{"id":253457,"date":"2025-04-11T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=253457"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:26:50","slug":"mch-center-of-excellence-confronts-challenges-to-the-field-at-30th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2025\/mch-center-of-excellence-confronts-challenges-to-the-field-at-30th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"MCH Center of Excellence Confronts Challenges to the Field at 30th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin sphnews-block-editorial-leadin is-style-image-to-text has-media has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"3582\" height=\"2161\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"Melissa Gilliam address audience at a Public Health Conversation\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739.jpg 3582w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-636x384.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-1536x927.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-2048x1236.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-755x455.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-1628x982.jpg 1628w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-900x543.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-1920x1158.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/PHC-on-Birthing-4-1-25-9Q1A9739-1200x724.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3582px) 100vw, 3582px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMCH Center of Excellence Confronts Challenges to the Field at 30th Anniversary\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">BU President Melissa Gilliam addressed members of the SPH community at an April 1 Public Health Conversation that explored racial and social equity in maternal health. The event was held in conjunction with the BUSPH Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science, and Practice to celebrate the center&#8217;s achievements over the last three decades.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">April 11, 2025<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/authors\/megan-jones\/\">Megan Jones<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>Too often, young people are told what <em>not<\/em> to do. But what they truly need, said BU President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/president\/meet-our-president\/\">Melissa Gilliam<\/a>, is guidance on what they <em>can<\/em> do. In her opening remarks at the April 1 Public Health Conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealthconversation.org\/conversations\/health-inequities\/birthing-and-raising-the-next-generation-holistic-approaches-to-advance-racial-and-social-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Birthing and Raising the Next Generation: Holistic Approaches to Advance Racial and Social Equity&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;held at the School of Public Health, Gilliam emphasized the importance of empowering youth through opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI became a doctor to help people and in turn, I learned that the solutions lay outside of the clinic and outside of the hospital and in the lives and experience and wisdom of patients themselves,\u201d said Gilliam. \u201cI like to say that piano lessons prevent teen pregnancy. Afterschool programs prevent teen pregnancy. Being an athlete prevents teen pregnant. Education prevents teen pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hybrid event, hosted both online and in person at Hiebert Lounge, was organized in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/departments\/community-health-sciences\/mch-center\/\">BUSPH Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science, and Practice<\/a> (MCH CoE) to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Several hundred members of the SPH community and guests gathered to hear Gilliam\u2019s keynote address, engaged with a panel of experts working in maternal and child health (MCH) research and practice, and later celebrated the outstanding work of three MCH alums at a post-panel reception. The panel, which included several SPH alumni, discussed recent progress, persistent challenges, and emerging opportunities for advancing equity in childbirth, parenting, and family health across the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilliam urged attendees to \u201clisten deeply\u201d and \u201cthink broadly,\u201d acknowledging that in turbulent times, the field must be willing to reimagine long-standing paradigms. She closed with a message of hope, encouraging participants to leave with \u201crenewed optimism and determination\u201d to confront the enduring health disparities affecting women and communities of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of only 13 such centers nationwide, SPH\u2019s MCH CoE was founded in 1995 to provide educational, practice, research, and leadership programs that prepare students to become leaders in the MCH field. The Center envisions a future where a diverse MCH workforce is equipped with the public health skills and passion to advance just systems of care that would assure the health of families across the globe. To this end, one of the Center\u2019s flagship initiatives, the Diversity Scholars Leadership Program, has supported the training of a cohort of four MCH students from under-represented minority communities each year for the past 14 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/lois-mccloskey\/\">Lois McCloskey<\/a>, clinical professor of community health sciences, has directed the Center since 2008. She reflected on the significance of the event and the ways the Center has enriched her own career and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWitnessing students grow into leaders of the \u2018birth justice\u2019 and \u2018economic justice\u2019 movements [and] of MCH programs in Massachusetts and beyond, feeling the energy in the room that could only be described as \u2018electric,\u2019 [I was] full of the love and respect that comes from shared passions and commitments,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-1024x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253491\" width=\"436\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-636x384.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-1536x927.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-2048x1236.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-755x455.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-1628x982.jpg 1628w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-900x543.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-1920x1158.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/Nashira-Baril-MG_6868-1200x724.