Healthy Babies Sub-Committee
The Healthy Babies Subcommittee guides ASTHO’s activities with multiple national efforts around lowering premature births and reducing infant mortality. A subcommittee of the ASTHO Community Health and Prevention Policy Committee, the Subcommittee was created to guide this initiative to assure a sustainable organizational structure, identify needs, promising practices, experts and funding needs and opportunities. Subcommittee members are leaders representing various areas relevant to maternal and child health such as public health, clinical, hospital care, community support systems, communications, health equity, data, and payment mechanisms. The Subcommittee’s primary objectives are to 1) Reduce preterm birth, 2) Prevent unintended pregnancies, 3) Increase health equity, and 4) Celebrate accomplishments of the ASTHO Challenge.