Building Sustainable Improvements in Neonatal Outcomes

Improved medical treatments, greater use of behavioral and counseling interventions, expanded health care coverage, and enhanced social services have helped reduce infant mortality and morbidity significantly during the past three decades. Nevertheless, the United States continues to experience high rates of poor neonatal outcomes compared with other industrialized countries. This forum will explore the research and policies needed to build sustainable improvements in neonatal outcomes.

MODERATOR
Norma Gavin, PhD, Senior Fellow, RTI International

DISCUSSANT
Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Harold and Jane Hirsch Professor of Health Law and Policy, George Washington University

RTI PANELISTS
Nabil El-Khorazaty, PhD, will discuss lessons learned and policy implications from multi-site behavioral intervention studies conducted in Washington, DC, that address various risk factors responsible for high infant mortality.
What Did We Learn from Intervention Studies? NIH-DC Initiative to Reduce Infant Mortality in Minority Populations

Susan Haber, ScD, will report on the relationship between health insurance coverage and neo-perinatal health outcomes, as well as implications for the policy debate on expansion of health insurance coverage.
Providing Access to Preconception and Interconception Care to Low-Income Women of Childbearing Age

Don Bailey, PhD, Distinguished Fellow, will discuss the changes that are occurring in newborn screening and the research needed to inform policy about newborn screening programs.
The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Newborn Screening

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