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Angela Aina, MPH - Co-Founder & Executive Director, Black Mamas Matter Alliance - Advancing Black Maternal Health, Rights And Justice

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Angela Aina, MPH is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance ( https://blackmamasmatter.org/ ), where she works to convene Black Maternal Health professionals and community-based organizations to develop trainings, programs, quality improvement initiatives, research projects, and black feminist advocacy strategies to advance holistic maternity service provision, policy, and systems change in global public health.
Ms. Aina has over 16 years of public health experience, working in different capacities on projects focused on: incorporating health equity strategies into reproductive and maternal health initiatives; strengthening strategic planning and community-based workforce development; and data collection.
Ms. Aina has previously served as a Public Health Analyst, Health Communications Specialist, and a Public Health Prevention Service Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), working on various issues including Zika and Pregnancy, scientific program management, and 2014 Ebola response staffing.
Ms. Aina holds a Master of Public Health degree in International and Women’s Health from Morehouse School of Medicine where she conducted a sequential mixed-method analysis of the reproductive health attitudes and behaviors of Nigerian-born immigrant women in the U.S., and a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia State University in Psychology and African-American Studies.
Ms. Aina’s expertise and perspectives on Black Maternal Health has been featured in media outlets, such as the Huffington Post, The Atlantic, the Root, and HLN/CNN. In March of 2020, she was recognized as a 2020 WebMD Health Hero and highlighted as an advocate for Black Maternal Health in Time Magazine. She is passionate about and committed to work that seek to achieve: the self-determination of women of African descent; the elimination of violence against women; the promotion of Black and African women’s rights and leadership; and womanist solutions to social and economic injustices.
Ms. Aina enjoys all things diasporic Black cultural expressions in dance, music, art, fashion, theatre and film.
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Angela Aina, MPH is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance ( https://blackmamasmatter.org/ ), where she works to convene Black Maternal Health professionals and community-based organizations to develop trainings, programs, quality improvement initiatives, research projects, and black feminist advocacy strategies to advance holistic maternity service provision, policy, and systems change in global public health.
Ms. Aina has over 16 years of public health experience, working in different capacities on projects focused on: incorporating health equity strategies into reproductive and maternal health initiatives; strengthening strategic planning and community-based workforce development; and data collection.
Ms. Aina has previously served as a Public Health Analyst, Health Communications Specialist, and a Public Health Prevention Service Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), working on various issues including Zika and Pregnancy, scientific program management, and 2014 Ebola response staffing.
Ms. Aina holds a Master of Public Health degree in International and Women’s Health from Morehouse School of Medicine where she conducted a sequential mixed-method analysis of the reproductive health attitudes and behaviors of Nigerian-born immigrant women in the U.S., and a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia State University in Psychology and African-American Studies.
Ms. Aina’s expertise and perspectives on Black Maternal Health has been featured in media outlets, such as the Huffington Post, The Atlantic, the Root, and HLN/CNN. In March of 2020, she was recognized as a 2020 WebMD Health Hero and highlighted as an advocate for Black Maternal Health in Time Magazine. She is passionate about and committed to work that seek to achieve: the self-determination of women of African descent; the elimination of violence against women; the promotion of Black and African women’s rights and leadership; and womanist solutions to social and economic injustices.
Ms. Aina enjoys all things diasporic Black cultural expressions in dance, music, art, fashion, theatre and film.
#BlackMamasMatterAlliance #AngelaAina #MaternalHealth #Pregnancy #HumanRights #Prenatal #Perinatal #SocialJustice #Midwifery #Doula #MaternalMortality #GEHealthcareFoundation #Nigeria #Postpartum #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #ViralPodcast #STEM #Innovation #Technology #Science #Research

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