Health Leaders Hold First Maternal Mortality Symposium in Atlanta
By Grace King Georgia consistently ranks among the states with the highest rate of mothers dying because of childbirth. The numbers aren’t getting better. On Wednesday, November 29, more than 250 researchers, health leaders, community members, patients, and government officials convened for the first symposium in Atlanta to address maternal health. “People are really passionate about working on it, yet we haven’t been able to change those terrible statistics,” said Daniele Fallin, dean of the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. “One of the reasons we think we haven’t been able to change those statistics is because we’ve been working in