All women and men of reproductive age will achieve optimal health and wellness, fostering a healthy life course for them and any children they may have.PCHHC Leaders are regularly providing expert commentary to national and/or local conversations and lead or contribute to ground-breaking reports.
- How Different Birth Control Hormones Can Affect Your Body, SheKnows
- 5 Critical Questions to Ask Your Doc at Your First Prenatal Appointment, SheKnows
- This Is What Happens to Your Body During Sex, SheKnows
- Men Who Exercise Regularly Produce Children with Healthier Genes, Healthline
- 4 Ways You Need to Change Your Workout When You Get Pregnant, Shape Magazine
- The Best Workouts When You Have Your Period, The Greatist
- How To Track Your Period—And Why You Should, HealthyWay
- Dispensaries Think Weed Is Safe to Treat Morning Sickness. It’s Not, Healthline
- 7 Myths About Getting Pregnant, Bustle
- What Happens To Your Body When You Take The Morning After Pill, Bustle
- What to Know About Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy, Parents Magazine
- Preconception Care: App for Counseling Prior to Pregnancy, iMedicalApps by MedPage Today
- This Is What It Can Mean When Baby Bumps Turn into a ‘Cone’, CafeMom
- What do Multivitamins do for your body and mind?, PopSugar
- 6 Weird Period Symptoms You’ve Never Heard Of Before, Women’s Health Magazine
- Pre-Pregnancy Nutrition Tips, Mamapedia
- Dancing During Labor? This Doctor Helps a Mother Dance During Labor, CafeMom
- Breastfeeding and Surrogacy, CafeMom
- Follow These 8 Steps Before Conceiving If You Want To Be SUPER Prepared For Pregnancy, Women’s Health Magazine
- US teen birth rate drops to all-time low, CNN
- Why the Trump administration is cutting teen pregnancy prevention funding, CNN
- Tips for Talking to Patients About Fertility, Medscape
- Preconception Counseling in Men, Medscape
- ‘Don’t Get Pregnant to Avoid Zika-Linked Microcephaly’: Will It Work?, Medscape
- 7 Popular Infertility Myths, Debunked by Experts, Healthline
- Don’t ‘Eat for Two’ While Pregnant, Healthline
- Flu Vaccines Help Unborn Children as Well as Pregnant Women, Healthline
- A Mother’s Journey Through Chemotherapy and Pregnancy, Healthline
- 9 Reassuring Reasons Your Breasts Hurt (and 1 to Worry About), Reader’s Digest
- 19 Questions You’re Too Embarrassed to Ask Your Gynecologist, Reader’s Digest
- The Worst Health Advice Gynecologists Have Ever Heard, Reader’s Digest
- CDC: Primary Prevention Strategies Needed for NAS (MMWR), MedPage Today
- Paternity Leave Is Good for Families and Businesses, DailyWorth
- No, babies don’t actually ruin vaginas, SheKnows
- Could You Be Pregnant with No Symptoms?, SheKnows
- What to Expect When You Go Off Birth Control Pills, The Stir (also published in CafeMom)
- The New Trend: “Essential Prenatal” Vitamin Subscription, Shape Magazine
- 11 Period Red Flags You Shouldn’t Hesitate To Call Your OB-GYN About, Romper
- Showing Love in U.S. Communities: Elevating Local Conversations to a National Level, The Well-Woman: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice, CityLights, pg. 14 Spring 2017
- His & Hers Wellness Visits—What do they cover? Why are they critical to your health & life plans?, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy Blog
- It Takes Two to Tango: A Man’s Preconception Health Matters, March of Dimes (News Moms Need Blog)
- Clinicians and Patients Work Together to Improve Preconception Health in the U.S., National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) Blog
- What If MCH…Reimagining Maternal and Child Health in the US, a TEDxUNC Salon: Ideas Worth Spreading, AMCHP Pulse
- How Your Workout Routine Could Be Messing With Your Period, Vivala
- Should You Be Worried About Zika Virus?, WHDT World News
- The Zika Virus – Everything Travelers Need to Know Right Now, The Street.com
- Medicaid Holdout Puts Infants at Risk, The News & Observer
- The 13 Biggest Maternal Health Issues In The U.S., & What We Can Do To Fix Them, Romper (sponsored by Walgreens)
- Embracing The Older Mom: Welcome to Today, Univision (Papas y Mamas)
- Trimester zero (Part 1 of 2), Contemporary OBGYN, ModernMedicine
- CDC: Primary Prevention Strategies Needed for NAS (MMWR), MedPage Today
- Pregnancy Symptoms, Negative Test: What You Might Be Experiencing, BlackDoctor.org
- The Preconception Care Paradigm in US Public Health, Lamaze International
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Addicted in the Womb, WHDT World News
- The Grocery-Store Tea That Changed My Life — Tea Tonic, The Kitchn
- Breast Lumps – Causes – NHS Choices, Horn River News
- Advancing Preconception Health In Communities: Launching The First National Consumer Preconception Health Resource & Campaign, Office of Minority Health, Preconception Peer Educator Webinar (June 2016)
- How Public Health Can Engage, Unite & Activate Communities with Social Media, Equity Institute Webinar (May 2017)
There’s more: have you seen our TEDxUNC Salon videos? Watch our “What If…reimagining maternal and child health” big, bold ideas and share your #WhatIfMCH.
Social Media Feature: #MCHChat brings together experts on what women need before, during, after pregnancy. View the highlights: http://buff.ly/2qd4g0o
- PCHHC launches “Preconception Care: App for Counseling Prior to Pregnancy” – free, iOS (February 21, 2018)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receives funding to reduce infant mortality and improve birth outcomes by advancing young women’s health and wellness nationally (October 26, 2017)
- Maternal and Infant Mortality Can Be Reduced by Focusing on the Mother’s Health Before Pregnancy (May 23, 2017)
- SUPPLEMENTAL SLIDES: “A Paradigm Shift in Preconception and Interconception Care: Every Time is the Right Time (and every location)” (ZERO TO THREE Webinar, April 2017)
- PCHHC Launches the First National Consumer Preconception Health Resource and Social Campaign (June 14, 2016)
- New Recommendations for Health Systems to Measure and Index Preconception Wellness (May 17, 2016)
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Have you seen our TEDxUNC Salon videos? Watch our “What If…reimagining maternal and child health” big, bold ideas and share your #WhatIfMCH.
The #MCHChat brought together experts on what women need before, during, after pregnancy. View the highlights: http://buff.ly/2qd4g0o