With support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, CityMatCH developed the Institute for Equity in Birth Outcomes (also known as the Equity Institute) to instill a data-driven focus to the public health strategies needed to eliminate birth outcome inequities. The Equity Institute kicked off in April 2013 with four teams and added three additional teams in January 2014. Interest in this Institute grew,…
Perinatal Periods of Risk is a comprehensive approach to help communities use data to reduce infant mortality. Designed for use in US cities with high infant mortality rates, PPOR brings community stakeholders together to build consensus and partnership based on local data. PPOR provides an analytic framework and steps for investigating and addressing the specific local causes of high fetal…
The Life Course Perspective offers a way of looking at health, not as disconnected stages unrelated to each other, but as an integrated continuum. This perspective suggests that the many facets of life contribute to health outcomes across the course of one’s life. It builds on public health and social science literature which highlight the influence of each stage…
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and CityMatCH offer a Training Course in MCH Epidemiology as part of their ongoing effort to enhance the analytic capacity of state and local health agencies. This national training course is aimed primarily at professionals working in state, territorial, county and local health agencies who have significant responsibility for collecting, processing, analyzing,…
Well Women, Well Communities is a 2-year (2018-2020) learning collaborative of local public health departments (LHDs) and their multi-sector community partners. This project aims to move the themes and recommendations identified through the Well-Woman Project (2017) to implementation. Teams will utilize a Women’s Community Advisory Board and foster authentic community engagement to determine an upstream and downstream initiative to…
The Training Course in MCH Epidemiology rotates every year between a course geared toward basic to intermediate skills in statistics and epidemiologic methods and a course geared toward intermediate to advanced skills. The archive provides distance and on-site materials from previous courses to ensure materials are available for all professionals. 2024 Training Course Archive – Intermediate to Advanced The 2024 Training Course in…
The threat of Zika Virus and associated health risks burst onto the scene in 2016, leaving public health professionals around the country looking for guidance. The summer gave light to various means of transmission, damaging effects, geographical areas of greatest impact, populations most impacted, and more. It became increasingly apparent that Local Health Departments—and specifically MCH professionals—had a significant…
CityLights Emerging MCH Issue (2016) – Local Responses: Zika Prevention This issue of CityLights highlights the extensive work from our national partners to learn more about Zika virus and provide recommendations, as well as the work of a couple CityMatCH member health departments to respond to the issue at hand.
Download a PDF of the Growing the Field (2014) CityLights Issue In this issue of CityLights, we highlight CityMatCH leadership & workforce development tools, resources, and opportunities available to CityMatCH members, as well as other resources available to all MCH professionals.
Conversations That Matter (download) A how-to guide for hosting conversations about race, racism, and public health. The how-to guide, developed through a collaboration with the Lee Institute, serves as a community-empowerment resource, assisting public health professionals in initiating open and honest conversations about racism’s impacts. It is intended to help MCH leaders navigate the terrain of talking honestly about…
Join us for the 2025 CityMatCH Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference in St. Louis, MO.
