This year the National Healthy Start Association's 11th Annual Conference convened March 14th-17th in Washington, DC.  Held at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, the conference consisted of workshops, lectures and plenary sessions.  Members of the Commission for Paternal Involvement In Pregnancy Outcomes participated in multiple sessions.

Commission members Dr. Jermane Bond, Dr. Willie Parker and Roland Warren participated in "It Takes Two to Tango: Defining the Role of the Expectant Father " on Tuesday March 17th at 2:15 pm.

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The Director of the Joint Center’s Health Policy Institute, Dr. Brian D. Smedley, discusses the health implications of an Obama administration and the challenges to health care reform in trying economic times.

As it celebrates is 40th anniversary, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has set an ambitious agenda for the new Congress. With a former member of the CBC serving as the President of the United States and other members serving esteemed roles in Congress, the CBC is in a position to have extraordinary influence on key legislation during hte next two years.

Though few of us had ever predicted it would happen in our lifetimes, the United states now has an African American President---the son of a black Kenyan and a white Kansan.

Given the recent national discourse on health care reform, Joint Center Senior Research Associate Wilhelmina Leigh and Research Assistant Anna Wheatley conducted a multi-variable analysis to identify and assess racial/ethnic differences among children on selected health outcomes, specifically, low birthweight, asthma, dental care, ADHD/ADD-LD and activity limitation and by sociodemographic characteristics of their families.

In these unprecedented times of promise and peril, there is now a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform health and health care in the United States.