Center of Excellence Trainee, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 412 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 412 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Matern Child Health J. 2022 Aug;26(Suppl 1):114-120. doi: 10.1007/s10995-022-03382-w. Epub 2022 Mar 18.
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of the Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center (MHLIC), a national initiative designed to enhance workforce capacity of maternal health professionals in the United States.
The mission of the MHLIC is to foster collaboration and learning among diverse stakeholders to accelerate evidence-informed approaches advancing equitable maternal health outcomes through engagement, innovation, and policy. Working to center equity in all efforts, the MHLIC builds workforce capacity through partnership, training, technical assistance, coaching, facilitation of peer learning, and a national resource repository.
The MHLIC employed several assessment strategies in its first year, including a baseline learning survey of awardees, a stakeholder survey of potential collaborators in maternal health, and advisory convenings. Internally the MHLIC team assessed its own intercultural development. Assessment results informed internal and external approaches to workforce development.
Telehealth implementation, access to services for rural populations, racial inequities, and data use and dissemination were the primary gaps that awardees and other stakeholders identified. The MHLIC is unique in its collaborative design approach and the centering of equity as foundational to the structure, subject, and culture of its work. The MHLIC utilizes a collaborative approach that capitalizes on academic and practice partners' extensive expertise in maternal health systems. Key to the success of future maternal health efforts is workforce development that builds the awareness and capacity to advance racial and geographic equity for public health, community, and clinical professionals.
本文旨在描述母婴健康学习与创新中心（MHLIC）的发展，这是一项旨在增强美国母婴健康专业人员的劳动力能力的国家倡议。
MHLIC 的使命是通过协作和多样性利益相关者的学习来加速循证方法，通过参与、创新和政策来促进公平的母婴健康结果。通过在所有努力中关注公平，MHLIC 通过合作、培训、技术援助、指导、促进同行学习和国家资源库来建立劳动力能力。
MHLIC 在其第一年采用了几种评估策略，包括对获奖者的基线学习调查、对母婴健康潜在合作者的利益相关者调查以及顾问会议。MHLIC 团队对自身的跨文化发展进行了内部评估。评估结果为内部和外部劳动力发展方法提供了信息。
远程医疗的实施、农村人口获得服务的机会、种族不平等以及数据的使用和传播是获奖者和其他利益相关者确定的主要差距。MHLIC 以其协作设计方法和将公平作为其工作结构、主题和文化的基础的独特性而脱颖而出。MHLIC 采用了一种协作方法，利用了学术和实践伙伴在母婴健康系统方面的广泛专业知识。未来母婴健康工作的成功关键是培养提高公共卫生、社区和临床专业人员的种族和地理公平意识和能力的劳动力。
