Health Equity

A national action-oriented coalition of cross-sector partners leading broad changes in policy, research, funding and systems to address inequities in maternal and infant health.

Our Local Collective Impact Initiatives mobilize cross-sector organizations and community members locally to address the underlying challenges impacting moms and babies and deploy strategies to improve rates of preterm birth and maternal mortality.

Offering hospitals support to accurately collect patient-reported race and ethnicity data, implement respectful care practices for centering patients in decision-making during the birth experience, and utilize race and ethnicity quality data.

We are dedicated to educating and equipping professionals with tools to mitigate bias, stigma, advance cultural humility, and reduce disparities toward equitable health care practice settings.

Research, data, and evaluation are core to our work to advance equity.

Investigating the problems that threaten the health of our babies and look for ways to avoid them.

The March of Dimes Innovation Fund is a venture philanthropy initiative that will use donated funds to invest in early-stage companies to address the most pressing maternal and infant health challenges

Advocacy is vital to the March of Dimes to advance our mission through public policies, programs, and funding.

Work in our local regions align with the national equity framework to reduce disparities and advance equity locally.