New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene: Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Justice through Community Engagement

Friday, May 5, 2023

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST

Attending Author(s)

Miral Abbas, BA (she/her/hers)

Birth Justice Scholar/Graduate student
New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene/Mailman School of Public Health
Harrison, New Jersey, United States

Author(s)

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Jacqueline Quinones, MPH (she/her/hers)

Healthcare Education Coordinator
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
LIC, New York, United States

Co-Author(s)

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Allyna B. Steinberg, MPH, MAmSAT (she/her/hers)

Senior Planner
New York City Department of Youth and Comm Development
New York, New York, United States
Amida Castagne, MPH CHES (she/her/hers)

Deputy Director of Community Initiatives
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, United States
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Alzen k. Whitten, MPA

Director
New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene/Mailman School of Public Health
Brooklyn, New York, United States

Our session will be a virtual poster. The poster will briefly detail the SRJ CEG, background on maternal health work and institutional transformation efforts in DOHMH. The poster will comprehensively list steps taken through SRJ CEG to introduce institutional transformation through its outreach within DOHMH, and more over its lasting outcomes. The poster will end with describing present institutional transformation and community engagement efforts in DOHMH.