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Media Advisory
For Immediate Release: September 4, 2001
Contact:
Media Relations (404) 639-3286
Women's Health and Pregnancy to be highlighted at CDC National Safe Motherhood Summit
WHAT:A national summit of 300 leaders in women's and maternal health will feature reports on illness and death related to pregnancy. Other reports focus on women's health before, during and after labor and delivery. Special plenary sessions feature perspectives on racial/ethnic disparities, demographics of motherhood, and strategies that could lead to reducing maternal deaths and pregnancy complications in the United States.
SPEAKERS:
Anne Crittenden, writer and author, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
Marshall H. Klaus, M.D., neonatalogist and author, Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help you have a Shorter, Easier and Healthier Birth
Patricia Schroeder, President and CEO, Association of American Publishers. Former member, United States House of Representatives
Gail Sheehy, writer and author, Passages
Wanda Jones, Dr.P.H., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Women's Health), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Lynn Wilcox, MD., director of CDC's reproductive health program
WHEN:
September 5-7, 2001
WHERE:
Grand Hyatt Hotel
3300 Peachtree Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30305
Media Inquiries: 202-452-9539 or 770-488-5131.
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