Coordinating Committee

​​​​​The Coordinating Committee is a coalition of more than 30 of the nation's most prominent maternal health care provider associations, federal agencies, nonprofit maternal and child health organizations, and other partners working on an annually selected topic related to maternal and child health.

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Member Organizations

• Academic Pediatric Association (APA)
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
• American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
• American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)
• American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Pediatric Society (APS)
• American Psychiatric Association (APA)
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
• Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP)
• Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
• CityMatCH
• First Candle
• March of Dimes Foundation
• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)
• National Black Nurses Association (NBNA)
• National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)
• National Medical Association (NMA)
• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM)
• Society for Pediatric Research
• Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR)
• Zero to Three

Federal Agency Member Organizations

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Indian Health Service (IHS)
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)
• Office of Minority Health (OMH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Office on Women's Health (OWH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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