Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention

NICHQ works to enhance the coordination and communication of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives across the nation, with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes for mothers and newborns.

Status: Active
July 2022 to June 2025

Promoting Safe Sleep Best Practices

The Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Program’s purpose is to reduce the overall rates of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in SUID; to guide improvements; and to identify and support policy changes that address state- and community-specific SUID risks.

Who

NICHQ and the AAP will support pediatric health care practitioners to provide evidence-based counseling and education to infant caregivers and families.

Our Role

NICHQ collaborates with the AAP on engaging a national collaborative to identify and promote community and state SUID prevention best practices.

Funder

Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau through a subcontract with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Project Impact

reduction in severe maternal morbidity from hemorrhage among Black women
(Louisiana PQC, 2018-2020)
people involved in something
exciting things in progress

External Resources

State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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The Power of PQCs

Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.

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PQCs in the News

Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.

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Patient Safety Bundles

From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.

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Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.

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Related Content

Resources produced by the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention project or on related topics

Meet Our Team

“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”

Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA
Executive Project Director and Equity Lead at NICHQ

Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA

VP, Health Equity Innovation

Andrea Cunningham, PhD

Project Manager, Health Equity Innovation