CityMatCH is applying to both Component A and Component B with the aims of supporting MCH professionals providing public health services to pregnant people and infants, improving equity in birth outcomes, and responding rapidly to PHEs. Component A will be a national-level project using CityMatCH’s nationwide membership network with urban MCH professionals to implement NOFO Strategies 1-6. This will include creating one practice collaborative and two virtual learning networks, to formalize and implement protocols for using FIMR and PPOR together. CityMatCH will then disseminate these protocols to our national MCH audience.
Component A
Short-term Outcomes
1. Increased availability of data to inform clinical care and public health materials, messaging, resources, and interventions.
2. Increased dissemination of data informed clinical care and public health materials messaging, resources, and interventions.
3. Increased incorporation of diverse perspective into clinical care and public health materials, messaging, resources, and interventions.
4. Improved information sharing and/or coordination, among networks.
Intermediate Outcomes
1. Increased awareness of effective data informed clinical care and public health materials, messaging, resources, and interventions.
2. Increased use of data informed clinical care and public health materials, messaging, resources, and interventions.
3. Increased capacity to implement clinical and public health approaches.
4. Increased implementation of data informed prevention strategies within communities.
If funded, Component B will build on CityMatCH’s strong working relationships with health departments, community organizations, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to create an Emergency Response Consortium (ERC) to quickly connect health departments and their local partners with information as it develops. In addition, CityMatCH will collaborate closely with CDC to ensure timely and accurate messaging around the emergency is reaching our national membership of MCH professionals. Finally, at the conclusion of the emergency, CityMatCH will convene the ERC to develop an after-action review. This information will be used to create a white paper for broad dissemination.
Component B
Short-term Outcomes
1. Increased awareness about outbreak response and issues that affect population of focus and their families during public health emergencies.
2. Improved information sharing and/or coordination among networks.
Intermediate Outcomes
1. Improved capacity within organizations to respond to the needs of the population(s) of focus and their families during public health emergencies.
