's Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families.
In addition, the Center for Urban Population Health collaborates with numerous other partners on several levels to address factors affecting infant mortality, including:
Leading and supporting research initiatives
- Milwaukee Health Report
- Assessing the prevalence of Children with Special Health Care Needs in Milwaukee
- Identifying risk factors of repeat teen pregnancies
- Investigating the possible complication of infections in pregnancy
- Young Parenthood Program
- Assisting in identifying a goal to reduce teen pregnancy
- Providing seed funding for the academic partner of the Racine Fetal and Infant Mortality Review
- Providing seed funding for the study of postpartum depression
Evaluation of Existing Grants/Programs
- United Way Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
- Group Prenatal Care for Vulnerable Teens
- Safe Mom, Safe Baby
- City of Milwaukee Nurse Family Partnership Program
Data Management & Support
- PeriData.Net®
- Linking birth/death records for the Milwaukee Health Department
Coordination/Communication
- Maintaining a Catalog of initiatives Addressing Birth Outcomes
- Participating as members in taskforces/workgroups, such as:
- Health Care Task Force on Pre- and Inter-Conception Care
- Milwaukee Health Department’s Fetal and Infant Mortality Review
- Healthy Babies Summit Planning Committee
