Jacqueline Houston, a Master of Social Work (MSW) and Master of Public Health concurrent degree student, was accepted as a Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Policy Scholar at the USF Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health. This summer, she joins a new translational research and policy program entitled 鈥淭ranslating MCH Research into Policy,鈥� which trains students in power-brokering for targeted maternal and child health policy change.
This summer scholar cohort has been tasked with developing a policy solution to the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative鈥檚 Obstetric Hemorrhage Initiative, an evidence-based quality improvement initiative aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality associated with postpartum hemorrhage, which is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide and in the U.S.
Houston also recently received the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Leadership Professional Development Award from the center and was able to participate in the Child Welfare Immersive Collaborative Simulation hosted by the Florida Institute for Child Welfare.