The Power of Community in Addressing Infant Mortality Inequities.

On opposite ends of North Carolina, collaborations in Buncombe and Chatham counties are tackling infant mortality inequities with innovative strategies. While their strategies differ, both groups use an approach that is driven by authentic community voice and directly contributes to dismantling structural racism. The Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville is transitioning their leadership of the Mothering Asheville Coalition to SistasCaring4Sistas, a group of Black doulas with lived experience, and is supporting the doulas' work to become a nonprofit organization that will serve the entire state.