Healthy Baby Taskforce / Florida Healthy Babies

About Us

In March, 2016, the Florida Department of Health launched the Florida Healthy Babies initiative, a statewide collaborative to positively influence the environmental, social and economic conditions of health and reduce gaps in care and greatest impacts seen in infant mortality. This project focuses on broad social/economic/cultural/environmental factors of health that approach to close the gap among Non-Hispanic Black and Non-Hispanic White infants through evidence-based interventions. Data findings from the Miami-Dade County infant mortality analysis was used to inform the community and aid in developing intervention strategies at the local level to address the greatest impacts we see among infants. The Healthy Baby Taskforce engages numerous partners to address the complex health issues present in our community.

Goals

To decrease maternal and infant morbidity and mortality: Maternal morbidity and mortality is the death of a woman as a result of a pregnancy-related condition. Infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her first birthday.

Meeting Information

The sub-committee meets every third Friday of each month, following the Children Issues Committee, meeting virtually via Microsoft Teams with quarterly in-person meetings hosted at United Way Miami, The Ryder Room in the Ansin Building, 3250 SW 3^rd Avenue, Miami, FL 33129 from 12:30PM-1:30PM. If you have any questions or need access to the meeting link, please contact the Taskforce liaison for further details.

Committee Facilitators

Lead: Esther McCant, Metro Mommy Agency

Co-Lead: Tenesha Avent, March of Dimes

Liaison: Candice Schottenloher, Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, Email: Candice.Schottenloher@flhealth.gov, Work phone: 305-234-5400, ext. 8855