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Build the Workforce Needed to Achieve Birth Equity and Quality

During this session we will focus on:
• Strategies to reform the education process to create a more diverse maternal-infant health (“MIH”) workforce and embed anti-racism curriculum; and
• Supporting the sustainable growth of key MIH workforce roles, including community health workers, community doulas, lactation professionals, and midwives.

Expert Co-facilitators:
• Julie Blumenfeld, DNP, CNM, FACNM, Clinical Assistant Professor & Program Director of the Nurse Midwifery and Dual Women’s Health/Nurse Midwifery Programs at Rutgers School of Nursing
• Michelle Gabriel-Caldwell, PhD, CD, CBE, PPD, CLE; Owner and CEO, Baby, Please Birth Services Agency
• Ellen Maughan, JD, IBCLC, Lactation Consultant, New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition
• Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams, MD, PhD, FACOG, Senior Assoc. Dean for Medical Education, Assoc. Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Feb 13, 2023 10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)