Speaker 4
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the Thank you for that question.
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One of the things that we see as critically important is to make sure that the voices of the women who've been directly impacted are central to how we design our programs.
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One of the ways that we've tried to do that is through developing our own health department, Brooklyn, Brokers Equity Working Group.
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This is a part of one of the initiatives that I've been leading as chief medical officer.
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That working group has almost 40 members that are all in Brooklyn and are focused specifically on all of the different parts and sectors of society.
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That have a stake in reducing maternal mortality.
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Brooklyn is the largest burrow by population, and it has the largest number of maternal deaths.
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Proportionate to population as well.
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And so that's part of the reason we focus there.
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And one of the things that's being done is part of that working group.
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The members of it include doulas, community based organizations, healthcare organizations, insurers, community members, health department staff, as well as some of our sister agencies, including health and hospitals, ACS, and others.
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And what we're trying to do is really use a collective impact approach because this is both a social and a health care issue.
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And what we wanna do is continue to reduce black maternal mortality, as described, the goal for healthy NYC.
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Is to reduce it by 10% by 2030.