Registration and Networking Breakfast
The 5th annual Mayor Muriel Bower’s Maternal & Infant Health Summit will feature panel discussions, community spaces, breakout sessions, and a virtual resource expo dedicated to connecting District residents with local and national resources and supports needed to families have what they need to thrive.
This year, Mayor Bowser is inviting DC residents, elected officials, health and education leaders, community-based partners, and moms from across the US to collaborate and explore strategies to improve perinatal health and address racial disparities in birth outcomes.
Summit session themes will include Economic Equity, Health Outcomes, and Culture in Parenting. The day will begin with a networking breakfast and include a Fireside Chat-style luncheon. Onsite childcare and pumping stations will be available at no additional cost.
Mayor, Washington DC
Mom, physician, TED speaker, and public health shero
Director of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES)
Congresswoman
President & CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
Founder, Carol's Daughter
Founder Mama Glow + Mama Glow Foundation
Executive Director of BeautyUnited
Anchor for FOX 5 Morning and Good Day D.C.
Chair and Medical Director of the Department of Psychiatry at Sibley Memorial Hospital
Director of the Office on Women's Health in the OASH at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Wife, mother of two, news anchor, professor, speaker, and moderator
White House correspondent for NBC News
Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health, Director and Founder, Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice, Tufts University School of Medicine
Business owner, proud mom, holistic life coach, woman advocate and motivator.
Founder and Healthcare Transformer, Babyscripts
Senior Medical Director of Women's Health, Aetna.
President & CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
Mayor, Washington DC
Congresswoman
Senior Director of Health Equity at the March of Dimes
DC Health
Sibley
US Office of Women's Health
American Hearth Association
Carol's Daughter
Paid Family Leave
Mama Glow + Mama Glow Foundation
Grant Thornton
FOX 5 DC
Cosmopolitan
8:00 am - 9:30 am
9:33 am - 9:45 am
9:45 am - 10:35 am
• Moderator—Nicole Austin-Hillary
• Mayor Muriel Bowser
• Rep. Lauren Underwood
• Rep. Shontel Brown
• Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Ph.D., M.P.H., founder, the Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice
10:45 am - 11:35 am
• Moderator—Sherenne Simon, March of Dimes
• Robin Diggs Perdue, DC Health
• Dr. Erica Martin Richards, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Dorothy Fink, US Office of Women’s Health
• Dr. Yolandra Hancock, American Heart Association
• Dr. Joanne Armstrong—Aetna
11:45 am - 12:35 pm
• Moderator—Lisa Price, Carol’s Daughter
• Unique Morris-Hughes, Paid Family Leave
• Latham Thomas, Mama Glow
• Juan Pablo Segura, Baby Scripts
• Jessica Foster, Wolomi the pregnancy companion app
12:35 pm - 1:05 am
1:05 pm - 1:55 pm
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
Session 1: What Comes First? How to make financial sense of motherhood
Session 2: Teams and Timelines for Shifting Maternal Health Outcomes
Session 3: What’s the 411 on Prevention
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Session 4: Finishing What You Started: Higher Education as a Mom
Session 5: Before pregnancy, during, and beyond: Innovative Access to Reproductive Health Care
Session Title 6: Respectful and Inclusive Care in the Capital
DC Health
Department of Employment Services (DOES) Paid Family Leave
Department of Behavioral Health (DBH)
Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD)
Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB)
Department of Recreation (DPR) FITDC
Health Sponsor
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Corporate Sponsor
Aetna
Breakout Session Partners
MedStar
GW Hospital
Affinity Space Partners
Better Starts For All
March of Dimes
United Healthcare
Community Hosting Partner
Lyft
Maternal Monday Partner
AmeriHealth