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Q&A with Arwa Alkhawaja, COVID Outreach Specialist in San Diego
By Natalia López-Thismón When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Global Communities (then operating as PCI) moved quickly to collaborate with the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency to prevent the spread...
Reducing Black Maternal Deaths by Raising the Standard of Care
Quality, equitable maternal care should be a right, not a privilege. But this care is not guaranteed for all mothers in the United States, resulting in increased rates of infant and maternal mortality, especially for...
Facts about Human Trafficking and COVID-19’s Impact on the Illicit Industry
By Lizzie Hickman Although Human Trafficking Awareness Month is coming to a close, Global Communities continues our work to diminish human trafficking in San Diego by educating children, parents and teachers to identify the signs...
Closing the U.S. Sanitation Equity Gap: Exploring Opportunities to Learn from the Global Sanitation Sector Experience
The purpose of this technical research brief is to describe equity gaps in safely managed sanitation for people living with poverty and other disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and to understand how lessons learned by...
Global Health
Health is shaped far beyond the walls of hospitals and clinics. It's defined by the environments people live in, the food they eat, the safety they feel and the power they hold to influence decisions...
An Infant Carrier Intervention and Breastfeeding Duration: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Emily E. Little, PhD, CLEC, Camille C. Cioffi, PhD, Lisa Bain, MPH, Cristine H. Legare, PhD, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, PhD OBJECTIVES: Parent-infant skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth increases initiation and abstract duration of bodyfeeding. We hypothesized...
Youth-led development of a Chatbot to Increase Early Prenatal Care Utilization in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
A TECHNICAL BRIEF on the Arizona Initiative of the Border States CoIIN The Border States Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN; see inset) Arizona team sought to better understand barriers associated with the initiation of...
Enhancing the Pregnancy Test Visit to Increase Timely Prenatal Care
A TECHNICAL BRIEF on the Texas Initiative of the Border States CoIIN In March, 2018, the Texas team of the Border States CoIIN was convened by BCFS Health and Human Services, the Texas state lead...
Cross-border Prenatal Care Utilization: Using Design Thinking to Drive Improvements in Birth Data Quality
A TECHNICAL BRIEF on the California Initiative of the Border States CoIIN n 2018, a team of stakeholders collaborating through the Border States CoIIN Initiative (see next section) convened in Imperial County, California, to employ...
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