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.