Georgetown University’s MCH Navigator, the National Maternal and Child Workforce Development Center, and the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health are pleased to present this spotlight of online trainings and resources for use by the Title V workforce in approaching diversity as a way to address health disparities, health equity, and removing barriers to care.
Issues focused on diversity and health equity are woven into the MCH Leadership competencies, which form the structure of the trainings listed below. Further, the Division of MCH Workforce Development supports programs, approaches, and resources to prepare and empower MCH leaders from diverse communities to promote health equity, wellness, and reduce disparities in health and health care. These approaches augment the HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, which promotes integrated approaches, evidence-based programs, and best practices to reduce these disparities in the context of Healthy People 2030 and other national initiatives to improve health equity. The National MCH Workforce Development Center further integrates health equity as a cross-cutting theme in its core services and topics.
Utilizing the structure of the Health Equity Framework (HEF), this training spotlight aims to provide trainings that facilitate the translation of science to practice around the complex nature of health equity.
The HEF is a science- and justice-based framework for promoting health equity designed for researchers and practitioners working across public health and social science fields. The HEF highlights the explicit and implicit interactions of multilevel influences on health outcomes and emphasizes that health inequities are the result of cumulative experiences across the life span and generations.