Health Inequities

Birthing and Raising the Next Generation: Holistic Approaches to Advance Racial and Social Equity.

Upcoming

Apr 1, 2025

3:00 - 5:00 pm ET

Video

This event, cohosted with the BUSPH Center of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health (MCH), will explore how we as a public health profession and broader society can more holistically advance the longstanding goal of health equity among birthing people and their families. Speakers will reflect on recent advances, persistent challenges, and point to new directions for advancing equity in childrearing and family health in the United States.

Following the speaking program, we welcome in-person guests to join us for a reception and alumni awards celebration in honor of the 30th Anniversary of the BUSPH Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science, and Practice.

For questions or accommodation requests, please reach out to sphevent@bu.edu.

Speakers

Nashira Baril

Executive Director & Founder, Boston’s Neighborhood Birth Center

Sharita Gruberg

Vice President for Economic Justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families

Viveka Prakash-Zawisza

Senior Medical Director and Clinical lead for the accountable care (ACO) program & maternal health policy, MassHealth

Jessica Ridge

Partnership Director, East Coast, Up Together

Moderator

Lois McCloskey

Clinical Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health