Article highlights increased risk for Black babies
NorthJersey.com, the online presence of The Bergen Record, published an article focusing on the issue of racial disparities in infant mortality, noting that African-American women in New Jersey are more than 2 1/2 times more likely than White women to lose a baby in the first year of life. The article goes on to mention that as opposed to being an issue only for women who are impoverished, this disparity exists at all income and education levels, but is widest among more affluent, highly educated women. The Northern Consortium has been at the forefront of addressing the issue of racial disparities in infant mortality, and founded the nation’s first Black Infant Mortality Reduction Resource Center (BIMRRC) in 1999. For more information about the issue of Black infant mortality as well as the BIMRRC, please click here.
To view the article on the NorthJersey.com website, please click here.
The BIMRRC program is funded by a grant from the NJ Department of Health & Senior Services.
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