2025 perinatal grand rounds

Infant Mortality Inequities: There Is More To the Causes Than the Individual

The Black/White infant mortality rate (IMR) inequities in the United States (U.S.) are astounding compared to other developed countries. Historically, the U.S. has focused on individual causes for the inequity. The narrow focus has not improved the IMR inequities. We need to focus on intermediary and structural causes of the Black/White IMR inequity to save the lives of infants.

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Meet the instructor

Kathie DeMuth, RN, PhD(c)

Kathie DeMuth, RN, PhD (c) is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Bellin College with over 30 years of nursing experience, including 18 in education. A maternal/child public health nurse, she is passionate about health equity and cultural safety and is pursuing a PhD at UW-Milwaukee. She is active in professional nursing organizations.


The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Evaluate personal implicit biases.
  • Critique actions you must take to change the intermediary and structural causes of infant mortality rates (IMRs).


Accreditation Statement

Continuing Medical Education

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) designates this internet enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Course Contents

Planning Committee

No one in control of content has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Course Information

This webinar was recorded on February 20, 2025.

The expiration date for this course is October 6, 2028.

*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients.