NICHD formed the Stillbirth Working Group of Council, a subgroup of NICHD’s National Advisory Child Health and Human Development (NACHHD) Council, in response to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) request to lead a congressionally mandated task force to examine stillbirth in the United States, with a focus on the following issues:
- Current barriers to collecting data on U.S. stillbirths
- Communities at higher risk for stillbirth
- Psychological impact and treatment for mothers following stillbirth
- Known risk factors for stillbirth
The working group began holding meetings in October 2022 to discuss how to address these issues, and presented its recommendations to the NACHHD Council in January 2023.
The working group released its final report to HHS, Working to Address the Tragedy of Stillbirth (PDF 941 KB), on March 15, 2023.
Meetings
- October 20, 2022
- November 22, 2022
- December 9, 2022
- January 5, 2023 (listening session)
More Information
- At the January 2023 NACHHD Council meeting, council members discussed preliminary working group recommendations (presentation and discussion begins at 1:30:41 in the VideoCast recording).
- NOT-HD-22-054: Request for Information: Developing Strategies to Strengthen Research on Stillbirth Prevention
Contacts
Natasha H. Williams, Ph.D., J.D., L.L.M., M.P.H.
Legislation and Public Policy Branch
natasha.williams@nih.gov
Monica Longo, M.D.
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch
monica.longo@nih.gov