Disrupting Business: Building a Community-led Movement to Address Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality

Learn how one collective effort is using qualitative data to eliminate racial inequities in infant mortality and maternal health. ‘Disrupting Business as Usual’ is a call to action challenging participants to move beyond the comfort of using status quo data systems and metrics to define community impact. This session provides strategies and tactics used to build a community-led, decision-making process with lessons for how to move from transactional community engagement to transformational movement building. Participants learn how a regional community-driven initiative developed capacity of community leaders to shape system level change. Participants will hear first-hand how those most impacted by disparities are changing the narrative and influencing system and policy level change.

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