Expert Panel on Maternal and Infant Health

The Expert Panel on Maternal and Infant Health influences policy and improves care for mothers and infants by promoting the medical/health care home concept, and examining strategies to promote the appropriate use of effective interventions and less use of those that promote waste and harm.

Inaugural Year: 2011

Chair:
Carol Shieh, DNSc, MPH, RNC-OB, FAAN
Professor & Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Department of Community and Health Systems
Indiana University School of Nursing

Vice Chair:
Rosalie Mainous, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Texas Woman's University College of Nursing

Board Liaison: Versie Johnson Mallard

Staff Liaison: Madeleine Rohrbach

Previous Chairs: Seonae Yeo (2020-2022), M. Cynthia Logsdon (2019-2020), Carole Kenner (2018-2019), Deb Walker (2017-2018), Linda Amankwaa (2016-2017), Cindy Anderson (2014-2016), Melissa Avery and Nancy Lowe (2011-2013)

Publications:

• Policy Brief: Pregnant and Parenting Women with a Substance Use Disorder: Actions and Policy for Enduring Therapeutic Practice (March-April 2019) 
• American Academy of Nursing on policy: Reducing preterm births in the United States: Maternal infant health, child, adolescent and family, and women’s health expert panels (September-October 2018) 
• Policy Brief: African-American mothers’ persistent excessive maternal death rates (May-June 2018) 
• Policy Brief: Improve coverage of newborn genetic screening to include the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel and newborn screening registry (July-August 2017) 
• Policy Brief: Improving maternal and infant outcomes by promoting normal physiologic birth on hospital birthing units. Nursing Outlook, 65 (March-April, 2017), 240–241.
• Policy Brief: Perinatal palliative care as an essential element of childbearing choices. Nursing Outlook 65 (January-February 2017) 123-125. 

Resources:

• Academy Supports Physiologic Approach to the Improvement of Outcomes at U.S. Hospital Birthing Units (May 25, 2017)

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