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Description
The Arizona Telemedicine Program, Southwest Telehealth Resource Center and the University of Arizona Center for Rural Health invite you to join a free, one-hour webinar as part of the 2023 Arizona Center for Rural Health fall webinar series. This webinar series is focused on providing technical assistance to rural stakeholders to disseminate research findings, policy updates, best-practices and other rural health issues to statewide rural partners and stakeholders throughout the state.
Opportunities to Improve Maternal and Infant Health in Rural Areas
Join us in a discussion on understanding the disparities in maternal and infant health and opportunites to improve programs and workforce development in rural areas.
Participants will be able to:
- Understand disparities in maternal and/or infant health outcomes in rural areas.
- Learn different opportunities to improve data and programs in rural areas.
- Learn of different workforce development opportunities at the CDC.
For more information contact Mariah Erhart: merhart@arizona.edu • 520-626-2243
This webinar is made possible through funding provided by Health Resources and Services Administration, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (U1U42527). Arizona State Office of Rural Health is funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Grant number H95RH00102-25-00. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, DHHS or the U.S. Government.
Presenter details
Ada Dieke, DrPH, MPH
Health Equity Lead
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dieke is the health equity lead for the Division of Reproductive Health in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was also an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer and has cultivated her interests in maternal, child, and adolescent health, health equity and populations of focus, social determinants of health and global health. Dieke worked on analytical projects and served in Angola, Brazil, Liberia, Mozambique and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in Idaho on various public health missions. She's held various roles in policy and program management as a prevention specialist working in San Antonio Health Department’s STD/HIV Clinic helping coordinate congenital syphilis prevention activities. She received her DrPH and MPH from the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health in maternal and child health, with a minor in health communications.