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The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Center of Excellence provides academic, research, and service-learning opportunities to public health students, researchers, and practitioners whose mission is to improve the lives of mothers, children, and families.

Email mchconcentration@hsph.harvard.edu

Phone (617) 432-3759

Location

Kresge Building 6^th-floor
677 Huntington Ave., Boston MA 02115

Joint Webinar with Boston University

Harvard and Boston University’s Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health offer a joint webinar on an emerging topic in maternal and child health once a year, typically held in the fall.

Past topics include family mental health, midwifery, health equity, substance use disorder, and gun violence.

See below for upcoming and past webinars.

Upcoming Webinars

Stay tuned for upcoming webinars!

Past Webinars

Public health scientists discuss how high temperatures produced by climate change are affecting pregnant people and young children, and on-the-ground practitioners examine how policies and programs at the local level can put the concept of ‘heat resilience’ in action.
Featured speakers:
Kari Nadeau, John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies and Chair of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan
Amelia Wesselink, Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University
Zoe Davis, Senior Climate Resilience Project Manager, City of Boston
Zainab Jah, Senior Research Analyst, The Praxis Project
Esther McCant, CEO, Metro Mommy Agency

Featuring TEAM UP for Children members: Dr. Emily Feinberg, Sonia Erlich, Charlotte Vieira

On April 4th and 5th, 2022, Harvard and Boston University had the privilege of co-hosting the annual Maternal and Child Health Bureau grantee meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. David Williams, Florence Sprague Norman, and Laura Smart Norman, Professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, gave a keynote presentation which can be viewed below:

Ebony Marcelle, Holly Powell Kennedy, Eugene R. Declerq