The Project
The National Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Project IMPACT supports state and local infant death programs through sharing information, promoting policy and legislative changes, building upon resources, and fostering partnerships and communication. More...
National SIDS/ID Project IMPACT is a Cooperative Agreement funded by HRSA Grant No. U48MC05548.
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Register for upcoming Webinar!
Engaging Ethnic Media to Inform Communities about Safe Sleep
Speakers: Maria Rodriguez & Brandi Horton
WEBINAR
May 21, 2013
3:00pm - 4:30pm ET
Sponsored by Project IMPACT on behalf of the Center for Cultural Competence
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/306529768
Engaging Ethnic Media to Inform Communities about Safe Sleep
Media outreach can be one of the most cost-effective ways to educate people about sudden unexpected infant death and safe sleep. Nearly half of African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian-American, Native American and Arab-American adults 29 million Americans prefer ethnic television, radio or newspapers to their general market counterparts. Join the National SUID/SIDS Resource Center Consortium for a Webinar to explore outreach strategies discussed in its new toolkit, €œEngaging Ethnic Media to Inform Communities about Safe Sleep. This Webinar will feature ethnic media outreach experts outlining best practices that will help community health providers engage ethnic media to effectively reach those audiences most at risk for SUID.
Speaker Biographies
Maria Rodriguez is president and owner of Vanguard Communications. With an extensive background in public relations, social marketing and multicultural outreach, Ms. Rodriguez has decades of experience in culturally and linguistically competent communications and the delivery of training curricula developed specifically for culturally and ethnically diverse communities.
Brandi Horton, associate director of innovation at Vanguard Communications, develops outreach and engagement strategies designed to motivate audiences to take action. She specializes in using earned and digital media tools to build urgency for social issues including those related to child health and the promotion of public health.
WEBINAR ARCHIVED
Pregnancy in the Context of a Woman's Lifespan
Speaker: Michelle Curtis, MD, MPH, MML
CLICK HERE TO VIEW: https://vimeo.com/52492105
Hosted by Project IMPACT
Co-sponsored by ASIP, NFIMR and AMCHP
Pregnancy is not simply an isolated event or time period in a woman€™s life. It is influenced by a myriad of contextual factors that occur years before, as well as immediately before and during the pregnancy. As a part of the continuum of a woman's life, and the contextual factors within that continuum, pregnancy itself has a major impact on future health risks for the mother and the baby as well. Understanding the import and influence of a womans health risks and across the reproductive decades on future pregnancy risks and outcomes is key to ensuring that the health of women is optimized, as well as that of future generations.
Michele Curtis, MD, MPH, MML received her medical degree from the Texas Tech Regional Academic Health Science Center at Lubbock, and then completed her Ob/Gyn Residency at Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology.In 2001, she earned her Masters in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston where she focused on health policy. Following this, she was accepted as a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship and from 2003-2004 worked in Washington DC, in the office of Senator Jeff Bingaman. During that time, she was actively involved in on healthcare and maternal health and child health policies and legislative proposals. She has continued to work at the state and national level on various issues related to health care policy, with a special focus on women's health. She earned her Master's in Medical Law from the University of Glasgow School of Law in Glasgow Scotland in 2011, where the focus was on the intersection of law and medical ethics. Her thesis centered on issues around informed consent and the burgeoning growth of biobanking for research and clinical trial purposes. She served as a Professor in the department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Texas Houston Medical School and worked at a major county hospital in Houston Texas that serves as a training site for residents, students, and Fellows. She has extensive experience in medical education, clinical trials and peer reviewed publications. She is an accomplished public speaker and has published on a variety of topics in peer-reviewed journals. She is currently working with Physicians for Human Rights on a project that seeks to address sexual based violence during times of conflict and is helping to develop and conduct multi-sectoral training programs for law professionals, law enforcement, and health care providers in several countries in Africa.
WEBINAR ARCHIVED
Social Media to Encourage Safe Sleep Environments (and Much More!)
CLICK HERE TO VIEW: http://www.sidscenter.org/podcasts/2012/1_webinar.html
Hosted by Project IMPACT
A cooperative agreement between HRSA/MCHB, and ASIP