Keeping Our Babies Safe
Working Together to Reduce Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID)
Beginning in 2020, the sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) rate has been increasing in the U.S. In 2022, the SUID rate was 100.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. Enhancing infant safe sleep (ISS) promotion on the community level presents opportunities to address disparities and reduce infant sleep-related death.
SOURCE: CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Files. Rates calculated with CDC WONDER.
Join NICHQ and Safe Kids Worldwide for an upcoming webinar featuring maternal and child health experts and community advocates who will share their experience and strategies for promoting infant safe sleep. This event is designed to ignite Safe Sleep Champions, who are dedicated to advancing safe infant sleep education and reducing sleep-related infant deaths.
Speaker details
- Dr. Yvonne T. Maddox, Ph.D., President & CEO, Thornton Foundation
- Wanda J. Montgomery, President-Emeritus, Black Child Development Institute (BCDI), Wisconsin
- Grazelle Howard, ESQ, Chair of the Board and Managing Director, Black AIDS Institute (BAI)
- Thomas L. Battles, Jr., ESQ, 33rd Grand Polemarch 2015-2019, KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY, INC
- Kevin St. Clair, Quality Performance Manager, AmeriHealth Caritas Ohio
- Mrs. Geraldine Battles, National Spokesperson, Global Infant Safe Sleep Center
Facilitator:
- Stacy Scott, Ph,D, MPA, Vice President, NICHQ
