National Breastfeeding Week in Canada is coming up on October 1 – 7, 2019. Help protect, promote and support breastfeeding in BC and beyond bcbabyfriendly.ca/news/world-bf-… #WBW2019 #empowerparents #Breastfeeding #EnableBreastfeeding

The SER Mentoring Pilot Program application is open TODAY through October 31st! Find out more about the new mentor teams and how to get involved here: epiresearch.org/mentoring-prog…

Excellent video addressing perceptions of nurses and highlighting the integral role of nurses in healthcare #WeGotThis #GoHopNurse Barbara Stilwell #Nurses2020

New study HRP shows that women were at the highest risk of experiencing physical and verbal abuse between 30 minutes before birth until 15 minutes after #childbirth #qualityofcare bit.ly/2o9BQsC meghan bohren Özge Tunçalp Hedieh Mehrtash @josh_vogel @gulmezoglum

Join our Perinatal Partners Speaker Series on Tuesday, October 15 from 2:30 - 3:30 PDT to understand the new interim guideline and outbreak response to syphilis in pregnancy. To register online please follow this link: register.gotowebinar.com/register/21497…

I use this quote often when I lecture/present on surveillance: “Good surveillance does not necessarily ensure the making of right decisions, but it reduces the chances of wrong ones.” A.D. Langmuir NEJM 1963; 268: 182-191 #epitwitter #AppliedEpi

Did you register to our Perinatal Partner Speaker Series Webinar, on November 14, 2019, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (PDT) to know more about the “Cannabis Use During Pregnancy and Lactation: A Practice Resource for Health Care Providers”? register.gotowebinar.com/register/26224…

Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies conference brochure is now available! perinatalservicesbc.ca/health-profess… #HMHB #PSBC @UBCCPD Provincial Health Services Authority BC Patient Safety @msfhr British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) Doctors of BC Women's Health Research Institute BC Women's Hospital

PSBC has released the "Maternal/Fetal and Neonatal Tiers of Service 2020". The modules provide guides to the responsibilities and requirements to provide a safe, sustainable and appropriate level of service. More information: tinyurl.com/psbc-tiers-of-… Provincial Health Services Authority

We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of three updated Perinatal Services BC forms. If you would like to ensure you receive PSBC updates and key information for your practice via email please send a request to [email protected] Memorandum: tiny.cc/PSBC-memo-upda…

If you want to learn more about skilled birth attendants in the world and in a way that’s accessible to younger learners, check out the link below! 👇🏻 Thank you ScienceJournal4Kids Doris Chou Ann-Beth Moller Lale Say

It's available the PDFs and video recordings from the #HMHBBC Conference 2020. Find out more here: perinatalservicesbc.ca/health-profess…

The MDMOM Program, a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Department of Health, @MDPatientSafety, and UMBC, recently coordinated the first statewide Maternal Health Task Force in Maryland to optimize the health and wellbeing of pregnant and postpartum women. mdmom.org/announcements/…

The MDMOM Program Program—led by International Health faculty Dr. Andreea Creanga—launched a hospital-based pilot program in six birthing hospitals to test processes for severe maternal morbidity surveillance and review in Maryland. jhsph.edu/departments/in…

We have released a data review regarding COVID-19 transmission in Surrey schools. Please refer to our website for the latest information: ow.ly/XxtG50FXeUZ

In our new paper, we found high 5-year retention of volunteer CHW in a government-led program in rural Uganda. Healthy Child Uganda HealthPolicyPlanning Check it out: bit.ly/3qPcdes

📣 New paper: Travel time to delivery, antenatal care, and birth outcomes: a population-based cohort of uncomplicated pregnancies in British Columbia, 2012-2019 authors.elsevier.com/a/1fBKb62pzAZo…

⁦Hopkins Population Center⁩ Associate Director ⁦Alison Gemmill⁩ featured in ⁦The New York Times⁩ for her work with ⁦Laura Lindberg, PhD⁩ on the risks of short inter-pregnancy intervals. nytimes.com/2022/06/15/opi…

📣 In this new paper, we found that cannabis use in pregnancy was associated with a higher risk of preterm births, low birthweight newborns, and congenital anomalies, in a multi-region study of 1.28m births in Canada. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

What are the risks of using #cannabis while #pregnant? New study of over 1.2 million pregnant Canadians says prenatal cannabis use is associated with preterm birth, low birthweight, small-for-gestational-age, and major congenital anomalies. bit.ly/3GMvndt #BORNData