The Hawai‘i Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative (HMIHC) fulfills the work of Early Childhood Action Strategy Team 1. HMIHC is working to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, while advancing health equity and reproductive justice, by enhancing systems and support for Hawaiʻi’s families and communities. 

Efforts include:

• Improve systems of care and support for perinatal people with substance use disorder and their infants

• Increase access to contraception and promote reproductive life planning

• Promote and support breastfeeding

• Improve quality of care and community resources and supports for perinatal people

• Improve communication on partners’ policy efforts focused on disparities related to maternal, infant, sexual and reproductive health

Workgroups:

• Perinatal Substance Use Workgroup

• Pre/Inter-Conception Workgroup

• Breastfeeding Workgroup

• Maternal Health & Perinatal Care Workgroup

• Strategy & Research Workgroup

Team 1 Conveners:

• Bliss Kaneshiro, MD, MPH, FACOG, University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine

• Chevelle Davis, Hawaiʻi Children's Action Network

• Krista Olson, LATCH (Lactation Access Transforming Communities in Hawaiʻi), A Collaborative Initiative of Breastfeeding Hawaiʻi and ECAS

Core Meeting Times:

• Monthly, 2nd Tuesdays,
  10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Downloads:

• Team 1 Theory of Change
  (Last updated 2022)