Assignment Task: Community/Interest Group
African American Community (NBEC) - National Birth Equity Collaborative
- A key mission of the organization is to identify and challenge racism as a root cause of health inequities.
- A national organization that addresses maternal health disparities among Black women and new mothers
- Enhances Black reproductive, maternal, and infant health by providing transnational solutions
- The organization helps to shift systems and cultures through training, research, technical assistance, policy, advocacy, and community-centered collaboration.
- Managing federal, state, and local policy and advocacy priorities is the responsibility of their policy and advocacy department
- As part of their group work, Black women and people giving birth have been amplifying the voices of those most disenfranchised within the Black health space to shift the culture.
- This organization work to address and improve Black maternal health on almost all levels, including local, regional, national, and Congressional
Provides a stakeholder analysis of this information regarding maternal mortality