Underwood, Adams Announce Speakers, Agenda for 2024 Black Maternal Health Caucus Stakeholder Summit
Today, Representative Lauren Underwood (IL-14), in collaboration with Representative Alma Adams (NC-12), announced the agenda and speakers for the 2024 Black Maternal Health Caucus (BMHC) Stakeholder Summit in Joliet, IL, taking place on Monday, August 26, 2024.
The summit will feature Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Carole Johnson, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration; Charles Johnson, Founder of 4Kira4Moms; Tatyana Ali, actress, Baby Yams Founder, and celebrity advocate for March of Dimes; and BMHC Co-Founders and Co-Chairs Underwood and Adams, among others.
The summit will highlight recent federal progress to improve maternal health outcomes, provide trainings on how to access federal funding secured by the Caucus and other resources, spotlight opportunities to continue to advance the Momnibus Act and key maternal health legislative priorities, and help build partnerships and strategies to end the maternal health crisis in the United States. It will also include a resource fair where attendees can learn more about local services. This is the fourth annual Stakeholder Summit since the Caucus was founded by Underwood and Adams in 2019.
Summit programming will be available both in-person and virtually. Interested attendees – both in-person and virtual – can RSVP here. A livestream will be available here.
Members of the media and digital creators interested in covering the Summit should send an email to BlackMaternalHealthCaucus@mail.house.gov.
The full list of speakers in the 2024 Summit is below:
- Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Administrator Carole Johnson, Health Resources and Services Administration
- Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14)
- Representative Alma Adams (D-NC-12) [Virtual]
- Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) [Virtual]
- Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA) [Virtual]
- Dr. Nakela Cook, Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
- Dr. Yvonne Bronner, Principal Investigator of the Maternal Health Research Coordinating Center, Morgan State University
- State Senator Lakesia Collins (IL-5)
- State Representative Carol Ammons (IL-103), Bicameral Chair of the Illinois Black Caucus
- Charles Johnson, Founder, 4Kira4Moms
- Tatyana Ali, Actress, Baby Yams Founder, and celebrity advocate for March of Dimes
- Dr. Harvey Karp, Founder and CEO, Happiest Baby
- Erin Erenberg, CEO, Chamber of Mothers
- Dr. Hillary Bracken, Associate Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
- Dr. Rachel Caskey, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine at University of Illinois Chicago
- Roslyn Holliday Moore, Deputy Director for Programs, Office of Minority Health
- Dr. Antonello Pileggi, Program Officer, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Catherine Liao, Chief Strategy Officer, Cardiex
- Stacey Brayboy, Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs, March of Dimes
- Dr. Kenya McRae, Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at University of Illinois Chicago
- Additional speakers to be added.
The 2024 Summit Agenda is below:
8:30 AM CT: Doors Open
9:30 AM CT: Opening Remarks
10:00 AM CT: Panel 1:Empowered – Using our Voices for Change
11:00 AM CT: Panel 2: 5 Years of Progress – Federal Action to Advance Maternal Health
12:00 PM CT: Break for Lunch
1:30 PM CT: Breakout Session 1A: Unlocking Federal Dollars: How to Get Momnibus Funding for Research and Innovation
Breakout Session 1B: Momnibus 101
2:45 PM CT: Breakout Session 2A: Unlocking Federal Dollars: How to Get Momnibus Funding for Community Organizations and Local Governments
Breakout Session 2B: Mama Speaks: Community Maternal Health Training
4:00 PM CT: Closing Reception with Networking and Photo Line
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