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Series Objectives: 8 CERPS Available
- Identify key components of a state and national approach to birth and breastfeeding post- pandemic that would be centered in a reproductive justice framework.
- Understand how public health responses to previous pandemics and national emergencies shed light on effective and ineffective strategies for systemic change.
- Identify critical strategies to undo harm to racial disparity reduction work and to needed strategies to restore birth and breastfeeding equity work post-pandemic.
- Identify and create elements of a Silver Linings Playbook to advance education, advocacy, policy and systemic change to improve maternal and child health outcomes.
- Co-create a multi-level Call to Action for the birth and breastfeeding movement.
Session 1: The current state of play. Where are we now?
A look at the pandemic’s impact on birth and breastfeeding from conflicting guidance, forced and unnecessary mom-baby separation, women birthing alone, infant formula shortages, human donor milk recommendations, the impact on Black women and birthing people of color.
Session 2: Playbooks Past: Learning from history and other disciplines.
This session will cover what can we learn from public health responses to previous pandemics that hold lessons for effective and ineffective strategies for change. What do we know about post-pandemic psychology, consumer patterns and priorities that can advance birth and breastfeeding policies and equity?
Session 3: Building a Playbook Framework: Getting from here to there.
This interactive session will focus on how do we not just repair but reimagine the birth and breastfeeding landscape. What are specific actions that need to taken to repair harm, what are the pivots and radical changes required? How do we prepare to engage reformers, policymakers, legislators, healthcare professional organizations and others who have the ability to make the change happen? This session will conclude with group work, with all attendees assigned to a virtual working group.
Session 4: Infant Feeding in Emergencies with Dr. Aunchalee Palmquist & Developing the Playbook: Getting Into Action with Simran Noor.
What we can learn from other countries on breastfeeding & emergency preparedness? Dr. Palmquist answers this question and identifies the biggest gaps in infant feeding/birth & breastfeeding exposed by the pandemic.
Developing the Playbook: Getting Into Action. This session will focus on a facilitated process of identifying key areas for pressure and action, led by Kimberly Seals Allers and Simran Noor of Noor Consulting.
Session 5: Mobilizing Families & Movement Building Post-Pandemic with Tina Sherman.
Values and priorities have shifted during the pandemic. How do we better understand the changing landscape to mobilize families and push for policy action post pandemic?
Session 6: The Complexities of Maternity Care in a Pandemic—A Physician Talk with Dr. Neel Shah.
The Silver Linings Playbook Values & Vision: Presentation of ideas by Kimberly Seals Allers.