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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. And today's show is on infant mortality. We'll get to that in just a second with our illustrious guest. We have a great crew, as always, that makes our shows great. And they are Maddie Levine-Wolf, who's helping us today with our recording. Thank you, Maddie. Also, Maddie helps us with our background research, as does Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard,
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So today, infant mortality. I'm going to turn it over to my great co-host, Clarence Jones, who will be introducing our guest for the day.
Hey, thanks, Dan, and welcome to all of you who are listening to our show. Michelle Chizzo, who is the State Infant Health and Mortality Reduction Specialist at the Minnesota Department of Health, is our guest today. And I'm really excited about having her here because maternal child health or infant mortality was how I actually entered into this nonprofit world. It was an eye-opener for me
in terms of how important it was for us as a community to discuss this. And so it was exciting to have her to accept this invitation to come. So she provides statewide leadership around infant mortality reduction, and she manages a state infant mortality reduction initiative.
That particular infant mortality reduction initiative provides resources, education, information, and technical assistance to local public health agencies, tribal governments, and community-based organizations to improve birth outcomes.
She currently leads a project that is funded through the CDC to reduce the incidence of sudden unexpected infant deaths in the Black African-American population in Minnesota. And she manages multiple grants to nonprofit organizations through the Infant Health and Mortality Prevention Grant Program. And I'm saying all these things because I think that this is an issue that we are...
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