ICO4MCH

Welcoming New Community Health Worker

I am extremely excited to introduce Andrea Chicas, our new community health worker! Andrea was born in New York but moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at an early age where she was raised. Andrea graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she studied Public Health. As a native Spanish speaking,  first-generation college […]

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Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health

November kicked off Black Babies Awareness Month, a campaign led by the Equity Research Action Coalition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that calls to protect, promote, and preserve the health and wellbeing of Black infants and families. In 2021, women who gave birth in Durham County tended to be older and more educated

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Improving Community Outcomes

Durham County Department of Public Health is excited to announce we’ve initiated partnership with Breastfeed Durham for the provision of the Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health (ICO4MCH) initiative.   Funded by the North Carolina Division of Public Health, this initiative is intended to improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve the health

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