Catalyst for Infant Health Equity: A Pathway to Address Excess Infant Deaths by Disrupting Root Causes on a Community Level

This session will provide an overview of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s new Catalyst for Infant Health Equity Program, which seeks to move beyond direct services to implement targeted policy and systems changes that are focused on one or more specific Social Determinants of Health domains contributing to infant mortality disparities in a particular county/jurisdiction. Participants will hear directly from one of the Catalyst grantees, and learn about others that received funding, and the innovative data-driven policy and systems-level strategies they are using to address the social and structural determinants of health that impact infant mortality disparities.