Mayor Muriel Bowser to Host the 2022 National Maternal and Infant Health Summit

(Washington, DC) – On Thursday, September 15, at 8 am, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Mayor’s Workplace on Ladies’s Coverage and Initiatives (MOWPI) will host the fifth annual Nationwide Maternal & Toddler Well being Summit.

With a give attention to the District’s investments within the total well being of ladies, infants, and households, the summit convenes DC residents, elected officers, well being and schooling consultants, media personalities, entertainers, and community-based companions to collaborate and discover methods to enhance perinatal well being and tackle racial disparities in delivery outcomes.

This yr’s theme facilities on three pillars: financial fairness, well being outcomes, and the tradition of parenting.

The summit will embody 4 panels, function discussions, a particular dialog with mothers in media, group areas, breakout classes, stay artwork from Optimistic Chalk DC, and motion breaks led by FIT DC powered by Aetna with music by DJ Farrah Flosscett.

When:

Thursday, September 15, at 8 am

The occasion begins at 8 am with breakfast, registration, and the useful resource honest. Programming, together with the Mayor’s welcome, will start at 9 am.

Who:

• Mayor Muriel Bowser
• Rep. Lauren Underwood, (D-IL 14th District), Co-Chair, U.S. Home of Representatives Black Maternal Well being Caucus
• Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH eleventh District)
• Dr. Dorothy Fink, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Ladies’s Well being and Director of the Workplace on Ladies’s Well being within the Workplace of the Assistant Secretary for Well being (OASH), U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers
• Dr. Distinctive Morris-Hughes, Director, DC Division of Employment Providers (DOES)
• Jackie Reyes-Yanes, Director, Mayor’s Workplace of Neighborhood Affairs
• Tori Alamaze, Creator and Artist
• Monica Alba, NBC Information
• Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, The Heart for Black Maternal Well being and Reproductive Justice
• Dr. Joanne Armstrong, Senior Medical Director, Aetna
• Nicole Austin-Hillery, President and CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Basis, Inc.
• Tamar Braxton, Singer and Tv Character
• Robin Diggs Purdue, Deputy Director of Applications, Coverage and Technique, DC Well being’s Neighborhood Well being Administration
• Jessica Foster, Life Coach and Mama Companion, Wolomi
• Dr. Yolanda Hancock, Member of the Board of Administrators, American Coronary heart Affiliation Larger Washington Area
• Adrianna Hopkins, WJLA ABC 7
• Dr. Erica Martin Richards, Chair and medical director of the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Well being, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Johns Hopkins Drugs
• Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder, Babyscripts
• Lisa Worth, Founder, Carol’s Daughter
• Jeanette Reyes, FOX 5 DC
• Sherenne Simon, Head of Well being Fairness, March Of Dimes
• Milan A. Spencer, Affiliate Director of Workforce Improvement and Partnerships, Black Mamas Matter Alliance
• Latham Thomas, Founder, Mama Glow
• Julee Wilson, Magnificence Editor-At-Massive, Cosmopolitan

The place:

Walter E. Washington Conference Heart – Ballroom A, B & C
801 Mt Vernon Place, NW
*Closest Metro Station: Mt Vernon Sq. seventh Road – Conference Heart Metro*

Press taken with attending the occasion are requested to RSVP to [email protected].

The DC Workplace of Cable Tv, Movie, Music, and Leisure will present a stay feed of this occasion. To view occasion on-line go to mayor.dc.gov/stay or tune in on Channel 16 (DCN).

Social Media:
Mayor Bowser Twitter: @MayorBowser
Mayor Bowser Instagram: @Mayor_Bowser
Mayor Bowser Fb: fb.com/MayorMurielBowser
Mayor Bowser YouTube: https://www.bit.ly/eomvideos