Breastfeeding in the U.S.: New National Data, Federal Priorities, and Lessons from the Field
Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 2-3 p.m., EDT

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• Michael Kogan, Ph.D.
  
  Director, Office of Data and Information Management
  Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  Health Resources and Services Administration
  5600 Fishers Lane
  Room 18-41
  Rockville, MD 20857
  Phone: (301) 443-3145
  Fax: (301) 443-3145
  Email: mkogan@hrsa.gov
  
  Michael Kogan holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Yale University. He is currently the Director, Office of Data and information Management for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. In this position he is responsible for directing activities of the office with an emphasis on 1) maternal and child health research; 2) building the data capacity of federal, state and local areas in maternal and child health; and 3) building the maternal and child health epidemiology capacity in the United States.
  
  Prior to this position, he worked as a Senior Epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He serves on the editorial boards of the Maternal and Child Health Journal and the American Journal of Public Health. His research interests include: the effect of prenatal and pediatric care services on maternal and child health, the effect of lack of health care coverage on access and continuity of care, multiple births and determinants of preterm birth.

• Anjani Chandra, Ph.D.
  
  Statistician/Demographer
  Division of Vital Statistics
  National Center for Health Statistics
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  Metro IV Building
  3311 Toledo Road
  Hyattsville, MD 70782
  Phone: (301) 458-4138
  Fax: (301) 458-4034
  E-mail: anjani.chandra@cdc.hhs.gov
  
  Anjani Chandra, Ph.D, a Health Scientist in the Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, has worked with the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) team for over 13 years. In addition to helping to design the survey instruments and oversee data collection for the NSFG, she conducts research on the fertility and reproductive health of U.S. women. Her research interests also include family/social demography, perinatal health, and survey methodology. She holds a Ph.D. in demography, with a minor in epidemiology, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

• Suzanne G. Haynes, Ph.D.
  
  Senior Science Advisor
  Office on Women’s Health
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  200 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 730B
  Washington, DC 20201
  Phone: (202) 690-7650
  Fax: (202) 690-7172
  E-mail shaynes@osophs.dhhs.gov

  Suzanne Haynes, Ph.D., serves as Senior Science Advisor in the Office on Women's Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. In this position, she coordinates science initiatives for the Office. For the eight years prior to her appointment, Dr. Haynes was Chief of the Health Education Section of the National Cancer Institute, where she launched several community breast cancer screening programs, physician early detection intervention programs, and dietary change and skin cancer prevention programs.
  
  Trained as an epidemiologist, she has published 70 articles on women's health, including papers on women and heart disease, cholesterol levels, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, and breast cancer screening. She has edited the book, How to Increase Breast Cancer Screening in Your Community. Dr. Haynes has contributed to the work of the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, the Canada-USA Women's Health Forum, the Federal Women's Health and the Environment Interagency Committee, and other women's health initiatives of the OWH. Dr. Haynes also led the effort in developing the Department's first policy on breastfeeding, HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding, and is currently overseeing the plans for the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign, a nationally sponsored Advertising Council public service campaign.

• Karen Hench, R.N., M.S.
  
  Perinatal Health Specialist
  Division of Perinatal Systems and Women’s Health
  Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  Health Resources and Services Administration
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  Parklawn Building
  5600 Fishers Lane, Room 10C-16
  Rockville, MD 20857
  Office: (301) 443-9708
  Fax: (301) 594-1086
  E-mail: khench@hrsa.gov

  Karen Hench is the Deputy Director, Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services (DHSPS) for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HRSA. The DHSPS provides national leadership in planning, directing, coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating national programs focusing on perinatal, infant and women’s health to improve and strengthen the access, delivery, quality, coordination and information for services for targeted populations, especially for the vulnerable and high-risk. For the past 11 years, she has held key programmatic and policy positions within HRSA focusing on several public health issues including breastfeeding, HIV prevention and treatment for women, children and adolescents, domestic violence, perinatal depression, screening for substance use, and improvement of maternal and infant health outcomes. Currently, she co-chairs the HRSA Bright Futures for Women’s Health and Wellness Perinatal Subcommittee which is developing consumer, provider and community tools for maternal wellness and adaptation during the perinatal and early parenting period. Prior to coming to HRSA, she served in various leadership positions for 13 years at the National Institutes of Health.

• Bette Begleiter, M.S.W.
  
  Deputy Executive Director
  Maternity Care Coalition
  2000 Hamilton Street, Suite 205
  Philadelphia, PA 19130
  Phone: (215) 989-3551
  Fax: (215) 972-8266
  E-mail: bbegleiter@momobile.org

  Bette Begleiter, M.S.W., joined Philadelphia’s Maternity Care Coalition in 1999. At Maternity Care Coalition, she serves as Chief Operating Officer and works with the Executive Director, Board, volunteers and staff in the strategic development, reporting and evaluation of agency operations. Ms Begleither over 25 years of social work experience in management and staff training, organizational and program development and women’s issues.