New Social Marketing Campaign emphasizes healthier birth outcomes The City of Milwaukee Health Department and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health, along with Serve Marketing and Jump at the Sun Consulting, launched the Women 2 Women for Healthy Babies Project last Wednesday at United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s annual Women’s Leadership Luncheon. [...]

By Lorraine Lathen, M.A. It’s a societal truth: not everyone is born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth. And, in Milwaukee, there are far too many pockets of extreme poverty where quality of life issues impact health. Health disparities exist in our community far too often, and it’s going to take a [...]

Tuesday, April 24 Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin, Inc. 3020 W. Vliet St, Milwaukee 5:30 pm -7:30 pm No RSVP required Join the Milwaukee LIHF Collaborative to hear recommendations to eliminate racial disparities in infant mortality in Milwaukee by 2020. This Community Action Plan is the result of a collaborative effort involving more than 30 [...]

By Kimberly N. Alleyne Special to the NNPA from the America’s Wire Health disparities are creating economic burdens for families, communities and the nation’s health care system. Across the country, infant mortality and chronic diseases continue to affect people of color at rates far higher than those for Whites. In recent years, the focus has [...]

City of Milwaukee seeks increased partnership with community to reduce African American infant deaths by 15 percent and overall infant deaths by 10 percent Mayor Tom Barrett and Commissioner of Health Bevan K. Baker announced an historic goal to reduce infant mortality in the City of Milwaukee by 2017. From 2008-2010, there were 340 infant [...]

The Women’s Fund of Greater Milwaukee will host its Annual Women and Public Policy Luncheon on Wed. Nov. 2, at the Italian Conference Center. The luncheon focuses on Health: Closing the Gap on Health Disparities in the United States. The guest speaker will be Tonya Lewis Lee, who has been an advocate for infant mortality [...]

Safe Sleep Sabbath educates congregations on infant mortality By Maricha Harris Sunday morning service is the last place a churchgoer would expect to learn how to place her baby safely to sleep. But on Sunday, October 9th that’s just what various area congregations were taught. Mayor Tom Barrett and Health Commissioner Bevan Baker visited three [...]

By Lynda L. Jones Mayor Tom Barrett along with Health Commissioner Bevan Baker are reaching out to area clergy leaders to help inform the public on Safe Sleep for infants. As shared in last week’s Courier through his article on Infant Morality, Barrett announced that the next phase of the Infant Mortality campaign would be [...]

One-day conference to feature 17 sessions in honor of Marquette College of Nursing 75th anniversary The Marquette University College of Nursing will host a professional conference, “Toward Greater Excellence,” in honor of its 75th anniversary, Friday, July 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Topics will include reducing infant mortality in African Americans, providing primary [...]