Perinatal Depression: Emerging Perspectives and Practices
Wednesday, June 29, 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.

• Maribeth Badura, R.N., M.P.H.
  
  Director
  Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services
  Maternal and Child Health Bureau
  Health Resources and Services Administration
  Department of Health and Human Services
  Parklawn Building
  5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18A-39
  Rockville, MD 20857
  Office: (301) 443-0543
  Fax: (301) 594-0186
  E-mail: mbadura@hrsa.gov

  Maribeth Badura is Director of the Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Originally in HRSA’s Chicago Field Office serving as Nursing Consultant for the Midwest area, Ms. Badura began working with communities applying for the Healthy Start infant mortality reduction demonstration program in April 1991, and served as a project officer for the first communities funded under the Initiative in 1991. In 1993, she relocated to Washington, DC as project officer and became Branch Chief in 1995.

  Prior to working with the Maternal Child Health Bureau, Ms. Badura worked for the Illinois Department of Health as a Nurse Consultant at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, and the University of Illinois Medical Center. A member of the Chicago Health Systems Agency Plan Review Committee and the Mayor’s Task Force on Women, she was selected to be part of the Illinois White House Conference on Children, where she served as the Chair of the Subcommittee on Health for the Chicago Region. Appointed to the State of Illinois’s first Maternal Child Block Grant Task Force, she also served on the Governor’s Task Force on Children’s Expert Panel on Health and the Governor’s Illinois Commission on Children’s Priorities, Committee on Access to Health. An active member of the American Nurses Association, Ms. Badura has served as President of the Illinois Nurses Association, testified before Congress on the uninsured, and chaired several national committees and groups dealing with nurse workforce issues for the American Nurses Association.

• Susan Meikle, M.D., M.S.P.H.
  
  Senior Scientist for Reproductive Health
  Center for Outcomes and Evidence
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Department of Health and Human Services
  540 Gaither Road
  Rockville, MD 20850
  Office: (301) 427-1515
  Fax: (301) 427-1520
  E-mail: smeikle@ahrq.gov

Dr. Susan Meikle is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and board certified in preventive medicine. At the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Dr. Meikle carries out both extramural and intramural work in women’s health and perinatal issues. Her research areas of focus include perinatal epidemiology, interventions during pregnancy, and reproductive health.

• Jennifer Huang, M.B., Ph.D., M.P.H.
  
  Assistant Professor of Epidemiology/Biostatistics/Pediatrics
  Center for Health Services and Community Research
  Children’s National Medical Center
  George Washington University Medical Center
  111 Michigan Avenue, NW, CRI VI, Suite 5521A
  Washington, DC 20010
  Phone: (202) 884-3613
  Fax: (202) 884-3425
  E-mail: JHUANG@cnmc.org

Jennifer Zhihuan Huang is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology/Biostatistics at the George Washington University Medical School. Over the past 4 years, she has worked closely with the office of Data and Information Management (ODIM) in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau as a visiting epidemiologist. ODIM is an 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. Through her collaboration with ODIM, Dr. Huang has published widely on access to care for children with special health care needs, dietary supplement use by U.S. women, and factors that influence the physical and psychosocial health of children in immigrant families (i.e., acculturation, maternal mental health status and others).
Dr. Huang’s is also an epidemiologist in the Center for Community and Health Services Research at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. At the Center, she is Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on several funded research projects that are looking to improve access to health care for underserved population. Prior to completing her doctorate in epidemiology in the United States, she practiced internal medicine in China.

• Ralph M. Schubert, M.Sc., M.A.
  
  Acting Associate Director
  Office of Family Health
  Illinois Department of Human Services
  535 West Jefferson, First Floor
  Springfield, IL 62761
  Phone: (217) 782-2736
  Fax: (217) 782-4890
  Email: dhshp75@dhs.state.il.us

Ralph Schubert is the Acting Associate Director for the Office of Family Health for the Illinois Department of Human Services. Prior to assuming this role, he served as the Bureau Chief for Program Development and Health Support in the Office of Family Health, where he was responsible for the Department’s work in early childhood system development, school health, grant writing and operations. Having spent nearly 17 years at the Illinois Department of Human Services, Mr. Schubert managed the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Grants and Program Development Unit in the Office of Family Health and was responsible for planning and implementing new maternal and child health programs. This includes needs assessment, program design, preparation of grant applications to Federal agencies and foundations, issuance of requests for proposals and selection of contractors, development of program evaluation designs and data collection procedures, strategic planning, and policy analysis.

Prior to managing the MCH Grants and Program Development Unit, Mr. Schubert managed the downstate Families with a Future infant mortality reduction projects, designed the Families with a Future program evaluation, conducted an evaluation of an outpatient diabetes education program, and worked in the Illinois Immunization Program. Mr. Schubert holds a master of science degree in administration and organizational behavior from George Williams College in Downers Grove, Illinois, and a master of arts degree in Human Development Counseling from Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois. He is also a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois and certified in rational emotive therapy.