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Archived Webinar Coming Soon!

Infant Safe Sleep: Moving Data to Action

Speakers: Lena Camperlengo, RN, MPH, DrPh & Stephanie Regenold, MD, MPH 

WEBINAR

July 31, 2013
3:00pm – 4:30pm ET

Sponsored by Project IMPACT and ASIP in partnership with the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP)

“Infant Safe Sleep: Moving Data to Action”

ASIP and Project IMPACT, in partnership with the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP), is pleased to offer this webinar. This webinar will feature an update on the SUID Case Registry from Dr. Lena Camperlengo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and will also highlight best practices on efforts to promote safe sleep, presented by Dr. Stephanie Regenold from the B’More for Healthy Babies Safe Sleep campaign. 

One of the challenges of developing community initiatives addressing sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs) is the lack of reliable, consistent data describing the circumstances and events surrounding these deaths.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) responded to this challenge by launching the SUID Case Registry, a public health surveillance system that collects comprehensive information about SUID cases.  Currently, nine states participate in the registry by compiling SUID data according to specific protocols and definitions.  The ultimate goal of the registry, though, goes beyond data collection.  The intent is to save lives through improved field interventions based on the best data available.

Speaker Biographies

Lena Camperlengo, RN, MPH, DrPH is a Health Scientist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Reproductive Health. In the Maternal Infant Health Branch, Lena serves as the program coordinator for the Sudden Unexpected infant Death (SUID) Initiative, which includes managing the nine-state SUID surveillance system.  Previous to her role at CDC, Lena has more than 20 years experience in maternal-child health and has served in diverse settings including county health departments, Florida's state health office and non-profit organizations.

Stephanie S. Regenold, MD, MPH received her MD from McGill University and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She completed a Preventive Medicine Residency through the Maryland State Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, and a Family Practice Residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore. She worked in Family Practice in Oregon and in Maryland, and worked several years in college health at the Johns Hopkins University. In 2006 she became the Coordinator of Baltimore City Health Department’ ABC’s of Safe Sleep Initiative. She currently works as Senior Medical Advisor to the Baltimore City Health Department’s Babies Born Healthy Initiative which includes B’more for Healthy Babies.

Archived Webinar Coming Soon!

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

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, €?Engaging 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.

ARCHIVED WEBINAR

A Bright Future for Babies: Partnering to Reduce Sudden Infant Death

 Speakers: Erin Reiney, MPH, CHES & Lena Camperlengo, RN, MPH, DrPH

CLICK HERE TO VIEW:   http://vimeo.com/53449936

 Sponsored by Project IMPACT and ASIP

A Bright Future for Babies: Partnering to Reduce Sudden Infant Death

Participants who view this webinar will be able to understand MCHB's evolving approach for addressing sudden infant death, learn about evidence supporting a broadened approach to SUID/SIDS reduction, develop appreciate for contributions of unique stakeholders, including injury prevention and SIDS partners, explore innovative and successful partnerships to capitalize on these contributions and discuss metrics of success for impact in infant mortality due to SUID/SIDS.

Speaker Biographies

Erin Reiney, MPH, CHES is the director of Injury and Violence Prevention Programs under the EMSC and Injury Prevention Branch at HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). She serves as Project Officer for the MCHB Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Resource Center Consortium, the Children's Safety Network National Resource Center, and HRSA's Bullying Prevention initiative. Erin joined MCHB from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she served as the state's Injury Prevention Coordinator. Erin first discovered public health as a Peach Corps volunteer in El Salvador, followed by working as a community health educator at a local health department in Maryland. She received her Master's in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also served as staff for the school's Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Lena Camperlengo, RN, MPH, DrPH is a Health Scientist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention''s Division of Reproductive Health. In the Maternal Infant health Branch, Lena serves as the program coordinator for the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Initiative, which includes managing the nice-state SUID Surveillance system. Previous to her role at CDC, Lena has more than 20 years experience in maternal-child health and has served in diverse settings including county health departments, Florida's state health office and non-profit organizations.

 ARCHIVED WEBINAR  

  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 womans 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