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><figcaption>Nashira Baril (SPH&#8217;06)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nashira Baril (SPH\u201806), one of the six panelists at the event, aims to bring \u2018birth justice\u2019 to Boston as the executive director and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/neighborhoodbirthcenter.org\/\">Boston\u2019s Neighborhood Birth Center<\/a>. Baril and her team are working to build the city\u2019s first freestanding, independent birth center offering comprehensive midwifery care across the full range of prenatal, pregnancy, and birth care options. While she conceded that their efforts have met numerous setbacks, such as antiquated zoning laws making property the group purchased potentially unusable, they are determined to strategize a path forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt feels really good to be in a room at BU where I cut my teeth in public health 20 years ago with beloved leaders in the MCH ecosystem and people who I feel have their hands at my back as the midwives of this work,\u201d said Baril. \u201cHow we birth matters for our public health, for our economy, for our climate, and for our collective wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panelists frequently referenced how the United States has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2024\/jun\/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20there%20were%2022,deaths%20per%20100%2C000%20live%20births.\" target=\"_blank\">the highest rate<\/a> of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, a particularly alarming statistic given <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6818e1.htm?s_cid=mm6818e1_w\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Black women are 3.3 times more likely of pregnancy-related complications than White women. However, the panelists also highlighted the advance of protective MCH policies, such as the passage of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/H4999\" target=\"_blank\">H.4999 An Act promoting access to midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth options<\/a>, affectionately termed \u201cMomnibus,\u201d in Massachusetts, as evidence that states can solve this crisis in spite of the lack of federal support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCloskey acknowledged that SPH\u2019s MCH CoE may face a rough road ahead as she and her colleagues await news of future funding, but, she added, \u201cIt is heartening in this moment to know that the person leading out university gets it in her bones what it is for women, children, mothers, and families to flourish [\u2026] without the constraints of racial and social inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2025\/04\/MCH-Awards-4-1-25-600x362-9Q1A9969.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253487\" width=\"375\" height=\"226\"\/><figcaption>Awardees and their mentors, from left: Candice Belanoff, Lola Akintobi, Ann Peralta, Eugene Declercq, Sharon Callender, and Lois McCloskey<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the post-panel reception honoring this year&#8217;s three alumni awardees, McCloskey introduced Sharon Callender, a public health nurse, educator, mentor, and community leader and activist who was a member of the first graduating class in the former Department of Maternal and Child Health in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCloskey praised Callender for her more than two decades as \u201cthe heart and soul of Family and Community Services for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mattapanchc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mattapan Community Health Center<\/a>,\u201d and for her years directing the <a href=\"https:\/\/kennedyacademy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers<\/a>, and other key roles in health education leadership extending back to 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cIt is so fitting that we are celebrating your long career of unstoppable commitment to women, children, youth, and families in Boston\u2019s communities, even as we look back to our own history,\u201d McCloskey said. &nbsp;\u201cYou have taken a deep dive into service, helping kids grow, helping families be healthy, helping organizations be strong\u2014all in Boston\u2019s lower income, richly diverse communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/candice-belanoff\/\">Candice Belanoff<\/a>, clinical associate professor of community health sciences, introduced Lola Akintobi, who currently serves as assistant director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/masrh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Massachusetts Sexual and Reproductive Health Training Center<\/a>. Belanoff described Akintobi as \u201can absolute standout of a student, with a laser-sharp intellect and an already well-formed analysis around structural marginalization and public health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belanoff told the crowd that Akintobi\u2019s work in public health began long before she received her MPH, and that her skills were honed via her service with <a href=\"https:\/\/americorps.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AmeriCorps<\/a>, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lchealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lowell Community Health Center<\/a>, and in foundational service with <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonabcd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Action for Boston Community Development<\/a>. Belanoff said she hopes Akintobi\u2019s future plans include doctoral work and teaching, as she would be \u201ca truly extraordinary professor if she chose to do so\u2026but no matter what she decides, I have no doubt that she will continue to be an influential voice and leader, advancing a public health rooted in liberation and equity for young people and their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/eugene-declercq\/\">Eugene Declercq<\/a>, a professor of community health sciences, gave a rousing introduction to his former doctoral student Ann Peralta. Peralta is the founder of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.partnertodecide.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Partner to Decide<\/a>, an organization that works to improve decision-making in maternity and perinatal care that was built as an extension of her dissertation work at SPH. Partner to Decide features &#8220;a birthing equity tool&#8221; to help pregnant people make informed decisions about when and under which circumstances to consider induction of labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said Declercq, \u201cAnn\u2019s career serves as a role model for public health students, not only in her work as an exemplary student and public health leader, but in having the courage to follow her dream in developing and implementing a new tool to ensure shared decision making and improving the birth experience for mothers everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories is-style-card has-three sphnews-block-editorial-relatedstories\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-title\">Related<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"600\" height=\"362\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2024\/09\/medicaid-aco-pregnancy-600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pregnant woman and afro doctor with face masks during examination in hospital. 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But what they truly need, said BU President Melissa Gilliam, is guidance on what they can do. 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