June 2011

The Third National Summit on Preconception Health is the crème de la crème of professional conferences for us here at the North Carolina Preconception Health Campaign. This year, we are lucky enough to be able to take most of the Campaign staff with us to Tampa, FL. That’s right; six of the seven Campaign staff are taking a pilgrimage to sunny Florida to immerse ourselves in everything preconception health.

The conference runs from Monday, June 13 to Tuesday, June 14 (and some of us are lucky to be going a little early). This year, the conference is focusing on “Improving Preconception Health in a New Era of Health Care” and they have several tracks that apply to this topic. The tracks are “Public Policy and Finance,” “Public Health and Community-Based Programs,” “Clinical Practice,” “Consumer Education and Social Marketing,” Integrated and Innovative Service Strategies,” and “Data Research and...