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Infant mortality rates are declining in Cuyahoga County, but racial disparities remain prevalent
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Infant mortality rates continue to decline in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, but the racial disparities in the statistics remain stark. In 2021, Black babies in Cleveland were more than twice as likely to die in the first year of their lives as white...
Mother’s Day is also about our shared responsibility to improve maternal and infant health – especially needed for Black mothers: Angela Newman-White
Six-week-old Walter Bryant Malloy was born seven weeks early by emergency caesarean delivery in Baltimore due to a condition called placenta previa, which can cause life-threatening blood loss during delivery. He weighed three pounds, 13 ounces at birth, and spent...
Restore the help for Ohio’s most vulnerable cut from DeWine’s budget proposal: Angela Newman-White
A printout of the Ohio Senate's 9,198-page, two-year state budget plan sits in front of Senate President Matt Huffman, left, on the morning of June 15, hours before the Senate passed its version of the bill. The Senate excised many pro-family and pro-child provisions...
How First Year Cleveland is battling infant mortality in Northeast Ohio: Game Changers interview with 3News’ Dave Chudowsky
The Landscape: Working to reduce high rate of infant deaths in Cuyahoga County
Angela Newman-White was recently named executive director of First Year Cleveland, a public-private partnership that works to lower Cuyahoga County's high rate of infant mortality, especially among Black mothers. Newman-White joined The Landscape to discuss the...
