Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program

Grand Rounds: March 2, 2016 at 2pm EST

Severe Maternal Morbidity: National and Local Perspectives

Please join us for the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program (MCHEP) Grand Rounds featuring presentations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about their efforts to define severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in the United States as well as two local health departments who have implemented SMM surveillance in their localities.

Dr. Elena Kuklina from the CDC will provide an overview of what SMM is, including how SMM is defined and assessed; Sang Hee Won from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will speak about their process for designing and implementing their first SMM surveillance; and Megan Macdonald from the Florida Department of Health will share results from their SMM surveillance among delivery hospitalizations from 2010-2013.