Public Health Professionals

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Being a public health professional in MCH can be a challenging role. On this page, you’ll find curated resources for public health professionals to join us in helping every child achieve their optimal health.

NICHQ and Public Health Professionals

Protecting and promoting the health of people and communities

The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality has a long history of working in public health.

Because we are deeply committed to our mission, we offer our resources for free.

Some of our earliest projects involved working with state and federal public health programs to improve vaccination and preventative services and facilitating learning collaboratives around childhood diseases, and we currently are engaged in a number of public health projects in states across the United States.

Our dedicated staff — many with degrees in public health themselves — understand that to affect positive change, especially at the scale of population health, there are no quick fixes. It takes dedicated, consistent effort at many different levels to produce lasting results.

Because we are deeply committed to our mission, we offer our resources for free, whether it’s in the form of toolkits, webinars, reports, or publications. Explore the curated lists offered for public health professionals, take them back to your organizations, and use them with the people you serve. Reach out if you have any questions.

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How NICHQ Can Serve You

Get CORAL for your organization

Does your organization need an all-in-one collaborative communication hub? Whether you’re looking to improve internal communications or to serve your clients, check out getting a CORAL of your own!

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Get CORAL for your organization

Does your organization need an all-in-one collaborative communication hub? Whether you’re looking to improve internal communications or to serve your clients, check out getting a CORAL of your own!

Learn More

Get CORAL for your organization

Does your organization need an all-in-one collaborative communication hub? Whether you’re looking to improve internal communications or to serve your clients, check out getting a CORAL of your own!

Learn More

Webinars

Webinars on Public Health topics

Centering Community Voices

A webinar on how NAPPSS-IIN shifts to community-driven QI for safe sleep and breastfeeding.

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Impact of Doulas on MCH

This webinar highlights doula benefits, Medicaid legislation, and their role in healthcare.

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Connecting Providers and Community Groups to Improve SCD Appointment Attendance

SCD clinics should partner with CBOs to address barriers and improve patient appointment attendance.

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Toolkit: Assessing Early Childhood System Performance for Quality Improvement

Learn how early childhood systems improve outcomes and identify key measures for assessment.

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Top resources for public health professionals

We’ve highlighted these specific resources for their relevance, popularity, and innovation within public health.

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Roadmap to Inviting, Engaging, and Including Patient/Family Partners in Quality Improvement and Other Related Initiatives

A framework for effective engagement and inclusion of PFPs onto health systems initiatives.

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S2E4 Benefits of Care Mapping for Providers, Caregivers, and Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs

We discuss care mapping and other strategies and tools to support the transition from pediatric to adult care for children and youth with special healthcare needs.

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Healthy Start Perinatal Depression and Anxiety

Brochures to reach mothers and birthing people in their communities about postpartum depression.

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S1E1B After Action Reviews Improve Systems, Strengthen Teams

In this bonus episode of Before Birth & Beyond episode, learn about the After Action Review (AAR) – a quality improvement process designed to help teams identify and learn from successes and failures.

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Leveraging Data for Equity in Maternal and Child Health

This report summarizes findings from the formative evaluation, encompassing data from three different activities with state teams.

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Initiatives

NICHQ projects that improve maternal and infant health outcomes

Learn about active and recent projects that engage public health professionals.

Community-Centered Hospitals Initiative (CCHI)

The Community-Centered Hospital Initiative (CCHI) aims to address the stark and persistent disparities in the health outcomes of mothers, birthing people, and infants by strengthening collaboration and power-sharing between communities and hospitals.

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Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Reduce Infant Mortality (Infant Mortality CoIIN)

A multiyear national movement engaging federal, state and local leaders, public and private agencies, professionals, and communities to employ quality improvement, innovation and collaborative learning to reduce infant mortality and improve birth outcomes.

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National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (2017 – 2022)

The National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC) provides resources and expertise to nationwide state-based perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) with the goal of deepening and accelerating improvement efforts for maternal and infant health outcomes.

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National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Improvement and Innovation Network (NAPPSS-IIN)

NAPPSS-IIN is an initiative to make infant safe sleep and breastfeeding the national norm by aligning stakeholders to test safety bundles in multiple care settings to improve the likelihood that infant caregivers and families receive consistent, evidence-based instruction about safe sleep and breastfeeding.

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