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The Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health is committed to improving the health of children, women and families. Center faculty and staff offer a Master's degree in Public Health (including an on-line degree program), continuing professional education, and consultation and technical assistance to community-based organizations and agencies. Center faculty are involved in intervention and etiologic research in child health, adolescent health, family health, health disparities, reproductive health, and women's health.

For more information on MCH populations, check out our About Us web page.


What's New...


Healthy Generations

Most Recent Issue: Reproductive Health Surveillance
Vol. I: Maternal and Infant

Each Healthy Generations focuses on a significant MCH topic and includes a newsletter and a list of relevant web links. Some issues include Powerpoint presentations from a companion videoconference.

The subject for our next issue will be Reproductive Health Surveillance: Vol II

 

Congratulations to Bridget Larson, an MCH trainee, who was recently selected by the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering to participate in the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students Program. Larson will receive funding to do secondary data analysis on a National Health and Wellbeing Survey of New Zealand Secondary School Students.

"Childhood Asthma" Presentation PowerPoints and Audio Now Available Online.

The PowerPoints and audio from the March 26th "Childhood Asthma" presentation by Dr. Charles Oberg and Dr. John Adgate are now available online. Both speakers are U of MN faculty and National Children's Study Investigators. The presentation covered the epidemiology and consequences of childhood asthma for public health, social service, and other professionals. This talk was part of the National Children's Study Speaker's Series and was co-sponsored by the Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health.

Just Published!

2008 Asthma in Minnesota Epidemiology Report by the Minnesota Dept. of Health Asthma Program. The link includes the full report and stand-alone Executive Summary.


HRSA/MCHB Archived Webcasts

The January 14, 2009 webcast entitled "An Introduction to the HRSA/MCHB Combating Autism Act Initiative" is available for viewing.

Click here to see a list of all available HRSA/MCHB archived webcasts.

Preconception Health

The CDC Preconception Health and Health Care Working groups have authored two new journal supplements focusing on preconception health and health care. Both are available online.

Jack B, Atrash HK (eds.). Preconception health and health care - the clinical content of preconception care. Am J Obstet Gyn 2008;199(6) Supp. 2:S257-S396.

Rossier Marcus A (ed.). Policy and financing issues for preconception and interconception health. Women's Health Issues 2008;18(6)Supp 2:S1-S125.

The Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Public Health has begun planning for the fall 2009 Preconception Care Conference in Minneapolis, MN. No date has been set, but the program from the 2008 conference is available here if you like to see the topics and speakers.
Free Online Training

Culture & Health Literacy

Inequalities in the generation, manipulation, and distribution of health information--and the capacity to act on health information--are associated with health disparities.  Dr. Rhonda Jones-Webb and colleagues developed an online training module on health literacy for public health professionals, students, health journalists and others. Its purpose is to define health literacy, identify health information gaps among social groups, and share strategies to improve health literacy.  The module is free and can offer 1.0 continuing education contact hours.  The module was developed with resources from two HRSA-funded centers at the University of Minnesota :  the Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health and the Midwest Center for Life-Long Learning in Public Health.

Online Master of Public Health Degree in Maternal and Child Health

The Maternal and Child Health Program at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health is offering a distance learning Master of Public Health (MPH) degree to MCH professionals. The program is designed for working professionals whose goal is to advance to leadership roles in Maternal and Child Health.

Sample Curriculum
Program Brochure

Sign up for MCH's Listserv!

A listserv to enhance networks between professionals working to improve the health and well-being of children, adolescents, their families, and communities.

To sign up for the MCH listserv, send an email message to: listserv@lists.umn.edu

Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the text write: Sub cyfhealth YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME (example: sub cyfhealth Mary Jones). You will receive an email asking you to confirm your request.


This publication is partially supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau through grant number T76 MC00005-49.
 


 
 
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