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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

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