How an Interprofessional Team Develops and Implements a Grassroots Maternal-Child Health Leadership Program to Address Infant mortality

Abstract

Background: It is time to complement the work of our health care providers with a concerted statewide, community-centered approach to build infrastructures and systems that address social-economic-environmental factors that contribute to poor birth outcomes. The complexity of system issues that contribute to poor birth outcomes requires an interprofessional team, comprised of community and academic partners to develop feasible, affordable and implementable solution strategies. Hypothesis: Community capacity building improves MCH-related social-political factors of communities with poor birth outcomes.