Presentations by Network Staff
| Robin Johnson, MD, Paula Binner, LCSW, and Janice French, CNM, MS |
At the 2009 California REACH US Conference, Director of Programs, Janice French, CNM, MS and Family Engagement Program Director, Robin E. Johnson, MD, MPH, FACOG served, on a panel addressing infant mortality, along with Paula Binner, LCSW. Ms. French spoke on the topic of reducing health disparities through quality prenatal care, demonstrating how LA Best Babies Network's Care Quality Collaborative has made strides in this area. Dr. Johnson spoke on the subject of home visitation as an effective strategy for reducing perinatal health disparities.
September 24, 2009.
At the 2009 California REACH US Conference, Public Health Research Associate Sharl Talan, MPH, served on a panel entitled "Best Practices/Lessons Learned Community Engagement" presenting on the topic of "Impacting Pregnancy Outcomes through effective Collaboration," and how the Network's Best Babies Collaboratives work in this area. September 23, 2009.
| Lynn Yonekura, MD and Paula Binner, LCSW |
Executive Director Lynn Yonekura, MD presented at the 23d Annual Postpartum Support International Conference, on the topic of "Building Capacity to Address Perinatal Depression," with Paul Binner, LCSW. August 6, 2009
Family Engagement Program Director, Robin E. Johnson, MD, MPH, FACOG, presented at the first plenary session of the 23d Annual Postpartum Support International Conference, on a panel entitled, "One Window, Different Views: The Obstetrician, Psychiatrist, Therapist and Community Support Networks: Integrating Roles and Goals," along with Rebecca Perlow, MD, Emily Dossett, MD, and Jill Weiss, MA, LCSW. August 6, 2009
Also at the 23d Annual Postpartum Support International Conference, Family Engagement Program Director, Robin E. Johnson, MD, MPH, FACOG and Public Health Research Associate Sharl Talan, MPH, served on a panel on the topic of "Screening for Perinatal Depression Through Home Visitation Programs," with Cindy Chow, PHN, MPH, BSN, August 6, 2009.
Executive Director Carolina Reyes, MD gave the plenary address at the First South Los Angeles Health and Human Rights Conference, at the California Science Center, June 5, 2009.
Executive Director Carolina Reyes, MD presented before the Alliance for a Better Community's "Buenos Principios: Latino Birth-to-Three Policy Roundtable," at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, April 28, 2009.
Executive Director Carolina Reyes, MD presented at the 2009 Family Dispute Resolution Statewide Educational Institute, an annual statewide conference bringing together Superior Court Family Court Services professionals, and sponsored by the Judicial Council of California, the policy arm of the California courts. Dr. Reyes spoke before California judges on the impact of breastfeeding on early childhood development, and its importance when making co-parenting decisions. April 24, 2009.
Network member Kimberly Wong, Esq., chair of the Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force, testified in support of Assembly Bill 159 (Pedro Nava), the Healthy Mothers Act of 2009, before the California Assembly Health Committee in Sacramento on March 17, 2009. The Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Taskforce and LA Best Babies Network also sent a letter of support for AB 159. Assemblymember Pedro Nava and the California Junior League (State Public Affairs Committee) has announced that the Healthy Mothers Act of 2009 passed the Assembly Health Committee on a unanimous bipartisan vote. For more information, see press release from Assemblymember Nava.
Executive Director Carolina Reyes, MD, spoke on “Addressing Health Disparities through Quality Improvement” at the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) on February 28, 2009.
Family Engagement Program Director Robin E. Johnson, MD, MPH, FACOG, introduced and led a discussion of the documentary Breaking the Bough: A Closer Look at the Contributing Factors to High Infant Mortality Rates in the African-American Community to First 5 LA staff as part of Black History Month on February 26, 2009.
Executive Director Carolina Reyes, MD discussed “Quality Improvement: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going” at the annual health symposium of the Community Clinic Association of L.A. County on January 29-30, 2009.
The Network promoted its activities via a booth at the 2009 March of Dimes Conference for Health Professionals on January 26-27, 2009.
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