September 2022

Sexual Health Awareness Month | Self Care Awareness Month | NICU Awareness Month | National Grandparents Day | Ancestor Appreciation Day

What is a hackathon?

In July, we hosted Hackers for Birth Justice. Imagine what we can achieve when we put tech experts and mothers with lived experience in a creative and innovative space together to develop solutions to combat challenges burdening Black mamas and babies.

Learn more!

RecoMENDdations for Healing a Biased Healthcare System

Now that implicit bias training is mandated for all physicians in California — is it working? The MEND study researchers will share their findings at our Collaboratory on September 29 from 12:00 - 1:30 pm.

Pregnancy Pop-Up Village

After a brief rest, the Pregnancy Pop-Up Village will be back on September 10. All are welcome to this one-stop shop for pregnancy-related services in San Francisco's Bayview.

MCAH Data Dashboards

The California Department of Public Health Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) division has indicator-specific dashboards for California, all designed to serve the data needs of our partners and stakeholders. State-, county- and/or regional-level indicator data are shown by various stratifications or subgroups and by year.

Click here to access

Voices for Birth Justice, Fresno

Kendalyn Mack Franklin has something to say. Having lived in Fresno for the last decade, she witnesses the deep pain and mistreatment Black families experience along their journey to become parents. She wants people to know that support is standing by to help — "Black Infant Health should be a household name."

Read her story.

Rethinking the systems that perpetuate health injustice.

Check out the new podcast from the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy co-produced and co-hosted by PTBi’s Director of Communications Areca Smit. The series features conversations with PTBi's Alexis Cobbins and Shanell Williams about the power of community-based participatory research, and Community Advisory Board Member Linda Jones and UCSF's Sarah Garrett on CA's mandate on implicit bias training for perinatal providers.

More Opportunities

Job posting: Special Projects Analyst at UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

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