National SPEAK UP Ambassador™ Implicit and Explicit Racial Bias Education

In the SPEAK UP Champion™ Implicit and Explicit Racial Bias Education you learned foundational concepts such as the types of racism; historical events and their implications for health equity; social determinants of health, and quality improvement science basics. The SPEAK UP Ambassador Course is the next step on the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement’s SPEAK UP Action Pathway challenging participants to enhance their SPEAK UP Action Plans by engaging in deeper discussions and learning regarding how to mitigate the lingering effects of racism to improve Black maternal outcomes.

During this day-long interactive session, participants will expand their expertise in how to become allies and leaders working to dismantle racism with the overarching goal of providing equitable care and eliminating health disparities using quality improvement methods and tools. The SPEAK UP Ambassador™ Implicit and Explicit Racial Bias is a virtual education event offered on one day for six hours via Zoom. Attendance for the entire day is mandatory. Please click  here to download a copy of the conference brochure and agenda.

Your registration fee is for one person to attend the session. Others that are not registered for the course are not permitted to sit in on the course.

For additional information about the SPEAK UP program, please click here.

AUDIENCE

The target audience of this conference is healthcare professionals who support and care for women before, during and after pregnancy or care for newborns.

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

1. Background:
   1. Review current Black maternal mortality and morbidity rates.
   2. Explore the impact of racism on Black women’s experiences with health care and its influence on health outcomes.
   3. Review health care system factors and social determinants that contribute to maternal racial and ethnic disparities.
2. Anti-Racist Action Plan:
   1. Enhance a quality improvement action plan to eradicate racism within your sphere of influence to improve health outcomes for women, birthing people, and families.

FACULTY

Speakers

• Renée Byfield, MS, RN, FNP, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
• Debra Bingham, DrPH, RN, FAAN, PQI Executive Director, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Faculty members do not plan on discussing unlabeled/investigational uses of a commercial product.

Planning Committee and Clinical Reviewers

• Audra Meadows, MD, MPH, FACOG has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
• Hafsatou Diop, MD, MPH, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

PREPARING FOR THE CONFERENCE

Each learner will receive an electronic copy of the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement (PQI) SPEAK UP Ambassador™ Implicit and Explicit Racial Bias slides. The SPEAK UP slides includes improvement science tools, perinatal examples and reference materials that are the foundation of correcting both explicit and implicit bias and developing and leading QI. Each learner will use their workbook during the conference to design and record their draft action plan, record their draft project aims, develop a draft logic model and a draft driver diagram.

Prior to the conference, participants are requested to complete:

• The Harvard Implicit Bias (Race IAT) self-assessment (Retaking the IAT assists with gauging where you truly are in your implicit bias journey.)
• The three SPEAK UP e-learning modules (recommended)
• The 28-Day Anti-Racism Challenge (optional)
• SPEAK UP Ambassador Pre-Survey
• Submission of your SPEAK UP Action Plan (recommended)