Secure Funding to Prevent Maternal Deaths

Posted: March 5, 2019

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Summary

This grant empowers agencies and organizations to review and analyze maternal deaths, identifying critical prevention opportunities. You'll receive support to collect and manage data, conduct multidisciplinary reviews, and ultimately inform policies to reduce maternal mortality.

Eligibility

Public Health Maternal Health Data Analysis Prevention

Full Description

This funding will support agencies and organizations that coordinate and manage Maternal Mortality Review Committees (MMRCs) to identify and characterize maternal deaths for identifying prevention opportunities. Recipients will identify pregnancy-associated deaths within one year of death; abstract and enter clinical and non-clinical data into a standard data system [Maternal Mortality Review Information Application (MMRIA)], conduct multidisciplinary reviews, and enter committee decisions in MMRIA within 2 years of death. Quality assurance processes, in partnership with CDC, will be used for improving data quality, completeness, and timeliness. Recipients and CDC will analyze data and share findings with stakeholders to inform policy and prevention strategies to reduce maternal deaths.