NICHD formed the Stillbirth Working Group of Council, a subgroup of NICHD’s National Advisory Child Health and Human Development (NACHHD) Council, in response to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) request to lead a congressionally mandated task force to examine stillbirth in the United States, with a focus on the following issues:
- Current barriers to collecting data on U.S. stillbirths
- Communities at higher risk for stillbirth
- Psychological impact and treatment for mothers following stillbirth
- Known risk factors for stillbirth
The working group began holding meetings in October 2022 to discuss how to address these issues, and presented its recommendations to the NACHHD Council in January 2023.
The working group released its final report to HHS, Working to Address the Tragedy of Stillbirth (PDF 941 KB), on March 15, 2023. In July 2024, they released a follow-up implementation recommendations report (PDF 445 KB).
Meetings
- January 24, 2024
- January 2024 meeting summary (PDF 700 KB)
- October 31, 2023
- October 2023 meeting summary (PDF 312 KB)
- January 5, 2023 (listening session)
- December 9, 2022
- November 22, 2022
- October 20, 2022
More Information
- At the January 2023 NACHHD Council meeting, council members discussed preliminary working group recommendations (presentation and discussion begins at 1:30:41 in the VideoCast recording).
- NOT-HD-22-054: Request for Information: Developing Strategies to Strengthen Research on Stillbirth Prevention
Contacts
Natasha H. Williams, Ph.D., J.D., L.L.M., M.P.H.
Legislation and Public Policy Branch
[email protected]
Monica Longo, M.D.
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch
[email protected]
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