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Title: Improving Pregnancy Outcomes: Committee Report

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Section/SPIG: Maternal and Child Health

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Greetings from the Improving Pregnancy Outcomes (IPO) Committee!   We are pleased to report that the IPO Committee had a very successful set of events at the APHA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.  Here are the highlights:

1.  Committee Meeting:  IPO Committee Meeting, Sunday, Dec. 7:

  • We were happy to see some new faces at our business meeting.  The IPO Committee always welcomes new members--come join us!

  • We reviewed the descriptions of the IPO sessions tentatively planned for the 2006 APHA Annual Meeting in Boston (please see below).  Everyone expressed excitement about the theme, “Public Health and Human Rights.”

  • We spent the bulk of the meeting discussing on our prematurity resolution, “Reducing Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Preterm Births: A Call to Action.”   Our MCH Fellow, Janine Lewis, has done an excellent job of revising and polishing up the initial draft. We hope to submit the resolution for Governing Council’s consideration at the 2006 APHA Annual Meeting 

2.  Podium and Poster Sessions, (Philadelphia, 2005)

    • We organized and moderated two podium sessions as well as a poster session, all of which were very well attended.  Both podium sessions were filled to capacity.  More importantly, the presentations were excellent with a lot of questions and comments from the audience.  Many people expressed an interest in the IPO Committee, so we now have a lot of new names added to our listerv.

3.  IPO Sessions for the 2006 meeting: Please submit an abstract for presentation at the next APHA Annual Meeting in Boston.  The theme is Public Health and Human Rights.   The following IPO sessions are planned:

·        A Global Perspective: The role of reproductive choice and human rights in determining pregnancy outcomes.                                                                                     

National policies and practices help to determine women’s access to reproductive as well as other services. We invite abstract submissions which document disparities in pregnancy outcomes which may, in part, be attributed to these issues.   Submissions of abstracts for research conducted outside the United States is encouraged to provide a global perspective.

·        Disparities in pregnancy outcomes: A human rights issue.                          

We invite abstract submissions which address disparities in healthcare services (access and/or quality) as well as other disparities that determine pregnancy outcomes and which might be considered a human rights issue.

The Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Committee is active in the Maternal and Child Health Section.   We welcome your participation and input.  If you would like to become a member, please e-mail one of us! 

With warmest regards from your co-chairs,

Judith Katzburg 

jkatzbur@ucla.edu 

                                                                                 

Tyan Parker Dominguez

tyanpark@usc.edu