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Still Birth Prevention | April 27, 2023

Date of Presentation: April 27, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Maternal and Child Health  

Keywords: #prevention  #still birth  

The April MCH ECHO clinic focused on the strategies to prevent Still Birth, featuring a presentation on the Happy Birth Day Inc, program, Count the Kicks. Presenters for this session included Jodi Long, Health Equity Director, Healthy Birth Day Inc. and Sarah Coleman, State Expansion Director, Healthy Birth Day Inc.

Please note recording and slides will be made available shortly following the session.

Presented by:

Sarah Coleman | Jodi Long

 

Sarah Coleman joined the Healthy Birth Day, Inc. team as the State Expansion Director in March 2023. Sarah is a graduate of Illinois State University, the University of Iowa, and will complete a Master’s in Public Health, with a concentration in Maternal & Child Health, from the University of Colorado at Anschutz in May 2023. During her MPH coursework, she assisted Dr. Stephanie Radke and the IOWA Maternal Quality Care Collaborative in developing materials and completing data analysis for the AIM patient safety bundle: “Safe Reduction of Primary Cesarean Births.” Sarah is currently writing a Grief Support Toolkit for her Capstone project. This toolkit is focused on providing leadership protocol and resources for birth professionals who have experienced a traumatic event while supporting patients in labor. This work has attracted a national audience, and is being developed with the support of Dr. Radtke and Dr. Stephen Hunter, who serves as a member of the Healthy Birth Day, Inc. Medical Advisory Board. Sarah has more than 15 years of professional experience in Maternal Child Health. She has been involved in patient care, Health Education, K-12 education, and Secondary education. She has been a doula, childbirth educator, La Leche League Leader, program manager, nursing educator, and classroom teacher along her professional career path. Most recently, she served the Aurora Public Schools community in Aurora, Colorado, as an administrator focusing on Health & Health Sciences for more than 40,000 students. Committed to lifelong learning and evidence-based programs, Sarah believes that health equity should be at the forefront of individual and population-based health initiatives. She strives to build meaningful relationships with others, and enjoys finding opportunities to collaborate. As the State Expansion Director, she will work to onboard new states, support state partners and support integration of Count The Kicks throughout the United States. In her free time, Sarah can be found wandering areas of Iowa and National Parks, looking for wildlife to photograph. Other hobbies include reading, family history research, hiking, watching football, playing board games, volunteering with youth at her church, and spending time with her family.
Jodi Long serves as the Health Equity Director for Healthy Birth Day Inc. The non profit organization who launched and oversees the stillbirth prevention program, Count the Kicks. She has worked for the organization since October 2022. Long advocates for stillbirth prevention, addresses racial disparities that exist in birth outcomes and leads efforts to expand conversations around health equity and stillbirth prevention in the country. Previously, Long worked for a decade in local television news in Des Moines and is an award winning and Emmy nominated journalist. She has earned statewide and regional
recognition for her work on Iowa’s maternal health disparities, social justice issues and the fight for Iowans to have their eating disorder treatment covered by insurance companies.
Long lives in Clive, Iowa with her husband Ra Shaan and their two children.

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Date added: April 27, 2023